Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

By Jimmy Akin

What's Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World about?

Beyond the world we can see is a mysterious world.

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Reincarnation Theories (Ian...

09.15.2023

MYS276: Last time, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli looked at what parapyschologists have found in studying reincarnation and this time they examine the question of reincarnation. Do we truly live again or is there another explanation? Get all new episodes ...

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World episodes:

09.15.2023 Reincarnation Theories (Ian Stevenson and Others) MYS276: Last time, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli looked at what parapyschologists have found in studying reincarnation and this time they examine the question of reincarnation. Do we truly live again or is there another explanation? Get all new episodes ...
09.14.2023 A message from Dom Bettinelli of Starquest I need to ask for your help, but first I want to thank you for listening to StarQuest and supporting our mission of exploring the intersection of faith and pop culture. Over the past five years–since 2018–StarQuest has grown by ...
09.13.2023 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 well as Jimmy’s perpsective on ...
09.08.2023 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 have found about cases of the reincarnation type and ask ...
09.06.2023 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 us share this show with our audience. Get ...
09.01.2023 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 audience. This time the questions cover the blood of ...
08.30.2023 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 it is a legitimate prophecy. ...
08.25.2023 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 Isaiah had to say, and whether there really could have ...
08.18.2023 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 he revealed, and how he was embraced by Church ...
08.11.2023 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 them from the faith and reason perspectives. Get all ...
08.04.2023 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 consider; and they ask if Fr. ...
08.02.2023 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. Get all new episodes automatically and for ...
07.28.2023 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 talk to Fr. Castle ...
07.21.2023 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 that probably saved her life. Get ...
07.14.2023 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 Elk, especially his conversion and devout Catholic faith. Get ...
07.07.2023 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 remarkable life and the hidden truths about him. ...
06.30.2023 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 and time travel prayer; Captain Kirk, transporters, ...
06.29.2023 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 allowed us to bring this video to you. Get all ...
06.28.2023 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 evolution, Emperor Norton, and more. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email ...
06.23.2023 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 Coronado, the psychic detective ...
06.16.2023 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 behind them, how police caught ...
06.14.2023 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, and more. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email ...
06.09.2023 The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud) MYS262: The Rosenhan Experiment rocked the psychology profession 50 years ago. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the study’s look into how mental health patients were treated, why the study was so important, and what it revealed about the human ...
06.02.2023 Angelic Possession (And More Patrons’ Questions!) MYS261: 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 audience. This time the questions cover Angelic possession, Hollow ...
05.26.2023 21st Century Poltergeist! (Psychokinesis? Telekinesis? Ghosts?) MYS260: In 2013, an 11-year-old by was having an inexplicable effect on electronic devices around him, including poltergeist activity. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli interview John G. Kruth who was called in to investigate and dubbed the case the “21st ...
05.24.2023 Mysterious Feedback (20, 21, 24, 130, 240-243) MYS259a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including fan art, the lost planet Vulcan, weight loss, Dyatlov Pass, lie detectors, Egyptian afterlife and mummies, rainmaker Charles Hatfield, giants and more. Get all ...
05.19.2023 Weighing the Soul? (Scientific evidence for the human soul? Spirit? Life after death?) MYS259: Could the human soul ever be scientifically detected? Could it even be weighed? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss a series of experiments that claimed to detect the departure of the soul at death, whether that’s possible, and what ...
05.12.2023 The Murder Trust (Iron Mike Malloy; Mike the Durable) MYS258: In early 1933, a group of men dubbed the “Murder Trust” conspired to kill Irishman Mike Malloy, who proved very difficult to kill. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the aftermath when they were finally able to kill Mike ...
05.05.2023 The Amazing Story of “Iron Mike” Malloy (Michael Malloy, Mike the Durable, Murder Trust) MYS257: Michael Malloy was an Irishman living in NYC in the 1930s who left a mysterious legacy. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss his unbelievable death-defying story that earned him the nickname “Iron Mike” and “Mike the Durable.” Get all ...
04.28.2023 The Mystery of St. Toribio Romo (El Padre Pollero, El Santo Coyote) MYS256: St. Toribio Romo was born to a poor family in Mexico and became a priest in a time when the Church was being persecuted. He was eventually martyred. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the saint’s life and death ...
04.21.2023 The Knights of the Golden Circle (Secret Society, Civil War, John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Confederate Gold, Rebels, Slavery) MYS255: In the 19th century, secret societies were all the rage and the Knights of the Golden Circle were among the most famous. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss their origin and aims, their role in the Civil War, and ...
04.14.2023 The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident (Radiation? Government Experiment? Cover-Up?) MYS254: In 1980, two women and a boy had a frightening encounter with a UFO blazing light and fire. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the event, the health effects it had, the women’s battle with the US gov’t over ...
04.07.2023 Vampire Suicide and More Weird Questions MYS253: It’s time for another set of weird questions posed by Cy Kellet of Catholic Answers to Jimmy Akin, including this time: whether time travel interferes with God’s plans; could an alien 2,000 light years away see Jesus on Earth; ...
03.31.2023 Joshua Abraham Norton (First American Emperor, Emperor Norton) MYS252: Joshua Abraham Norton had an amazing life and was a titan among men. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the story of Norton’s life in the 1800s, with his rise from humble circumstances to wealth and power to humility ...
03.29.2023 Can Catholics Believe Theistic Evolution? MYS251a: Can Catholics believe theistic evolution? Michael Lofton welcomes Jimmy Akin onto his show to discuss this topic, as well as old vs. young earth and monogenism vs. polygenism, all from a Catholic perspective. Get all new episodes automatically and ...
03.24.2023 The Hunt for the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmanian Wolves, Cryptids) MYS251: The Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger lived in Australia for thousands of years, but went extinct in 1936. Or so they thought. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the reports that there are still thylacines in the wild as well ...
03.22.2023 Mysterious Feedback (235 – 239) MYS250a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including a sestina; AI songs; spherification; Loch Ness; Tobit; Santa Claus; the tilma of Guadalupe; hurting God; Captain America; and evolution, plus more. Get all ...
03.17.2023 Was Rudolf Hess Murdered? (Nazi Hess Conspiracies) MYS250: After World War II, Nazi leader Rudolph Hess was imprisoned in Germany’s Spandau prison. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss whether the man in Spandau was Hess or an impostor and whether he died by suicide or was murdered ...
03.10.2023 The (Nazi) Hess Conspiracies (Rudolf Hess) MYS249: During WWII, Rudolph Hess, a close aide to Hitler, made a secret flight to Scotland, where he was imprisoned. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss who Hess was, why he crossed enemy lines, and the allegations of conspiracies involving ...
03.03.2023 Ancient Human Aliens? (Pre-Adamites & More Patrons’ Questions!) MYS248: 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 audience. We cover topics such as cryptoterrestrials, crop circles, ...
02.24.2023 Dowsing, Faith, and Reason (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiasthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching) MYS247: After discussing the history and concept of dowsing with Dr. Paul Smith, Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Dr. Smith talk about what the Christian faith has to say about it, what science studies have shown, and what we should ...
02.22.2023 Mysterious Feedback (231-234, Lonnie Zamora UFO, Spiral Staircase, Oswald’s 1st Assassination) MYS246a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including the Lonnie Zamora UFO incident, the spiral staircase of Loreto; Lee Harvey Oswald’s 1st assassination attempt, and more. Get all new episodes automatically and ...
02.17.2023 Dowsing (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiesthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching) MYS246: The practice of dowsing has been used for hundreds of years, at least, to find water, gold, oil, and more. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk to an expert on dowsing to ask what it is, what we know ...
02.10.2023 Starts With A Bang! The Big Bang (Science & Faith) MYS245: In the 20th century, scientists began to theorize what Christians have long held: that the universe had a definite beginning. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask what is the Big Bang, what evidence points toward it, and what are ...
02.03.2023 The Versailles Time-Slip (Moberly-Jourdain Incident, An Adventure) MYS244: In 1901, two Englishwomen visiting the French palace of Versailles had a strange experience. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss their encounters with strangely dressed people in what has become known as a time-slip and what could explain it. ...
01.27.2023 Giants! (Biblical Giants, Goliath, Nephilim, Tallest Man Ever, Robert Wadlow) MYS243: Giants have been part of history and mythology all over the world. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what giants are, how big humans can get, what’s responsible for giants, and the report of giant people in legends and ...
01.20.2023 Rainmaker Charles Hatfield (San Diego Flood!) MYS242: In 1915, during a particularly bad drought, San Diego hired rainmaker Charles Hatfield, who gave them more than they bargained for. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli get to know Hatfield, how he tried to make it rain, and what ...
01.18.2023 Mysterious Feedback (226A-230, Spoon Bending, Secret Cuban Missile Crisis, Ellen Gould White) MYS241a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including astrology, spoon bending, the secret Cuban missile crisis, and 7th Day Adventist prophet Ellen G. White, plus fan art and a poem. Get all ...
01.13.2023 The Mystery of Mummies (Dr. Bob Brier, Ancient Egypt) MYS241: Mummies have long been an object of fascination, but how they were made has been a mysterious trade secret of the “men of Anubis.” Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli continue their conversation with Dr. Bob Brier to discuss what ...
01.06.2023 Egyptian Afterlife (Dr. Bob Brier, Ancient Egypt) MYS240: The idea of the afterlife is universal in human history, ancient Egyptians included. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli welcome famed Egyptologist Dr. Bob Brier to discuss what the ancient Egyptians believed, including how it was similar and different from ...

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Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World episodes:

Reincarnation Theories (Ian Stevenson and Others)

A message from Dom Bettinelli of Starquest

Exploring the UFO Phenomenon with Dr. Ben Carson

Reincarnation Research (Ian Stevenson)

Alien Apologetics with Emerson Green

The Blood of Saint Januarius (And Other Patron Questions)

Will There Be Three Days of Darkness?

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

Leo Taxil’s Masonic Revelations (Freemasonry, Satanism)

Your Mysterious Experiences! (5th Anniversary)

Speaking with the Dead? (Visions, Apparitions, Saints, Spirits, Ghosts, Prayer, Intercession, Mediums, Seances, Necromancy)

More With Fr. Nathan Castle

Helping Stuck Souls! (Purgatory, Fr. Nathan Castle, OP)

Mysterious Voices! (Medical Diagnosis? Hallucination? Psychosis? Spirits?)

Nicholas Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man, Catholic Saint?)

Black Elk (Lakota/Sioux Medicine Man)

Captain Kirk, Transporters, and More Weird Questions!

UFO Whistleblower Revelations

Mysterious Feedback (249-252)

Pam Coronado, Psychic Detective (DC Beltway Snipers Case)

How We Caught the D.C. Beltway Snipers (Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad, Lee Malvo)

Mysterious Feedback (244-248)

The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)

Angelic Possession (And More Patrons’ Questions!)

21st Century Poltergeist! (Psychokinesis? Telekinesis? Ghosts?)

Mysterious Feedback (20, 21, 24, 130, 240-243)

Weighing the Soul? (Scientific evidence for the human soul? Spirit? Life after death?)

The Murder Trust (Iron Mike Malloy; Mike the Durable)

The Amazing Story of “Iron Mike” Malloy (Michael Malloy, Mike the Durable, Murder Trust)

The Mystery of St. Toribio Romo (El Padre Pollero, El Santo Coyote)

The Knights of the Golden Circle (Secret Society, Civil War, John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Confederate Gold, Rebels, Slavery)

The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident (Radiation? Government Experiment? Cover-Up?)

Vampire Suicide and More Weird Questions

Joshua Abraham Norton (First American Emperor, Emperor Norton)

Can Catholics Believe Theistic Evolution?

The Hunt for the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmanian Wolves, Cryptids)

Mysterious Feedback (235 – 239)

Was Rudolf Hess Murdered? (Nazi Hess Conspiracies)

The (Nazi) Hess Conspiracies (Rudolf Hess)

Ancient Human Aliens? (Pre-Adamites & More Patrons’ Questions!)

Dowsing, Faith, and Reason (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiasthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)

Mysterious Feedback (231-234, Lonnie Zamora UFO, Spiral Staircase, Oswald’s 1st Assassination)

Dowsing (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiesthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)

Starts With A Bang! The Big Bang (Science & Faith)

The Versailles Time-Slip (Moberly-Jourdain Incident, An Adventure)

Giants! (Biblical Giants, Goliath, Nephilim, Tallest Man Ever, Robert Wadlow)

Rainmaker Charles Hatfield (San Diego Flood!)

Mysterious Feedback (226A-230, Spoon Bending, Secret Cuban Missile Crisis, Ellen Gould White)

The Mystery of Mummies (Dr. Bob Brier, Ancient Egypt)

Egyptian Afterlife (Dr. Bob Brier, Ancient Egypt)

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