Show Notes
Investigative journalist Billy Hallowell approaches the supernatural the way he approaches any story: as a skeptic who wants proof. For his film on angels and demons, he crossed the country collecting firsthand accounts and handing them to psychiatrists and skeptics to pick apart. Some of them could not be explained away. A man crushed under a semi who rose above his body and watched two angels press down on his stomach to keep him alive, backed up by the paramedic who walked in the back door. A second man, prompted by God, flew across the country to pray over him and watched his destroyed intestines regrow.But the most surprising story in this conversation with Luke and Nate is Billy’s own. While making the film, he fell into a months-long darkness he could not explain, and a chain of strange promptings led him to two deliverances that changed everything. He is candid about the risk of telling it, and about his bigger conviction: a church too embarrassed to talk about this is failing people with nowhere else to turn, while Hollywood and the biggest podcasts in the world run with the topic Christians abandoned. Honest, skeptical, and genuinely gripping, it is a reporter’s case for taking the unseen realm seriously, built on evidence and his own experience.
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