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Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

David Hahn, the Radioactive Boy Scout

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

Christianity, Science, Society & Culture, Documentary, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Outside Detroit in August 1994, teenage Boy Scout David Hahn was discovered to have gathered a dangerous cache of radioactive materials. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore why David was stockpiling these materials, how he got his hands on them, and how the adults in his family and in authority reacted when they found out.

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0:00.0

Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world is brought to you by the StarQuest Production Network

0:04.4

and is made possible by our many generous patrons.

0:07.2

If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit sqpn.com slash give.

0:22.2

You're listening to episode 92 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world,

0:27.1

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

0:31.6

In this episode, we're talking about David Han, the radioactive Boy Scout.

0:37.4

I'm Dom Bethenelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken. Hi Jimmy, howdy Dom.

0:42.7

On June 26, 1995, suburbanhousewife.yp's returned to her home in the pleasant

0:49.1

golf-manor-nabahood outside Detroit. As she turned on to Pinto Drive, she was startled to see

0:55.3

11 men swarming across her lawn. Three of the men were wearing hazmat suits,

1:00.8

and they were busily using electric saws to dismantle her neighbor's backyard potting shed.

1:06.2

As the pieces of the potting shed came off, the men placed them in steel drums,

1:10.3

marked with radioactive warning logos. A small group of neighbors had gathered to watch the site,

1:16.0

and Doddy heard one of them say that he'd awakened one night to see the potting shed

1:20.1

emitting an eerie glow. Doddy went into her house and called out to her husband,

1:25.5

Dave, there are men in funny suits walking around out here. You've got to do something.

1:32.5

Who were the men in funny suits? What were they doing with the potting shed,

1:36.4

and who was the radioactive Boy Scout at the center of the incident?

1:41.3

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

1:46.3

So Jimmy, this is a Patron's episode.

1:48.6

Yes, every month we ask our patrons what they would like to hear about, and this month they said

1:52.9

they wanted to hear the tale of the radioactive Boy Scout. Excellent. I am a scout myself, both

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