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This Internet legend claims the Earth's gravity will shut off for seven seconds in 2026.

This social media fad promises to supercharge your sleep and make you healthier than healthy, when in fact it probably does significantly more harm than good.

Skeptoid is now going into production on our third feature film: Alien Echoes. Get all the details at skeptoid.org/alienechoes

It turns out there's probably no such thing as an alpha wolf.

Popular influencers claim birth rates are declining disastrously. How true is that, and is it a disaster?

The discovery of a Martian sarcophagus in Colorado in 1864: An oddball story, or consistent with the lore of the day?

Supplying some much-needed skepticism to an episode of the BBC podcast Uncanny.

Even today, some people cling to a pre-scientific belief that germs do not cause disease.

Time is running out to grab one of the few remaining cabins for Málaga, Spain to Nice, France on the SV Royal Clipper AND announcing our next adventure to New Orleans followed by the Mysteries of the Maya cruise to the Yucatán Peninsula!

An exploration of the validity of the Silurian hypothesis, which posits the existence of a pre-human intelligent race on Earth.

As a gentle reminder that you will have an hour of sleep robbed from you tonight, enjoy this episode on Daylight Saving Time Myths from the archives!

This secretive device has been promising to deliver clean, free energy for more than 15 years — but so far nobody's been allowed to examine it.

Is there somewhere on Earth where Sovereign Citizens can actually be free of any nation's laws?

Advertising wants your attention, not your soul; and it’s not nearly as good at getting either as you might think.

Radioactive nuclear generators sit out in the environment, posing a real hazard. They're mostly — but not all — in Russia.

Brian gets questioned while giving blood.

How concerned do you truly need to be about vintage ceramicware leaching lead into your food?

Oh no! Another pop quiz. Take the challenge: 9 questions about space. Think you can get them all?

A century-old hoax takes wing again, proof that good stories never stay buried.

If ghosts don't exist, then how do we account for all the ghost experiences that people have every day?