Category: Mysteries

UFO researchers have often talked about encountering mysterious floating orbs, including at Skinwalker Ranch. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the blue orbs that induce fear and may even be causing harm and what may explain them.

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Links for this episode:

• Hunt for the Skinwalker book
• Skinwalkers at the Pentagon book
• Jeremy Corbell’s documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker
• Secret of Skinwalker Ranch TV show
• Skinwalker Ranch
• Acute Radiation Syndrome
• Robert Bigelow interview
• Will-o-the-Wisps
• Piezoelectric Effect
• Ball Lightning
• Lightning produces X- and Gamma-Rays

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Mysterious Headlines

• A Supernova Any Day Now?
• We’re Not Prepared for Cross-World Contamination

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Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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In the 1920s, widowed farmer John Seybold sought to end his loneliness by contacting the world of the spirits. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk about how he met a ghost named Sarah and ended up marrying her. But were they able to find happiness together?

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Links for this episode:

• Mark Hartzman’s book Chasing Ghosts
• San Francisco Examiner article July 10, 1927 (Newspapers.com)
• Wichita Eagle article Nov. 8, 1927 (Newspapers.com)
• Iola Daily Register article Nov. 17, 1927 (Newspapers.com)
• San Francisco Examiner article Nov. 27, 1927 (Newspapers.com)
• James Duane’s video Don’t Talk to the Police
• Really Disturbing Video

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Mysterious Headlines

• British Singer Brocarde [“bro-CARD”] to Marry Ghost of Victorian-Era Soldier (Celebrity Ghosts to be Wedding Guests)
• California Woman Marries the Color Pink
• Woman marries the color pink in historic ceremony | Unexplained Mysteries

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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In the second part of his interview with Dr. Edwin May, who has spent more than 40 years doing parapsychological research, Jimmy Akin asks Dr. May about some his most unique views, they discuss the role of precognition, and he asks what an “entropy bomb” is.

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https://youtu.be/-oaQYhu2niE

Links for this episode:

• Ed May’s book ESP Wars: East & West
• Ed May author page on Amazon
• Ed May’s paper Informational Psi: Collapsing the Problem Space of Psi
• Ed May’s web page, Laboratories for Fundamental Research (LFR)
• Parapsychological Association website
• Joseph McMoneagle
• Sidereal Time (short video explainer)

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Mysterious Headlines

• Over 700 Stars Mysteriously Vanish in 70 Years (video)
• Help Find Missing Stars!

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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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 in a special bonus release like this one.

https://youtu.be/uAz_SagpOKE

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Links for this episode:

• Jersey devil
• Shroud of Turin
• R.H. Charles’ The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English (with introductions and commentary notes)
• James H. Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (2 vol.s)
• Louis Feldman et al., Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writing Related to Scripture (3 vol.s)
• Bart Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament
• Bart Ehrman & Plese, The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament
• Didache (article)
• Didache (including links to translations)
• Bringing back the Wooly Mammoth?
• Questioning bringing it back
• De-Extinction
• Intelligent Design
• Discovery Institute page on Intelligent Design
• Luis Ladaria on Mormon baptism

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Mysterious Headlines

• Sodom Meteor Strike Should Be Taken with a Pillar of Salt
• International Space Station to Crash into Earth in 2031

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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For centuries, people have reported strange phenomena of objects moving on their own, flying into walls, even injuring and killing people. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk about the phenomenon of poltergeists, what they are what causes them, and what the latest research reveals about them.

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Links for this episode:

• Alan Gauld & A. D. Cornell’s book Poltergeists
• William Roll’s book The Poltergeist
• Loyd Auerbach’s book ESP, Hauntings, and Poltergeists: A Parapsychologist’s Handbook
• Poltergeists
• Psychological Aspects in Poltergeist Cases
• Vienna Workshop Poltergeist
• The Haunting That Wasn’t (power line case)

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• Feedback in this episode comes from MYS179: Canals on Mars? and MYS180: Life on Mars

Mysterious Headlines

• How Did Mars Lose Its Water?
• Original Mars Meteorite Explained Away (Again)
• New Carbon Signal from Mars Supports Life
• Case for Life on Venus & Private Mission to Find It!

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Amagara Marungi at AmagaraMarungi.org. Bringing a better life for homelands of missionaries sent to support the Church in the United States.

Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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Dr. Steven Greer for years has led the “Disclosure” movement to have the US government reveal what it knows about extraterrestrials, says he’s conducting diplomacy with aliens on behalf of the human race and says he can summon the peaceful aliens and can teach others to do so as well. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who is Dr. Greer, are the aliens really friendly, and can we really summon aliens?

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https://youtu.be/kVMIP5z8nxw

Links for this episode:

• Aaron Gulyas’s book Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist
• Aaron Gulyas’s podast The Saucer Life
• J. Allen Hynek’s book The UFO Experience
• Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind documentary (2020)
• Unacknowledged documentary (2017)
• Disclosure with Dr. Steven Greer TV series (2021)
• Sirius documentary (2013)
• Sirius Disclosure page
• Steven Greer
• Executive Summary of Disclosure Project Briefing Document
• Article Did Steven Greer Fake a UFO with Flares?
• Ed Mitchell Most Unhappy with Greer Using His Name as Disclosure Witness
• James Woolsey letter rebutting Greer
• Customer review from CSETI Workshop Attendee
• Another Workshop Attendee Account
• UFO Story Time video with John Alexander Denial
• Greer Video of 2015 CE5 Event
• Greer’s Photo & Video Evidence Page
• Atacama Skeleton (Ata)
• Light Painting

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Mysterious Headlines

• Water from the Sun?
• 1st Spacecraft to Touch the Sun
• Dark Matter Asteroids Cause Solar Flares?

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Amagara Marungi at AmagaraMarungi.org. Bringing a better life for homelands of missionaries sent to support the Church in the United States.

Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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