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You're listening to episode 8 of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world, where we look at mysteries both supernatural and natural, anything that's strange, odd or makes you wonder,

the claims and counter claims from the perspectives of both faith and reason, and in this episode we're talking about

the Tunguska incident. I'm Don Bettenelli and joining me today of course is Jimmy Akin. Hi Jimmy. How do you don't?

So first I want to just mention that we've got today we're going to be having at the end of the episode to stick around the mysterious headlines of the week.

So you want to stick around for that?

As well as mysterious feedback from listeners?

Yes. Do you have some feedback Jimmy?

Because I don't have a lot of feedback.

Okay, so my notes are incomplete.

So we're talking right now about the Tunguska incident.

Jimmy, what is the Tunguska incident?

Well, it's an event that occurred on June 30th in 1908 and it occurred over Siberia. Tunguska is a place in Siberia.

And basically there was a huge explosion in the sky. Something happened, something blew up in the sky. It was really big.

We don't have an exact knowledge of the megatonnage that was involved but it was multiple megatons of explosive force.

And it flattened trees over a huge area in the Siberian forest.

Fortunately, there are no known confirmed casualties.

The population of Siberia is very low back then. It's still lower than elsewhere in Russia today.

And even though there are claims that maybe a couple of people died during it, we really don't have confirmation of that.

So it looks like nobody, hopefully nobody died, but some kind of huge catastrophic explosion took place in the sky and knocked down all kinds of trees.

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