EP: 465 The Blue Lady: The Painting That Would Not Burn with Rick Hansen *members only trailer

September 17, 2026

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The Blue Lady: A Painting That Demanded Worship

Rick Hansen grew up in Southern California with what seemed like a normal childhood—Disneyland trips, soccer practice, surfing, and family dinners. But when he came home from school, he'd often find a tormented stranger in his living room, screaming, cursing, or barking like a dog while his father performed an exorcism. This happened three to five times a week. The Hansen household was a deliverance ministry, and the man running it had taken a strange path to get there: Rick's father had been a Christian, then a full-blown Satanist, and finally a Christian exorcist who cast twelve demons out of himself. At the center of it all was a painting called the Blue Lady—an image his father believed was his "guiding demon."

The Father's Descent

Rick's father was born in Minnesota, raised Baptist, and had a sincere Christian conversion as a young man. But he was spiritually curious, and that curiosity led him to dabble with Ouija boards and tarot cards. In college, professors fed him books designed to rattle his faith. After three painful church splits, he became disillusioned with organized religion, watching the hypocrisy of church leaders and concluding that if this was what God looked like, he wanted no part of it.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **Ad Segment: Quins and ChatGPT** - The episode opens with ad reads for Quins clothing and ChatGPT Work, promoting their products and services.
2 (02:00) **The Blue Lady Painting and the "Guiding Demon"** - The host introduces the core mystery: Rick Hansen's father painted a portrait of a "Blue Lady" that he believed was a demonic entity guiding him into Satanism.
3 (02:34) **Rick Hansen's Family Legacy: From Satanist to Exorcist** - The host sets up the narrative of Rick's father's radical conversion from Christianity to Satanism and then to a Christian exorcist.
4 (03:47) **The "Fallen Church" and the Supernatural Backdrop** - The host discusses the broader context of the supernatural, connecting the family's story to a fallen church and a truncated modern view of the supernatural.
5 (04:20) **Interview Begins: Rick Hansen's Normal Life with a Supernatural Undercurrent** - The host welcomes Rick Hansen and begins the interview, asking about his childhood and his father's journey.
6 (05:44) **First Memories of the Supernatural** - Rick shares his earliest memories of the supernatural activity in his home.
7 (09:22) **How Rick's Father Became a Satanist** - The host asks about the father's journey from Christian to Satanist, which Rick describes as a "long silent war."

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Show Notes

A man sits down to paint, and something takes his hands. For hours, he cannot stop, and when he finishes, he is staring at the most beautiful thing he has ever made. He also knows it is not his. It is the blue lady, and it wants to be worshiped. This is where Rick Hansen's family story turns, the moment his father crosses from curiosity into two years of worshiping Satan. Rick wrote a book about it, because he watched the aftermath play out in his own living room for the rest of his childhood.
The painting later refuses to burn. Cut with a razor, the blue lady's face becomes Rick's mother's face, and tears rise on the canvas. His father eventually casts twelve demons out of himself and becomes the exorcist that frightened pastors keep on speed dial. Rick walks Luke and Nate through it all: the deliverances, the manifestations, and the entity that keeps trying to find a new host. It is one of the wildest testimonies we have ever put on this feed.
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