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Seven creepy stories from seven listeners, and seven guesses by me.
A thoroughly discredited idea, that the Mesoamerican Olmec people were Black Africans, continues to gain traction.
This buried rock wall found throughout Rockwall County has people wondering about its origin.
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Can dogs be taught to speak intelligently using floor buttons that represent words?
Highlights from 18 years of the Skeptoid podcast.
Fifteen trivia questions from previous aviation themed episodes of Skeptoid.
15 popular myths about sleeping, debunked.
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Lots of companies sell pheromone products claiming to calm down your dog or cat, but there's a very big problem with that basic claim.
Is this just another in a long line of legendary lost mines that never produced a speck of gold, or is there more to it this time?
Turns out that the cause of death known as excited delirium is not an actual cause of death at all.
If I were to summarize how and why I do what I do, I might put it this way.
Does a mythical place where the elephants go to die actually exist?
The claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US has never been close to true.
Is your phone really tracking your driving habits and selling the data? Maybe more so than you know.
The weirdest, creepiest, funniest, and just plain strange stories from the era of crewed space flight.
Pseudoarchaeologists often will cite the Younger Dryas climatic event as proof of their ancient advanced civilization.