Do pets reach back after death? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli assess new scientific studies on animal after-death communications. Can warning apparitions, shared sightings, and sensory details offer evidence for animal life after death?
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Links for this episode:
- Edward Anderson’s book, Evidence of Animal Afterlife
- Matlock et al.’s 2024 paper, After-Death Communications (ADCs) from Non-Human Animals: Parallels with Human ADCs
- Matlock and Hilton’s 2025 paper, After-Death Communications From Non-Human Animals: Suggestions of Post-Mortem Survival
- Elsaesser et al.’s 2021 paper, The Phenomenology and Impact of Hallucinations Concerning the Deceased
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Chapters:
- 00:00 – MYS401
- 00:23 – Intro
- 01:43 – Background
- 07:48 – Recent research
- 10:03 – Kinds of animals
- 14:07 – Patterns in the reports
- 17:32 – Grouped by physical senses
- 18:27 – Vision
- 25:28 – Auditory
- 27:09 – Tactile
- 29:48 – Olfactory
- 30:53 – Presence
- 31:48 – Dreams
- 37:01 – Psychokinetic effects
- 40:11 – Other ADC phenomena
- 41:28 – Kinds of messages
- 43:08 – Thank you to Patrons
- 43:38 – Sponsor: Holy Terror Quickened, by John Dougherty
- 44:28 – Become a Sponsor
- 45:29 – The 2025 study
- 46:30 – Death coincidence
- 48:30 – Collective percipience
- 51:08 – Animal reactions
- 54:25 – Stranger sightings
- 56:58 – Trailing phenomena
- 58:20 – Joint appearances
- 1:01:29 – Greeting phenomena
- 1:04:40 – Support phenomena
- 1:06:52 – Warning phenomena
- 1:10:20 – The 3 linked phenomena
- 1:13:58 – Negative reactions
- 1:16:57 – Repeated ADCs
- 1:22:34 – Faith Perspective
- 1:23:00 – Reason Perspective
- 1:26:24 – Bottom Line
- 1:26:56 – Further Resources
- 1:27:32 – The promised surprise
- 1:41:47 – Mysterious Feedback from #390 St. Albert the Great & Magic
- 1:48:46 – Your mysterious feedback (mailto:feedback@mysterious.fm)
- 1:49:29 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
- 1:49:42 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
- 1:50:21 – Thank you to Craig Hart
- 1:50:26 – Next Time: Fifth Friday
- 1:51:09 – Share the show
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- 1:51:29 – Show notes
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- 1:52:24 – Outro
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