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 Isaiah had to say, and whether there really could have been ancient flying snakes.
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* Herodotus’s book The Histories
* Adrienne Mayor’s book Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws
* Adrienne Mayor’s book The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
* Karen Radner’s paper “The Wing Snakes of Arabia”
* Herodotus (Wikipedia)
* Horned Vipers
* Ibises (Wikipedia)
* Bald Ibis video
* Glossy Ibis video
* Frankincense (Wikipedia)
* Hares Become Pregnant While Pregnant
* David Falk’s video Exploring the Spirit World: Seraphim
* Egyptian Tomb Bat (Wikipedia)
* Draco Volans (Wikipedia)
* World Video Bible School on Flying Snakes
* Cape Cobra Spreading Its Hood (video)


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MYS311: Last time, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discussed Joe Fisher&#8217;s mid-1980s experiences with spirit guides, and they continue to look at what he learned as he researched the guides and their claims and come to their own conclusions about what had entered Joe&#8217;s life.
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* Louis Proud’s article on Fisher’s Death
* Asian Hungry Ghosts


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Joe Fisher’s Hungry Ghosts! (Siren Call of the Hungry Ghosts, Guides, Mediumship, Channeling)

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 paranormal claims, the evidence he found, and what he eventually concluded.
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Joe Fisher’s Spirit Guides (Guides, Mediumship, Channeling, Siren Call of the Hungry Ghosts)

MYS309: It&#8217;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 human ancestors; could dark matter and energy be angelic or demonic; can you pray for souls in hell; and more weird questions.
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Adam, Eve, and Early Humans (& More Weird Questions)

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, ancient technology or even evidence of extraterrestrial contact.
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* Jimmy’s course Introduction to Parapsychology
* Brad Hafford’s Artifactually Speaking on the Baghdad Battery
* Chariots of the Gods (1970)
* Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World (Episode 3, “Ancient Wisdom”)
* SciShow’s How to Make a Lemon Battery (video)
* BBC News on electroplating theory
* Curse Tablets
* Reactions video on Gravity Batteries
* Gravity Batteries


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The Baghdad Battery (Advanced Technology? Out of Place Artifact? OOPART?)

MYS307: After hearing many stories of people reporting After Death Communications from deceased loved ones, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the reports from the faith and reason perspectives. Are they just imagination? Is it the grief talking? Could it be demons?
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* Jimmy’s course Introduction to Parapsychology
* The Guggenheims’ book Hello From Heaven!
* Erlendur Haraldsson’s book The Departed Among the Living
* After-Death.com
* After Death Communication Research Foundation
* Jenny Streit-Horn’s dissertation A Systematic Review of Research on After-Death Communications
* Elsaesser et al.’s booklet on ADCs
* Elsaesser et al.’s 2021 paper The Phenomenology and Impact of Hallucinations Concerning the Deceased
* Supplemental Material
* Wollacott et al.’s 2022 paper Perceptual Phenomena Associated with Spontaneous Experiences of After-Death Communication (paywall)
* Richard Kelly’s paper Post-Mortem Contact by Fatal Injury Victims with Emergency Service Workers at the Scenes of Their Death


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Flying Snakes! (Herodotus, Isaiah, Bible, Fossils, Uraeus, Wadjet, Serpent, Cobra)

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