MYS376: Fireballs. Scorch marks. Dizzy spells. A haunted house—or something worse? Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and paranormal expert Lloyd Auerbach unravel the shocking truth behind a 1980s California mystery. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Loyd Auerbach’s book *A Paranormal Casebook* * Loyd’s book *ESP Wars* * Loyd’s YouTube channel * Loyd’s website * The Rhine Education Center’s website * The Rhine Research Center’s website * Society for Psychical Research * The Ghost Club * Cancer and Power Lines * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world * You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515 This Episode is Brought to You By: Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com. 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

MYS375: If Bigfoot exists, what kind of animal would it be? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli analyze eyewitness reports, biological clues, and statistical patterns to sketch the creature’s anatomy and behavior. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Ken Gerhard’s book The Essential Guide to Bigfoot * Jeff Meldrum’s book Sasquatch * Ron Morehead’s Bigfoot Recordings (download) * A remastered version of the Patterson-Gimlin Film (1967) * Fahrenbach article (full) * Fahrenbach article (condensed) * Ohio Howl * Sierra Sounds part 1 * Sierra Sounds part 2 * Sierra Sounds part 3 * Bigfoot Vlog * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world * You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515 This Episode is Brought to You By: Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com. Rosary Army.

MYS374: Gelatinous blobs fell from the sky in Oakville, Washington—then people got sick. Was it rain, jellyfish, or a secret government bioweapon test? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli dissect the evidence and theories. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Steve Martin’s Bowfinger * Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space * Netflix episode of The Unexplained on the blobs * 2009 Unsolved Mysteries episode * Oakville, Washington * Thomas Jefferson on meteorites * Rains of animals * Skyfalls * Blue Ice (Aviation) * Star Jelly * Waterlock (Sodium Polyacrylate) * Dorset blue balls mystery * Pseudomonas Fluorescens * Enterobacter Cloacae * Operation Sea-Spray * Unethical human experimentation in the United States * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world

MYS373: The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been investigated time and again, but in 2025, the US Congress held new hearings on the latest release of government files. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss whatwas revealed including new testimony from 6 witnesses. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Jacqueline Kennedy’s interviews in William Manchester’s *The Death of a President* * Abraham Bolden’s book *The Echo from Dealey Plaza* * Full coverage of the hearings * Abraham Bolden * Douglas Horne’s written testimony including additional facts * Fair Play for Cuba Committee * *The Death of a President* * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world * You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515 This Episode is Brought to You By: Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com. 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 

MYS372: Is Earth alone? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli unpack the Drake Equation’s quest to count alien civilizations. Is 50 million potential galactic neighbors realistic—or just hopeful math? Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Frank Drake’s book Is Anyone Out There? * Drake Equation * SETI Institute * Frank Drake explains the origin of the equation * 2023 findings on star formation * Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 * Johnny B. Goode * Dinosaur intelligence (focusing on # of neurons) * Biosignatures * Technosignatures * Possible biosignatures detected * Original paper on the technosignatures * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world * You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515 This Episode is Brought to You By: Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your c...

MYS371: Telepathy among non-speaking autistic kids? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli unpack the claims from the #1 podcast The Telepathy Tapes, from spelling boards to psychic abilities, how credible are the claims that are made? Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Diane Hennacy Powell’s book The ESP Enigma * Telepathy Tapes website * Ky Dickens website * Diane Hennacy Powell biography * Powell’s telepathy projects * New Yorker story * Stuart Vyse in the Skeptical Enquirer * Edgar Mitchell’s ESP Experiments * Interview with Mitchell * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world * You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515 This Episode is Brought to You By: Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com. 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,

MYS370: For some people who have profound difficulties speaking, alternative communications systems known as Facilitated Communication and Spelling to Communicate have been developed and the results appear miraculous. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the methods, the claimed results, and the controversy surrounding them. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * 1993 Frontline documentary Prisoners of Silence * 2023 Spellers documentary * The Reason I Jump clip * James Todd’s encyclopedia article “Rapid Prompting” * Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) * Classic Autism * Asperger’s Syndrome * Autism Spectrum Disorder * Savant Syndrome * Facilitated Communication * Rapid Prompting/Spelling to Communicate method * Abuse allegations and Facilitated Communication * Ideomotor Effect * Sabine Hossenfelder’s video on Autism * Kyle Hill’s video on Autism * Autism Is Not My Superpower’s video * Instagram video of Facilitated Communication * Katharine Beals’s review of Spellers * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the 

MYS369: Did the 12th century Irish bishop St. Malachy predict the popes through the end of the world? And did we just get the last one? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the prophecy of the popes, its accuracy, and what light that recent events shed on it. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Fr. M.J. O’Brien’s book An Historical And Critical Account Of The So-Called Prophecy Of St. Malachy: Regarding The Succession Of Popes * St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s Life of St. Malachy of Armagh * Jimmy’s 2016 overview of the prophecy * Jimmy’s 2013 analysis of the prophecy * Jimmy’s 2013 table of hits and misses for the prophecy * St. Malachy * Original Latin version of the prophecy in Lignum Vitae * DDF document: Norms for Proceeding in the Discernment of Alleged Supernatural Phenomena * Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world * You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515 This Episode is Brought to You By: Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com.

MYS368: 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 first answers questions from Patrons&#8217; children and then more from the Patrons themselves. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at&nbsp;SQPN.com/give&nbsp;today? Links for this episode: * Project Gutenberg: The Tarasque Legend * YouTube: The Legend of the Tarasque * Wikipedia: Tarasque * Vatican DDF: Communiqué on Valtorta&#8217;s Writings (Feb 2025) * Pillar Catholic: DDF Weighs in on Valtorta Under New Norms * Catholic World Report: A Case Against *The Poem of the Man-God* * Catholic Answers: What Can You Tell Me About *The Poem of the Man-God*? * AllRecipes: Why People Crave Tomato Juice on Airplanes * Wikipedia: Buried Treasure * Wikipedia: National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion * CBS News: FBI and the Civil War Gold Mystery in Pennsylvania * Irreducible Mind * Please spread the word about the podcast.&nbsp;Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the&nbsp;Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the&nbsp;Starquest Facebook page&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at&nbsp;SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to&nbsp;feedback@mysterious.fm&nbsp;or send a tweet to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.twitter.

MYS367: It&#8217;s a fifth Friday, so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin weird questions from listeners, about topics like whether AI is a demonic illusion; Jewish Nazarene Christians; Alfred E. Newman; time travel and the natural law; and more. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at&nbsp;SQPN.com/give&nbsp;today? Links for this episode: * Please spread the word about the podcast.&nbsp;Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the&nbsp;Mysterious World Bookstore. * Join the conversation at the&nbsp;Starquest Facebook page&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at&nbsp;SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to&nbsp;feedback@mysterious.fm&nbsp;or send a tweet to&nbsp;@mys_world * You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515 This Episode is Brought to You By: Jimmy Akin&#8217;s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com. 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&nbsp;RosaryArmy.com and&nbsp;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 GradyGroupInc.com. Conceiving Crime, a gripping new true-crime podcast uncovering the darkest secrets the abortion, sex, and fertility industries hope you never hear. These industries operate in the shadows—where human life is treated as a product, mistakes are covered up, and crimes go unpunished. From professional surrogacy scammers to families torn apart by IVF, Conceiving Crime exposes the stories no one else will tell. What happens when life itself becomes a business? Learn more at <a href="https://www.conceivingcrime.