Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Type Work

Title Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Subtype Podcast

State Seed

Published 2019

Associations ordinary-time

Created 2026-05-09

A podcast about the strange corners of history and the world: unexplained events, odd crimes, folklore, and the people who chased the answers. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli take one mystery per episode and walk through what is known, what is claimed, and which explanation holds up best.

It is what I put on for chores and drives. Most episodes leave me with one detail I keep turning over for a week.

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2026-05-09 1 Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World Listened while I cleaned out the garage: Michael Malloy, a man in 1933 New York whom a ring of insurance schemers spent weeks trying to kill with antifreeze, bad sardines and a night in the snow, and could not. I laughed, then felt bad about laughing. They did get him in the end.

2026-05-30 1 Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World / The Kentucky Meat Shower Had it on while I did the dishes. In 1876 meat fell from a clear sky over a strip of Bath County, Kentucky, and two men tasted it and guessed lamb or venison. The best explanation is a flock of startled vultures, which is somehow worse than a miracle. What stays with me is the tasting. Something impossible lands in your yard and a man's first instinct is to eat it. We are curious creatures.

2026-06-13 1 Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World On while I measured the porch supports: how Samuel Clemens took "Mark Twain" from the leadsman's call on the riverboats, two fathoms, safe water. A whole pen name out of a man sounding the depth before the boat moved on. It suited a day of measuring before buying.

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