A View from the Bunker

IT’S DEFINITELY one of the strangest stories of 2023: Villagers in a remote region of the Amazon rainforest in Peru have been defending themselves against attackers called pelecaras , which translates into English as “face-peelers.” Timothy Alberino ( TimothyAlberino.com ) , who lived in that region for a time as a younger man, returned recently to investigate the accounts of seven-foot-tall levit...

ANCIENT SUMERIANS built a tower of mud brick as a portal to the gods. Today, Babel is more high-tech. Author Nick Goss joins us to discuss his new book Unplugging Babel: A Manifesto Against AI, Smartphones, and Social Media . Nick explains why he says smartphone technology and social media have enslaved Christians, tethering us to participation in the coming 'Beast Bystem' of the Antichrist. Subsc...

ONE OF THE MOST notorious characters in the Bible, and all of history, is a man about which we know almost nothing. Nimrod is blamed for the Tower of Babel and the occult wickedness of Babylon. However, a close reading of the Bible and the history of the ancient Near East doesn’t specifically connect him with either. Some identify Nimrod as the Sumerian king Enmerkar, some as Sargon the Great of A...

WHAT WE CALL “prepping” our grandparents called “life.” We’ve lost those skills—and the knowledge that your neighbors had your back when things got tough. Wyatt Fernow , one of the organizers of the annual Pitchfork and Hoe Gathering in Valley City, North Dakota ( facebook.com/pitchforknhoe ), sat down with me at this year’s event to explain why his father, Rod, came up with the idea for this get-...

THE THREE big questions of life that have haunted humanity since the beginning of history are still with us today: Where do we come from, why are we here, and what happens when we die? Shaun Tabatt and Randy Kay have authored three books on near-death experiences (NDEs), accounts of experiences from people who were clinically dead and brought back to life. Shaun joins us to discuss their new book...

A CREEPY DOLL that takes on a life of its own is a well-worn trope in Hollywood horror films. Is there any truth behind this modern urban myth? Dr. Judd Burton ( BurtonBeyond.net ), author of Interview With the Giant and the forthcoming Van Helsing Way , joins us for our annual Halloween show to discuss the spiritual reality behind Hollywood dolls like Chucky ( Child’s Play ), Annabelle ( The Conj...

WHO BETTER to investigate sensational reports of levitating inhuman visitors in the remote Amazon rainforest than Timothy Alberino ? Seriously. Not only is Tim, author of the bestselling book Birthright , a respected ufologist, he lived for ten years in exactly the part of the Amazon where these reports emerged in August and speaks the unique dialect of Spanish used by villagers in that region. Wh...

GOD WAS very clear when He told Moses that sorcery was absolutely forbidden. Would He have bothered to mention it if it was make-believe? Brian Godawa ( www. Godawa.com ), author of the new novel Cruel Logic , Doug Van Dorn ( www.douglasvandorn.com ), author of Giants: Sons of the Gods , and Dr. Judd Burton ( www. BurtonBeyond.net ), author of Interview With the Giant , join us for our monthly rou...

NIMROD HAD nothing to do with Babel or Babylon—and they had nothing to do with one another. This is probably not what you’ve heard about the first great (human) rebel in the Bible, but if this week’s guest is correct, it’s historically accurate. Dr. Douglas Petrovich , author of the new book Nimrod the Empire Builder: Architect of Shock and Awe , explains how identifying Nimrod as the first empire...

HAMAS SURPRISED Israel with an attack early Saturday, October 7. As of this recording, more than 300 Israelis are dead with another 1,600 hurt. It’s the worst military setback in Israel since the Yom Kippur War exactly 50 years ago. Filmmaker, author, and prophecy scholar L. A. Marzulli (lamarzulli.net) joins us to discuss the biblical significance of this new conflict, the latest chapter in the l...

SOFT DISCLOSURE of the existence of “extraterrestrial” life has gone mainstream, with stories about UAPs appearing in the corporate media regularly since December, 2017. Things reached a new level this summer, with a so-called Pentagon whistleblower claiming knowledge of recovered alien craft and veteran journalist Jaime Maussan presenting already-debunked mummified “non-human” remains to Mexico’s...

ONE OF the most important finds in the history of biblical archaeology is threatened. The Israeli government recently stopped a construction project that would have built a Palestinian village on top of the ruins of Joshua’s altar. At least, the project is stopped for now—there is no guarantee that the work has been halted for good. Aaron Lipkin ( altarofjoshua.com ) CEO of Lipkin Tours ( lipkinto...

WHAT HAPPENS when the dead don’t stay that way? And is that even possible? Our monthly Iron and Myth roundtable tackles the topic of the unquiet dead—revenants, ghouls, zombies, vampires, ghosts, and more. Can the dead really come back? If so, how do we deal with them? We’re joined by Brian Godawa ( www. Godawa.com ), author of the new novel Cruel Logic , Doug Van Dorn ( www.douglasvandorn.com ),...

A NEW AGE teaching very much like sorcery is making its way into Christian churches. Our guest this week is the author of a book that pulls no punches in calling out this doctrine. Jon Clash (www.godtrepreneur.com) discusses his book The Law of Attraction: A Gateway Drug to Spiritual Heroin . Jon explains what the Law of Attraction is, the similar teachings corrupting Christians under a variety of...

COULD YOU defend your worldview as if your worldview depended on it? What if your life actually DID depend on it? Award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author Brian Godawa (www.godawa.com) joins us to discuss his new novel, the “theological thriller” Cruel Logic: The Philosopher Killer . The plot features a brilliant university professor—a ruthless killer who captures distinguished college pr...

MUSIC HAS power. It can inspire, and it can seduce. And for those with the gift of making music, it can be a test and a trap. Two world-class musicians join us this week who gave up careers as secular musicians to share the gospel of Jesus Christ: Caspar McCloud (casparmccloudmusic.com), pastor of the Upper Room Fellowship in Ball Ground, Georgia (theupperroomfellowship.org), and Renae Truex (rena...

IS IT possible for a story to literally scare the Hell out of you? Every era has had its stories of monsters, demons, and gods. Those tales can teach some supernatural truth—sometimes by accident. That’s not to say that we can find the gospel in every tale of horror; as Brian Godawa ( www. Godawa.com ), author of the forthcoming novel Cruel Logic , observes, they are “reflections through a distort...

IT’S TRUE—if you want to do archaeology in Israel, you go into the field with a shovel in one hand and a Bible in the other. Dr. Mike Freikman ( https://huji.academia.edu/MikeFreikman ) of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem joins us this week to discuss his current excavation at Tell Beit Mirsim. This site, located about 12-1/2 miles southwest of Hebron, was excavated more than 90 years ago by one...

A GROWING BODY of evidence links the giants of the pre-Flood world with ancient Canaan and the mysterious island of Sardinia off the west coast of Italy. Author, filmmaker, and explorer Timothy Alberino ( www.timothyalberino.com ), who is our special guest on our 2024 tour of Israel, joins us to discuss the hundreds of giants’ tombs on Sardinia. They are used to this day in a rite of passage tradi...

WERE THE fertility goddesses of the ancient world the women who’d been taken as wives by the rebel Watchers? Michael Gagliardi , author of Devil Take the Hindmost ( www.amzn.to/3Y1OcQw ), a terrifying account of his childhood as the son of a mother possessed by demons, joins us to discuss an aspect of the pre-Flood world most of us have never considered: Is it possible the women venerated as ferti...

IT IS possible to be delivered from addiction so severe that not only do you lose your family, but you’re convinced that you are the Messiah in the flesh. Barbara Joan Briggs discusses her book Love and Renewal of the Heart and Mind , an honest, revealing, and inspiring account of how Jesus Christ saved her from a life of mental illness, hearing voices from the unseen realm that encouraged her to...

IS IT POSSIBLE to literally scare the hell out of someone? Joining us for our monthly Iron and Myth round table are award-winning screenwriter and best-selling author Brian Godawa (Godawa.com) , Pastor Doug Van Dorn (DouglasVanDorn.com) , author of Giants: Sons of the Gods , and Director of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology Dr. Judd Burton (BurtonBeyond.net) , author of Interview With the Gia...

GOTH CULTURE is dark. So, how is it even possible for music described as “Christian Goth” to be a thing, much less spread the gospel of Jesus Christ? Musician and author Trace Taylor joins us to discuss the unique musical styles she employs to share the hope we have in Jesus, especially her genre-busting single Parousia , which has earned praise from secular media like Zero Tolerance magazine, a m...

OFFICIAL DISCLOSURE is back in the news as a “whistleblower” has come forward with claims of alien spacecraft recovered by the US military. We’ve heard this before. Actual proof is non-existent, and, as with every major UFO/UAP “disclosure” since Roswell in 1947, the military-intelligence complex has fingerprints all over it. So, to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Roswell incident, we brin...

ANCIENT ALIENS, cosmic conspiracies, and a final battle for the fate of humanity. It's like the Avengers meets the Book of Revelation. That’s the elevator pitch for the new novel The Regenesis Code: The Cosmic Conspiracy Book 1 . Co-authors Dr. Doug Hamp and filmmaker Morné Theunissen join us to discuss the inspiration for a fresh take on the end of days—a story that includes Doug’s discovery of n...