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There's a Senegalese expression that goes, "There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." The outcome o...

After recent posts dealing with politics, culture, the hazards of AI, and important scientific discoveries, I'm sure what you're all...

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...

A paper appeared last week in the Journal of Zoology  that has elicited a good bit of self-satisfied chortling amongst the people who think ...

Yesterday's post, about spurious claims of a curse (and associated terrible occurrences) in rural northwestern Connecticut, prompted an ...

In the menagerie of weird creatures from urban legends we have such entities as the Men in Black, Slender Man, the Black-eyed Children, not ...

In new developments in cryptozoology, today we consider: when Bigfoot wears clothes. The reason this comes up is because of an article by th...

I've written here at Skeptophilia  for twelve years, and I've been interested in weird claims since I was a teenager, so it's no...

Friday's post, about alleged sightings of a Bigfoot-like creature in Kent, England, prompted a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  to send me ...

It's been a while since we've looked at anything of a cryptozoological nature here at Skeptophilia , so I'd like to rectify that...