Skeptophilia

Once upon a time, there was a man who was looking for a house to buy.  He came upon a large home on a lovely piece of land, something that m...

Dorothy Louise Eady was born on the 16th of January in 1904 in a suburb of London, the only child of a tailor and his wife.  She seemed to ...

In the brilliant, funny, thought-provoking, and often poignant television series The Good Place , a character named Simone, who is an Austra...

A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link to a post that appeared a couple of weeks ago over at the blog Future and Cosmos ...

A few days ago I was out for a nice run when my iPod started sending me a rather unsettling message by playing, one after another, " 10...

Do you believe in ghosts?  Would you rather not wear any clothes? Do you want to combine the two? Apparently there's a subset of gho...

Dear Readers: I'm going to take a short break, for the rest of the week -- but I'll be back next Monday, November 26, so keep send...

A few years ago, I wrote a piece in Skeptophilia  about people who claim they're channeling the spirits of dead musicians, writers, and ...

A loyal reader sent me an email yesterday that said, "Dude.  You think it's weird that there are people who want to get hot & h...