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Nine experienced hikers disappeared into the frozen Russian wilderness in 1959. Their tent was cut open from the inside, their boots were left behind, and some of their bodies were discovered with horrifying injuries. More than 65 years later, the Dyatlov Pass incident remains one of history's strangest mysteries.

What could have terrified nine experienced hikers enough to run into freezing temperatures without their shoes?

This week on The Casting Faith Podcast, Charlie Griffin and David Hymes explore the chilling Dyatlov Pass mystery, bizarre theories involving secret Soviet experiments and UFOs, and the question of what really happened on that mountain.

But that's only the beginning!

🎧 WIRED HEADPHONES ARE BACK?! Bose is bringing back wired earbuds, sending us down a nostalgia rabbit hole of Walkmans, burned CDs, LimeWire, and the technology we grew up with.

💰 TAKE THE BAIT: Someone offers you $10 million, but an identical clone of yourself hunts you for seven days. If it catches you, it takes your place forever. Are you risking it?

🎣 BAIT OR PLATE: Strawberries dipped in mustard, banana and mayonnaise sandwiches, and hash brown ice cream sandwiches. Which ones actually taste good?

✝️ REEL OF THE WEEK: A South Korean Easter production takes Jesus' Ascension to some unbelievable heights!

🚂 A LITTLE BIT OF AMERICA: A kid on a bicycle, a passing train, and a moment that reminds us how special the little things can be.

Plus, would you survive a 90-day power outage? Why are we still changing the clocks? And if you could take everyone back to the 1990s while keeping your memories of the future, would you do it?

Through all the weird stories, laughs, and nostalgia, we close with a reminder that some things from our past are worth holding on to, especially faith, friendships, and the people who help us through life's storms.

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We’re finally living like the Jetsons.

In Episode 104, Charlie, David, and Craig dive into Tesla’s wild flying-car technology, the now-grown “dire wolves” from Colossal Biosciences, childhood nostalgia, ridiculous hypotheticals, and the debut of our brand-new food challenge: BAIT OR PLATE?

Would you rather rewind time 24 hours once a week or freeze time for one hour every day? Would you become a completely random animal for seven days for $10 million? And more importantly… does apple pie with cheddar cheese actually taste good?

Then we somehow work our way from flying cars, Power Rangers, genetically engineered wolves, wildlife bridges, and terrible hot dogs into something that matters a whole lot more.

The world keeps changing. Technology keeps advancing. But Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Sometimes our job is simply to be the bridge that helps somebody find Him.

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• Are humans actually ready for flying cars?
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• Power Rangers, Voltron & 90s cartoon nostalgia
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• $10 million to become a random animal for seven days
• California’s massive ant war
• A pastor accidentally impaling his hand during a sermon illustration
• Colorado’s wildlife highway bridge
• The debut of BAIT OR PLATE
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Cam joins Charlie and David after his first elk hunt in New Mexico, and what starts as a conversation about hunting, fishing, coffee, and a 700-pound Colorado elk named Smash turns into one of the most meaningful conversations we’ve had on the show.

Cam shares what it was like getting within bow range of a bull elk, missing his opportunity after his arrow clipped a limb, and why the experience still made the entire trip worth it. That opens up a bigger conversation about why hunting culture is changing, the pressure social media puts on outdoorsmen, passing the outdoors on to the next generation, and remembering that sometimes the experience matters more than the trophy. Casting Faith Backbone cofffee …

Then the conversation takes an unexpected turn toward faith. Cam gets vulnerable about prayer, church, learning to surrender, and the simple prayer he finds himself repeating throughout the day: “Lord, be with me.” Charlie and David talk about pursuing God the same way we pursue the things we love outdoors, continuing to seek Him even when every experience looks different. Casting Faith Backbone cofffee …

And somehow all of that leads to one of our new favorite Casting Faith lines:

“Fish your own river.” Casting Faith Backbone cofffee …

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A worker at a Russian anti-plague laboratory reportedly died after developing a mysterious case of pneumonia. Now reports about a possible broken plague sample are raising some unsettling questions. What actually happened inside that lab?

This week on The Casting Faith Podcast, Charlie Griffin, David Hymes, and Craig Bulgrin dive into one of the strangest news stories we've covered — and things only get weirder.

We also get into:

🦠 The mysterious Russian laboratory death and plague rumors

🤖 A man stepping into a cage to fight a humanoid robot

💰 People searching New York City sewers for hidden gold

🧠 AI, Jesus, and whether technology is changing how we understand faith

🎬 Classic movies, childhood memories, and plenty of unexpected detours

🎣 Steelhead fishing, fall weather, and getting ready for the Great Lakes Fishing Expo

It's weird news, real conversations, plenty of laughs, and a little faith along the way.

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Did researchers just find Noah’s Ark right where the Bible says it came to rest?

This week Charlie, David and Craig go deep into the rabbit hole surrounding the boat-shaped formation in eastern Turkey, the drilling happening at the site, the Biblical connection to the mountains of Ararat, and the reported break-in involving research equipment connected to the investigation.

Then things get even weirder.

We’re talking ancient giants, Bigfoot, dinosaur bones, worldwide flood stories, Biblical archaeology, AI, Antarctica, Atlantis, painted squirrels, Toys R Us coming back, and Snacks From the Past.

And underneath all of it is one real question:

If Noah’s Ark was actually found, would it change your faith?

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100 EPISODES. 🎉For Episode 100 of The Casting Faith Podcast, Charlie and David bring back OG co-host Sean Delaney for a milestone episode packed with fishing stories, weird news, ridiculous questions, and a look back at how far the show has come.This week, we’re talking about armadillos naturally showing up in Ohio, a tiger getting loose at a circus, Sean getting caught in 6-foot waves on Lake Erie, steelhead season, a Denmark zoo asking for certain unwanted animals to feed its predators, and the impossible question: would you rather survive seven days alone in the Amazon rainforest or in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean?And because it’s Episode 100, we go back to 2024 for a special Florida Man or Ohio Man, reminisce about the early days of the podcast, and reflect on what God has done through the first 100 episodes.“Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.” — 1 Samuel 7:12What started as friends sitting around having real conversations has grown into something bigger than we imagined. Through the fishing stories, dumb questions, laughter, testimonies, and everyday conversations, the goal has stayed the same: faith in the middle of real life.Thank you to everyone who has watched, listened, subscribed, shared an episode, or supported Casting Faith along the way.100 down. Let’s see where the next 100 take us.🎣 New full episodes every Friday 🎬 Daily Shorts for encouragement, curiosity, and perspectiveWATCH & LISTENWatch Full Episodes https://youtube.com/@CastingFaithPodcast/videosListen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5YoIPXpXmZ5ljfyReXeeZMSUPPORT OUR PARTNERSBackbone Coffee https://backbonecoffee.com/?ref=castingfaith&utm_campaign=affiliate_promotions&utm_medium=social&utm_source=affiliateHeritage Roofing https://roofsbyheritage.comGreat Lakes Fishing Expo https://www.greatlakesfishingexpo.com/1st Phorm https://1stphorm.com/castingfaithMORE CASTING FAITHShop Merch https://castingfaithpodcast-shop.fourthwall.comInstagram https://www.instagram.com/thecastingfaithpodcast/Linktree https://linktr.ee/TheCastingFaithPod#CastingFaithPodcast #Episode100 #Armadillos #Ohio #ChristianPodcast

🎙️ The Casting Faith Podcast | Episode 99Special guest Andrew Frisby joins Charlie and Craig for Episode 99. A man survives being compacted inside a garbage truck, bison take over a Yellowstone campsite at 2 AM, we debate whether anyone could beat a chimpanzee, and ask whether $1 million is enough to wake up somewhere random in America every month with no phone or wallet.We also get into National Parks, physical therapy, ministry, fatherhood, and one of the most meaningful conversations we’ve had about understanding the love of a father.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━☕ SUPPORT THE SHOWBackbone Coffee15% OFF with code CASTINGFAITHhttps://backbonecoffee.com/?ref=castingfaith&utm_campaign=affiliate_promotions&utm_medium=social&utm_source=affiliate💪 1st Phormhttps://1stphorm.com/castingfaith🎣 Great Lakes Fishing Expohttps://www.greatlakesfishingexpo.com/🏠 Heritage Roofinghttps://roofsbyheritage.com/🧢 Casting Faith Merchhttps://castingfaithpodcast-shop.fourthwall.com/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📱 FOLLOW CASTING FAITHInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thecastingfaithpodcast/TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@castingfaithpodcastFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/castingfaithpodcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ CHAPTERS----━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#CastingFaithPodcast #Podcast #ChristianPodcast #Outdoors #CrazyStories

🎙️ The Casting Faith Podcast | Episode 98A 300-pound LIONESS wearing a blue harness was spotted roaming through an Indiana neighborhood… and she wasn’t alone. 🦁Police searched for hours with officers on the ground and thermal drones in the air, but found nothing. No lioness. No cub. And no nearby zoo or sanctuary reported one missing.And somehow, that’s only the beginning. 😂This week, Charlie and David are talking about the mysterious Indiana lion sighting, invasive animals showing up where they absolutely don’t belong, and a wiener dog named Valerie who survived an unbelievable 529 DAYS in the Australian outback.Plus, China held the Robot Olympics, one robot ran 100 meters faster than Usain Bolt’s world-record time, we get into AI, surveillance cameras, Burger Dogs, and why the people and things we surround ourselves with matter more than we realize.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━☕ SUPPORT THE SHOWBackbone Coffee15% OFF with code CASTINGFAITHhttps://backbonecoffee.com/?ref=castingfaith&utm_campaign=affiliate_promotions&utm_medium=social&utm_source=affiliate💪 1st Phormhttps://1stphorm.com/castingfaith🎣 Great Lakes Fishing Expohttps://www.greatlakesfishingexpo.com/🏠 Heritage Roofinghttps://roofsbyheritage.com/🧢 Casting Faith Merchhttps://castingfaithpodcast-shop.fourthwall.com/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📱 FOLLOW CASTING FAITHInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thecastingfaithpodcast/TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@castingfaithpodcastFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/castingfaithpodcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ CHAPTERS----━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#CastingFaith #CastingFaithPodcast #ChristianPodcast #Lion #Podcast```One correction I made intentionally: **this is Episode 98**, not Episode 97. And I think this description sells the actual episode considerably better because the first three paragraphs reinforce the exact **lion/title/thumbnail promise**, while the rest shows viewers there’s a lot more in the episode.

🎙️ The Casting Faith Podcast | Waders and Wives Episode 97A mom broke the glass on a school bus and climbed inside… and that’s only the beginning. 😂The wives are back for Waders & Wives! This week we’re talking back-to-school chaos, a semi breaking loose at an Ohio fair, Florida Man or Ohio Man, ridiculous school memories, husbands vs. wives, and what our kids are really learning by watching us live out our faith.Plus, we ask the important question: if you had to go back to school tomorrow, which person at this table would you trust to be your teacher?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━☕ SUPPORT THE SHOWBackbone Coffee15% OFF with code CASTINGFAITHhttps://backbonecoffee.com/?ref=castingfaith&utm_campaign=affiliate_promotions&utm_medium=social&utm_source=affiliate💪 1st Phormhttps://1stphorm.com/castingfaith🎣 Great Lakes Fishing Expohttps://www.greatlakesfishingexpo.com/🏠 Heritage Roofinghttps://roofsbyheritage.com/🧢 Casting Faith Merchhttps://castingfaithpodcast-shop.fourthwall.com/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📱 FOLLOW CASTING FAITHInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thecastingfaithpodcast/TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@castingfaithpodcastFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/castingfaithpodcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ CHAPTERS----━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#CastingFaith #WadersAndWives #Podcast #ChristianPodcast #SchoolBus

Three people were attacked by beavers in Maryland in less than a month... and the beavers had RABIES. 🦫Welcome to CFP Ep. 96 of The Casting Faith Podcast!This week, Charlie and David break down the bizarre string of rabid beaver attacks in Maryland, a fisherman who disappeared inside an underwater cave and survived for 15 DAYS, and a kid with some of the most unbelievable bird calls we've ever heard.Plus, Florida Man or Ohio Man returns, we talk Browns football, Crocs, weird childhood memories, and somehow end up discussing how much of our lives we spend worrying about things that haven't even happened yet.In this week's faith conversation, we look at Matthew 6:34 and the difference between preparing for tomorrow and living in fear of tomorrow. Planning is wisdom. Worry is different. Sometimes we get so focused on what might happen next that we miss what God has put in front of us today

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