Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious world is an exploration of the weird, the strange, the unusual, and the fascinating phenomena in the physical world around us—and beyond—from a Catholic perspective. Join Jimmy Akin and his co-host Domenico Bettinelli as they examine ancient mysteries, folk tales, urban legends, and miraculous stories with a methodical, logical, well-reasoned but not entirely skeptical eye.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 78 minutes
- Episodes
- 310
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Lee Harvey Oswald’s First Assassination? (Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker)
MYS233: Lee Harvey Oswald is most famous for the official conclusion that he was the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the claim that Oswald may have made an ear…
01:21:21 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Mysterious Feedback, October 2022
MYS232a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including Art’s Parts, Time Travel Prayer, Patron Questions, the Haunted House of Marin…
01:36:54 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Miraculous Spiral Staircase (St. Joseph, Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, New Mexico)
MYS232: A group of nuns in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the late 1800s needed a special staircase built for their chapel, so they prayed a novena and a mysterious workman came and built it. Jimmy Akin and…
00:59:42 |
Fri 11 Nov 2022
Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident (Socorro, New Mexico; Aliens?)
MYS231: In 1964, when Officer Lonnie Zamora heard an explosion outside Soccoro, NM, what he found was an egg-shaped craft that took off into the sky. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what the po…
00:48:43 |
Fri 04 Nov 2022
Testing Ellen Gould White (Seventh-Day Adventist Prophetess)
MYS230: Seventh-day Adventist founder Ellen White reported receiving more than 2,000 visions from God and that her writings were divinely inspired. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask whether Ellen was…
01:40:05 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
Ellen Gould White (Seventh-Day Adventist Prophet)
MYS229: Ellen G. White was co-founder and prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the life of this woman and what her visions disclosed and then ask whet…
01:01:22 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
MYS228: The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 is well-known, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss it was followed in November by a second, secret Cuban missile crisis that the Soviets hid …
01:23:16 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
Spoon Bending? (Metal Bending, Psychic, PK Parties)
MYS227: In the 1970s and 80s, spoon bending and metal bending using your mind became a sensation. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how the phenomenon began and search for the truth. Is it really…
01:04:50 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Can Catholics Follow Astrology?
MYS226a: In this mysterious bonus episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss the origins of astrology, what it is and isn’t, and whether it’s permissible for Catholics to follow astrology.
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00:39:02 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
Human-Vampire Hybrids and More Weird Questions
MYS226: It’s a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including secret societies; binding demons; reenacting Catholic history; k…
00:51:58 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Soul?
MYS225a: Do AI have a soul? In this mysterious bonus episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss recent claims about artificial intelligence programs, including one at Google, that have a soul.
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00:37:33 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Testing Edgar Cayce’s Psychic Abilities
MYS225: Continuing their discussion of Edgar Cayce, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk about his startling claims to have genuine psychic abilities and what the evidence says about the famed “S…
01:18:10 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Was God’s Wife Removed from the Bible?
MYS224a: God had a wife? In this mysterious bonus episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss recent claims by some on social media that God originally had a wife, but that she was eventually removed …
00:24:42 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
Edgar Cayce, The Sleeping Prophet
MYS224: In the mid-20th century, Edgar Cayce became known as the Sleeping Prophet for the psychic readings he gave while in hypnotic trances. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss Cayce, called the m…
01:05:31 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Mystery!)
MYS223: In 19th century London, residents reported a ghostly figure in outrageous costumes would accost them, sometimes bellowing blue flame in their faces, and then vanish in the night. Jimmy Akin a…
00:47:28 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
Mysterious Feedback Special, September 2022
MYS222a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including the Green Children of Woolpit, Blue Panic Orbs, animal afterlife, Isdal Woman…
01:40:33 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
The Mandela Effect, the Full Moon effect, the Third Secret of Fatima, & More Patrons’ Questions
MYS222: 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 audi…
00:56:43 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
Shadow People! (Aliens? Ghosts? Demons? Something Else?)
MYS221: Ever thought you saw a shadowy figure out of the corner of your eye? Or the shadowy silhouette of a person directly in front of you? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Shadow People, w…
01:18:53 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Eucharistic Miracles!
MYS220: People have reported witnessing miracles involving the Holy Eucharist for centuries, including the Eucharist appearing to turn into visible flesh and blood. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli exam…
01:13:38 |
Fri 19 Aug 2022
Kabbalah: Secret Teachings (Jewish Mysticism; Secret Teachings; Esoteric Judaism; Qabala)
MYS219: Kabbalism is a school of Jewish mysticism that’s made a celebrity splash. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli continue a conversation with Dr. Justin Sledge about the controversial millennia-…
01:26:50 |
Fri 12 Aug 2022
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