Tag: Weird

Podcast: Download MYS228: 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. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and… Continue reading The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)

Podcast: Download MYS229: Ellen G. White was co-founder and prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the life of this woman and what her visions disclosed and then ask whether she was a genuine prophetess. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this… Continue reading Ellen Gould White (Seventh-Day Adventist Prophet)

Podcast: Download MYS230: Seventh-day Adventist founder Ellen White reported receiving more than 2,000 visions from God and that her writings were divinely inspired. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask whether Ellen was a genuine prophetess and if her visions were really from God. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email |… Continue reading Testing Ellen Gould White (Seventh-Day Adventist Prophetess)

Podcast: Download MYS231: In 1964, when Officer Lonnie Zamora heard an explosion outside Soccoro, NM, what he found was an egg-shaped craft that took off into the sky. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what the police officer saw that day and why this is one of the most intriguing UFO cases of the 1960s.… Continue reading Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident (Socorro, New Mexico; Aliens?)

Podcast: Download MYS232: A group of nuns in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the late 1800s needed a special staircase built for their chapel, so they prayed a novena and a mysterious workman came and built it. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what makes the spiral staircase special, who built it, and whether it… Continue reading Miraculous Spiral Staircase (St. Joseph, Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Podcast: Download MYS226: 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. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode… Continue reading Human-Vampire Hybrids and More Weird Questions

Podcast: Download MYS227: 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? Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by… Continue reading Spoon Bending? (Metal Bending, Psychic, PK Parties)

Podcast: Download MYS225: 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.” Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube Help us… Continue reading Testing Edgar Cayce’s Psychic Abilities

Podcast: Download MYS224: 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. Get all new… Continue reading Edgar Cayce, The Sleeping Prophet

Podcast: Download MYS223: 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. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow… Continue reading Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Mystery!)