Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World explores weird, strange, and unexplained phenomena with Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin and co-host Domenico Bettinelli. Each episode examines UFO sightings, historical oddities, supernatural claims, urban legends, conspiracies, and listener questions through careful reasoning and evidence-based evaluation. The show blends curiosity with clarity, unpacking mysteries with respect for science, history, and the Catholic faith without resorting to sensationalism. It offers engaging, insightful conversation for those who love encountering the unusual and asking tough questions.
Episodes
Time-Travel Mass Before Jesus? Jesus’s DNA, Psychic Conversion & More Weird Questions
Could a priest who traveled back in time say Mass before the Last Supper? Jimmy Akin takes listener questions on Catholic Answers Live with Cy Kellett, from Mary's DNA to Malachi Martin and the Michigan Melon Heads.
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Can Science Show the Soul Survives Death? Join My New Courses
Can science show the soul survives death? Jimmy Akin announces two fall courses for the Rhine Education Center: one on near-death experiences and reincarnation-type cases, and Introduction to Parapsychology.
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When Does Holy Water Stop Being Holy? (& More Weird Questions)
Does a blessing survive the water cycle? Could uplifted animals have souls? Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett take on tickling, Hitler's parents, Revelation's scorpion-tailed locusts and baptism before birth, with Dom Bettinelli.
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Could You Possess Another Human? (And More Weird Questions)
Can one human being possess another? MKUltra tried. Jimmy Akin answers that and seven more listener questions — purgatory when the world ends, fallen guardian angels, brain swaps, and whether lizards were once dragons.
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Veridical NDEs
A man with no heartbeat knew where the nurse put his dentures. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at near-death experiences that came back with facts the patient had no way to know, and ask how they got them.
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EgyptAir 990:The Crash That Gave bin Laden the Idea for 9/11
An EgyptAir 767 fell out of a clear sky off Nantucket in 1999, and two governments read the same black boxes and reached opposite verdicts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh four theories and one Arabic prayer.
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Announcing Holy Troublemakers
Announcing Holy Troublemakers, a new podcast from StarQuest. In this weekly podcast host Dom Bettinelli will introduce you to the difficult people who built the Catholic Church. From mystics who argued with popes to missionaries who walked into places nobody sane would go, every episode tells one of their stories.
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Klingon or Time Lord Jesus? Mary Celeste? Salem Witch Trials? And More Patron Questions
Could Jesus have incarnated on a Klingon world while he walked in Galilee? Jimmy Akin takes that question and eleven more from patrons — telekinesis, the Mary Celeste, Salem, ley lines — with Dom Bettinelli.
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The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas)
Early Christians read it in church beside the Gospels; a fourth-century Bible bound it in after Revelation. Then it vanished. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli open the Shepherd of Hermas — a tower, a beast, and a question about forgiveness.
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Are Auras Real? Aura Colors, Cameras, and the Tests
Colored light around every living thing, readable by anyone with the right training — or by a camera at the mall. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow the aura from Mesmer to the selfie app, and weigh what happened under controlled testing.
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Buck Nelson, the Ozark Spaceman
A flashlight, three discs over a Missouri ranch, and a ray that cured fifteen years of back pain. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow Buck Nelson from Ozark farmer to saucer celebrity — and to a twist that isn't funny at all.
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Shared Death Experiences
You are sitting with someone as they die, and the room fills with a light that is not from this earth. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine shared death experiences — the cases where a perfectly healthy bystander sees it too.
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The Devil’s Bible, Jesus Was an Alien?, Psychic Powers in Heaven, and Weird Questions
A monk who sold his soul to write a book in one night, the naked man fleeing Jesus' arrest, and whether Jesus was just an alien with good technology: Jimmy Akin takes on eleven listener weird questions with Cy Kellett and Dom Bettinelli.
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Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years
Join Jimmy Akin this August for a four-week course on Psi and Christianity.
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The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri
Dozens of unrelated children said shining, winged figures stood over them as an EF5 tornado destroyed Joplin. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh cryptids, trauma, folklore, and guardian angels behind the butterfly people.
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Mark Twain Super-Psychic: His Shocking Telepathy & Death Dream
He spent his career debunking fake mesmerists and mediums — then dreamed his brother's funeral weeks before it happened. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace Mark Twain's strange turn toward telepathy and ask what the Catholic has to say about it.
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EXPOSED: The Government’s Patented Way to Put Voices in Your Head
The U.S. government holds real patents for putting voices in people's heads — and thousands say it's happening to them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli separate the real physics from psychiatry, internet lore, and outright fraud.
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Joseph Williamson’s Tunnels
A Liverpool merchant spent 30 years tunneling beneath his own neighborhood and never said why. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh seven theories about Joseph Williamson and his mysterious underground labyrinth.
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Mel’s Hole
A bottomless pit in central Washington, 80,000 feet deep and impossible to fill. In 1997, one phone call to Art Bell turned a piece of local folklore into a national mystery. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli investigate Mel's Hole.
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What Really Happened to the Lost Ark of the Covenant?
The most famous lost object in history — the Ark of the Covenant — vanished from Scripture before 586 BC and was never seen again. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine what it was, trace its history, and weigh nine theories for where it went.
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What Mary Knew; God’s Choices; Autism & Names in Afterlife; & More
Does a growing human population dilute demonic influence per person? Plus: the Magi's star, Mary after Pentecost, leavened Eucharist history, God's timelessness, and the serpent of Genesis 3. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer patron questions.
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Pre-Sputnik Transients
Thousands of star-like flashes flicker across sky-survey plates shot before any satellite existed — some clustered, some lined up, some on famous UFO nights. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh five explanations for the pre-Sputnik transients.
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Zombie Marriage, Holy Roman Emperors, Jesus’s DNA, and More Weird Questions
It's a fifth Friday, so Jimmy Akin is answering weird questions from Catholic Answers listeners, about topics like alien demons, vampire ethics, Jesus's DNA, ancient tech, how much water a priest can bless, and more.
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Skeleton Lake
A lake in the Indian Himalayas holds hundreds of human skeletons from multiple centuries and continents. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace six theories, and the truth turns out to be stranger than the legend.
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Crisis Apparitions!
Something happens at the moment of death. Sometimes the living sense it from miles away. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine 140 years of research into crisis apparitions: who experiences them, what the science says, and what the faith says.
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Jesus’ Most Misunderstood Prophecy? The Olivet Discourse (Not the End of the World)
Jesus' most misunderstood prophecy has sent readers down the wrong path for centuries. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the Olivet Discourse: what did Jesus actually predict, and did it happen?
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Scientists Confirm What the Church Always Knew: Proof of Psychic Powers & Survival After Death
Jimmy Akin is teaching Introduction to Parapsychology for the Rhine Education Center
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The Mattress Store Conspiracy?
There are more mattress stores in the US than McDonald's. They're almost always empty. They cluster suspiciously close together. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli investigate the internet's wildest retail conspiracy theory.
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Ancient Christian Ghosts
Early Christians were no exception in ancient beliefs in ghosts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss reports of ghostly encounters in the ancient Church, what theologians thought of them, and how Jimmy would evaluate these cases today.
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The Shocking Secret Manuscript of the Anna Ecklund Exorcism
The story of the exorcism of "Anna Ecklund" in Earling, Iowa, in 1928 as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli recounted last time was only the beginning. Because there was an account of the exorcism contained in a secret manuscript that was kept private... and Jimmy has a copy. What does it reveal about the real-life Anna Ecklund and about this remarkable case?
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The Earling Exorcism
In 1928, an exorcism unfolded in a tiny Iowa convent. It inspired a 2016 movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the public account and a never-published secret manuscript of the Earling Exorcism. Part 1 of 2.
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George Adamski: Alien Contactee!
In 1952, a self-taught philosopher near Palomar Mountain walked into the California desert and claimed to meet a being from Venus. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli investigate the remarkable story of George Adamski, the first UFO contactee.
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The Kentucky Meat Shower
In 1876, raw meat rained from a clear sky over a Kentucky farm, leaving the whole county and big city newspapers confounded. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli work through the proposed explanations to find the most likely culprit, and there's one part they still can't fully explain.
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The Mystery of Radiation
From 1895 to 1900, a burst of discoveries transformed science's understanding of matter itself. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace the full arc of radiation's discovery — from Röntgen's X-rays to Becquerel's uranium rays to Marie Curie naming radioactivity — and examine its dangers, benefits, and significance.
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The Book of Revelation
The most controverial book in the Bible is also the perhaps the most mysterious. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Book of Revelation, the prominent theories for how to interpret it, and what the book actually means.
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The Library of Alexandria and More Patron Questions
We regularly give Patrons the opportunity to ask Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli their mysterious questions and make them available exclusively to Patrons first and then later to the whole audience. This time, we have questions on the Shroud of Turin, the Library of Alexandria, the "heavens", and more.
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Exposing the MYTH of the Zodiac Killer!
Zodiac hoax—or real killer? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli test 7 “must-explain” clues: the calls, letters, cipher, costume symbol, car-door message, and Stine shirt scrap. Could a multi-person hoax really hold?
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The MYTH of the Zodiac Killer?
Did the Zodiac Killer ever exist? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli analyze the crimes, letters, and evidence behind a bold claim: the Zodiac was a hoax. Are the links real—or carefully constructed?
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The Ghost of the Banta Inn
A historic California inn. A dead owner who never left. Are flying ashtrays, stacking coins, and an unplugged jukebox proof of survival after death? Jimmy Akin interviews investigator Lloyd Auerbach as they examine one of America’s strongest ghost cases.
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Kentucky Goblins! Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO Encounter
A Kentucky farmhouse, glowing figures, and bullets that didn’t work—what really happened in 1955? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli assess witness fear, skeptical explanations, and the case for something truly strange in the Kelly–Hopkinsville UFO encounter.
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Study with Jimmy Akin: Religion and Parapsychology
Ancient faiths and modern psi research come together in this course to be taught by Jimmy Akin. The online course, Religion & Parapsychology, will explore how Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and more have grappled with ESP, miracles, and the afterlife—and why serious evidence may challenge both skeptics and believers alike: What if psi research strengthens, rather than weakens, core religious
Hitler’s Marriage (and More Weird Questions)
It's a fifth Friday, so Jimmy Akin is answering weird questions from Catholic Answers listeners, about topics like Hitler's marriage in the Fuhrerbunker; getting married on a desert island; what demons can posses; how salvation would work in a multiverse; and more.
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Ghost Pets! (Animal After Death Communications, ADCs)
Do pets reach back after death? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli assess new scientific studies on animal after-death communications. Can warning apparitions, shared sightings, and sensory details offer evidence for animal life after death?
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Mysterious Experiences!
What if your strangest moment carried meaning? On their 400th episode, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli tackle more listener stories of healings, visions, dreams, and UFOs—asking: coincidence, psychology, or something more?
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Alone Together for Christmas 2025
Are Ouija boards really paranormal? Does God know what time it is? And is dark matter real — or is gravity wrong? Continuing his Christmas tradition of spending the holiday with those spending it alone, Jimmy Akin tackles these and many more questions posed by listeners with reason, faith, and curiosity.
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Can Psychopaths Be Saved? And More Weird Questions
For New Year's week, Jimmy Akin is answering more weird questions posed by Cy Kellett, including whether psychopaths who feel no remorse can be saved; what happened to the saints who rose at the Resurrection; who was Peter's wife; and more!
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How Many Souls Do Twins Have? And More Weird Questions
It's Christmas week so we're bringing you a special weird questions episode where Jimmy Akin answers questions like: Can identical twins share a soul? What happens if you’re excommunicated unfairly? Could a living soul possess someone else? Are demons capable of repentance? Are we insignificant in a vast universe—or still uniquely special?
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The Amazing Sea-Monkeys!
Starting in 1960, comic books began advertising mail order pets known as sea monkeys, the brainchild of inventor Harold von Braunhut. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli investigate the whimsical creatures, their creator, and a series of disappointing revelations connected to them.
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The Calvine UFO Sighting
In 1990, two men in Calvine, Scotland took photos of a strange object in the sky that would become the clearest UFO photos ever. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask what really happened in Calvine, what happened to the two men, and what was the flying object they photographed?
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The Eye of Providence and More Patrons’ Questions
Is lying ever moral? Why did God create Satan—and dinosaurs? What is the eye of Providence? From purgatory to AI ethics, Jimmy Akin fields more questions from fellow pilgrims during his recent Italy pilgrimage.
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This Advent, Help StarQuest Continue the Mission
Advent begins. Help StarQuest bring faith and reason to the world. Become a $10/month patron (or increase your current donation by $10 per month) and be among the first 400 donors to receive a Mysterious World sticker signed by Jimmy and Dom. Your gift is matched up to $15,000.
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The Sword of St. Michael (and More Weird Questions)
It's our annual Thanksgiving Weird Questions episode, and this time Cy Kellett is asking Jimmy Akin questions about whether the Holy Spirit has chromosomes, what sacraments angels can perform (if any), whether Zoroaster was a savior before Jesus, and what to make of the sword of St. Michael.
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Marita Lorenz and the JFK Assassination
Did the CIA kill JFK? A mysterious woman's testimony at 1985 libel trial apparently indicated CIA agents were in Dallas with operatives and weapons on the night before the assassination. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the credibility of the claims and counter-claims.
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Howard Hunt & the JFK Assassination
After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, theories abounded and some accused CIA agent E. Howard Hunt. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the 1985 lawsuit by Hunt against some of his accusers and what was revealed in the courtroom about the CIA's possible role.
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St. Albert the Great & Magic
How do science and magic intersect? St. Albert the Great wanted to understand. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli, joined by Dr. Justin Sledge, unpack St. Albert the Great’s mystical side—his writings on magic, alchemy, and the hidden powers of nature.
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Extraterrestrial Sheep and More Weird Questions
It's a fifth Friday, so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin weird questions from listeners, about topics like whether Jesus said he had extraterrestrial sheep, could dogs be guardian angels; whether Jesus had opinions; and more.
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Spirit Communication
For thousands of years, people have sought to communicate with spirits in basically every culture and religion. But is all spirit communication forbidden to Christians? Jimmy Akin gets to the truth of the matter on what the Bible says, what different Christians have held, and what the Church says today.
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The Tennessee Prophet John Hendrix
A mysterious Tennessee farmer who received startling visions of the future no one believed. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli revisit the story of John Hendrix with new information about his incredible claims and their connection to a big event in American history.
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The Nephilim (Bible Mystery: Aliens? Angels? Something Else?)
Were the Nephilim of Genesis 6 aliens or human-alien hybrids? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli re-visit one of the strangest passages in the Bible to consider some more theories about who they were.
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Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting (The First UFOs)
Was Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 sighting evidence of extraterrestrial craft? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli revisit the case, weigh rival explanations, and assess why his measurements still unsettle skeptics.
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Demons: Ask Me Anything
Are demons real beings or just symbols of evil? Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live tackle questions on their nature, powers, why they fell, and how to resist them. Possession, oppression, obsession—what’s the difference?
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Introduction to Parapsychology (October 2025)
Can science prove psychic abilities and survival after death? Jimmy Akin announces his Introduction to Parapsychology course with the Rhine Education Center, unpacking evidence for telepathy, apparitions, near-death experiences, and more.
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Interview: Grimoires & the Occult
Are demons liars who can never be trusted? Can possession stem from more than the demonic? Jimmy Akin continues his conversation with Alexander Eth from Glitch Bottle podcast and tackles grimoires, exorcism, Hermetic texts, divine hiddenness, and how the Catholic faith understands magic.
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Interview: Demons & Magic
Are demons just fallen angels—or something more? Jimmy Akin joins Alexander Eth of Glitch Bottle to unpack Catholic teaching on magic, exorcism, grimoires, and the “clerical necromantic underworld.” Can holiness itself drive demons out?
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The Capuchin Bone Church and More Patrons’ Questions
From bones turned into art to relics made of game consoles, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer questions from participants on their recent Italy pilgrimage on faith, death, relics, simulation theory, saints, and even gelato. The first live recording of Mysterious World with a studio audience!
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Could Catholics Colonize Mars? (And More Weird Questions)
It's a fifth Friday, so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin weird questions from listeners, about topics like what we will be doing after the Resurrection; the morality of Catholics colonizing Mars; why Lucifer rebelled; and more.
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Can You Ordain Yourself on a Desert Island? (And More Weird Questions)
Could a layperson on a desert island take on the role of a priest? It's time for more listener weird questions with Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live, including topics like aerial toll booths in the afterlife, whether Balaam's donkey had a rational soul, whether God could have become incarnate as multiple races in Middle Earth, and more.
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Honobia Bigfoot Siege
A rural Oklahoma family faced nightly terror—food theft, rock attacks, and prowlers peering in windows. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh Bigfoot vs. bear, hidden motives, and eerie mimicry. Could this siege change what we believe?
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Feeling the Future (Precognition, Daryl Bem, Psi Research)
Can we sense the future—before it happens? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli confront the scientific chaos sparked by Daryl Bem’s mind-bending 2011 precognition study and unpack the data, the fury, and what it all means.
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The Hell House of Martinez
Fireballs. Scorch marks. Dizzy spells. A haunted house—or something worse? Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and paranormal expert Lloyd Auerbach unravel the shocking truth behind a 1980s California mystery.
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Bigfoot Biology (Sasquatch, Cryptid, Cryptozoology)
If Bigfoot exists, what kind of animal would it be? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli analyze eyewitness reports, biological clues, and statistical patterns to sketch the creature's anatomy and behavior.
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The Oakville Blobs – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World
Gelatinous blobs fell from the sky in Oakville, Washington—then people got sick. Was it rain, jellyfish, or a secret government bioweapon test? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli dissect the evidence and theories.
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John F. Kennedy Assassination Hearings (Lee Harvey Oswald? Conspiracy? CIA? Coverup?)
The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been investigated time and again, but in 2025, the US Congress held new hearings on the latest release of government files. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss whatwas revealed including new testimony from 6 witnesses.
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The Drake Equation (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Aliens, UFOs)
Is Earth alone? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli unpack the Drake Equation’s quest to count alien civilizations. Is 50 million potential galactic neighbors realistic—or just hopeful math?
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The Telepathy Tapes
Telepathy among non-speaking autistic kids? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli unpack the claims from the #1 podcast The Telepathy Tapes, from spelling boards to psychic abilities, how credible are the claims that are made?
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Facilitated Communication & Spelling to Communicate (Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Nonverbal)
For some people who have profound difficulties speaking, alternative communications systems known as Facilitated Communication and Spelling to Communicate have been developed and the results appear miraculous. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the methods, the claimed results, and the controversy surrounding them.
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St. Malachy’s Prophecy of the Popes
Did the 12th century Irish bishop St. Malachy predict the popes through the end of the world? And did we just get the last one? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the prophecy of the popes, its accuracy, and what light that recent events shed on it.
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Buried Pirate Treasure and More Patron Questions
We regularly give Patrons the opportunity to ask Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli their mysterious questions and make them available exclusively to Patrons first and then later to the whole audience. This time first answers questions from Patrons' children and then more from the Patrons themselves.
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Round Meat? Square Bread? And More Weird Questions
It's a fifth Friday, so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin weird questions from listeners, about topics like whether AI is a demonic illusion; Jewish Nazarene Christians; Alfred E. Newman; time travel and the natural law; and more.
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Animal End-of-Life Experiences (Pets, Last Goodbyes, Last Rallies, Crisis Apparitions, Terminal Lucidity, Deathbed Visions, Precognition, etc.)
While scientists for years have been studying unusual experiences that happen to people as they approach death, they've only just begun studying whether animals have End-of-Life Experiences. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss whether they do, what kinds of experiences they have, and how they compare to human experiences.
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