Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Veridical NDEs

#19 trending · Documentary

A man with no heartbeat knew where the nurse put his dentures. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at near-death experiences that came back with facts the patient had no w

Sep 18
1 h 52 min

EgyptAir 990:The Crash That Gave bin Laden the Idea for 9/11

An EgyptAir 767 fell out of a clear sky off Nantucket in 1999, and two governments read the same black boxes and reached opposite verdicts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli

Sep 11
1 h 03 min

Announcing Holy Troublemakers

Announcing Holy Troublemakers, a new podcast from StarQuest. In this weekly podcast host Dom Bettinelli will introduce you to the difficult people who built the Catholic

Sep 9
2 min

Klingon or Time Lord Jesus? Mary Celeste? Salem Witch Trials? And More Patron Questions

Could Jesus have incarnated on a Klingon world while he walked in Galilee? Jimmy Akin takes that question and eleven more from patrons — telekinesis, the Mary Celeste, Sa

Sep 4
1 h 10 min

The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas)

Early Christians read it in church beside the Gospels; a fourth-century Bible bound it in after Revelation. Then it vanished. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli open the Sheph

Aug 28
1 h 54 min

Are Auras Real? Aura Colors, Cameras, and the Tests

Colored light around every living thing, readable by anyone with the right training — or by a camera at the mall. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow the aura from Mesme

Aug 21
1 h 25 min

Buck Nelson, the Ozark Spaceman

A flashlight, three discs over a Missouri ranch, and a ray that cured fifteen years of back pain. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow Buck Nelson from Ozark farmer to sa

Aug 14
1 h 17 min

Shared Death Experiences

You are sitting with someone as they die, and the room fills with a light that is not from this earth. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine shared death experiences — th

Aug 7
1 h 45 min

The Devil’s Bible, Jesus Was an Alien?, Psychic Powers in Heaven, and Weird Questions

A monk who sold his soul to write a book in one night, the naked man fleeing Jesus' arrest, and whether Jesus was just an alien with good technology: Jimmy Akin takes on

Jul 31
1 h 56 min

Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years

Join Jimmy Akin this August for a four-week course on Psi and Christianity. The post Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Jul 28
2 min

The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri

Dozens of unrelated children said shining, winged figures stood over them as an EF5 tornado destroyed Joplin. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh cryptids, trauma, folklo

Jul 24
1 h 08 min

Mark Twain Super-Psychic: His Shocking Telepathy & Death Dream

He spent his career debunking fake mesmerists and mediums — then dreamed his brother's funeral weeks before it happened. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace Mark Twain's

Jul 17
1 h 17 min

EXPOSED: The Government’s Patented Way to Put Voices in Your Head

The U.S. government holds real patents for putting voices in people's heads — and thousands say it's happening to them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli separate the real ph

Jul 10
1 h 18 min

Joseph Williamson’s Tunnels

A Liverpool merchant spent 30 years tunneling beneath his own neighborhood and never said why. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh seven theories about Joseph Williamson

Jul 3
1 h 04 min

Mel’s Hole

A bottomless pit in central Washington, 80,000 feet deep and impossible to fill. In 1997, one phone call to Art Bell turned a piece of local folklore into a national myst

Jun 26
1 h 18 min

What Really Happened to the Lost Ark of the Covenant?

The most famous lost object in history — the Ark of the Covenant — vanished from Scripture before 586 BC and was never seen again. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine w

Jun 19
1 h 46 min

What Mary Knew; God’s Choices; Autism & Names in Afterlife; & More

Does a growing human population dilute demonic influence per person? Plus: the Magi's star, Mary after Pentecost, leavened Eucharist history, God's timelessness, and the

Jun 12
1 h 31 min

Pre-Sputnik Transients

Thousands of star-like flashes flicker across sky-survey plates shot before any satellite existed — some clustered, some lined up, some on famous UFO nights. Jimmy Akin a

Jun 5
1 h 11 min

Zombie Marriage, Holy Roman Emperors, Jesus’s DNA, and More Weird Questions

It's a fifth Friday, so Jimmy Akin is answering weird questions from Catholic Answers listeners, about topics like alien demons, vampire ethics, Jesus's DNA, ancient tech

May 29
1 h 59 min

Skeleton Lake

A lake in the Indian Himalayas holds hundreds of human skeletons from multiple centuries and continents. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace six theories, and the truth t

May 22
1 h 10 min

Chart trend

Position in the Documentary chart (US), last 90 days.

#1#24#46JunJulAugSep

#12

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days in the top 50 since Nov 2024

Chart positions

Where Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 18, 2026).

#23 — Documentary US

#189 ▼ 14 Society & Culture US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

Jimmy’s approach is a sweet spot between fringe and mainstream. I love the willingness to take outlandish theories seriously and analyze them. However please stop using AI voices and thumbnails which looks tacky and undermines your credibility.

nxavis · Aug 2026

I absolutely LOVE listening to Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World, it is about the only podcast I actually like to listen to. I love how you base things off of faith and reason, that way i can get two different perspectives of the topic. I also enjoy how you discuss what you think of the topic it gives a personal bias and how others might think of the topic as well. You’re doing a phenomenal job, and i absolutely love your podcast!

Len the giver · Mar 2026

A great way to learn about the unusual from a Christian point of view without all the extreme bias we see in media today.

Listener 4112 · Feb 2026

The best episode structure of any pod on mysterious topics. Good pace and not the same old topics tirelessly covered by others.

(B-roller) · Dec 2024

While Jimmy does a remarkable job of providing many objective explanations to complicated spiritual topics, he is also readily dismissive of climate change. Even if he disagrees with the validity of climate change, Jimmy should objectively discuss both sides of the issue, as he does with his other topics.

Fear-Les · Mar 2026

I used to love listening to this podcast, but Jimmy’s ridiculous and obviously forced dialect change has made listening impossible. I don’t know why he finds it necessary to speak like a caricature of how he thinks someone from the south talks. It’s actually insulting on a couple different levels.

Ted Sugar · Oct 2025

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