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MYS286: It’s time for another set of weird questions posed by Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers to Jimmy Akin, including this time: what if mankind fell after Adam and Eve; did Jesus know how to build an airplane; what happened with Balaam’s donkey; Ed and Lorraine Warren; and more.

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MYS285: In 1964, the US Air Force was conducting tests of nuclear weapons off the coast of Big Sur, California. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the claim that a UFO shot down one of those missiles designed to carry nuclear devices, whether aliens were responsible, and whether it was meant as a warning to humanity.
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* Robert Hastings’s book UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
* Edwin Ruppelt’s book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
* Bob Jacobs’s article “Deliberate Deception: The Big Sur UFO Filming”
* Kingston George’s article “The Big Sur ‘UFO’: An Identified Flying Object”
* Robert Hastings’s article “A Shot Across the Bow”
* NICAP’s resources on the Big Sur incident


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MYS284: The tales of King Arthur are filled with mysterious creatures, including one called the Questing Beast. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss this strange and mysterious cryptid, whether it was just a creature of Medieval imagination or if it could have a basis in the real world.
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* Gerald Davis’s book Le Morte d’Arthur: The New Retelling
* Samuel Wilson’s book The Emperor’s Giraffe: And Other Stories of Cultures in Contact
* Dorsey Armstrong’s course Medieval Myths & Mysteries
* Thomas Malory (Encyclopedia Britannica)
* Wars of the Roses
* Pelicans in Christian History
* Giraffes
* Questing Beast
* Helmut Nickel’s article What Kind of Animal Was the Questing Beast?
* Camelopardis constellation
* Camelopardis etymology
* Giraffe Sounds (article)
* Giraffe Sounds (video)
* Knights of the Round Table Song (Video)


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MYS283: Christianity has a long and fruitful history in Egypt, and when witnesses reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at a Coptic church in Cairo suburb of Zeitoun in 1968, thousands of people came to see. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what happened there and whether the apparitions were genuine.
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* Our Lady of Zeitoun (Wikipedia)
* Zeitoun Memorial Foundation
* Coptic Orthodox Church
* Oriental Orthodox Churches
* Common Declaration of Paul VI and Shenouda III
* Coptic calendar
* Short Zeitoun documentary
* Cynthia Nelson’s article The Virgin of Zeitoun (paywall)
* Earthquake lights
* Derr and Persinger’s article on the geophysical interpretation of Zeitoun (paywall)
* Skeptoid podcast
* Parasociology posts, part 1
* Parasociology posts, part 2
* Mary in Islam


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MYS282: Some mothers and fathers report having dreams before the birth or even conception of their baby in which they are told about the child or even talk to the baby himself. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the phenomena and what could be causing them.

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* Elisabeth Hallett’s book Soul Trek: Meeting Our Children on the Way to Birth

* Elisabeth Hallett’s book Stories of the Unborn Soul: The Mystery and Delight of Pre-Birth Communication

* Louisa Rhine’s book Hidden Channels of the Mind

* Announcing Dreams (Psi-Encyclopedia)

* Does Ovulation Change Women’s Desire, After All?

* Increased Drive During Ovulation

* Luteinizing hormone

* Maternal Intuition of Fetal Gender (paper)





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MYS281: Some claim that UFOs and extraterrestrials are always manifestations of demonic activity. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the prominent hypotheses supporting this view and consider the question of whether it’s always alien-demons.
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* Ross, Samples, and Clark’s book Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men
* Luke Barnes’s Critique of Hugh Ross’s Design Arguments
* Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
* Interdimensional Hypothesis
* NASA Discovers Possible Signs of Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon
* Sabine Hossenfelder’s video I Think Faster Than Light Travel Is Possible. Here’s Why
* Sabine Hossenfelder’s video Are Warp Drives Science Now?
* Matt O’Dowd’s video The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
* DARPA’s Mach 20 Hypersonic Aircraft
* EmDrive (Wikipedia)
* Magnetic Levitation (Wikipedia)
* Ziroth’s video Metamorphic Wings: The Flight of the Future Is Here
* Programmable Matter (Wikipedia)
* Programmable matter video
* Metamaterial Cloaking (Wikipedia)


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