Category: Mysteries

Time-Travel Mass Before Jesus? Jesus’s DNA, Psychic Conversion & More Weird Questions – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Could a priest who traveled back in time say Mass before the Last Supper? Jimmy Akin takes listener questions on Catholic Answers Live with Cy Kellett, from Mary’s DNA to Malachi Martin and the Michigan Melon Heads.

https://youtu.be/4xA8ASUulOk

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:00 – Intro
  • 0:00:41 – Programming note: Weird Questions all October
  • 0:00:58 – Today’s weird questions
  • 0:02:05 – Catholic Answers Live: a dust storm, a thunderstorm and propinquity
  • 0:07:09 – Would psychically possessing someone make their conversion count? (Max)
  • 0:15:19 – Jimmy’s Mysterious World plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 0:17:45 – Were Mr. Eko’s baptisms on LOST valid? (Will)
  • 0:21:35 – Did Mary contribute DNA to Jesus? (Todd)
  • 0:27:04 – Is it blasphemous to call God and angels aliens? (Jager Vom Abilene)
  • 0:37:09 – A plastic menagerie and a secret YouTube message
  • 0:41:24 – How credible was Malachi Martin? (Patrick Abbott)
  • 0:45:56 – What does relativity add to Newton? (Fimiliar Galaxy 9)
  • 0:52:04 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:52:36 – Sponsor: Miss D’s Honeybees
  • 0:53:18 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • 0:55:08 – How should the long lifespans in Genesis be understood? (Virginia Charlotte)
  • 1:03:31 – Jimmy Akin Podcast plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 1:09:01 – Is there a Catholic connection to the Michigan Melon Heads? (Boom Botz)
  • 1:14:08 – How much evidence is there for charismatic gifts today? (Julian)
  • 1:22:09 – Is cosmetic surgery a form of mutilation? (S. Medrano)
  • 1:33:44 – Could a time-traveling priest consecrate the Eucharist? (Titus Constantine)
  • 1:40:50 – What are the ethics of computers running on human brain cells? (Dog Fight 2018)
  • 1:43:44 – Mysterious Feedback: #427 The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri
  • 1:53:10 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:53:45 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:53:50 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:54:38 – Share the show
  • 1:54:50 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:54:58 – Show notes
  • 1:55:05 – Become a Patron
  • 1:55:13 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 1:55:33 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:55:56 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

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The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Father Dwight Longenecker. Are you inspired by sharp, witty writing about faith and culture? Does imaginative, thought provoking content help you see the world, the church and yourself with fresh vision? Popular convert, Catholic priest and author Father Dwight Longenecker writes daily at his Substack and at his award winning website, Standing on My Head, where you can read answers, apologetics and explorations of the mysteries of this world and the next. Read his blog, get his new book, Bloodshed and Blessing, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com.

Miss D’s Honeybees, a small family-operated honey company that specializes in making delicious all naturally flavored honeys and loose-leaf teas. With sweet options like chocolate, salted caramel, and lemon, or savory like garlic jalapeño ginger honey they have something for everyone. A portion of Miss D’s Honeybees’ proceeds help fund educational and housing programs for the poor in a small town in Mexico. Taste something sweet and do some good. Visit missdshoneybees.com and use discount code “mysterious” for 20% off your first order.”

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Can Science Show the Soul Survives Death? Join My New Courses

Can science show the soul survives death? Jimmy Akin announces two fall courses for the Rhine Education Center: one on near-death experiences and reincarnation-type cases, and Introduction to Parapsychology.

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The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Father Dwight Longenecker. Are you inspired by sharp, witty writing about faith and culture? Does imaginative, thought provoking content help you see the world, the church and yourself with fresh vision? Popular convert, Catholic priest and author Father Dwight Longenecker writes daily at his Substack and at his award winning website, Standing on My Head, where you can read answers, apologetics and explorations of the mysteries of this world and the next. Read his blog, get his new book, Bloodshed and Blessing, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com.

Miss D’s Honeybees, a small family-operated honey company that specializes in making delicious all naturally flavored honeys and loose-leaf teas. With sweet options like chocolate, salted caramel, and lemon, or savory like garlic jalapeño ginger honey they have something for everyone. A portion of Miss D’s Honeybees’ proceeds help fund educational and housing programs for the poor in a small town in Mexico. Taste something sweet and do some good. Visit missdshoneybees.com and use discount code “mysterious” for 20% off your first order.”

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When Does Holy Water Stop Being Holy? (& More Weird Questions)

Does a blessing survive the water cycle? Could uplifted animals have souls? Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett take on tickling, Hitler’s parents, Revelation’s scorpion-tailed locusts and baptism before birth, with Dom Bettinelli.

https://youtu.be/pkDHx5HfM4w

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:00 – Intro
  • 0:00:41 – October is Weird Questions Month
  • 0:03:26 – The topics Jimmy will cover
  • 0:04:23 – Catholic Answers Live: Weird Questions
  • 0:05:50 – Jimmy’s Mysterious World plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 0:06:48 – …Arkansan or Arkansawyer?
  • 0:07:37 – Does holy water stop being holy? (Justin)
  • 0:09:23 – …Water means liquid water
  • 0:11:03 – …Blessed steam and blessed ice
  • 0:11:30 – Could angels be saints from other universes? (Megan)
  • 0:12:16 – …What an angel is
  • 0:15:04 – …Angelomorphic Christology
  • 0:17:30 – Would uplifted animals need God to give them souls? (Xevoz Fighter)
  • 0:19:45 – …Traducianism and creationism
  • 0:24:13 – …Which animal Jimmy would uplift
  • 0:28:17 – Why do people laugh when tickled? (Bruce)
  • 0:28:29 – …Knismesis and gargalesis
  • 0:31:14 – …Rats love to be tickled
  • 0:35:19 – …Grooming, play and social bonds
  • 0:36:03 – Why atheists expect aliens and believers don’t (G Readings)
  • 0:41:35 – …Both arguments fail
  • 0:43:05 – Could contraception have prevented Hitler? (Gabriel)
  • 0:44:10 – …What the Church means by contraception
  • 0:47:00 – …Why history is so fragile
  • 0:48:52 – …The Boys from Brazil
  • 0:49:20 – More than one way to skin a cat (Amanda)
  • 0:51:07 – …Did people really skin cats?
  • 0:52:38 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:53:12 – Sponsor: Miss D’s Honeybees
  • 0:53:54 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • 0:55:02 – Why did humans lose their hair? (Cy Kellett)
  • 0:58:07 – …Exhaustion hunting and sweat
  • 1:00:25 – …Bipedalism and lifelong marriage
  • 1:01:28 – …Skin tone, sunlight and vitamin D
  • 1:05:29 – The Jimmy Akin Podcast: anointing and messiahs
  • 1:06:41 – …The number of Jesus
  • 1:08:08 – Why would a demon choose damnation? (S. Medrano)
  • 1:09:28 – …Sin makes you stupid
  • 1:11:31 – The scorpion-tailed locusts of Revelation 9 (Titus Constantine)
  • 1:12:38 – …Newspaper exegesis
  • 1:13:40 – …Hal Lindsey’s attack helicopters
  • 1:15:04 – …Charles Manson and the Beatles
  • 1:16:22 – …Demons from the abyss
  • 1:20:11 – If nuclear war wiped out humanity, what would God do? (Rebecca Lynne)
  • 1:23:21 – …Starting over, as after the dinosaurs
  • 1:25:41 – Abortion and excommunication (The Gutsy Grape)
  • 1:27:14 – …Why politicians aren’t excommunicated
  • 1:29:38 – …Who can lift the excommunication
  • 1:31:45 – Time travel and a moving Earth (AJ)
  • 1:34:04 – …No ultimate frame of reference
  • 1:35:51 – …Why the aliens speak English
  • 1:39:05 – Baptism before birth? (Dr. Tafazzi)
  • 1:40:04 – …The Holy Office on disinfectant in baptismal water
  • 1:41:28 – …The amniotic sac and the placenta
  • 1:44:07 – Mysterious Feedback: #426 Mark Twain Super-Psychic
  • 1:44:22 – …Ashley’s drawing of a vision
  • 1:45:37 – …Huck Finn’s moral conflict
  • 1:50:08 – …Data’s head and the club dues
  • 1:50:55 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:51:29 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:51:40 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:52:08 – Mysterious World Bookstore
  • 1:52:16 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:52:23 – Show notes
  • 1:52:30 – Become a Patron
  • 1:52:39 – Sponsor: The Grady Group (Peter’s Barque)
  • 1:53:25 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:53:47 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Father Dwight Longenecker. Are you inspired by sharp, witty writing about faith and culture? Does imaginative, thought provoking content help you see the world, the church and yourself with fresh vision? Popular convert, Catholic priest and author Father Dwight Longenecker writes daily at his Substack and at his award winning website, Standing on My Head, where you can read answers, apologetics and explorations of the mysteries of this world and the next. Read his blog, get his new book, Bloodshed and Blessing, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com.

Miss D’s Honeybees, a small family-operated honey company that specializes in making delicious all naturally flavored honeys and loose-leaf teas. With sweet options like chocolate, salted caramel, and lemon, or savory like garlic jalapeño ginger honey they have something for everyone. A portion of Miss D’s Honeybees’ proceeds help fund educational and housing programs for the poor in a small town in Mexico. Taste something sweet and do some good. Visit missdshoneybees.com and use discount code “mysterious” for 20% off your first order.”

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Could You Possess Another Human? (& More Weird Questions) – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Can one human being possess another? MKUltra tried. Jimmy Akin answers that and seven more listener questions — purgatory when the world ends, fallen guardian angels, brain swaps, and whether lizards were once dragons.

https://youtu.be/jXEIEgXn2gI

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:12 – Intro
  • 0:00:42 – Why a weird questions episode
  • 0:02:11 – The topics Jimmy will cover
  • 0:02:51 – Catholic Answers Live: Weird Questions
  • 0:03:44 – How to submit a weird question
  • 0:06:03 – Can humans possess one another? (Mari)
  • 0:07:32 – …MKUltra, LSD and Sidney Gottlieb
  • 0:08:13 – …The death of Frank Olson
  • 0:11:44 – …The Church Committee and the surviving files
  • 0:15:02 – …Telepathy between living people
  • 0:16:59 – …Departed human spirits, and the older meaning of "demon"
  • 0:21:09 – Souls in purgatory at the end of the world (Jocelyn)
  • 0:21:47 – …1 Corinthians 15 and the twinkling of an eye
  • 0:24:27 – …Aeviternity: time in the afterlife
  • 0:25:26 – …Spe Salvi and praying for the dead
  • 0:27:32 – This week on Mysterious World: crisis apparitions
  • 0:31:11 – …Hans Berger and the first EEG
  • 0:32:02 – Can you ask a ghost to reveal its identity? (Rez Kerry)
  • 0:34:08 – …Testing the spirits in 1 John 4
  • 0:37:09 – …Aquinas and his sister’s apparition
  • 0:39:46 – …St. Martin of Tours and the false martyr
  • 0:42:06 – Are there fallen guardian angels? (Severe Famine)
  • 0:42:31 – …The common view: the angels fell before man
  • 0:45:32 – …The staged-fall view: Genesis 6 and the Nephilim
  • 0:46:56 – …Head coverings because of the angels
  • 0:49:22 – …God will not leave you unguarded
  • 0:50:32 – The Jimmy Akin Podcast: Ascension and Pentecost
  • 0:51:50 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:52:26 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 0:52:41 – Sponsor: In Time by Robert Young
  • 0:53:53 – Answering the skeptics on near-death experiences (Rafael Figueredo)
  • 0:57:17 – …Susan Blackmore and the tunnel
  • 1:01:25 – …Veridical information: Maria and the tennis shoe
  • 1:02:43 – …The surgeon who flapped his arms
  • 1:05:40 – …Psychopomps and shared death experiences
  • 1:08:36 – …Living agent psi
  • 1:10:33 – Fr. Nathan Castle’s purgatory accounts (F Man)
  • 1:15:46 – …Is the fire of purgatory literal?
  • 1:20:29 – …Gregory the Great and the bath attendant
  • 1:25:47 – Brain swaps and the soul (Roodo)
  • 1:28:11 – …Is the brain a filter for consciousness?
  • 1:30:26 – …Organ transplants and transferred preferences
  • 1:32:02 – …Could a soul animate two bodies?
  • 1:33:53 – Were lizards once dragons? (Caleb Henderson)
  • 1:36:30 – …Wings are named nowhere in Genesis or Revelation
  • 1:39:30 – …Sprawling legs and parasagittal posture
  • 1:41:50 – …Birds are dinosaurs
  • 1:42:23 – Mysterious Feedback: #425 Voice to Skull Technology
  • 1:42:40 – …Hearing voices and schizophrenia
  • 1:46:32 – …Analog phone bandwidth and subliminal messages
  • 1:47:38 – …Bone conduction and Lucille Ball’s fillings
  • 1:50:27 – …DARPA and reverse-engineered technology
  • 1:51:32 – …How voices have been interpreted through history
  • 1:53:37 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:54:14 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:54:27 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:55:11 – Share the show and write a review
  • 1:55:21 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:55:29 – Show notes
  • 1:55:36 – Become a Patron
  • 1:55:45 – Sponsor: Gravetending Solutions
  • 1:56:24 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:56:45 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Robert Young’s novel In Time. If you enjoy stories that explore the intersection of faith, mystery, and the unseen forces shaping our lives, you’ll want to check out this gripping speculative thriller. In Time follows a troubled pilot drawn into a secret project that challenges everything he thought he knew about science, reality, and even God. Blending high-stakes adventure with spiritual themes like repentance, providence, and the battle between despair and hope, it’s a story about second chances—and the consequences of the choices we make. Get your copy now at sqpn.com/intime.

Grave Tending Solutions. Grave tending is a professional service and apostolate that brings peace of mind to families by caring for established gravesites. Distance and physical limitations can create barriers to maintaining a loved one’s final resting place. From planting graveside gardens to cleaning headstones, a grave tending professional provides a way for their clients to continue to care for and honor their loved ones. If you’re interested in learning more about grave tending, either as a client or as someone who’d like to enter the profession, please visit GraveTendingSolutions.com.

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Veridical NDEs – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

A man with no heartbeat knew where the nurse put his dentures. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at near-death experiences that came back with facts the patient had no way to know, and ask how they got them.

https://youtu.be/N_VQDkE0lRI

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:12 – Intro
  • 0:00:41 – The Setup: No Pulse, No Brain Activity, Yet He Describes the Room
  • 0:01:50 – Earlier Episodes on NDEs
  • 0:02:10 – What "Veridical" Means
  • 0:03:24 – The Source: The Self Does Not Die
  • 0:04:02 – The Book’s Standard: Independent Confirmation
  • 0:05:28 – A Note for Sensitive Listeners
  • 0:06:06 – The Nurse, the Punch, and the Doctor’s Watch
  • 0:10:27 – Testing the Watch Case Against the Three Conditions
  • 0:12:07 – Confirmation in Writing
  • 0:12:51 – Nine Types of Veridical NDEs
  • 0:14:31 – Type 1: Nearby Perceptions — The Surgeon Who Flapped His Elbows
  • 0:19:53 – The Elbow Habit Confirmed
  • 0:21:43 – Type 1: The Night Watchman’s Open-Heart Surgery
  • 0:24:03 – Checking the Account Against the Operative Report
  • 0:27:49 – Type 2: Distant Perceptions — Maria’s Shoe
  • 0:30:37 – Skeptics and the Shoe
  • 0:31:13 – Type 2: Major Scull and the Red Pantsuit
  • 0:33:41 – Type 3: Perceptions During Cardiac Arrest
  • 0:34:10 – The Man with the Dentures
  • 0:38:37 – "You Know Where My Dentures Are"
  • 0:42:44 – Lloyd Rudy’s Patient and the Post-it Notes
  • 0:48:03 – Auto-Resuscitation: The Lazarus Syndrome
  • 0:48:47 – What the Patient Saw
  • 0:50:39 – A Second Surgeon Confirms It
  • 0:51:33 – Pam Reynolds and the Standstill Operation
  • 0:56:35 – The Saw, the Arteries, and the High Natural D
  • 0:58:53 – Surgeons Confirm Pam’s Account
  • 1:00:33 – Pam’s Uncle and the Push Back
  • 1:02:57 – Type 4: Telepathy — "And Then You Ate My Lunch"
  • 1:05:00 – A Thought Never Spoken
  • 1:06:56 – Type 5: Stranger Encounters — Vi Horton’s Baby Brother
  • 1:10:30 – Type 6: Familiar Encounters — Peak in Darien Cases
  • 1:11:33 – Eddie Cuomo and His Sister Teresa
  • 1:13:22 – Type 7: Apparitions — Olga Gearhardt’s Message
  • 1:17:14 – Type 8: Miraculous Healing — Anita Moorjani
  • 1:22:39 – An Oncologist Investigates
  • 1:23:29 – Type 9: Paranormal Abilities After an NDE
  • 1:25:47 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 1:26:18 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 1:26:39 – Sponsor: In Time by Robert Young
  • 1:27:16 – Sponsorship Opportunities
  • 1:28:18 – Theories: Five Explanations
  • 1:29:18 – Reason Perspective …of Fraud
  • 1:31:03 – …of Coincidence
  • 1:32:45 – …of Prior Knowledge
  • 1:34:45 – …of Sensory Reconstruction
  • 1:37:25 – …of Mind-Body Separation
  • 1:38:22 – Faith Perspective
  • 1:39:24 – Bottom Line
  • 1:40:42 – Further Resources
  • 1:41:16 – Mysterious Feedback: #424 Joseph Williamson’s Tunnels
  • 1:47:22 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:47:56 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:48:04 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:49:07 – Next Time: What Are Demons?
  • 1:50:13 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:50:21 – Show notes
  • 1:50:29 – Become a Patron
  • 1:50:36 – Sponsor: Grave Tending Solutions
  • 1:51:17 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:51:38 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Robert Young’s novel In Time. If you enjoy stories that explore the intersection of faith, mystery, and the unseen forces shaping our lives, you’ll want to check out this gripping speculative thriller. In Time follows a troubled pilot drawn into a secret project that challenges everything he thought he knew about science, reality, and even God. Blending high-stakes adventure with spiritual themes like repentance, providence, and the battle between despair and hope, it’s a story about second chances—and the consequences of the choices we make. Get your copy now at sqpn.com/intime.

Grave Tending Solutions. Grave tending is a professional service and apostolate that brings peace of mind to families by caring for established gravesites. Distance and physical limitations can create barriers to maintaining a loved one’s final resting place. From planting graveside gardens to cleaning headstones, a grave tending professional provides a way for their clients to continue to care for and honor their loved ones. If you’re interested in learning more about grave tending, either as a client or as someone who’d like to enter the profession, please visit GraveTendingSolutions.com.

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EgyptAir 990: The Crash That Gave Bin Laden the Idea for 9/11 – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

An EgyptAir 767 fell out of a clear sky off Nantucket in 1999, and two governments read the same black boxes and reached opposite verdicts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh four theories and one Arabic prayer.

https://youtu.be/Z3w4DwoLFww

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:12 – Intro
  • 0:00:42 – The Setup: A Clear Night Over the Atlantic
  • 0:01:40 – Jimmy’s Connection to the Story
  • 0:03:05 – The Airplane: A Boeing 767 Named Tutmose III
  • 0:04:38 – EgyptAir’s Safety Record
  • 0:05:12 – What the News Knew That First Day
  • 0:07:04 – Vanished From the Radar
  • 0:07:59 – Three Cities Waiting
  • 0:09:57 – Where the Flight Came From
  • 0:10:59 – The Weather That Night
  • 0:11:11 – The Search and the Cold Water
  • 0:13:09 – A Recovery, Not a Rescue
  • 0:14:41 – The Black Boxes Come Up
  • 0:15:05 – Who Was on Board
  • 0:18:11 – Who Was Flying the Plane
  • 0:18:56 – The Investigation and the Two Recorders
  • 0:20:18 – Why the Translation Mattered
  • 0:21:32 – The Investigation Takes a Turn
  • 0:23:30 – Washington and Cairo Collide
  • 0:25:54 – "I Rely on God": The Phrase at the Center
  • 0:27:51 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:28:24 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 0:28:42 – Sponsor: In Time by Robert Young
  • 0:29:37 – Sponsorship Opportunities
  • 0:30:21 – Theories: Four Explanations
  • 0:31:07 – Reason Perspective: What the Recorder Showed
  • 0:34:26 – Theory 1: An Evasive Maneuver
  • 0:35:25 – Theory 2: A Bomb
  • 0:36:34 – Theory 3: Mechanical Failure
  • 0:38:32 – Theory 4: A Deliberate Act, Egypt’s Case
  • 0:40:21 – Cross-Examining the Deliberate-Act Theory
  • 0:42:15 – Was This Terrorism?
  • 0:42:53 – A Possible Motive
  • 0:46:00 – How Certain Is the Theory?
  • 0:47:12 – The Legacy of Flight 990
  • 0:47:55 – The September 11th Connection
  • 0:49:33 – Did Flight 990 Cause 9/11?
  • 0:50:21 – Faith Perspective
  • 0:50:55 – Bottom Line
  • 0:51:51 – Further Resources
  • 0:52:20 – Mysterious Feedback: #423 Mel’s Hole
  • 0:59:37 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:00:12 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:00:27 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:01:00 – Next Time: Veridical Near-Death Experiences
  • 1:01:19 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:01:34 – Show notes
  • 1:01:42 – Become a Patron
  • 1:01:50 – Sponsor: Gravetending Solutions
  • 1:02:28 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:02:52 – Outro

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Robert Young’s novel In Time. If you enjoy stories that explore the intersection of faith, mystery, and the unseen forces shaping our lives, you’ll want to check out this gripping speculative thriller. In Time follows a troubled pilot drawn into a secret project that challenges everything he thought he knew about science, reality, and even God. Blending high-stakes adventure with spiritual themes like repentance, providence, and the battle between despair and hope, it’s a story about second chances—and the consequences of the choices we make. Get your copy now at sqpn.com/intime.

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Klingon or Time Lord Jesus? Mary Celeste? Salem Witch Trials? And More Patron Questions – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Could Jesus have incarnated on a Klingon world while he walked in Galilee? Jimmy Akin takes that question and eleven more from patrons — telekinesis, the Mary Celeste, Salem, ley lines — with Dom Bettinelli.

https://youtu.be/dnh-KqOtk1k

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Chapters:

  • 00:00:17 – Intro
  • 00:00:32 – A bonus episode for our patrons
  • 00:00:57 – Telekinesis: is it real, is it demonic?
  • 00:06:40 – Does Skinwalker Ranch have skinwalkers?
  • 00:07:51 – Codependency vs. Christian love
  • 00:11:19 – The Kensington Runestone
  • 00:13:33 – The Mary Celeste
  • 00:17:19 – Living reliquaries: a saint’s donated organs
  • 00:19:15 – Occam’s razor out the Overton window
  • 00:21:14 – Do your belongings come with you?
  • 00:25:46 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 00:26:46 – Sponsor: Robert Young’s In Time
  • 00:27:43 – Sponsor a StarQuest show
  • 00:28:27 – The Salem witch trials
  • 00:31:46 – Melchizedek, king of Salem
  • 00:38:59 – Semite or Hamite? How genealogies worked
  • 00:42:34 – Klingon Jesus and Time Lord Jesus
  • 00:47:32 – Would the incarnations know each other?
  • 00:50:45 – Ley lines
  • 00:54:00 – Apophenia: patterns in random data
  • 00:54:32 – Is Satan the ruler of this world?
  • 00:58:20 – Thank you to our patrons
  • 00:58:37 – Show notes
  • 00:59:02 – Mysterious Feedback: #422 The Ark of the Covenant
  • 00:59:19 – Why weren’t the Babylonians struck down?
  • 01:01:53 – The Jeremiah letter in 2 Maccabees
  • 01:03:26 – The Hancock hypothesis
  • 01:04:36 – The Lemba and the Ngoma Lungundu
  • 01:06:55 – Coming up: the Holy Grail and Crystal Skulls
  • 01:07:22 – Sponsor: Grave Tending Solutions
  • 01:08:01 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 01:08:24 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 01:08:55 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 01:09:12 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 01:09:45 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Robert Young’s novel In Time. If you enjoy stories that explore the intersection of faith, mystery, and the unseen forces shaping our lives, you’ll want to check out this gripping speculative thriller. In Time follows a troubled pilot drawn into a secret project that challenges everything he thought he knew about science, reality, and even God. Blending high-stakes adventure with spiritual themes like repentance, providence, and the battle between despair and hope, it’s a story about second chances—and the consequences of the choices we make. Get your copy now at sqpn.com/intime.

Grave Tending Solutions. Grave tending is a professional service and apostolate that brings peace of mind to families by caring for established gravesites. Distance and physical limitations can create barriers to maintaining a loved one’s final resting place. From planting graveside gardens to cleaning headstones, a grave tending professional provides a way for their clients to continue to care for and honor their loved ones. If you’re interested in learning more about grave tending, either as a client or as someone who’d like to enter the profession, please visit GraveTendingSolutions.com.

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The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas) – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Early Christians read it in church beside the Gospels; a fourth-century Bible bound it in after Revelation. Then it vanished. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli open the Shepherd of Hermas — a tower, a beast, and a question about forgiveness.

https://youtu.be/C90pi-6HuSU

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:12 – Intro
  • 0:01:44 – The Lost Scriptures series
  • 0:02:52 – What kind of book is the Shepherd?
  • 0:04:00 – Who was Hermas?
  • 0:07:09 – When was the Shepherd written?
  • 0:08:18 – Who called it Scripture?
  • 0:11:14 – The Muratorian Fragment
  • 0:13:25 – How long is the Shepherd?
  • 0:14:11 – Vision 1: Rhoda and the elderly woman
  • 0:22:33 – Vision 2: The little book
  • 0:28:08 – Who is the elderly woman?
  • 0:29:45 – The Sibyls and the Sibylline Books
  • 0:33:29 – Clement, Grapte, and the dating clue
  • 0:35:43 – Vision 3: The great tower
  • 0:43:01 – Why the tower is built on water
  • 0:45:03 – The stones and what they mean
  • 0:54:58 – The seven women who hold up the tower
  • 0:57:56 – A sermon aimed at the rich
  • 1:00:25 – Why the woman grows younger
  • 1:01:00 – Vision 4: The hundred-foot beast
  • 1:08:15 – The four colors of the beast
  • 1:09:24 – Vision 5: The Shepherd appears
  • 1:13:30 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 1:14:02 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:14:45 – Sponsorship opportunities
  • 1:15:29 – Reason Perspective: Dating the book early
  • 1:17:08 – Why the Muratorian Fragment doesn’t fit
  • 1:19:43 – Is Hermas greeted in Romans 16?
  • 1:22:59 – The odds it’s the same Hermas
  • 1:28:41 – Faith Perspective
  • 1:29:22 – Forgiveness after baptism
  • 1:37:42 – Is the Shepherd private revelation?
  • 1:39:52 – Bottom Line
  • 1:41:43 – Further Resources
  • 1:42:25 – Mysterious Feedback: #421 What Mary Knew, God’s Choices, Autism, and Names in the Afterlife
  • 1:42:45 – Feedback: Buzzards really do puke in flight
  • 1:44:07 – Feedback: Did Jesus work a miracle before Cana?
  • 1:45:18 – Feedback: The white stone and the new name
  • 1:47:47 – Feedback: Climate science
  • 1:50:32 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:51:06 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:51:11 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:52:09 – Next Time: Patron questions
  • 1:52:45 – Share the show, write a review
  • 1:52:55 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:53:03 – Show notes
  • 1:53:11 – Become a Patron
  • 1:53:23 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 1:53:38 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

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Are Auras Real? Aura Colors, Cameras, and the Tests – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Colored light around every living thing, readable by anyone with the right training — or by a camera at the mall. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow the aura from Mesmer to the selfie app, and weigh what happened under controlled testing.

https://youtu.be/UMsuQFcv_b8

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:12 – Intro
  • 0:00:43 – Cold open: an aura reading at the shop
  • 0:01:40 – What an aura is supposed to be
  • 0:02:36 – Layers, chakras, and prana
  • 0:04:16 – What the colors are said to mean
  • 0:05:21 – Rare gift or learned skill?
  • 0:05:57 – Color and emotion across cultures
  • 0:07:14 – Light around holy figures in scripture
  • 0:09:31 – Halos, the nimbus, and the mandorla
  • 0:11:06 – Franz Anton Mesmer and animal magnetism
  • 0:12:41 – Mesmerism in Paris
  • 0:13:49 – The Franklin Commission of 1784
  • 0:17:18 – Karl von Reichenbach and the odic force
  • 0:19:50 – The Society for Psychical Research
  • 0:20:56 – Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky
  • 0:23:21 – Besant, Leadbeater, and the color code
  • 0:25:50 – Dr. Walter Kilner and the dicyanin screens
  • 0:29:09 – Wilhelm Reich and orgone
  • 0:30:39 – The FDA, the book burnings, and Reich’s death
  • 0:31:56 – Kirlian photography
  • 0:33:26 – Clip: Mysteries from Beyond Earth (Thelma Moss)
  • 0:39:39 – The modern aura camera
  • 0:40:30 – How aura cameras actually work
  • 0:41:56 – Auras today: apps and selfies
  • 0:42:42 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:43:13 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 0:43:35 – Sponsorship opportunities
  • 0:44:40 – Reason Perspective: the seven theories
  • 0:46:14 – Theory 1: Do aura cameras photograph a real field?
  • 0:47:48 – Theory 2: Do the colors carry universal meanings?
  • 0:50:54 – Theory 3: A literal electromagnetic field?
  • 0:52:52 – What Kirlian photography actually captures
  • 0:54:21 – Theory 4: An undiscovered subtle energy
  • 0:56:51 – The screen tests
  • 0:59:21 – Why negative results from parapsychologists matter
  • 1:00:11 – Theory 5: Biophotons
  • 1:02:55 – Theory 6: Synesthesia
  • 1:06:57 – Theory 7: Ordinary perception and suggestion
  • 1:11:06 – Faith Perspective
  • 1:13:47 – Halos as symbol, not photograph
  • 1:14:38 – Bottom Line
  • 1:15:39 – Further Resources
  • 1:16:21 – Mysterious Feedback: #420 Pre-Sputnik Transients
  • 1:22:06 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:22:46 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:22:51 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:23:52 – Next Time: The Shepherd of Hermas
  • 1:24:23 – Share the show, write a review
  • 1:24:34 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:24:45 – Show notes
  • 1:24:52 – Become a Patron
  • 1:25:04 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 1:25:20 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

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Buck Nelson, the Ozark Spaceman – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

A flashlight, three discs over a Missouri ranch, and a ray that cured fifteen years of back pain. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow Buck Nelson from Ozark farmer to saucer celebrity — and to a twist that isn’t funny at all.

https://youtu.be/iP2GwjYOUfk

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:12 – Intro
  • 0:00:47 – Cold open: The Ozark Spaceman
  • 0:01:50 – Today’s Mystery: The UFO Contactees
  • 0:02:58 – Mountain View, Missouri
  • 0:04:57 – Ozark Caves and Karst Country
  • 0:06:00 – Who Was Buck Nelson?
  • 0:08:11 – July 1954: Three Discs and a Flashlight
  • 0:09:44 – The Healing Ray
  • 0:10:28 – The Saucers Come Back
  • 0:11:54 – Bucky, Bob Solomon, and Big Bo
  • 0:14:04 – The Spacemen Tour the House
  • 0:18:01 – The Twelve Laws of God
  • 0:19:53 – At the Controls
  • 0:22:03 – Mars
  • 0:24:10 – The Moon
  • 0:27:00 – Venus
  • 0:29:21 – Home After Three Days
  • 0:29:37 – What the Space People Were Like
  • 0:33:26 – Atlantis and the Pyramids
  • 0:35:01 – Christmas with Bucky
  • 0:37:24 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:37:56 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 0:38:38 – Sponsorship opportunities
  • 0:39:26 – The Lecture Circuit and the Booklet
  • 0:41:46 – The Spacecraft Conventions
  • 0:45:16 – The Men in Black
  • 0:47:50 – Trouble With the Government
  • 0:48:49 – How the Story Ended
  • 0:50:44 – Reason Perspective
  • 0:52:46 – Faith Perspective
  • 0:53:50 – The Twist
  • 0:57:18 – The Civil Rights Backdrop
  • 0:58:53 – Racism Is Evil
  • 1:03:02 – Bottom Line
  • 1:04:11 – Further Resources
  • 1:04:43 – Mysterious Feedback: #419 Zombie Marriage, Holy Roman Emperors, Jesus’ DNA, and More Weird Questions
  • 1:11:10 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:11:46 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:11:51 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:13:13 – Thank you to Craig Hart
  • 1:13:18 – Next Time: Auras
  • 1:13:38 – Share the show, write a review
  • 1:13:50 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:13:58 – Show notes
  • 1:14:05 – Become a Patron
  • 1:14:12 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 1:15:03 – After the Credits: 1956 School Lunch Menus
  • 1:17:15 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

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