Dave Zed breaks down today what he believes CERN to be and what its true intentions are in the world. Is it simply a harmless underground 17-mile-in diameter, particle accelerator that crosses the border of Switzerland and France? Or, is there something more to it that they aren't telling us? Is it opening portals to another dimension? Are things actually coming through these supposed portals? If the latter is true, could we possibly be living in the real-life version of Stranger Things or worse? We explore these topics in today's episode, "What Is CERN?"

In Episode 465: Becoming The Hunted, we have two interviews in one episode! We start off with Jon, who has had different paranormal experiences but never knew how to handle them. It wasn't until he tuned into The Confessionals and heard a discussion about how to end these types of occurrences that he decided to try it and the results were interesting. Then, we bring on Patrick who shares a bizarre night he had with his friends while out in the woods. They were looking for a place to do target practice and they ended up running into a lady in white, seeing a floating window, and being hunted by a creature that looked a lot like what is commonly described as the rake.

In Episode 464: The Bigfoot, The Witch, and The Dogman we are joined by Erick Szilagyi from the uNcomfortable podcast. Erick was connected to me by Joel from VanTesla, who has been a guest on Erick's show several times. Erick comes to the table with many experiences to share, but it was his experience with a witch that kicks off the show. Erick was just beginning his podcast and got connected to a witch who was willing join his show for a conversation. Erick decided to meet up with her in person to record, and that meeting turned into dinner plus more. What then ensues Erick describes as one of the most bizarre nights of his life. From Bigfoot coming close to their location, unexplainable vocalizations, unnatural hyper-sexualized tensions, to dogman guarding the witch and the witch herself physically transforming before Erick's eyes! Needless to say, he has a jaw-dropping story. Following the initial episode, we decided to do an Overtime segment for members that lasted almost three hours! Erick shares all his other experiences and they are just as bizarre as the first hour, including a story that is so personally sensitive for him that we can't speak or even hint about it publicly.

In Episode 463: The Cursed Mask, we are joined by William to share his frightening experience with a haunted mask from Papua New Guinea! When he brought the mask home, he thought nothing of it other than it would look good on a shelf. But things took a turn for the worst when activity kicked up and it became undeniable that something was specifically haunting him. William heard voices under the floor, saw apparitions, and caught EVPs on audio recordings, which are played in this episode! His cursed mask, which had human body parts attached to it, was eventually removed from his home - only for it to unexplainably find its way back to him. This is a wild story about a guy who innocently brought something home that would soon come to haunt him mercilessly.

In Episode 462: Bigfoot Hunter, we are joined by Aleksandar Petakov, a filmmaker and bigfoot hunter. He is notably known for his series through Small Town Monster entitled "Bigfoot Beyond The Trail" where he is actively boots on the ground searching for the elusive cryptid. Working with Small Town Monsters, Aleks has been able to stay true-to-form and avoid network executives trying to manipulate his tactics or videos for the purpose of selling a product. On Episode 462 we discuss places he has gone, his general thoughts on cryptids, and back-and-forth bigfoot banter.

In Episode 461: The Neighborhood Exorcist we are talking with Murray. He has an interesting story as his paranormal encounters didn't start with him but rather with his wife. She started having things happen to her and he just brushed it off mostly until it started affecting his son. That's when Murray started reading books about these phenomena and then decided to put what he was learning into action. After a while he found himself exorcising demons pretty regularly but when complete strangers started coming to his house to ask for him to help them with their demons, Murray knew he was being set apart for something special. Now, he still is actively casting demons out of anyone that comes to him for help and he is recording these demons' names in his notebook.

In Episode 460: The Tennessee Triangle, we are joined by author Donna Hartley! Donna recently published the book Historic Haunts of Sumner County, Tennessee in which she documents the strange happenings in an area that makes up a mysterious triangle of paranormal activity. This triangle stretches from the Bell Witch Cave to the Cragfont House, and down the Long Hollow Pike. Inside its borders, there is a tendency for bizarre occurrences to be the norm! She also tells us about the things that happened in her own house that seemed to be spawned by the writing of this book.

In Episode 459: Portals to the Otherside, we are joined by Ellie and Brian, who bring a fascinating life story to the show. Brian begins with the most passive experience of the episode, when he encountered bigfoot as a child. We then go on to learn about Brian and Ellie's interaction in other realms with beings that peek through interdimensional places to this side of reality. From Brian's interdimensional teleportation meeting with Jesus Christ to their spirit board practices that allow them to communicate with unseen entities, these two have quite the story to share, and their experiences seem to point to intergalactic portals being very real, operable, and able to transcend time, space, and matter!

In Episode 458: Georgia Guidestones, CERN, and M.I.B. we open up Merkel Media's new studio, The Green Room, with an in-person conversation with William from Perma Pastures Farm! Recently, with my family's move to Tennessee, it became very apparent that I could not continue working from home in our new house as there were no quiet places with my four-year-old and two-year-old running around. Once I found an office space to lease, William helped me find a contractor to renovate it and he did some electrical work himself as well. So, I decided to have him in the studio with me for its first recording! We talk about his personal unexplained experiences such as shadow people and a strange UFO encounter that involved the military, missing time, and possibly a Men in Black scenario. Then we jump into talking about CERN, looking back on the past week’s events and what that could mean for the world. That conversation naturally gravitates towards one of the other big things that happened this week, as the Georgia Guidestones were "blown up", and there is no shortage of theories as to what really happened there. Lastly, I go down the road of connecting dots with the show Stranger Things and how I believe what they depict in the show is way more real than anyone can imagine.

In Episode 457: The Little Green Man, Steven joins us to share some weird things he went through in a home he lived in as a child, as well as some haunting experiences in a church where he once worked. He first begins his stories by telling us about his father's experiences performing two exorcisms, and how one of them centered around a little green man who was terrorizing a young boy.

In Episode 456: The Portal Necklace, Kelsey joins The Confessionals to share some exciting experiences in her life. Some of her experiences sounded a little familiar to me, and left me wondering if a dream I had when I was little was actually more than I originally believed. But, as Kelsey and I talk, we dive into a story about a necklace, which one night appeared to open a paranormal portal of sorts. The encounter had her running, ducking, and hiding from something that seemed to be coming after her.

In Episode 455: The Interdimensional Creature of Tennessee, Kris shares the paranormal encounters that both he and his whole family have experienced. He tells us about seeing an old lady crawling down a hallway wall, while at the same time his mother saw strange "laser" lights. Among other things, he tells stories from his family's farm including bigfoot and a bizarre tree-shaking experience in the forest - the same type of shaking that my team experienced in Kentucky while filming Expedition Dogman.

In Episode 454: The Inverted World, we are joined by Ashleigh from Australia for a two-part overtime episode. Ashleigh has had a life filled with the paranormal and bizarre. From "scribbled men" and the "black doorman" to out-of-body experiences, to what I at first thought was a dogman but now, with new knowledge that I've gained since our recording, I believe could have been a rake entity, for lack of better terminology. With all these things in her life, Ashleigh has been through a lot. Her most intriguing encounter in this first hour is when she slipped into an inverted world that was this world, but different. She describes what she saw and what happened, and her experiences are like talking with someone straight out of a "Stranger Things" episode!

In Episode 453: Summoning Azazel we are joined by a guest that requested to remain anonymous. She had some experiences that she has never shared with people and was very hesitant to do so. She seems to have had a run-in with the fallen angel Azazel caused by a ritual she briefly watched at the end of a video. After viewing the ritual weird things started happening around her home. She went back to the video to investigate and she found that the ritual was no longer there. So she reached out to the creator of the video and that's when things get even more bizarre. She also talks about premonitions she has had, her encounter with bigfoot as a young girl, and the possession she seems to have gone through.

In Episode 452: Abducted and Implanted, we are joined by Ryan in the United Kingdom. Since he was a young child, Ryan has had experiences that seem to be paranormal - on the surface. But after hearing his story, you will be left wondering if his perceived abduction experiences are related to his early paranormal experiences. Ryan believes they are all connected, and it's hard to argue with him when you hear about his experiences. From haunting entities to abductions with implants, to catching things on camera in his house, Ryan shares his incredible life story.

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In Episode 449: Elk-Human Hybrids we are joined by Ramon who has some amazing experiences to share. He starts us off with his dreams that I took at face value at the time of this recording. However, shortly after I recorded this interview with Ramon I spoke with someone that would shift my paradigm and make me reassess particular interviews I have done in the past. As I produced this episode for today's release I realize Ramon was one of those people that's dream state might be far more real than we can imagine and what he realizes. Though I can't share too much information here, if you have been following my little hints about the new podcast I will be launching, Ramon's story might just be connected. Later, Ramon shares some bizarre camping experiences he has had from out-of-body experiences to missing time but the most jaw-dropping of them all is his run-in with the elk-human hybrids!

In Episode 448: Tennessee White Bigfoot, Casey shares his bigfoot experiences. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to find yourself out in the woods at night, running into a giant monster that should not exist? Casey and his family had that very experience. When he was a young kid in East Tennessee, Casey and his entire family had a very clear encounter with bigfoot one night. Though they all witnessed the creature from different vantage points, they all agree on what they saw. Later in life, Casey moved to Oregon and dove into researching the topic of bigfoot and tells us about what they've uncovered out west.

In Episode 447: Night Wolf Visits, we are joined by Will, who began having night visitations after visiting a Native American powwow when he was a child. After the lights went out, he would hear something with claws walking down the wooden floor in the hallway. Then, the thing that was making the sound would emerge from the darkness: a wolf standing on its hind legs, looking directly at him as it entered his room. Will also shares his extremely intense dreams of being dragged to hell in his grandparents’ old mansion in Minneapolis. Both he and his siblings used to pick up vibes from this mansion that would send them running out of fear.