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I'm always interested in looking into where tales of the paranormal get started.  We've seen a number of examples here at Skeptophil...

Sometimes, with folk tales, you can pinpoint exactly when a legend entered the public awareness.  Someone writes and publishes a story in on...

Sometimes, with folk tales, you can pinpoint exactly when a legend entered the public awareness. Someone writes and publishes a story in on...

A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  responded to yesterday's post, about a high school biology teacher who decided to name a chem...

Sometimes, with folk tales, you can pinpoint exactly when a legend entered the public awareness.  Someone writes and publishes a story in on...

Some of you may have heard of the recent weird twist that has occurred in the world of non-theists -- the founding of an "atheist churc...