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
Remote Viewing Experiment! (Outbounder Protocol)
MYS326: We’ve talked about remote viewing, but now Jimmy Akin has taken part in a remote viewing experiment and discusses his experience with Dom Bettinelli. What was his role? What did the stu…
01:04:28 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Guardian Angels
MYS325: People have lots of questions about guardian angels and they often get posed to Jimmy Akin, so in this episode Jimmy and Dom Bettinelli discuss what the Bible and other ancient Jewish and Chr…
01:08:51 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Lost Scriptures: The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch, Nephilim)
MYS324: Some believe the ancient Book of Enoch is a book of Scripture and so Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli continue their discussion of the book, focusing on the first known as the Book of the W…
01:27:42 |
Fri 09 Aug 2024
Lost Scripture: The Book of Enoch
MYS323: Who was Enoch, what is his book, and why is it a “lost scripture”? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the mysterious Enoch, the references to him in the New Testament, and what…
01:03:02 |
Fri 02 Aug 2024
New Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith)
MYS322: The Vatican has released new rules for evaluating reports of supernatural phenomena. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli conclude their two-part discussion by looking at the rules themselves; the p…
01:43:57 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
Why the Vatican Changed Its Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith)
MYS321: In May 2024, the Vatican issued new norms for how to evaluate reports of supernatural phenomena. In the first of a two-part discussion, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine how the new rules…
01:01:36 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
New Course with Jimmy Akin: Christianity and Parapsychology
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00:02:58 |
Thu 18 Jul 2024
Whitley Strieber’s Communion (Aliens, UFOs, Visitors, Abduction)
MYS320: Whitley Strieber’s 1987 book Communion told his story of alien abductions and became a bestselling book and movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine Strieber’s claims about th…
01:55:26 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Lost Scripture? Jubilees (Missing Book of the Bible?)
MYS319: Throughout history, there have been books some people considered scripture and others didn’t. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss one of those books, Jubilees. What was does it say? Could a…
01:33:39 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
Deathbed Visions (Afterlife Research)
MYS318: A deathbed vision is a vision that someone has just before they die and they’ve been reported throughout history. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how they’re just being scientifically s…
01:59:04 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
The Truth About Unicorns
MYS317: After reviewing the history of unicorns from pre-history to today, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the reality that unicorns have existed and still exist; the basis for the historical a…
01:17:34 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
Do Unicorns Exist?
MYS316: Pop culture imagines unicorns as horses with a single horn in their forehead and associates them with cartoons and rainbows and social movements. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore their d…
Fri 14 Jun 2024
The Soul of Frankenstein’s Monster (& More Patron Questions)
MYS315: 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…
Fri 07 Jun 2024
Marriage After Civilization Is Destroyed (& More Weird Questions)
MYS314: It’s a fifth Friday, so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin weird questions from listeners, about topics like getting married after civilization collapses; what is Sh’ol;…
Fri 31 May 2024
The Miracle of Calanda (Regrown Limb! Amputated Leg!)
MYS313: Some skeptics say that if God were real, then we’d see miracles of amputated limbs regrown and we don’t. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine a reported of just that, where a young manin 17t…
01:29:57 |
Fri 24 May 2024
Terminal Lucidity (Sudden Awakenings, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Near-Death)
MYS312: Sometimes, near death, a person with dementia will suddenly regain clarity and lucidity and give loved ones a chance to say goodbye. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the phenomenon calle…
01:55:10 |
Fri 17 May 2024
Joe Fisher’s Hungry Ghosts! (Siren Call of the Hungry Ghosts, Guides, Mediumship, Channeling)
MYS311: Last time, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discussed Joe Fisher’s mid-1980s experiences with spirit guides, and they continue to look at what he learned as he researched the guides and th…
01:57:20 |
Fri 10 May 2024
Joe Fisher’s Spirit Guides (Guides, Mediumship, Channeling, Siren Call of the Hungry Ghosts)
MYS310: Joe Fisher’s research into spirit guides led him to past life revelations and even a spirit romance. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how Joe was encouraged to investigate these paranorm…
01:28:56 |
Fri 03 May 2024
Adam, Eve, and Early Humans (& More Weird Questions)
MYS309: It’s the fifth episode of the month, so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin weird questions from listeners, about topics like how Adam and Eve relate to other early…
00:51:28 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
The Baghdad Battery (Advanced Technology? Out of Place Artifact? OOPART?)
MYS308: Some are convinced that an ancient clay pot found in Iraq is an electric battery made 2,000 years ago. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the claim and whether it might be advanced, ancien…
01:15:39 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
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