The Ohio Howl

Eli returns to join Ward and Jim for a debrief of The Meadow Project, a recent documentary by Merkel Media wherein Ward joined several other investigators to check out a location of very high strangeness under years-long research in the American South. Not unlike fabled paranormal sites such as Skinwalker Ranch or Cannock Chase, The Meadow is a place of missing time, dancing lights, thermal mirages, and cryptid sightings of extraordinary degree. The discussion digs into liminal spaces, landscape memory, the cult of Saturn, psychedelic expeditions, and why it isn't wise to walk into giant unexplained black cubes.

Link to The Meadow Project documentary: https://merkelfilms.com/programs/the-meadow-project

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Ward and Jim sit down with Eli Novak, who came to Christ after a childhood haunted by demonic entities and unanswered questions. The conversation links modern American hatman folklore with the primeval presence of Odin and his ravens, visitations from the dead, cult-related kidnapping conspiracies, and the reality of earnest skepticism in the face of the preternatural.

Ward and Jim discuss the clear train of evidence that explains how Mesopotamian giants migrated from Canaan, Egypt, and Sumer to Turkey, through Europe and Africa, then into the British Isles and westward across the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of North and South America. Linking mythology, folklore, archaeology, and metallurgy, the conversation considers how the First Nation peoples regard their own fabled history after brushing up with nefarious outsiders for centuries. Whether coming from the stars above or the isles across the sea, there were giants in America, and they were not friendly visitors.

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Ward and Jim discuss Shape of Shadows, a Merkel Media documentary centering on the ancient and odd occurrences of Skinwalker Ranch. They talk about government interests, personal paranormal haunts, First Nation stories of spiritual darkness, and the cannibal giants of Chaco Canyon.

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Ward interviews Dave and Norm, two retired long-time friends who encountered something between werewolf and grey alien on the southern outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s. Jim and Ward travel to the location for a destination episode, discussing Tolkien, Alistair Crowley, Mormons, Muhammad, demonic permission, sexy desert rituals and the World Wrestling Federation.

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Ward and Jim dig into Pastor Doug Van Dorn's revised edition of Giants: Sons of the Gods, talking Genesis 6, Deuteronomy 32, Church historiography, lion men, First Nation spirituality, occult megalithic trails, and the grandeur of Jesus Christ as King over all realities.

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In this episode, Ward and Jim get into the Merkel Media production, Expedition Dogman. Focusing especially on the false dichotomy between the strict material and fantastic supernatural understandings of the world, the conversation explores the vast human story of strange experiences. What is real, and why does it matter to ask that question across time?

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In this inaugural episode, Ward and Jim kick off The Ohio Howl with a conversation about their experiences in the wild, the supernatural backdrop of the world, mythic history, territorial gods, spiritual warfare, and the death of death in the death of Christ.

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