Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World invites you to explore the weird, strange, and unexplained with Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin and co-host Domenico Bettinelli. Each episode examines mysterious phenomena — from UFO sightings and historical oddities to supernatural claims, urban legends, conspiracies, and listener “weird questions” — through careful reasoning, evidence-based evaluation, and thoughtful Christian reflection. The show blends curiosity with clarity: unpacking mysteries with respect for science, history, and the Catholic faith, without resorting to sensationalism. If you love encountering the unusual, asking tough questions, and appreciating the world’s mysteries through both intellect and wonder, this podcast offers engaging, insightful conversation every week.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jun 28, 2023 • 40min
Mysterious Feedback (249-252)
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.
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Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 1min
Pam Coronado, Psychic Detective (DC Beltway Snipers Case)
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 who helped police solve the crime.
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Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 31min
How We Caught the D.C. Beltway Snipers (Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad, Lee Malvo)
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 them, and why they went on their murder spree
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Jun 14, 2023 • 47min
Mysterious Feedback (244-248)
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.
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Jun 9, 2023 • 1h 25min
The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)
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 mind.
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Jun 2, 2023 • 1h 8min
Angelic Possession (And More Patrons’ Questions!)
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 Moon, Genesis flood, Younger Dryas, Philadelphia experiment, Ouija boards, King Arthur, Nation of islam, and more.
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May 26, 2023 • 1h 30min
21st Century Poltergeist! (Psychokinesis? Telekinesis? Ghosts?)
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 century poltergeist."
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May 24, 2023 • 58min
Mysterious Feedback (20, 21, 24, 130, 240-243)
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, Ehyptian afterlife and nummies, rainmaker Charles Hatfield, giants and more.
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5 snips
May 19, 2023 • 1h 35min
Weighing the Soul? (Scientific evidence for the human soul? Spirit? Life after death?)
Could the human soul ever be scientifically detected? Could it even be weighed? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinellil discuss a series of experiments that claimed to detect the departure of the soul at death, whether that's possible, and what other researchers have found.
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May 12, 2023 • 1h 21min
The Murder Trust (Iron Mike Malloy; Mike the Durable)
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 after 9 attempts, including whether they were ever brought to justice for the murder of Iron Mike.
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