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
Exploring the UFO Phenomenon with Dr. Ben Carson
MYS275a: In this bonus episode, Dr. Ben Carson has Jimmy Akin on his show to discuss UFOs and recent claims by retired Air Force officer David Grusch about a secret gov’t UFO recovery program, as wel…
00:36:47 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Reincarnation Research (Ian Stevenson)
MYS275: Belief in reincarnation is found in multiple world religions, but it is also studied from a scientific perspective today as well. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what parapsychologists …
01:37:13 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Alien Apologetics with Emerson Green
MYS274a: In this bonus episode, we bring you this discussion between Emerson Green and Jimmy Akin about ten common objections to UFO phenomena and alien visitations. Thank you to Emerson for letting …
02:20:42 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
The Blood of Saint Januarius (And Other Patron Questions)
MYS274: 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…
01:28:57 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
Will There Be Three Days of Darkness?
MYS273a: In this bonus episode, we bring you this discussion between Michael Lofton of Reason & Theology and Jimmy Akin about the idea of the three days of darkness, where it comes from, and whether …
01:10:28 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Flying Snakes! (Herodotus, Isaiah, Bible, Fossils, Uraeus, Wadjet, Serpent, Cobra)
MYS273: Some ancient sources report snakes that had wings and could fly, including Herodotus and even the Bible. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the ancient Greek historian’s reports, what Isai…
01:31:30 |
Fri 25 Aug 2023
Leo Taxil’s Masonic Revelations (Freemasonry, Satanism)
MYS272: In 1885, when Leo Taxil, a former Freemason, reverted to the Catholic Church, he made some startling revelations about Freemasonry. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine who Taxil was, what h…
01:29:11 |
Fri 18 Aug 2023
Your Mysterious Experiences! (5th Anniversary)
MYS271: It’s our 5th anniversary and to celebrate this milestone, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli have collected amazing mysterious experiences from our listeners to share some of them and then discuss…
02:10:43 |
Fri 11 Aug 2023
Speaking with the Dead? (Visions, Apparitions, Saints, Spirits, Ghosts, Prayer, Intercession, Mediums, Seances, Necromancy)
MYS270: Can we speak with the dead? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the question of speaking with departed human souls; whether it is permitted by Church teaching; and what cautions we must con…
01:21:54 |
Fri 04 Aug 2023
More With Fr. Nathan Castle
MYS269a: Here’s more of Jimmy Akin‘s conversation with Fr. Nathan Castle that didn’t fit in our previous episode, but which Jimmy thought was interesting enough to offer as a bonus to our audience.
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00:07:53 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
Helping Stuck Souls! (Purgatory, Fr. Nathan Castle, OP)
MYS269: Suppose you had a dream of a stranger who died and is calling out to you for help from the afterlife? This is the situation that confronted Fr. Nathan Castle. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ta…
02:21:53 |
Fri 28 Jul 2023
Mysterious Voices! (Medical Diagnosis? Hallucination? Psychosis? Spirits?)
MYS268: A woman in London began hearing mysterious voices and what they told her changed her life. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the story of Annabelle and the mysterious voices in her head t…
00:51:19 |
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Nicholas Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man, Catholic Saint?)
MYS267: Two popular books held Lakota medicine man Black Elk as an icon of native American spirituality. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the truths those books suppressed about Nicholas Black E…
01:42:01 |
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Black Elk (Lakota/Sioux Medicine Man)
MYS266: Black Elk was a Native American medicine man who had paranormal visions and participated in some of the pivotal events in 19th-century US history. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss his re…
01:17:54 |
Fri 07 Jul 2023
Captain Kirk, Transporters, and More Weird Questions!
MYS265: It’s time for another set of weird questions posed by Cy Kellet of Catholic Answers to Jimmy Akin, including this time: The Nephilim and Og; asking obscure saints for intercession; Padre Pio …
00:50:10 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
UFO Whistleblower Revelations
MYS264b: Cameron Bertuzzi invited Jimmy Akin on his show recently to discuss the latest UAP whistleblower, David Grusch, and all things related to Christianity and UAPs. Now Cameron has graciously al…
02:58:44 |
Thu 29 Jun 2023
Mysterious Feedback (249-252)
MYS264a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including patron questions, Rudolph Hess, Guadalupe tilma, Thylacines, theistic evoluti…
00:39:39 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
Pam Coronado, Psychic Detective (DC Beltway Snipers Case)
MYS264: The DC Beltway Snipers case in 2002 resulted in the capture of the perpetrators, but there was another side to the case that the public didn’t know. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk to Pam …
01:00:44 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
How We Caught the D.C. Beltway Snipers (Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad, Lee Malvo)
MYS263: A year after the 9/11 attacks, the Washington DC area was rocked by a series of random sniper attacks that left 10 people dead. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the shootings, the men be…
01:30:43 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
Mysterious Feedback (244-248)
MYS262a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including fan art, private revelations, the Versailles Time-Slip, the Big Bang, dowsing…
00:47:12 |
Wed 14 Jun 2023
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