Skeptophilia

Jedburgh Abbey is a ruined Augustinian monastery near the town of the same name in Roxburghshire, Scotland, only ten miles from the border ...

One thing that really  torques me is when people say "I did my research," when in fact what they did was a five-minute Google sear...

What comes to mind when you think about the Isle of Skye ? Chances are, it's one of three things. The first is the stunningly beautiful ...

I was discussing the alleged phenomenon of hauntings with a friend of mine, and he said, "There's one thing I've always wondere...

Appropriate to the day, I thought I'd tell you about an interesting (and quite cordial) exchange about ghosts I got into with a loyal re...

I thought that after writing this blog for twelve years, I'd have run into every cryptid out there. But just yesterday a loyal reader o...

One of the frustrations of history and archaeology is that within those disciplines there are realms of inquiry which (unless someone invent...

I've been asked a number of times why I disbelieve in such phenomena as ghosts, and my answer is always the same: I don't.  I have n...

I know it seems like I keep ringing the changes on this topic over and over, but... it never fails to astonish me how much the Earth has cha...