Angels in the Backseat
Eyewitness Testimonies to the Reality of the Supernatural
God is real. Angels are real. But weโve been conditioned to ignore them.
My wife and I live two hours away from my family and used to spend every other weekend at my grandparentsโ house. Have family dinners, go to the beach, visit theme parks. Normal stuff. Before our son was born.
Boring. Yet bliss.
Weโre starting to get back into a similar rhythm since our son is old enough, but thatโs beside the point.
One night in 2018, we experienced something we still canโt explain to this day. Something which can only be accounted for as supernatural.
All was well. We had the car packed up. Said our goodbyes.
My wife wanted to drive home since Iโd driven there, and I obliged. Buckled snug into the passenger seat. Waved to my mom, dad, sister, and grandparents, who were still standing on the porch.
Suddenly they started to panic. Tried to get our attention. Because a danger was close neither of us saw.
I heard the car click into gear and my wife place her hands on the wheel, as a rumble zipped close from behind. She was about to pull out parallel into an oncoming SUV.
I went to warn her, but she didnโt budge. She mustโve seen it, I thought. Waited.
Then she turned to me and said, โDid you touch my shoulder and tell me to stop?โ
Confusion set in. I hadnโt even known about the SUV until my family warned me. And I was looking the other way until it blew past us.
When I told her no, she went pale as a ghost. Hereโs what she saidโฆ
Angel in the Backseat
After putting the car in gear, a hand touched her shoulder. She felt it press down, clear as day. Then someone whispered in hear ear. โWait.โ
She felt a warm draft like breath on her cheek. No one else was in the car but us and our little dog in the back seat.
She froze. Just long enough for the danger to pass.
Had she merged, she wouldโve died right there. Our dog would have died. And I would have been severely injured.
Atheists want you to think my wife is delusional, imagined the hand and voice, or deliberately lied to me. Because they canโt comprehend anything beyond this mortal coil. Refuse to.
But that night still haunts us to this day.
We spent the whole drive back in shock and silence.
While a believer in Christ, my wife was not one to accept the supernatural without question. She grew up a skeptic in a family of skeptics.
My family was more open-minded, so Iโve always been more accepting of the possibility of the spiritual. But what happened puzzled us both for weeks.
We sifted through the usual answers.
Hallucination (but it was too real).
Conscience (but she was thinking about the drive home, sad to leave family again, running through tasks she needed to get done for the next day, she didnโt even notice the SUV).
Stranger (but there was no one else in our car; we did a thorough search, and even if someone was there, they couldnโt have gotten out without us seeing them).
Eventually, we realized any attempt to explain the hand and voice was pointless unless it involved the supernatural. Anything else required too much preposterous blind faith.
It had to be an angel.
What a Great Cloud of Witnesses
I shared this story yesterday on X and to Allegiant Faith newsletter subscribers. Worried the atheists would swarm. Mock. Slander. Browbeat. Demean me and my wife as they always do.
The exact opposite took place.
1.4 million views
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And growing. Most of them positive.
Some atheists showed up, but the majority of the responses between X and our newsletter community were people with similar encounters. Stories not easily explained away.
ALadyofHistory said: โWhen my son was 19 he was driving home when a length of wire from an old fence wrapped around his car tyre. The car flipped over a drain and ended up on its roof, when my husband and I arrived on the scene they were just getting him out. I was sure he would have serious injuries. He told me in the ambulance on the way to the hospital that he felt Joe wrap his arms around him the moment the car flipped. Joe was my uncle who died in 1948. My son walked away with a scratch on his hand.โ
DandyDonnie said: โMany years ago driving home from work I was rocking to the radio when a voice clear as day said โput your seatbelt onโ not once but twice. I never used a seatbelt ever in my life. I reached for the seatbelt and buckled it. I remember thinking how weird wearing the seatbelt felt. A few minutes later my car was destroyed from the backend. I didnโt think about it until after I left the ER that night. To this day I still get chills thinking about that voice.โ
Funsize Hurricane said: โI was a young college grad and newly married back in early 2004. I had a very vivid dream about my beloved grandfather who had passed in early 2003. This man was my person. Losing him destroyed me. He very clearly sat down on the edge of the bed and pointed at my chest and said โYou need to get that fixed girlieโ. He always talked like that. I woke up immediately and told my husband. My first heart surgery was completed in 2004. I was only 28. He had 5 heart attacks, a ruptured aneurysm, fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and had been shot 3 different times. COPD took him from us in his late 80s. The man was tough as nails. I knew he meant it in my dream. He was right. Iโve only had one other dream of him, and it was shortly after I almost died in the ER prior to my second heart surgery at 48. He told me to quit being stubborn and fix it. He was right again. Maybe he is my guardian angel?โ
Agora Radio said: โI was walking fast while talking to myself with my head down about to step in front of speeding bus when something grabbed the back of my collar and pulled back onto the curb. When I turned around there was no one there. I caught a momentary glimpse of woman who disappeared.โ
Cole - Modern Dad Survival (Modern Dad Survival Guide) said: โMy wife and daughter had a similar situation about 4 years ago. They had a green light and started to go at the stop light. The car ignoredโฆ yes, it ignored my wifeโs foot on the pedal. They donโt really do that. There was no mechanical symptom indicating a misfire/engine lugging or other similar system failure. No check engine light popped on after it or anythingโฆnothing at all. About 2-3 seconds into her confusion, a massive utility vehicle, bucket truck level or higher (10k+ lbs) blew through the light at full speed. As soon as the utility truck was gone, she out her foot on the pedal and it behaved as normal. The car was only about 4 years old, low miles, no maintenance issues, and in excellent operating condition.โ
Chris Larson (Chris Larson) said: โ4 years ago next month I was in the midst of a multi car crash. Busy street at a higher traffic time, and kids decided to cross the street there and not go up to the light and crosswalk. I was the 3rd car back in the line that stopped. I looked up into my rear view mirror and saw a car coming up fast, braced myself and simply said โLord, protect us!โ That car smashed into the car behind me and took out his own right front quarter panel, and took off. He pushed her car hard into mine, taking out her front left quarter panel. Her car was totaled from the damage. My carโฆ a 2โ scratch and barely a dent with that. We didnโt move the cars at all. When the police arrived, one officer kept looking at my car and me, eyes wide, said it wasnโt possible, and that my guardian angel had to be standing between the cars as mine should be badly damaged too. I agreed with the officer and said a prayer of thanks.โ
The stories are never-ending. And I fast realized God is alive and active everywhere. Seen, felt, heard, adoredโฆawesome in power and love. People have witnessed his glory and grace.
And atheism is dying.
Atheists, with their obsession over strict empiricism and observation have lost touch with reality. They cry out that the five senses are all that matter, but they donโt mean it.
How quickly they dismiss personal encounters of the divine the moment you claim to have felt the presence of God.
They rather live in closed-minded denialโฆ
Pure Skepticism or Closed-Minded Denial?
Feelings alone are not substantial proof of anything. Granted. Human experience is subjective, so personal claims should never be accepted without scrutiny.
But the atheistโs knee-jerk denial of spiritual experiences, without any serious study of the vast historical record or any attempt at open-minded examinationโฆthatโs blind, cultic opposition.
From ancient times to the present, millions of people across every culture and continent have reported encounters with something beyond the physical universe. People of varying degrees of intelligence, from the most illiterate to the wise philosopher. Moments of a clear sense of divine guidance in crisis, verifiable visions filled with knowledge that couldnโt have been gained without otherworldly revelation, transformative encounters with higher beings, and so much more.
Near-death experiences have added another layer, documenting cases in which people report vivid, coherent awareness during periods of clinically measurable brain inactivity. Details later verified by outside sources.
A woman on an operating table sees a sticker on the upper side of a fan blade while under anesthesia
A clinically brain-dead man at an accident scene recalls the exact conversation of his paramedics when revived
Such stories are common and inexplicable. Not by nature alone.
The sheer volume of these accounts makes fabrication or mistake an implausible universal explanation. Witnesses are separated by centuries, cultures, landmasses, and oceans. No way to coordinate their stories.
Blanket dismissal becomes absurd.
And all roads point to Godโฆ
All Things Are Possible with God
Serious examination of spiritual experiences doesnโt require abandoning reason but applying the same empirical curiosity atheists claim to value. Without limit.
When curiosity operates freely, the cumulative record of unnatural encounters that transform lives becomes a wealth of research into the possibility of the beyond.
Atheists who outright reject the body of testimonies without serious investigation practice a faith of their own, one whose materialist conclusion is fixed without evidence or cause. The blindest of faith in natural alone.
They would prefer to call you and me liars and idiots than deal with God. Itโs all about rebellion.
The Christian perspective welcomes questioning because the material and the transcendent are part of the same picture. That our universe began to exist and must have a Cause proves one miracle already occurred. Making every other claim to miracles possible.
And the only way to find out is by treating encounters as eyewitness stories until proven otherwise. Innocent until guilty.
My wife and I didnโt set out to face an angel. In fact, I didnโt face it. She alone felt the hand and heard the voice, but her face wasnโt that of a liar.
She looked like everyone who has experienced something that rocked them to their core. Completely altered how she sees the world. An event horizon. Dawning a new day. Through inescapable shock and awe. Something she knows beyond doubt was real and outside the bounds of nature.
I believe every word.
Because I know her, I know the astounding track record of miracle encounters in history, I know we didnโt come from nothing, I see the testimonies from you, and I donโt have enough faith to be an atheist.
God is real. Angels are real. Stop ignoring them.
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What an amazing story! Itโs hard to deny that God is still active in this world.
Beautiful testimony!
Angels are real, and I try to get as close as possible with writing โ even though they are beyond me, as is heaven!