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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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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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    Analyzing After Death Communications

    Analyzing After Death Communications

    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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    • 2 hrs 10 min
    After Death Communications (ADCs)

    After Death Communications (ADCs)

    MYS306: Millions of people report spontaneous experiences of contact with departed loved ones, hearing their voices, seeing their faces again. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what After Death Communications are, what they are like, and whether they really could be forms of contacted with our lost loved ones.

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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

    * The Guggenheims’ website 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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    • 2 hrs 11 min
    Kinkaid’s Cave (Egypt & the Grand Canyon)

    Kinkaid’s Cave (Egypt & the Grand Canyon)

    MYS305: In 1909, G.E. Kinkaid found a cave in the Grand Canyon containing Egyptian and Asian artifacts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the excavations that began at the time and then how the story vanished from the media. What is the truth of Kinkaid’s cave and what did it really contain?

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    * Text of the 1909 Gazette Stories

    * Childress’s article Archaeological Coverups?

    * Smithsonian video of mythologically named Grand Canyon site

    * Coconino Sun article “Looks Like a Mulhattan Story”

    * Museum of Hoaxes on Joseph Mulhattan

    * Don Largo piece for the Grand Canyon Historical Society

    * Kook Science page on Joseph Mulhattan

    * Why Files

    * Astonishing Legends

    * Grand Canyon Historical Society article

    * Leak Project

    * Leak Project on Google





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    • 1 hr 14 min
    Klingon Baptisms & More Weird Questions

    Klingon Baptisms & More Weird Questions

    MYS304: It’s time for another set of weird questions posed by Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers to Jimmy Akin, including this time: should Elrond have killed Isildur?; reported time travelers; teleportation clones and confession; Klingon baptisms; Gulf War syndrome; and more.

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    03:40 – Would it have been morally just for Elrond to have thrown Isildur into the fires of Mt Doom when he refused to destroy the One Ring, as a way to ensure its destruction?



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    11:36 – I have one question about The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy. I do not understand the words Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. Father and Son are One Divinity, right? So… how can I offer God to God when there is One God?



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    15:08 – Have there been any documentaries, or at minimum, speculations of people who have claimed to come back in time from the distant future (with perhaps a story to tell —and what is heading our way)?



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    17:57 – If you were involved in a teleportation accident that created a duplicate of you, would that person have to confess your sins?



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    21:27 – If Christ died to Redeem all, would alien scriptures reference an alien Redeemer, or are all aliens Unfallen, thus not needing Revelation and Salvation? Related to this, if Satan knew that the Incarnation would occur on Earth, did he then ignore aliens, thus leaving them Unfallen? Therefore, if and when Humanity travels to the stars, might we be the cause of their Fall? Continuing on this theme, since working with tools was a punishment due to Original Sin, it could be argued that technology is a sign of a Fallen species. Since we haven’t seen any evidence of ETs, might that be proof that aliens are Unfallen?



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    28:53 – What are your thoughts on Gulf War Syndrome?



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    34:25 – If a family wanted their child baptized in Klingon or a pre-Christian Babylonian language. Assuming an accurate but not Vatican-approved translation, would it be valid? This is obviously theoretical but speaks to the point of whether a translation or interpretation is assumed to be valid or not before any Vatican intervention on the text.



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    39:35 – Would it have been possible to hold a spelling bee in ancient Egypt?



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    43:34 – Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?



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    46:26 – Is it possible for a species (such as an alien, or an understudied cephalopod) to have a powerful brain comparable to or even greater than our own, but not an immortal soul?





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    • 53 min
    AA-1025 (Communist Infiltration in the Church)

    AA-1025 (Communist Infiltration in the Church)

    MYS303: In 1972, a book purported to tell the tale of a Communist infiltrator at the Vatican dedicated to bringing down the Church. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss who this mysterious agent was, where he came from, and whether he really did what the books says.
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    * Marie Carre’s book AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle
    * Sandra Miesel’s article “Swinging at Windmills”
    * Alice von Hildebrand and Sandra Miesel’s exchange
    * Marie Carre (French biography)
    * Marie Carre (problematic biography)
    * The Touch of Death
    * Stylometry
    * Nikolai Yezhov
    * Venona Project
    * Chire’s page on AA-1025


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    A Satanist Asks for Help (Possession, Obsession, Vexation, Infestation)

    A Satanist Asks for Help (Possession, Obsession, Vexation, Infestation)

    MYS302: When a Satanist recently asked Jimmy Akin for help with whether he might be possessed, Jimmy offered his best advice. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss that advice and explore how one could approach a similar situation with empathy, charity, and reason, while taking this kind of situation seriously.
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    * John Paul II’s Prayer for Deliverance from Evil
    * USCCB on Exorcism
    * Church of Satan


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