Jimmy Akin's mysterious world

Last time, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discussed Joe Fisher's mid-1980s experiences with spirit guides, and they continue to look at what he learned as he researched the guides and their claims and come to their own conclusions about what had entered Joe's life. https://mysterious.fm/311 Further Resources: • Joe Fisher’s book The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: https://amzn.to/3OuLlfj • Joe Fisher (Psi-Encyclopedia): https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/joe-fisher • Loren Coleman’s obituary for Joe Fisher: https://www.anomalist.com/milestones/fisher.html • Louis Proud’s article on Fisher’s Death: https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/edgescience/edgescience-43.pdf • Asian Hungry Ghosts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_ghost

In 1980, two women and a boy had a frightening encounter with a UFO blazing light and fire. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the event, the health effects it had, the women's battle with the US gov't over it, and what could be responsible for it all. https://mysterious.fm/254 Further Resources: • John Schuessler’s book The Cash Landrum Incident: https://amzn.to/408kBo4 • George Dudding’s book The Cash-Landrum UFO Encounter: https://amzn.to/3KP0YN8 • Jerome Clark’s book The UFO Encyclopedia (3rd ed.): https://amzn.to/3ZWxukN • Kevin Randle’s book Project Moon Dust: Beyond Roswell: https://amzn.to/3zN91nx • James Mahaffey’s book Atomic Accidents: https://amzn.to/3KvqPbw • CUFOS file on Cash-Landrum: https://app.box.com/s/zvelar3gubgiee5zwgi3 • Kevin Randle on Cash-Landrum: https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/search?q=cash-landrum • Kevin Randle interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kevin-randle-interviews-curtis-collins-saucers-that/id1239484934?i=1000548515135 • Unsolved Mysteries segment: https://youtu.be/-p98aBNNhxg?t=1083 • UFO Hunters episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkW9XBX0fU • Another early interview with the witnesses: https://youtu.be/UJdhk3_DurE • Early audio interview with Vickie and Colby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiYo1kdnk8I • Cash-Landrum Incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident • Skeptical Inquirer article: https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2014/03/p28.pdf • Skeptoid Podcast episode: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4652 • Alopecia Areata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata • Bergstrom AFB Interview, part 1: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cashlani.htm • Bergstrom AFB Interview, part 2: https://www.cufon.org/cufon/cashlani2.htm • Cash-Landrum legal documents: https://www.cufon.org/cufon/cashlanL.pdf • Brad Sparks’s Ionizing Radiation Critique: https://web.archive.org/web/20070817173738/http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/a1999/cash3.htm

In the 19th century, secret societies were all the rage and the Knights of the Golden Circle were among the most famous. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss their origin and aims, their role in the Civil War, and the mysteries surrounding them. https://mysterious.fm/255 Further Resources: • David Keehn’s book Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War: https://amzn.to/3Ac9JuD • Mark Lause’s book A Secret Society History of the Civil War: https://amzn.to/3KTeoGU • An Authentic Exposition of the K.G.C. “Knights of the Golden Circle”: Or, A History Secession from 1834 to 1961, Illustrated: https://archive.org/details/authenticexposi00perr/mode/2up • Knights of the Golden Cirlce (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle • George W. L. Bickley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._L._Bickley • Texas State Historical Association on the KGC: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/knights-of-the-golden-circle • Review of Keehn’s book: http://jsr.fsu.edu/issues/vol15/wallace.html

St. Toribio Romo was born to a poor family in Mexico and became a priest in a time when the Church was being persecuted. He was eventually martyred. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the saint's life and death and the strange mystery that surrounds him today. https://mysterious.fm/256 Further Resources: • James Murphy’s book The Martyrdom of Saint Toribio Romo: https://amzn.to/3NbL80D • Toribio Romo (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toribio_Romo_Gonz%C3%A1lez • David Romo’s article “My Tio, the Saint”: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/my-tio-the-saint/ • Alfredo Mirandé’s paper “Toribio Romo, el Padre Pollero”: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Toribio-Romo%2C-el-Padre-Pollero-Romo-Pollero/fd21166485ff4710869a98ab449ca85f121da662 • Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html • Summary of Rerum Novarum (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_novarum • St. Toribio Romo Fund: https://catholiccharitiesdom.org/donate-now/the-saint-toribio-romo-fund/

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." https://mysterious.fm/260 Further Resources • John Kruth’s article Taming the Ghost Within (paywall!): https://www.rhineonline.org/_files/ugd/82c4a8_11ce07ddfc3b4e2ea4e567821c235184.pdf • Pauli Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect • Rhine Research Center: Rhine.org

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. https://mysterious.fm/263 Further Resources: • Angie Cannon’s book 23 Days of Terror: https://amzn.to/42zry2t • D.C. Sniper Attacks (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks • Beltway Snipers (FBI): https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/beltway-snipers • 2013 BBC Deranged Killers documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GznE9RyEVHs • British Final Report documentary: https://youtu.be/C0M62mHQ1EA • Guardian Angels (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels • LA Times “Duck in a Noose” Fable Explained: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-oct-25-na-duck25-story.html • Unreliable Statistica article: https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/ • Malvo repentant (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEE-rfEDUxk • Malvo to be resentenced (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLXtwXXdKU

A woman in London began hearing mysterious voices and what they told her changed her life. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the story of Annabelle and the mysterious voices in her head that probably saved her life. https://mysterious.fm/268 Further Resources: • Dr. Azuonye’s article Diagnosis Made by Hallucinatory Voices (pp. 1685-1686): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128009/pdf/9448541.pdf • Dr. Azuonye’s profile page (1): https://forensicandexpertwitness.co.uk/experts/dr-ikechukwu-azuonye/ • Dr. Azuonye’s profile page (2): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ikechukwu-Azuonye • Robert Bobrow’s paper Paranormal Phenomena in the Medical Literature Sufficient Smoke to Warrant a Search for Fire: https://www.happierabroad.com/Paranormalphenomena_LitMedical.pdf • Great Ormond Street Hospital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital • Jon Ronson’s interview with Dr. Azuonye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJG1Qz6uMB0

In 1885, when Leo Taxil, a former Freemason, reverted to the Catholic Church, he made some startling revelations about Freemasonry. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine who Taxil was, what he revealed, and how he was embraced by Church leaders, including Pope Leo XIII. https://mysterious.fm/272 Further Resources: • John Dickie’s book The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World: https://amzn.to/3QQPmNl • Leo XIII’s 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus.html • Leo Taxil’s confession of the hoax: https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/taxil_confessed.html • Leo Taxil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Taxil • Leo Taxil (Encyclopedia.com): https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/other-religious-beliefs-biographies/leo-taxil • The Taxil Hoax (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxil_hoax • Jimmy’s post Meet Jack Chick: https://jimmyakin.com/2016/10/meet-jack-chick.html

Some ancient sources report snakes that had wings and could fly, including Herodotus and even the Bible. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the ancient Greek historian's reports, what Isaiah had to say, and whether there really could have been ancient flying snakes. https://mysterious.fm/273 Further Resources: • Herodotus’s book The Histories: https://amzn.to/3P8txY0 • Adrienne Mayor’s book Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: https://amzn.to/3P8h1aV • Adrienne Mayor’s book The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in in Greek and Roman Times: https://amzn.to/3KROJ1Y • Karen Radner’s paper “The Wing Snakes of Arabia”: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/19841/2/Radner_WZKM%2097%20(2007)%20Winged%20Snakes%20of%20Arabia.pdf • Herodotus (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus • Horned Vipers: https://a-z-animals.com/animals/horned-viper/ • Ibises (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis • Bald Ibis video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPF3fkiUD8 • Glossy Ibis video: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Glossy_Ibis/photo-gallery/465862 • Frankincense (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankincense • Hares Become Pregnant While Pregnant https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hares-can-get-pregnant-while-pregnant-35542864/ • David Falk’s video Exploring the Spirit World: Seraphim: https://youtu.be/qFRThJzpZ50 • Egyptian Tomb Bat (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_tomb_bat • Draco Volans (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_volans • World Video Bible School on Flying Snakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDQUgxdYNFg • Cape Cobra Spreading Its Hood (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApYQulWaH0E

The kidnapping of Victim F was like something out of a movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the bizarre details of the case and how it riveted the nation; the police investigation; and the ultimate, confounding truth behind what happened. https://mysterious.fm/277 Further Resources: • Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn’s book Victim F: https://amzn.to/3Rz9ynf • James Duane’s book You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: https://amzn.to/3ENtYkO • Don’t Talk to Police debate video: https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE • FBI document: https://www.sfgate.com/file/109/1/1091-Vallejo-sealed-FBI-document-071315.pdf • Stockholm Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome • 2022 judgment against Muller: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/man-to-be-sentenced-for-california-kidnap-once-called-hoax-matthew-muller/103-5742d8ea-e66b-48ef-a240-2bd89fcf5fa4 • Kenny Park leaves Vallejo Police: https://johnglidden.com/2021/02/11/vallejo-police-lieutenant-who-accused-couple-of-faking-2015-kidnapping-leaves-department/ • Mat Mustard under investigation: https://www.vallejosun.com/outside-investigation-of-vallejo-detective-mat-mustard-jeopardizes-criminal-prosecutions/ • Aaron Quinn calls for Vallejo Police to be disbanded and re-founded: https://openvallejo.org/2021/12/15/disband-the-vallejo-police-department/