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You're listening to episode 273 of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about a strange, reported cryptid known as flying snakes.

I'm Dom Betanelli and join me today as Jimmy Akin. Hey Jimmy. Howdy, Dom.

Today we're going cryptid hunting. We'll be searching for a type of cryptid or

hidden animal and the cryptid we'll be looking for is a type of snake. And of course to quote Indiana

Jones. Why did it have to be snakes? Snakes are famous as creatures that don't have legs.

They're perceived as creepy, crawly little critters that slither along the ground.

But while snakes lack legs, there are ancient reports of snakes that had wings,

and they could fly through the air, making them especially dangerous. What's more,

one ancient historian reported seeing heaps of their bones with his own eyes.

What could have been the basis of what he saw, what's behind the strange tales of flying

serpents? And could they actually be real? That's what we talk about on this episode of Jimmy Akin's

Mysterious World. Jimmy, where does today's mystery begin? With the Greek historian Herodotus,

he lived in the fifth century BC. He was born around 484 BC, and he died around 425 BC when he

would have been about 60 years old. He was from the Greek city of Halakarnasus, which is now the

modern port city of Bodrum in southwestern Turkey. The name Halakarnasus may sound familiar,

because about a century after Herodotus's time, they built the famous mausoleum of Halakarnasus

there, and in antiquity it was named one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately,

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