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Weird Halloween Questions

Jimmy Akin

Questions Covered:

  • 01:21 - My question involves a Frankenstein’ monster scenario. Let’s suppose that the monster’s body was created as provided in the original novel. Let’s also suppose that the body parts were all gathered from baptized persons. After coming to life, would the monster need to be baptized in order to have the stain of original sin removed? 
  • 06:11 - Why do things fly off the shelf by themselves? Why do we hear heavy footsteps on our ceiling when we only have a one-story house? Why do our cats avoid a certain spot in the living room and spend hours alertly watching it? 
  • 13:16 - I believe in ghosts, or whatever it is that we call ghosts, because my daughter has seen them when she was younger and scared us all. What did she see? If ghosts are real, what are they? Why would someone be able to see them? 
  •  23:53 - If you lean too close when blowing out your Jack-o’-lantern, can the pumpkin suck out your soul? 
  • 30:02 - I know someone who died, and he was very possibly in mortal sin. His wife died a few years earlier, she was a good faithful Catholic. He spoke to two different relatives probably within an hour after he had just passed and revealed to them that he was not in the same place as his wife, he said that he could not see her. Both relatives didn’t even know he had passed away, he spoke to them in their dreams with the same message. How does that happen? 
  • 34:05 - Is Father Amorth fake and/or just a product of the Satanic Panic? If he is fake, is he sincere in his beliefs or is he some type of Satanic Panic Grifter like Mike Warnke and Zachary King? In the case of Father Amorth I still believe in exorcism, but Father Amorth’s claims, and documentaries make me think that he is not a good exorcist. RESOURCE MENTIONED: http://www.canonlaw.info/a_amorth.htm 
  • 36:57 - Could a gateway to hell exist? Such as the legend of Stull, KS 
  • 40:42 - My daughter, Lauren, would like to know the history of the tradition of carving pumpkins and if it had any connection to the Catholic “All Hallows Eve” 
  • 43:16 - Is serving Candy Corn a mortal or venial sin? 
  • 44:11 - I hear demons are not able to reveal a person’s sins IF that person already went to Confession. And demons especially hate Latin. Are either true? 
  • 48:28 - Catholic Apologist Matt Fradd does a horror podcast called Sibling Horror… it can get pretty spooky. My question is, can someone listening or writing such stuff put them in any danger of even an occasion of sin since it could be entertaining thoughts and scenarios that could lead down a dark path? Or is that something that would change depending upon the inclination of the specific individual? 
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