No Longer Nomads

The next one drops Friday, November 13, on Patreon only. Hear it first: https://www.patreon.com/NoLongerNomads?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=wad_ep1_public&utm_content=show_notes The history of Halloween, told by firelight. This is the first episode of Wanderers After Dark, our new story series. We trace the night back through Samhain and the Celtic druids in Ireland...

In this episode, we sit down with Travis Roy from Giants of Ancient America to dive deep into the hidden history of ancient giants, mound builders, and real-life footprint discoveries right here in North America. Travis shares his field research, newspaper archives from the Library of Congress, historical accounts of skeletal remains, and his own intense personal encounters with strange phenomena...

What if the ancient gods weren't imaginary? What if the Bible reveals a supernatural world we've completely overlooked For thousands of years, civilizations worshiped mysterious gods, feared powerful spiritual beings, and told stories of giants who once walked the earth. But what if these ancient accounts are connected to something far bigger? In this episode of No Longer Nomads, Josh Doyl...

What if you could see the spiritual battles happening all around us? Since childhood, Stephen Castellaw claims he's been able to see into the unseen world of angels, demons, and spiritual warfare. But one terrifying encounter at just 10 years old would change his life forever. In this episode of No Longer Nomads , Stephen joins Josh Doyle to share extraordinary stories of angelic encounters, d...

He took one of the world's most powerful psychedelics—and what happened next left him terrified. After 20 years of searching for enlightenment through Burning Man, ayahuasca, psychedelics, and New Age spirituality, Will Spencer found himself in a terrifying experience where he heard voices urging him to jump off a cliff. In this episode of No Longer Nomads , Will reveals the dark side of his s...

Janie Denney was partying, drinking, and living what looked like a normal college life...but behind the scenes, she says something much darker was happening. It started with a terrifying voice she heard at 14. Years later came recurring sleep paralysis, vivid dreams, spiritual encounters, and eventually an experience that changed the trajectory of her life... In this episode of No Longer Nomads, J...

What if the UFO phenomenon isn’t what we’ve been told it is Ali Siadatan’s journey into the subject began with something he never expected...a close-range UFO encounter in the deserts of Iran. He describes watching a massive, glowing object descend toward the earth, align with a mysterious structure rising from the ground, and then disappear beneath the surface. That experience sent him down a dec...

What if you woke up in the middle of the night… and suddenly found yourself in hell? Bill Wiese, author of the bestselling book 23 Minutes in Hell , says that’s exactly what happened to him. On November 23, 1998, Bill says he was pulled from his body and found himself in a prison cell—surrounded by overwhelming heat, darkness, terrifying demonic creatures, and the screams of people in torment. For...

AI isn’t coming someday. It’s already here—and it’s beginning to change what it means to be human. People are forming romantic relationships with AI. Companies are developing humanoid robots. Scientists are exploring brain-computer interfaces, radical life extension, and even digital versions of people that could “live” after they die. So where does this go next? In this episode of No Longer Nomad...

Steve Kang was raised as a devout Buddhist, believing it could take millions of years and countless lifetimes to finally reach Nirvana. Then one night, everything changed. After taking dr*gs that he says were unknowingly laced, Steve spiraled into days of fear, confusion, and intense spiritual darkness. Eventually, he says a being appeared to him with a terrifying offer: take your own life, and 50...

What happens when you spend years investigating Bigfoot, UFOs, demons, strange dreams, and the unexplained… and the unexplained starts following YOU home? For our 100th episode of No Longer Nomads, we sit down with Nate and Luke from Blurry Creatures for a wild conversation about the “Hitchhiker Effect”—the idea that prolonged exposure to paranormal phenomena may lead to strange encounters of your...

The Apostle Paul explained by a historian: short, bald, likely a widower, circumcised Timothy himself, once preached circumcision, and may have died wondering if he'd failed. Josh sits down with historian, archaeologist and August Media founder Dr. Matthew Larsen — Yale, Princeton, Copenhagen, and now a chaired professor at the University of Texas — to meet the Paul most Christians never have....

In this episode of No Longer Nomads, Josh sits down with his mom for a personal conversation about their family's story—the good parts and the messy ones. They talk about what it was really like raising six kids, the years when things went off the rails, difficult decisions they had to make as parents, and how JoAnn held onto her faith when she couldn't see how the story was going to end. They als...

Spiritual warfare or mental illness? A Christian counselor on sleep paralysis, occult involvement, demonic oppression and where therapy stops explaining things. Clinical mental health counselor Dr. Natalie Atwell is back on No Longer Nomads. After years in practice she began seeing cases that didn't fit a diagnosis: sleep paralysis, disturbing spiritual experiences, clients who had been involv...

Chichi Onyekanne, co-host of the Faith & Friction podcast and co-author of Holy Cow: End Times Prophecy Just Got Real, helped document the inspection of the Red Heifers in Texas before they went to Israel. He joins Josh Doyle to separate biblical prophecy from internet speculation: why the heifers matter, what a Third Temple would mean, how current events in Israel may fit the prophetic timeli...

Witchcraft, curses, astral projection and demonic encounters: Ty Ingalls on the line of shoes in the woods and what followed them across it. They crossed a line of shoes in the woods, then something started following them. In Part 2, Ty takes us back to a town where locals claimed certain people had appeared for decades without aging, a figure that showed up inside the house where his group was st...

Spiritual warfare, deliverance and demonic oppression: Ty Ingalls on what the Western Church misses about the unseen realm, and a Michigan town with a dark history. From a teenager battling terrifying spiritual oppression, to encounters with people practicing the occult, to walking into a small Michigan town with a deeply disturbing spiritual history — Ty shares stories that go places we never exp...

Spiritual warfare, demonization and deliverance: 40 years of frontline ministry, and the moment a "healer" answered "Which Jesus?" with "Not that one."Dr. Karl Payne was reading Scripture to his neighbor, a healer who claimed to work in Jesus's name, when the man snapped rigid, his eyes rolled white, and a voice answered the question "Which Jesus?" with...

What if the spiritual world is far more real than most of us realize? While traveling through Egypt, Erik Ouimette witnessed stories that challenge everything many Western Christians believe about spiritual warfare, miracles, and the power of Jesus. From a woman who woke up with mysterious snake bite wounds after terrifying nightly attacks, to villages where the gospel is transforming lives in the...

What if everything you've been told about UFOs is missing the biggest piece of the story? Government hearings. Alleged crash retrievals. Non-human biologics. Ancient giants. Genesis 6. The days of Noah. In one of the most thought-provoking conversations we've ever had on No Longer Nomads, L.A. Marzulli joins Josh Doyle to explore the intersection of biblical prophecy, the supernatural, and...

You thought you knew your family… until one conversation changed everything. At 17 years old, Brook Mosser sat down for what seemed like an ordinary family meeting. Minutes later, his entire world shattered. His father revealed he had been living a secret double life for most of their marriage, leaving Brook questioning everything he thought was true—his family, his identity, and even his faith. I...

In this powerful episode of No Longer Nomads , Josh sits down with Zach Duke (better known as "World Cup Dad") to unpack one of the most unbelievable stories we've ever featured. After years of chronic illness, depression, lost discipline, and feeling far from the man he knew God had called him to be, Zach found himself at a breaking point in a coffee shop. What happened next changed...

What if the biggest spiritual deception in the Church isn’t coming from outside the Church—but from ideas hiding inside it? In this eye-opening conversation, Josh sits down with Christian apologist and author Melissa Dougherty to uncover the surprising history behind the New Thought movement, manifestation, the Law of Attraction, prosperity teachings, and the subtle ways these ideas have woven the...

Most people can spot lust. Most people can spot greed in someone else. But what if the most dangerous sins are the ones hiding in plain sight? In this powerful conversation, Josh sits down with bestselling author and pastor Levi Lusko to unpack the surprising history behind the Seven Deadly Sins—and why they remain just as relevant today as they were 1,600 years ago. Together, they explore how ear...

What if the anxiety you feel isn’t random… but a signal that your soul is starving for peace? In this powerful conversation, pastor and author Jonny Ardavanis joins No Longer Nomads to unpack why so many people today feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and spiritually numb — even while constantly connected. From doomscrolling and panic attacks to parenting fears, uncertainty about the future, and the pre...