The Fearsome Australian Drop Bear! (Killer Koalas?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Australia is known for many strange, dangerous animals, but one famous cryptid from Down Under is the fearsome Drop Bear. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli, with help from Matt Fradd and the Catholics of Oz, recount what we know about the Drop Bear and how to protect ourselves against it.
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| 0:42.0 | Your listening to episode 148 of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world, we will look at mysteries from the |
| 0:58.8 | twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode, we're talking about the fearsome Australian |
| 1:05.3 | cryptid known as the drop bear. I'm Dom Betanelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hi Jimmy, |
| 1:12.3 | howdy Dom. Our world is filled with mysterious animals, only some of which have been discovered by |
| 1:18.3 | science. Animals that have been reported but not scientifically confirmed are called cryptids, |
| 1:24.7 | the most famous of which are Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. But there are reports of strange |
| 1:30.0 | creatures from all over the globe. For example, the dangerous venomous land of Australia is home to |
| 1:36.0 | many strange animals and it has many reports of cryptids, one of which is the fearsome drop bear. |
| 1:42.7 | While many cryptids may be timid creatures that largely avoid human contact, the drop bear is |
| 1:48.4 | different. It's reportedly a vicious carnivorous animal that can harm human beings at a moment's notice. |
| 1:55.2 | Yet it's strangely related to the peaceful koala. So what is the drop bear? What do we know about it? |
| 2:02.0 | And how can we protect ourselves against its vicious attacks? That's what we'll be talking about |
| 2:07.2 | on this episode of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world. Hello, my name is Lindsay Sant and let me tell you |
| 2:13.1 | what I think about the drop bear. In Australia, you may know that we're famous for all kinds of deadly |
| 2:17.5 | creatures like the blue rings octopus, the box jellyfish, the funner web spider, the brown snake, |
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