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
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Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 1min
Ellen Gould White (Seventh-Day Adventist Prophet)
Ellen G. White was co-founder and prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the life of this woman and what her visions disclosed and then ask whether she was a genuine prophetess.
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Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 23min
The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 is well-known, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss it was followed in November by a second, secret Cuban missile crisis that the Soviets hid from the world.
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Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 5min
Spoon Bending? (Metal Bending, Psychic, PK Parties)
In the 1970s and 80s, spoon bending and metal bending using your mind became a sensation. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how the phenomenon began and search for the truth. Is it really mind over matter or is it a hoax?
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Oct 5, 2022 • 39min
Can Catholics Follow Astrology?
In this mysterious bonus episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss the origins of astrology, what it is and isn't, and whether it's permissible for Catholics to follow astrology.
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Sep 30, 2022 • 52min
Human-Vampire Hybrids and More Weird Questions
It's a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including secret societies; binding demons; reenacting Catholic history; killing vampire-human hybrids; Neanderthals in the afterlife; and more.
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Sep 28, 2022 • 38min
Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Soul?
Do AI have a soul? In this mysterious bonus episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss recent claims about artificial intelligence programs, including one at Google, that have a soul.
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Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 18min
Testing Edgar Cayce’s Psychic Abilities
Continuing their discussion of Edgar Cayce, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk about his startling claims to have genuine psychic abilities and what the evidence says about the famed "Sleeping Prophet."
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Sep 21, 2022 • 25min
Was God’s Wife Removed from the Bible?
God had a wife? In this mysterious bonus episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss recent claims by some on social media that God originally had a wife, but that she was eventually removed from the Bible.
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Sep 16, 2022 • 1h 6min
Edgar Cayce, The Sleeping Prophet
In the mid-20th century, Edgar Cayce became known as the Sleeping Prophet for the psychic readings he gave while in hypnotic trances. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss Cayce, called the most famous psychic of the 20th century and father of alternative medicine and of the New Age movement.
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Sep 9, 2022 • 47min
Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Mystery!)
In 19th century London, residents reported a ghostly figure in outrageous costumes would accost them, sometimes bellowing blue flame in their faces, and then vanish in the night. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who was Spring-Heeled Jack and did he really exist.
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