Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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. The post The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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? The post Spoon Bending? (Metal Bending, Psychic, PK Parties) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Can Catholics Follow Astrology? appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Human-Vampire Hybrids and More Weird Questions appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Soul? appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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." The post Testing Edgar Cayce’s Psychic Abilities appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Was God’s Wife Removed from the Bible? appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Edgar Cayce, The Sleeping Prophet appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Mystery!) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including the Green Children of Woolpit, Blue Panic Orbs, animal afterlife, Isdal Woman, How We Found the Universe, UFO/UAP Hearings, and more. The post Mysterious Feedback Special, September 2022 appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post The Mandela Effect, the Full Moon effect, the Third Secret of Fatima, & More Patrons’ Questions appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Ever thought you saw a shadowy figure out of the corner of your eye? Or the shadowy silhouette of a person directly in front of you? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Shadow People, what they are, and where they come from. The post Shadow People! (Aliens? Ghosts? Demons? Something Else?) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

People have reported witnessing miracles involving the Holy Eucharist for centuries, including the Eucharist appearing to turn into visible flesh and blood. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the truth of these reports and what we should make of them. Do they represent genuine miracles? The post Eucharistic Miracles! appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Kabbalism is a school of Jewish mysticism that's made a celebrity splash. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli continue a conversation with Dr. Justin Sledge about the controversial millennia-old Kabbalah teachings about God, the creation of the world, the origin of evil, and the afterlife. The post Kabbalah: Secret Teachings (Jewish Mysticism; Secret Teachings; Esoteric Judaism; Qabala) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Jimmy has been contacted by the Vatican's Dicastery for Communications and was asked to ask for your help with a brief survey. The post You Can Tell the Vatican What You Think appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Kabbalah is a school of Jewish mysticism that has been around for centuries, experiencing a revival in popularity. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss with Dr. Justin Sledge the controversies surrounding Kabbalah and its origins and history. The post Kabbalah! Secret Origins (Jewish Mysticism; Secret Teachings; Esoteric Judaism; Qabala) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

It's a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including will we be frozen in time in heaven; did Lazarus have a Near Death Experience; why is the night sky dark; ship of Theseus; and more. The post Frozen Heaven, Lazarus Near Death Experience, Night Sky Paradox, Unfallen Children (Weird Questions) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Psychic medium Robert Righi has a dramatic life story, including psychic abilities as a small child and helping in Catholic exorcisms as an adult. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli welcome Kenny Biddle to examine Righi's claims and reveal the results of their investigation. The post Investigating Robert Righi (Psychic Medium? Exorcism? Ted Bundy?) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

The Bible tells us that the Jewish high priest had two mysterious objects known as the Urim and Thummin to help him receive messages from God. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what they were, how they worked, and what we know about them. The post What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Close Encounters launched the UFO craze of the late 70s and Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Salerno, and Mike Denz discuss the cultural impact, the idea of alien contact, and the connections to reported real world UFO encounters. The post The Secrets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind appeared first on StarQuest Media.

In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brough the world the brink of nuclear war, 3 times just on one day. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how we can to the edge of Armageddon and avoided it, as well as the aftermath and ramifications of the crisis. The post The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Sixty years ago, the world was locked in a 13-day crisis between the USA and Soviet Union. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis and the little-known details about how the world came within a whisker of a global nuclear war. The post The Cuban Missile Crisis! (Nuclear War; Kennedy, Khrushchev, 1962) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including Bill Ray, Our Lady of Kibeho, Steven Greer, Poltergeists, Dr. Edwin May, Inflation, and Ghost Bride. The post Mysterious Feedback Special, July 2022 appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Bilocation is a mysterious phenomenon in which someone appears to be in two or more locations at once. It's been reported for thousands of years, including among some Catholic saints. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what bilocation is and what is really going on. The post The Mystery of Bilocation (Sacred? Psychic? Two Places at Once? Padre Pio? Remote Viewing?) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Harriet Tubman is famous as the escaped slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad to freedom. But Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli also explore her reported visions and paranormal experiences and what could have caused them. The post Harriet Tubman (Underground Railroad) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Is TV ghost hunting anything like the real thing? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli are joined by parapsychological investigator Loyd Auerbach to discuss his work and in particular about a haunted house in Marin County, California. The post Haunted House of Marin County (Ghosts, Hauntings, Apparitions) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Psychedelic Machine Elves, Bible Code, Bilocation, Twin Souls, Pagan Gods, and More Patrons’ Questions appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including Marian apparitions, D.B. Cooper, aphantasia and synesthesia, Pearl Harbor, demons, and the Hindenburg. The post Mysterious Feedback Special appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Prayer is a human universal, but can you pray for something that's already happened? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at prayer and time and God's relationship to time, with a big twist in the reason perspective. The post Time Travel Prayer? (Praying Across Time) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

For as long as people have seen UFOs in the sky, they've claimed to have salvaged materials from them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask what these materials are, where they come from, why is the government studying them, and what tests have revealed. The post UFO Crash Debris! (Art’s Parts) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

In a special bonus episode, Jimmy Akin gives a brief overview of Congressional hearings in May 2022 on UFOs/UAPs and then includes the entire hearing for listeners to hear for themselves. The post Congressional UFO/UAP Hearings appeared first on StarQuest Media.

How did humanity come to know the world around us, the structure of our planet, our solar system, and the universe. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the mystery of the nature of the universe and the historical figures who found the answers we have today. The post How We Found the Universe (Science and Faith) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

In 1970, a woman's body was found in a remote valley in Norway. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli delve into the international investigation that was touched off and the mystery that remains to this day as to the Isdal Woman's identity and how she died. The post Isdal Woman (Cold War Mystery) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

It's a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including whether robots are members of the undead; whether vampires go to hell; could vampires receive the Blood of Christ; and whether demons can read our thoughts; and more. The post Vampires and the Blood of Christ, Robots and the Undead, Demons and Telepathy (Weird Questions!) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Many people have wondered or hoped that beloved animals that die continue to live on in heaven, but a common opinion is that they don't. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at that claim and ask if there is any evidence that animals do, in fact, survive death. The post All Dogs Go to Heaven? (Ghost Dogs! Animal Afterlife?) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Blue Panic Orbs! (Skinwalker Ranch! Fatal Attack!) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

In an English village in the 1100s, two green-skinned children appeared one day and some have claimed they were aliens or fairies. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli consider who were the green children of Woolpit, where did they come from, and why were they green? The post The Green Children of Woolpit appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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? The post Ghost Bride! (John Seybold, Sarah, Nellie Moore, Medium, Séance, Wedding, Marriage) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Listeners have noticed that when Jimmy Akin mentions how much something cost in the past, he says it's due to "inflation the government has caused." Now he and Dom Bettinelli are going to explain why he says that, what inflation is, why it happens, and why Jimmy says the government is responsible. The post The Mystery of Inflation (Pocketbook Pain!) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Dr. Edwin May, Psychic Theories (Precognition, Remote Viewing, Entropy) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Physicist Dr. Edwin May has made a career working full time in parapsychology after heading up the US gov't psychic spying program Star Gate. Jimmy Akin sits down for an interview with Dr. May to learn what his research found, the challenges of psychic research, and his personal views on the phenomena. The post Dr. Edwin May, Psychic Research (Remote Viewing, Precognition, Telekinesis) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Baptizing Robots? Shroud of Turin? Jersey Devil? Extinct Animals? . . . & More Patrons’ Questions appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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. The post Poltergeists! (Noisy Ghosts? Psychokinesis? Spirits? Demons?) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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? The post Steven Greer: Summoning Aliens? (CSETI, CE5) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

In 1983, seers at Kibeho, Rwanda, received visions of a barbaric conflict and in the 1990s, almost 1 million people died in the genocide. Then in 2001, the apparitions received official Church approval. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at what happened, which visions were genuine, and their significance for us today. The post Our Lady of Kibeho and the Rwandan Genocide appeared first on StarQuest Media.

In 1981, a group of children in Rwanda began reporting visions of the Virgin Mary. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss her assurances of God's love and warnings of a terrible disaster; what the girls reported to have seen and heard; and the results of the Church's investigations, including warnings for believers. The post Our Lady of Kibeho (Marian Apparition) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

In this second part of Jimmy Akin's interview with former US Army psychic spy Maj. Bill Ray of Project Star Gate, he hears about some of Bill's most dramatic Remote Viewing experiences, including RV of aliens, UFOs, Roswell, and the Ark of Covenant. The post Bill Ray, Dramatic Remote Viewing Experiences (Aliens, UFOs, Ark of the Covenant, Roswell, Star Gate, Stargate) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Project Star Gate was the Pentagon's psychic spying program from the 1970s to 1990s. Jimmy Akin talks to one of those psychic spies, Major Bill Ray, who also served as commander of the unit for a time and asks him about his experiences, the history of the program, and about Remote Viewing. The post Bill Ray, Psychic Spy (Extended Remote Viewing, Star Gate, Stargate) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

The Hindenburg was one of the most impressive airships ever to fly, and when it crashed in 1937, it shocked the world. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Hindenburg crash, what happened to make it explode, and whether there was sabotage or even a coverup of the facts of the tragedy. The post What Happened to the Hindenburg? (Air Disaster) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

When unexplained phenomena arise, many Christians often leap to the explanation of demons being responsible or they warn that certain activities can open you up to demons. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the accuracy of these claims, how we can really find out when demons are involved, and what can go wrong when we incorrectly think it's demons. The post It’s Always Demons? (Testing the Spirits) appeared first on StarQuest Media.