Skeptophilia

I was maybe sixteen years old when I first read H. P. Lovecraft's atmospheric and terrifying short story "At the Mountains of Madne...

If I asked you to name the driest spots on Earth , I wonder if this one would come to mind -- even though it's a top contender for the n...

In H. P. Lovecraft's seminal horror short story "At the Mountains of Madness," some scientists are sent on an expedition to An...

It's hard to imagine Antarctica as anything but a frozen wasteland.  Bitterly cold even in summer, barely any precipitation (if it were ...

If last week's post about the Demon Ducks of Australia wasn't sufficient to scare you into stopping your project to build a working ...

One of the most frustrating things about human behavior is that we can receive repeated hints and warnings that if we keep doing what we...

I guess it's natural enough to ascribe all sorts of bizarre stuff to places we don't know much about.  And top of the list of places...

One of the most frustrating things is that instead of meeting the challenges we have and then moving forward, we seem to be fighting the sam...

In H. P. Lovecraft's wildly creepy story "The Shadow Out of Time," we meet a superintelligent alien race called the Yith who h...

George Santayana's words, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it," have been quoted so often they've...