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Our lead Jacob S. Guerra made a guest appearance on Binnall of America: The Revival for a fascinating discussion about the Ropen, its reported variations, and how these accounts compare with pterosaurs and other aerial cryptids such as the Indava.

We also shared why, regardless of where the evidence leads, God alone deserves the glory for His creation. Our conversation touched on creation, young-earth perspectives, and the possibility that some prehistoric creatures may still exist today.

If those subjects interest you, we hope that you will give the interview a listen!

PODCAST EP 10
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In this month's Ropen Network investigation, we examine three fascinating mysteries that all point to one important question: How do we recognize truth? Join us as we investigate the legendary Stoa, explore the unsettling topic of witchcraft within the church and the importance of biblical discernment, and travel to the islands of Zanzibar to uncover the terrifying legend of the Popobawa. Along the way, we'll separate evidence from folklore and ask the difficult questions that every investigator should ask.

If you enjoy cryptozoology, biblical studies, investigative documentaries, and the search for truth, this is an episode you won't want to miss.

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When Darkness Imitates Light | Witchcraft in the Church, the Popobawa & the Stoa Dinosaur When Darkness Imitates Light | Witchcraft in the Church, the Popoba...

CASE FILE #224 – SMITH ROCK, OREGON

Short informative field report from location. On July 2, 2026, after 6:00 PM near Smith Rock (Monkey Face) in Bend, Oregon, a witness reported observing a large flying creature unlike any known bird native to the region.

The eyewitness described an estimated wingspan of 12 to 16 feet and noted one particularly unusual feature—a strange antler-like appendage or head crest that immediately caught his attention.

Could this description be connected to other reports from around the country? Interestingly, the witness's description shares similarities with a recent encounter reported in North Carolina involving an "L-shaped" head crest.

In this short field report, we take a closer look at the location, the eyewitness description, and the growing number of unusual sightings that continue to emerge.

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Podcast: EP 9
Have you ever wondered what really lives beneath the surface?
From the legendary Beast of Busco and the powerful alligator snapping turtle to the giant sea turtle Archelon, great white sharks, and the legendary Megalodon, we're diving into one of the most fascinating wildlife discussions we've ever produced.
Join us as we explore history, eyewitness accounts, natural history, and the incredible creatures that continue to inspire wonder and curiosity. Plus, hear our extended conversation with historian Chuck Jones and researcher Jeff Schenher as we revisit the enduring legend of Oscar.
🎙️ If you enjoy wildlife, history, paleontology, or the unexplained, this is one episode you won't want to miss.
We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments:
Which creature fascinates you the most?
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From Oscar to Megalodon Exploring the Giants of Freshwater and Sea From Oscar to Megalodon Exploring the Giants of Freshwater and Sea...

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Research S7 EP 3
Oscar is a whopper of a turtle. For more than a century, the small town of Churubusco, Indiana, has been connected to one of America's most unusual mysteries. Did an enormous snapping turtle known as Oscar really inhabit the waters of Fulk Lake?
Join the Ropen Network as we explore eyewitness accounts, historical records, and the enduring legend of the Beast of Busco.

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America's GIANT Snapping Turtle  | The True Story of Oscar, The Beast of Busco 's Giant Snapping ...

That is one BIG TURTLE!
What if an entire town became convinced that something enormous lived beneath the waters of an Indiana lake?

For more than a century, eyewitnesses spoke of a giant snapping turtle known simply as Oscar. Farmers, fishermen, and pastors all claimed to have seen it. Some even searched for it.

Could there have been truth behind the legend?

🎬 Streaming tomorrow on the Ropen Network: *America's Giant Snapping Turtle – The True Story of Oscar, the Beast of Busco.*

From the archives of the Ropen Network.
There’s a place out in the Mojave Desert they call the Funeral Mountains — and that wasn’t meant as poetry. People went in… and they didn’t come back out.
Not everybody knows that. It’s one of those names we all hear, and we assume it’s just a dramatic frontier title — like Dead Man’s Gulch, or Skeleton Ridge. But the truth is, some of those old American explorers didn’t exaggerate anything. If anything, they under-explained it — because even mentioning the truth out loud was considered dangerous.
We’re going to talk about the Mojave — and a series of alleged… entities… that were reported walking out of the earth itself. Very specific sightings. Not ghosts. Not demons. Not men. Something far stranger. Something people described as walking coffins. And if that sounds insane — I want you to stay with me, because the original reports were far more disturbing than the modern summaries.
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“To understand why these sightings shook the pioneers so violently — you have to understand the environment first. The Funeral Mountains are not romantic. They’re not cinematic. They are oppressive. Heat that feels sentient. Silence so complete it makes your pulse sound alien inside your own skull. Land stripped down to its bones — nothing out there is casual.
And that was the setting — when word began to spread of things walking through the desert. Not across it. Through it.
Appearing out of fissures, out of sinkholes… like the earth was briefly exhaling.
People didn’t describe them as animals. They described them as coffins walking on two legs. Tall. Hollow in the center. Almost as if there was no internal anatomy — just a burnt, oblong shell wobbling forward, impossibly upright, like a box come to life. No arms. No visible head. A shape that violated the brain’s ability to categorize — and that is always where terror truly begins.
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The earliest known report came from men who were not looking for anything supernatural. They were freight haulers — crossing the boundary near what we now call Death Valley. They reported seeing one of these ‘coffin-creatures’ from a distance first — assuming it was a man carrying a long wooden box on his shoulders. A funeral transport, maybe — which was plausible in that landscape at the time.
Until it… stopped. Upright. Balanced. And then… pivoted.
That was the moment — all witnesses agreed — that it became clear there was no person carrying it.
The ‘box’ was the creature.
“The men froze. The air itself seemed to still. No sound but the rattle of tack and the creak of wagon wood cooling in the sun. The thing… began to move again — not fast, but steady. They said it didn’t walk so much as glide, like each step was too deliberate, too balanced for something of its size. Dust rose around it, but no footprints were left behind. None.
Then — as suddenly as it had appeared — the thing began to convulse. The sides of its body bowed inward, almost folding. The entire form began to shudder, like a coffin under invisible pressure. And before the men could react, it imploded — collapsing into itself with a dull, thunderless pop. There was no blood. No fluid. No remains. Just a shallow depression in the sand — and the echo of something that defied reason.
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For weeks after, the same men refused to travel at night. Some abandoned the route entirely, convinced the desert was not lifeless, but sentient — and cruelly imaginative. Later accounts trickled in from prospectors and missionaries: glimpses of tall, rectangular forms moving between the dunes, and strange, low moaning sounds that carried on the wind — like the echo of grief made physical.
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Now, skeptics will tell you it was a mirage, a heat distortion, or some trick of the light against a rock formation. But that doesn’t account for the implosion — nor for the dozens of separate reports from the 19th and early 20th centuries. All describing the same impossible geometry. A creature that was less organic than architectural. A mobile coffin.
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Today, the area is still largely uninhabited. There’s a loneliness to that land that almost feels deliberate — as if the earth remembers what was once seen there and keeps its distance. Local desert guides still whisper that at dusk, when the heat haze dances low to the ground, you can sometimes see faint, elongated shadows moving — not quite shaped like men, not quite shaped like coffins, but something between.
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And maybe that’s the legacy of the Funeral Mountain Terror — not a monster in the traditional sense, but a story that embodies the desert’s true horror: isolation. Silence. And the realization that the earth itself might occasionally, and very quietly, breathe things into being.
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And that’s the detail that still unsettles me the most. Not what the men saw — but what they were forced to confront. That this world still holds landscapes not merely unknown… but ungoverned. Regions where phenomena exist that do not obey biology, nor physics, nor even metaphor. The Funeral Mountains are not just a location on a map — they are a psychological frontier. A place where reality thins, and form itself becomes unstable.
Perhaps these so-called walking coffins are not living things as we define them — but expressions. Manifestations. Something the desert exhaled briefly — then withdrew. And if that is the case… then this is not a story about a monster. It is a story about a world still capable of defying taxonomy. A living planet that does not ask for our permission — and does not concern itself with our understanding. -JSG

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Podcast Ep 8
We examine a chilling Dogman encounter reported near Newport, Oregon — an experience that left the witness disturbed and searching for answers. Was this a misidentified animal… or something far stranger lurking in the forests of the Pacific Northwest?
From there, we shift into Part 2 of our ongoing discussion about marriage. It is more than emotion — it requires wisdom, leadership, discernment, compassion, and spiritual understanding. What happens when people enter marriage unprepared? And what warning signs should never be ignored? Teenagers, young and old this is a MUST LISTEN.

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Podcast EP 7
Tonight, we take a deeper look into creatures believed to be gone… but possibly not forgotten.
From reports of the Javan tiger still moving through remote forests, to a controversial elephant discovery in India, and finally the mystery surrounding the woolly mammoth—its preserved remains, eyewitness accounts, and the growing effort to bring it back.
Are these animals truly extinct… or is there more happening behind the scenes than we realize?
Join us as we explore the evidence, the claims, and the questions that continue to challenge what we think we know.

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