Skeptophilia

I recently got into a discussion with a history-buff friend about the unfortunate fact that everything we know about history is incomplete -...

One argument against UFOs being alien visitors from other star systems is that the number of UFO sightings has risen in direct proportion to...

On the 26th of May, 1828, a strange teenage boy showed up on the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.  He was dirty and wore tattered clothing, an...

To round out our week of looking at odd and creepy tales, today we're going to consider one of the most famous: the story of the evil Bi...

During the reign of Augustus Caesar , the Roman leadership felt very close to all-powerful. They had enjoyed unbridled expansion into what i...

Mark Twain quipped, "Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on society." Given the fact that most of us a...

I love a good mystery, and mysteries abound regarding human prehistory. Of course, that's kind of self-evident, given that it's pr...

In the latest from the "News Stories That Make Me Want To Take Ockham's Razor And Slit My Wrists With It" department, we have ...