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Lavender Field UFO Encounter: The 1965 French MysteryDescription:A French farmer walks into his lavender field to catch a thief. What he finds is a small, dark, rounded craft sitting in the lavender, two strange little figures, and a mystery that still has people scratching their heads nearly sixty years later. In this episode of The Parsonage Files, Pastor Rick Birk and his brother Rob dig into t...

What if the strangest part of one of America’s most famous UFO stories wasn’t the monster… but the smell? In 1952, witnesses in Flatwoods, West Virginia reported a towering creature, glowing eyes, burning throats, swollen eyes, and a rotten-egg stink so bad people started blaming each other. Yes, this may be the only alien story where the first question is, “Who farted?” In this episode of The Par...

Here is the revised Spotify-friendly description: In April 1964, New Mexico police officer Lonnie Zamora chased a speeding car into the desert and came back with one of the strangest UFO reports in American history. He said he saw a white, egg-shaped craft sitting in a dry arroyo near Socorro. He saw two small figures in white coveralls. He heard a roar, saw flames, and later found burned brush an...

What if you heard something in your house…and knew it wasn’t anyone you could see? In this episode of The Parsonage Files , we tell the true story of The Wizard Clip Haunting , one of the strangest paranormal stories from early American history. In the 1790s, in what is now Middleway, West Virginia , a dying stranger asked for a Catholic priest. He never got one. Then the Livingston family started...

Description:October 1973. Ohio went strange. Police officers, military pilots, and ordinary people across the state reported lights and objects in the sky they could not explain. One of the most famous cases involved an Army Reserve helicopter near Mansfield. The crew said a glowing object approached them, their instruments acted up, and the helicopter climbed even though the pilot had it set to d...

Missionaries vs. Monsters | The Parsonage FilesThe best monster stories aren't on Reddit. They're buried in old missionary reports — tucked between crop notes and prayer requests. Nobody looks there. Which is exactly why the stories are so good. Tonight, Pastor Rick and his brother Rob dig into three real accounts from church missionaries who ran into something they couldn't explain. A congregatio...

Something entered that church during the storm... and people never forgot it. In 1577, witnesses said a giant black dog with burning eyes ran through a church service and killed people. In this episode of The Parsonage Files, Pastor Rick and Rob break down one of the wildest church legends in history: The Black Dog of Bungay. A violent storm hits. The church goes dark. Thunder shakes the building....

Christians Keep Running Into Bigfoot | The Parsonage Files A youth group hikes into the Marble Mountain Wilderness and captures something on camcorder they can't explain. A Baptist pastor in Florida grabs an axe and charges toward an 8-foot-tall hairy figure. A church camp in Washington State wakes up to hundreds of massive footprints and a 30-foot tree knocked flat. These are real reports fro...

Pope Joan, a female pope, and a baby born in the streets of Rome. Did a pope really have a baby, or is this Catholic Church legend pure fiction? If it is fiction, why did church writers insist it was true? In this episode of The Parsonage Files, Pastor Rick and his brother Rob tell the Pope Joan story and then stress-test it. The legend says Joan disguises herself as “John Anglicus,” rises through...

In 1941, a small town pastor is called out to pray for the victims of an aircraft crash. The thing is, the aircraft that crashed wasn't American. In fact, it wasn't even from this planet.

Three Royal Navy cadets walk into Kersey, Suffolk on a bright Sunday morning in October 1957. It is a simple map-reading drill. They have a checkpoint and a deadline. Then the church bells stop, the village goes silent, and the world feels wrong. In this episode of The Parsonage Files, you hear the full Kersey Time Slip story as William Laing, Michael Crowley, and Ray Baker move through a version...

In this episode, Rob and Rick discuss the possibility of contacting "spirits."

Christmas. 1979. Snow on the ground. A normal morning in a small English council house… until three glowing, winged “gentlemen” float through the back door, trash an artificial Christmas tree like a pack of cats, politely announce “Only one Lord,” and then sprint to their UFO with *mince pies in hand* because a burning match scares them half to death. Yep. That’s the story. In this episode of *The...

Ever heard of a Christmas tradition that involves a pooping nativity figure, a log that “poops” candy, 13 sneaky Christmas trolls, and a rap battle with a dead horse head? Yeah… welcome to The Parsonage Files. In this episode, Pastor Rick (Groveport UMC) and his brother Rob dive into some of the strangest Christmas traditions from around the world—stories that were way too weird to ever make it in...

When is a coincidence just random chance… and when does it start to look like a miracle? In this episode of The Parsonage Files , we head to Beatrice, Nebraska, to revisit the true story of a small church that exploded on choir night—yet every single choir member was mysteriously running late. A nap that went too long. Homework that wouldn’t quite click. A letter that needed one more paragraph. Ca...

Step back in time to 1949 and the strange skies over Norwood, Ohio. In The Flying Peanut: The Norwood UFO Incident , we dig into one of the most intriguing and overlooked UFO cases in American history — a peanut-shaped object caught in a powerful searchlight above suburban Cincinnati. In this video, we walk through what eyewitnesses reported that night, why the object earned the nickname “The Flyi...

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small-town chicken farmer, a flying saucer in the yard, and… alien pancakes ? 🥞🛸 In this episode, we dive into the real (and very weird) UFO case where a farmer says three “Italian-looking” aliens in dark blue turtlenecks landed, handed him a silver jug, and paid him in pancakes cooked on a flameless grill inside their ship. Yes, really. We’ll talk about: The infamous “space pancakes” UFO encoun...

In “The Boianai Mission UFO Sighting”, The Parsonage Files revisits one of the most intriguing cases in UFO history: the 1959 Papua New Guinea encounter, where Anglican priest Father William Gill and 30+ witnesses watched a glowing craft with humanlike figures waving back at them. In this episode, you’ll hear: A fun setup about whether the Church would baptize aliens A clear, down-to-earth retelli...

What happens when a Saint meets a legend? Find out on this episode of The Parsonage Files.

It's Halloween! This week on The Parsoange Files, we hear some good old-fashioned ghost stories.

Today on The Parsonage Files, we dive into the wonderfully weird tale of the Chronovisor. Is there really a time machine in the Pope’s basement?

Did Angels really help the British army during the First World War? We will find out the answer on this episode of The Parsoange Files.

On this episode of The Parsonage Files, Rick and Rob dig into the story of Uzzah. Was he a good guy trying to help, or did he cross a line God had made clear? We unpack what happened, why it matters today, and then go hunting for the Ark of the Covenant. No whips or fedoras required.

This Week: “The Merkel Incident”Pastor Rick shares an old Irish story about a church and a sky-sailing ship that drops an anchor where no anchor should be. And here’s the twist: this strange little story keeps popping up across the centuries. Along the way we ask:Do churches need to worry about flying ships? Is the tale true, tall, or teaching us something? What might it say about how heaven and e...