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You're listening to Episode 212 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 the mystery of by-location.

I'm Dom Betanelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin.

Hi Jimmy. Howdy Dom. By-location is a mysterious phenomenon

in which someone appears to be in two locations at once.

Sometimes it's multiple places at once.

It's been reported for thousands of years and historically many saints have been reported to

by-locate. Today, some psychics have been reported to by-locate.

So what is by-location? Who experiences it?

And what's really going on? Well, that's what we'll be talking about on this episode

of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World. Jimmy, let's start with the basics.

What is by-location? As you said in the introduction, by-location is a phenomenon that's

reported when a person seems to be in two locations at once.

By is a Latin prefix that means double or twice. So by-location means being in two locations at once.

Sometimes though, a person is reported or thing is reported to be in multiple locations.

And so that's called multi-location being in multiple locations at once.

But to keep things simple in this episode, we'll just be using the term by-location and not

worry about the distinction. Okay. So we said in the opening that this is a phenomenon,

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