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
You Can Tell the Vatican What You Think
MYS218a: Jimmy Akin has been contacted by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications and was asked to ask for your help with a brief survey.
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Mon 08 Aug 2022
Kabbalah! Secret Origins (Jewish Mysticism; Secret Teachings; Esoteric Judaism; Qabala)
MYS218: Kabbalah is a school of Jewish mysticism that has been around for centuries, experiencing a revival in popularity. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss with Dr. Justin Sledge the controversi…
00:56:23 |
Fri 05 Aug 2022
Frozen Heaven, Lazarus Near Death Experience, Night Sky Paradox, Unfallen Children (Weird Questions)
MYS217: It’s a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including will we be frozen in time in heaven; did Lazarus have a Near Dea…
00:52:07 |
Fri 29 Jul 2022
Investigating Robert Righi (Psychic Medium? Exorcism? Ted Bundy?)
MYS216: Psychic medium Robert Righi has a dramatic life story, including psychic abilities as a small child and helping in Catholic exorcisms as an adult. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli welcome Kenny …
02:02:35 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)
MYS215: The Bible tells us that the Jewish high priest had two mysterious objects known as the Urim and Thummin to help him receive messages from God. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what they …
01:22:07 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
The Secrets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
SCR089: Close Encounters launched the UFO craze of the late 70s and Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Salerno, and Mike Denz discuss the cultural impact, the idea of alien contact, and the connectio…
01:38:54 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)
MYS214: In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world the brink of nuclear war, 3 times just on one day. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how we can to the edge of Armageddon and avoided i…
01:21:37 |
Fri 08 Jul 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis! (Nuclear War; Kennedy, Khrushchev, 1962)
MYS213: Sixty years ago, the world was locked in a 13-day crisis between the USA and Soviet Union. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis and the little-known details about ho…
01:21:40 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
Mysterious Feedback Special, July 2022
MYS212a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including Bill Ray, Our Lady of Kibeho, Steven Greer, Poltergeists, Dr. Edwin May, Infl…
01:18:02 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
The Mystery of Bilocation (Sacred? Psychic? Two Places at Once? Padre Pio? Remote Viewing?)
MYS212: Bilocation is a mysterious phenomenon in which someone appears to be in two or more locations at once. It’s been reported for thousands of years, including among some Catholic saints. J…
01:23:23 |
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Harriet Tubman (Underground Railroad)
MYS211: Harriet Tubman is famous as the escaped slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad to freedom. But Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli also explore her reported visions and paranormal…
01:31:08 |
Fri 17 Jun 2022
Haunted House of Marin County (Ghosts, Hauntings, Apparitions)
MYS210: Is TV ghost hunting anything like the real thing? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli are joined by parapsychological investigator Loyd Auerbach to discuss his work and in particular about a haunte…
02:04:20 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Psychedelic Machine Elves, Bible Code, Bilocation, Twin Souls, Pagan Gods, and More Patrons’ Questions
MYS209: 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…
01:05:15 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
Mysterious Feedback Special
MYS208-1: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including Marian apparitions, D.B. Cooper, aphantasia and synesthesia, Pearl Harbor, d…
01:26:00 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Time Travel Prayer? (Praying Across Time)
MYS208: Prayer is a human universal, but can you pray for something that’s already happened? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at prayer and time and God’s relationship to time, with a b…
01:17:06 |
Fri 27 May 2022
UFO Crash Debris! (Art’s Parts)
MYS207: For as long as people have seen UFOs in the sky, they’ve claimed to have salvaged materials from them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask what these materials are, where they come from, …
01:21:28 |
Fri 20 May 2022
Congressional UFO/UAP Hearings
MYS206.1: In a special bonus episode, Jimmy Akin gives a brief overview of Congressional hearings in May 2022 on UFOs/UAPs and then includes the entire hearing for listeners to hear for themselves.
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01:26:32 |
Wed 18 May 2022
How We Found the Universe (Science and Faith)
MYS206: How did humanity come to know the world around us, the structure of our planet, our solar system, and the universe. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the mystery of the nature of the univ…
01:29:44 |
Fri 13 May 2022
Isdal Woman (Cold War Mystery)
MYS205: In 1970, a woman’s body was found in a remote valley in Norway. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli delve into the international investigation that was touched off and the mystery that remain…
01:30:42 |
Fri 06 May 2022
Vampires and the Blood of Christ, Robots and the Undead, Demons and Telepathy (Weird Questions!)
MYS204: It’s a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including whether robots are members of the undead; whether vampires…
00:50:58 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
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