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If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit sQP.com slash Give. You're listening to episode 320 of Jimmy Yakin's mysterious world when we look

at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about Whitley Streaver's book Communion.

I'm Don Bettinelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken.

Hey Jimmy, how do I'm? In 1987, author Whitley Strieber was a successful novelist.

Then he published a book titled Communion A True Story. This was not a novel.

Strever indicated, as the book's subtitle indicated, that it was a true story.

The book described his encounters with and abductions by creatures who refers to as the visitors.

They appeared to be aliens and his account of the visitors became incredibly popular.

Communion became a New York Times number one bestseller and it

changed the course of Streepers career. Who are the visitors that he describes?

What did they do to him and what really happened?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World.

Jimmy, anything we should say to begin today's episode?

Well, this episode is in response to a listener request from Joe Gibbons.

He's the owner of the Ash and Amber Pipe and Tobacco Shop in Salem Springs, Arkansas,

and he's the guy that formulated and makes the St. Michael's

holiday blend of pipe tobacco for me, which I've talked about on the show before.

If you're interested, you can call them and order them order some through the mail.

Joe is very interested in mysterious subjects and once when I was at the shop he asked me if I would be doing an episode on Whitley Strever whose books he's read.

He said that he has his own opinions about

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