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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?

Mediterranean archaeologist Dr. Flint Dibble will be our resident expert on the real history (and the fake history) at our ports of call when Skeptoid Adventures sails from Málaga, Spain to Nice, France this April. He is perhaps best known for his 2024 destruction of pseudo-archaeologist Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Experience.

The myths and misconceptions surrounding blood donation and why you might consider donating.

Links to resources from Bloodworks Northwest:

Blood Donation Need to Know

Eligibility Guidelines

Eligibility Checker

The history and pseudohistory of this infamous and ubiquitous obscene gesture.

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From fireplace to folklore, how the Yule log got its fake pagan backstory.

This device claims to be able to dramatically improve the efficiency and emissions of any internal combustion engine.

An exploration of all the scientific possibilities by which ghosts might actually exist in this universe.

It should have been impossible for the CIA's Glomar Explorer to obtain the ship's bell from the K-129 submarine... but they did. How?

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A roundup of evidence supporting the use of radiocarbon dating to assess the age of organic matter from 500 to 55,000 years old.

Stories claim that this region of Alaska is home to a huge number of unexplained disappearances.