Pop culture imagines unicorns as horses with a single horn in their forehead and associates them with cartoons and rainbows and social movements. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore their deep roots in history and long association with the Christian faith and whether there could be real unicorns. https://mysterious.fm/316 Further Resources: • Chris Lavers’s book The Natural History of Unicorns: https://amzn.to/3z3brRW • St. Albert the Great’s book On Animals (vol. 1): https://amzn.to/45oeoZh • St. Albert the Great’s book On Animals (vol. 2): https://amzn.to/4ciKWpH • St. Hildegard of Bingen’s book Physica: https://amzn.to/45lRlhz • Jimmy’s original video on Unicorns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_exoavjyfk • David Livingstone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone • Henry Stanley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley • Harry Johnston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Johnston • AnimalLogic video on Okapis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bUULAuqy_s

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 Frankenstein's monster; the Piedmont UFO flap; pyramids and floods; and more. https://mysterious.fm/315 Further Resources: • https://jimmyakin.com/2021/07/who-was-the-man-who-ran-away-naked.html • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog

Some skeptics say that if God were real, then we'd see miracles of amputated limbs regrown and we don't. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine a reported of just that, where a young main 17th-century Spain regrew his leg. https://mysterious.fm/313 Further Resources: • Caleb Jackson’s book Undead: A Historical Investigation into the Most Famous Miracle in History (i.e., the Resurrection of Jesus): https://amzn.to/3HmzegB • Caleb Jackson’s book Searching for a Solution to Suffering: A Christian Response to the Problem of Evil: https://amzn.to/47nIxHo • Cameron Bertuzzi’s Capturing Christianity channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CapturingChristianity • Virgin Birth debate: https://youtu.be/uMYqWDKtn0U • Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XIV • 1946 song The Old Lamp-Lighter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG321he48j8 • Vittorio Messori interview about the miracle: https://biblicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/interview-with-vittorio-messori-concerning-the-miraculous-healing-of-miguel-juan-pellicer-severed-leg/ • Salamander Limb Regeneration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byLDgtSMI0w • Why Can We Regrow a Liver?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erMCADOJcHk • Children Regrowing Fingertips: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/190385484/chopped-how-amputated-fingertips-sometimes-grow-back • Can You Regrow Severed Limbs Like a Salamander?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA0drQ25lu4 • Regrowing Human Body Parts—Is It Possible?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnlnBk2nJI0 • Mandy Sellars: Shrinking My 17 Stone Legs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0adrLDblgM

Sometimes, near death, a person with dementia will suddenly regain clarity and lucidity and give loved ones a chance to say goodbye. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the phenomenon called terminal lucidity, what could cause it, and whether it tells us anything new about the brain, soul, and consciousness. https://mysterious.fm/312 Further Resources: • Alexander Batthyany’s book Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death: https://amzn.to/3wG9jOS • Michael Nahm’s article Terminal Lucidity (Psi-Encyclopedia): https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/terminal-lucidity • Michael Nahm’s paper Terminal Lucidity in People with Mental Illness and Other Mental Disability: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc461761/m1/1/ • Phineas Gage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage • German hymn Wo Findet Die Seele Die Heimat, Die Ruh (recording): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz9aX---1Fs • German text: https://www.deutschland-lese.de/streifzuege/lieder/geistliche-kirchenlieder/wo-findet-die-seele-die-heimat-die-ruh/ • English text: https://hymnary.org/text/o_where_is_the_home_for_the_soul_to_be_f • Jesse Bearing’s article “One Last Goodbye: The Strange Case of Terminal Lucidity”: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/bering-in-mind/one-last-goodbye-the-strange-case-of-terminal-lucidity/

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/

In the late 1890s, there was a wave of sightings over the US of mysterious airships displaying unusual flight characteristics. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss these unusual airships and the theories that they were aliens, hoaxes, or maybe something else. https://mysterious.fm/279 Further Resources: • Michael Busby’s book Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery: https://amzn.to/46zXvKn • J. Allan Danelek’s book The Great Airship of 1897: https://amzn.to/46Dn5hx • Carlos Allende’s book Close Encounters of the Phantom Kind: The Ghost Airship Wave of 1896-1897 in the News: https://amzn.to/3Q2fmnL • UFO Sightings in 1897 Arkansas (historical lecture video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFkhH7t7e0w • Jules Verne’s novel Robur the Conqueror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robur_the_Conqueror • Judge Albert L. Love: https://lrl.texas.gov/legeleaders/members/memberdisplay.cfm?memberID=3546 • Appointment of Judge Love: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18849/m1/4/zoom/

In 1896 and 1897, Mystery Airships were reported from California to the Mississippi, which some believed were alien ships. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli eliminated many theories about the airships, and now address the final mystery: what were the airships, who made them, and was the government involved? https://mysterious.fm/280 Further Resources: • Michael Busby’s book Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery: https://amzn.to/46zXvKn • J. Allan Danelek’s book The Great Airship of 1897: https://amzn.to/46Dn5hx • Carlos Allende’s book Close Encounters of the Phantom Kind: The Ghost Airship Wave of 1896-1897 in the News: https://amzn.to/3Q2fmnL • “Just Tell Them That You Saw Me” (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdaqUsq79J4 • Dolbear’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear%27s_law

Some claim that UFOs and extraterrestrials are always manifestations of demonic activity. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the prominent hypotheses supporting this view and consider the question of whether it's always alien-demons. https://mysterious.fm/281 Further Resources: • Ross, Samples, and Clark’s book Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men: https://amzn.to/46PbZH7 • Luke Barnes’s Critique of Hugh Ross’s Design Arguments: https://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/any-claim-will-do-a-fine-tuned-critique-of-hugh-ross/ • Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_hypothesis • Interdimensional Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional_hypothesis • NASA Discovers Possible Signs of Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon: https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/53466/1/nasa-discovers-possible-signs-of-alien-life-on-saturn-s-moon • Sabine Hossenfelder’s video I Think Faster Than Light Travel Is Possible. Here’s Why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jIplX6Wjw • Sabine Hossenfelder’s video Are Warp Drives Science Now?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVIBlyiyBA • Matt O’Dowd’s video The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bxHetL4s • DARPA’s Mach 20 Hypersonic Aircraft: https://www.wearethemighty.com/intel/darpa-hypersonic-aircraft-mach-20/ • EmDrive (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive • Magnetic Levitation (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation • Ziroth’s video Metamorphic Wings: The Flight of the Future Is Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKWurIhfkhQ • Programmable Matter (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter • Programmable matter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JP8CvIIDng • Metamaterial Cloaking (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial_cloaking

Some mothers and fathers report having dreams before the birth or even conception of their baby in which they are told about the child or even talk to the baby himself. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the phenomena and what could be causing them. https://mysterious.fm/282 Further Resources: • Elisabeth Hallett’s book Soul Trek: Meeting Our Children on the Way to Birth: https://amzn.to/3tMhKqb • Elisabeth Hallett’s book Stories of the Unborn Soul: The Mystery and Delight of Pre-Birth Communication: https://amzn.to/46KR2g7 • Louisa Rhine’s book Hidden Channels of the Mind: https://amzn.to/46PSy0Q • Announcing Dreams (Psi-Encyclopedia): https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/announcing-dreams-and-related-experiences • Does Ovulation Change Women’s Desire, After All?: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-murder-and-the-meaning-life/201906/does-ovulation-change-women-s-sexual-desire-after-all • Increased Drive During Ovulation: https://www.verywellfamily.com/in-the-mood-you-may-be-ovulating-1960259 • Luteinizing hormone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luteinizing_hormone • Maternal Intuition of Fetal Gender (paper): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6664344/

In 1964, the US Air Force was conducting tests of nuclear weapons off the coast of Big Sur, California. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the claim that a UFO shot down one of those missiles designed to carry nuclear devices, whether aliens were responsible, and whether it was meant as a warning to humanity. https://mysterious.fm/285 Further Resources: • Robert Hastings’s book UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites: https://amzn.to/3QHYVw4 • Edwin Ruppelt’s book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: https://amzn.to/3SGatT8 • Bob Jacobs’s article “Deliberate Deception: The Big Sur UFO Filming”: http://www.nicap.org/reports/bigsur2.htm • Kingston George’s article “The Big Sur ‘UFO’: An Identified Flying Object”: https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1993/01/22165151/p77.pdf • Robert Hastings’s article “A Shot Across the Bow”: http://www.nicap.org/reports/6409XXShot_Across_Bow_hastings.pdf • NICAP’s resources on the Big Sur incident: http://www.nicap.org/6409XXbigsur_dir.htm

One of the most pivotal poltergeist cases involved a Catholic family in New York in 1958. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the strange events, including popping bottle caps, and explore why this poltergeist case was so pivotal and what may have been responsible. https://mysterious.fm/295 • Original Pratt and Roll article on this case: xx • Nandor Fodor’s book On the Trail of the Poltergeist: https://amzn.to/4bbwdNx • Fodor and Carrington’s book Haunted People: The Story of Poltergeists Down the Centuries: https://amzn.to/3tWsQcP • The movie Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose: https://amzn.to/42huwdC • William Roll’s 2003 article Poltergeists, Electromagnetism, and Consciousness: https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/17/jse_17_1_roll.pdf • Psi-Encyclopedia article on the Seaford Poltergeist: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/seaford-poltergeist • Psi-Encyclopedia article on Poltergeists (Overview): https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/poltergeists-overview • March 17, 1958 Life Magazine article on the case: https://books.google.ie/books?id=SlYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA55&ots=iCect3kjyE&dq=detective%20tozzi&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q=detective%20tozzi&f=false • Mysteries at the Museum (video): https://vimeo.com/423044363/6bcdc61a96

In a Christmas special episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss the mystery of the very first Christmas, what we really know about Jesus' birth, and how we know it. https://mysterious.fm/290 FURTHER RESOURCES: • How the Accounts of Jesus’ Childhood Fit Together: http://jimmyakin.com/how-the-accounts-of-jesus-childhood-fit-together

Many reports of near-death experiences sound positive and uplifting and blissful. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss those that are reported as distinctly negative and distressing. What happens in them, what do they mean, and what are their implications? https://mysterious.fm/292 Further Resources: • Raymond Moody’s book Life After Life: https://amzn.to/3NPgnOJ • Nancy Evans Bush’s book Dancing Past the Dark: https://amzn.to/3NPZFP3 • Bruce Greyson et al.’s book The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation: https://amzn.to/3tHzzHi • Barbara Rommer’s book Blessing in Disguise: Another Side of the Near-Death Experience: https://amzn.to/3NQDloD • The Life of St. Teresa of Avila by Herself: https://amzn.to/3TJ25D2 • Nancy Bush’s Psi-Encyclopedia article on Distressing Near-Death Experiences: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/distressing-near-death-experience • Bruce Greyson and Nancy Bush’s 1993 article Distressing Near-Death Experiences: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2017/01/NDE21_distressingfNDE-Psych.pdf • International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) page on Distressing Near-Death Experiences: https://www.iands.org/ndes/about-ndes/distressing-ndes.html • Benedict XVI’s encyclical Spe Salvi: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi.html • Avery Dulles’s article The Population of Hell: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/05/the-population-of-hell

Each Holy Saturday, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem emerges from the tomb of Christ with the Holy Fire that goes out around the world. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask if the fire is lit by God or does it have a natural source and what we can learn about this historic rite. https://mysterious.fm/293 Further Resources: • Haris Skarlakidis’s book Holy Fire: The Miracle of the Light of the Resurrection at the Tomb of Jesus (Seventy Historical Accounts): https://amzn.to/3RWiBgw • Skarlakidis’s book online: https://web.archive.org/web/20140328142010/http://www.scarlakidis.gr/ENGLISH/19.epilogue-ENGLISH.htm • Holy fire (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Fire • HolyFire.org (English): http://holyfire.org/eng/index.htm • Why Catholics and Orthodox Might Once Again Celebrate Easter on the Same Date: https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/why-catholics-and-orthodox-might-once-again-celebrate-easter-on-the-same-date/84070 • Church of the Holy Sepulcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre • Garden Tomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_Tomb • Paschal Candle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_candle • Easter Fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_fire • Jesus Academy’s My Protestant Experience of the Holy Fire 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viSnfkZUnA • Jesus Academy’s interview with the patriarch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXG53PPbFdw • Book of James on holy fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPBHfonQxg • Russian critique of the holy fire (English subtitles available): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVhp8i-hlTM • Israeli news video with Frs. Marcos and Samuel: https://www.mako.co.il/news-israel/local-q1_2018/Article-89380baf5ee0261004.htm • Telegraph article on the holy fire (paywall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1311064/Mystery-of-Jerusalems-Holy-Fire-comes-to-light.html • Text of the prayer in the tomb (Russian, but you can machine translate): https://web.archive.org/web/20170520225206/https:/rusdm.ru/news/815

In 1982, 7 people suddenly died in Chicago, having taken Extra Strength Tylenol just before, and police learned the pills had been tampered with. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what happened, who was responsible, and how these events changed American permanently. https://mysterious.fm/294 Further Resources: • Scott Bartz’s book Tymurs: https://amzn.to/47Al4mG • Scott Bartz’s book Tylenol Man: https://amzn.to/47JTfsc • Scott Bartz’s book Tymurs NYC: https://amzn.to/3HgxdCx • Amazon/Netflix documentary Painkiller: The Tylenol Murders: https://www.amazon.com/Its-Gotta-Be-the-Tylenol/dp/B0CKGX9Y39/ • Chicago Magazine’s timeline of events: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/october-2012/chicago-tylenol-murders-an-oral-history/ • Chicago Tribune’s timeline of the first day of the events: https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-tylenol-murders-unsealed-first-24-hours-20220922-2mts4uwyzjgard6cawicu2myvm-htmlstory.html • Tylenol Murders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders • Cyanide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide • Cyanide Poisoning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_poisoning • Michael Solomon article on the murders: https://medium.com/truly-adventurous/poison-pill-d98f366522a7 • Photo of man in store: http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/gallery/0206_tylenolman?pg=7 • Chicago Reader biography of James Lewis: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/a-bitter-pill/ • James Lewis interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diylyJi7Hyw • James Lewis’s drawings: https://www.chicagotribune.com/visuals/ct-viz-james-lewis-tylenol-murders-drawings-20221013-3fvzau6kkvfmrfxeghog5vaecu-photogallery.html • Lewis death announcement (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycrgzakRNA0 • Lewis death announcement (article): https://www.npr.org/2023/07/10/1186906874/james-lewis-suspect-tylenol-poisonings-dies • SciShow video Does Tylenol Actually Do Anything?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHD11DfgTt8

France, 1764. A terrifying and unknown beast roams the countryside killing more than 100 men, women, and children, and injuring 200 more. A royal reward is even issued for its capture or death. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask what made the beast so ferocious, why it attacked so many people, and what kind of beast it actually was. https://mysterious.fm/297 Further Resources: • Romero and Schwalb’s book Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of Gevaudan: https://amzn.to/3UzF2Lh • Karl-Hans Taake’s book The Gevaudan Tragedy: The Disastrous Campaign of a Deported “Beast”: https://amzn.to/3OwCSbm • Linnell et al.’s paper The Fear of Wolves: A Review of Wolf Attacks on Humans: https://web.archive.org/web/20081209090711/http://www.nina.no/archive/nina/PppBasePdf/oppdragsmelding/2002/731.pdf • Tsavo Man-Eaters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters • Man-Eater of Mfuwe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mfuwe_man-eating_lion

Some pet owners feel a special bond with their pets and at times they even seem to know what their owners are thinking. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine whether people really can have a telepathic connection to their pets and look at what the scientific evidence says. https://mysterious.fm/298 Further Resources: • Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home (2nd ed.): https://amzn.to/42BK8sk • Rupert Sheldrake: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/rupert-sheldrake • Jaytee/Pet Telepathy article form the Psi-Encyclopedia: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/jaytee-pet-telepathy • 1998 paper on Jaytee from the Journal of the SPR: https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/A-Dog-That-Seems-To-Know-When-His-Owner-is-Returning-Preliminary-Investigations.pdf • 2000 paper on Jaytee from the Journal of Scientific Exploration: https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/A-Dog-That-Seems-To-Know-When-His-Owner-is-Coming-Home_Videotaped-Experiments-and-Observations.pdf • 2000 paper on Kane from Anthrozoos: https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Testing-a-Return-Anticipating-Dog-Kane.pdf • 2003 paper on N’Kisi from the Journal of Scientific Exploration: https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Testing-a-Language-Using-Parrot-for-Telepathy.pdf • Austrian Television Test of Jaytee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5wAm2c01w • Richard Wiseman’s Failed Debunking of Animal Telepathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkrLJhBC3X4 • 1996 Telepathy in Dogs BBC segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkamC09-cL4 • Sheldrake speaks on the N’Kisi Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTk_gVensVk

In 1972, an Italian newspaper published a photo it said was the face of Christ as shown by a machine that could view any point in history. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask whether the photo and the machine, the Chronovisor, was real; who was the priest who claimed to create it; and who has it now. https://mysterious.fm/299 Further Resources: • Massimo Colangelo’s book On the Tracks of Ettore Majorana and of the Chronovisor: https://amzn.to/4bNekVR • Fortean Times article (pp. 30-36): https://www.scribd.com/document/343879919/Fortean-Times-165-January-2003 • Skeptical Inquirer article: https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2003/05/22164720/p22.pdf • Pellegrino Ernetti (Wikipedia): https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellegrino_Ernetti • Francois Brune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Brune_%28priest%29 • Amorth article from 30 Days: https://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/70496-vatican-exorcist-amorth-speaks-on-satan39s-smoke/ • Article on St. Faustina’s unhappiness with Divine Mercy images: https://aleteia.org/2017/09/06/is-there-a-certain-divine-mercy-image-that-is-best/ • How fast is the Earth moving?: https://www.space.com/33527-how-fast-is-earth-moving.html#section-how-do-the-sun-and-galaxy-move

We're celebrating our 300th numbered episode and so Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli are discussing more of our listeners' and viewers' mysterious experiences and what Jimmy makes of what you've shared with them. https://mysterious.fm/300 Further Resources: • SPR’s book Phantasms of the Living, vol. 1: https://amzn.to/3SZyuDq • SPR’s book Phantasms of the Living, vol. 2: https://amzn.to/3Ij3Csq • Mary Rose Barrington’s book JOTT: When Things Disappear, and Come Back or Relocate, and Why It Really Happens: https://amzn.to/4bRuFsv • Tony Jinks’s book Disappearing Object Phenomenon: https://amzn.to/3OZtNbo • Jung’s story of the Scarab: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/connecting-coincidence/202011/the-scarab-jung-created-coincidence-within-coincidence • John Paul II’s motu proprio on St. Bridget of Sweden: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_01101999_co-patronesses-europe.html • Holy Office warning about the “Promises” of St. Bridget of Sweden: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/warning-of-the-holy-office-concerning-the-promises-of-st-bridget-2051 • Cloud Busting (psychic): https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cloud-busting • Did I See a Meteor or a Reentry?: https://aerospace.org/article/what-does-reentry-look-like • UNESCO video on the Makishi Masquerade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FVSFE5pRks

In 1972, a book purported to tell the tale of a Communist infiltrator at the Vatican dedicated to bringing down the Church. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss who this mysterious agent was, where he came from, and whether he really did what the books says. https://mysterious.fm/303 Further Resources: • Marie Carre’s book AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle: https://amzn.to/47ECiiZ • Sandra Miesel’s article “Swinging at Windmills”: http://www.churchinhistory.org/pages/flat-earth-myth/swingingatwindmills.htm • Alice von Hildebrand and Sandra Miesel’s exchange: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/913897/posts • Marie Carre (French biography): https://www.chire.fr/marie-carre-19051984-p-176037 • Marie Carre (problematic biography): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Carr%C3%A9 • The Touch of Death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Death • Stylometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry • Nikolai Yezhov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov • Venona Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project • Chire’s page on AA-1025: https://www.chire.fr/es-1025-ou-les-memoires-dun-antiapotre-p-123093

Millions of people report spontaneous experiences of contact with departed loved ones, hearing their voices, seeing their faces again. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what After Death Communications are, what they are like, and whether they really could be forms of contacted with our lost loved ones. https://mysterious.fm/306 Further Resources: • Jimmy’s course Introduction to Parapsychology: https://RhineEdu.org • The Guggenheims’ book Hello From Heaven!: https://amzn.to/48IQNmY • Erlendur Haraldsson’s book The Departed Among the Living: https://amzn.to/4210zhy • The Guggenheims’ website After-Death.com: http://www.after-death.com • After Death Communication Research Foundation: https://www.adcrf.org/ • Jenny Streit-Horn’s dissertation A Systematic Review of Research on After-Death Communications: https://www.sgha.net/library/dissertation.pdf • Elsaesser et al.’s booklet on ADCs: https://www.evelyn-elsaesser.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Booklet_Web_English_Cases.pdf • Elsaesser et al.’s 2021 paper The Phenomenology and Impact of Hallucinations Concerning the Deceased: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8388006/pdf/S2056472421009601a.pdf • Supplemental Material: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/phenomenology-and-impact-of-hallucinations-concerning-the-deceased/1AA7D2F7BB52C491462566785D752E02 • Wollacott et al.’s 2022 paper Perceptual Phenomena Associated with Spontaneous Experiences of After-Death Communication (paywall): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830721000422?via%3Dihub • Richard Kelly’s paper Post-Mortem Contact by Fatal Injury Victims with Emergency Service Workers at the Scenes of Their Death: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc798948/m2/1/high_res_d/vol21-no1-25.pdf

After hearing many stories of people reporting After Death Communications from deceased loved ones, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the reports from the faith and reason perspectives. Are they just imagination? Is it the grief talking? Could it be demons? https://mysterious.fm/307 Further Resources: • Jimmy’s course Introduction to Parapsychology: https://RhineEdu.org • The Guggenheims’ book Hello From Heaven!: https://amzn.to/48IQNmY • Erlendur Haraldsson’s book The Departed Among the Living: https://amzn.to/4210zhy • After-Death.com: http://www.after-death.com • After Death Communication Research Foundation: https://www.adcrf.org/ • Jenny Streit-Horn’s dissertation A Systematic Review of Research on After-Death Communications: https://www.sgha.net/library/dissertation.pdf • Elsaesser et al.’s booklet on ADCs: https://www.evelyn-elsaesser.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Booklet_Web_English_Cases.pdf • Elsaesser et al.’s 2021 paper The Phenomenology and Impact of Hallucinations Concerning the Deceased: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8388006/pdf/S2056472421009601a.pdf • Supplemental Material: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/phenomenology-and-impact-of-hallucinations-concerning-the-deceased/1AA7D2F7BB52C491462566785D752E02 • Wollacott et al.’s 2022 paper Perceptual Phenomena Associated with Spontaneous Experiences of After-Death Communication (paywall): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830721000422?via%3Dihub • Richard Kelly’s paper Post-Mortem Contact by Fatal Injury Victims with Emergency Service Workers at the Scenes of Their Death: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc798948/m2/1/high_res_d/vol21-no1-25.pdf

Some are convinced that an ancient clay pot found in Iraq is an electric battery made 2,000 years ago. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the claim and its implications for advanced, ancient technology. https://mysterious.fm/308 Further Resources: • Jimmy’s course Introduction to Parapsychology: https://RhineEdu.org • Brad Hafford’s Artifactually Speaking on the Baghdad Battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZBsNGPVK2s • Chariots of the Gods (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guPG2DlhBdI • Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World (Episode 3, “Ancient Wisdom”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR-rMOlRz9k • SciShow’s How to Make a Lemon Battery (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhbuhT1GDpI • BBC News on electroplating theory: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2804257.stm • Curse Tablets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_tablet • Reactions video on Gravity Batteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIWIXzCwC8g • Gravity Batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery