Skeptophilia

After a recent post about the " Beast of Gévaudan ," an undeniably real creature that slaughtered between sixty and a hundred of t...

I was chatting with my friend, author and all-around cool person K. D. McCrite , a couple of days ago about superstitions. It probably won...

My puppy Jethro is currently convalescing from knee surgery, following an ACL injury caused by an over-enthusiastic wrestling match between ...

Some time ago, I wrote a post about the (in)famous sort-of anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, author of bestsellers like The Teachings of Don...

Being in the midst of the holiday season, I'm seeing a lot of people posting about various traditions and rituals and celebrations.  But...

Yesterday's post, about the remarkable similarities between mythological gods and goddesses in cultures widely separated in space and ti...

Thursday's post -- about a strange legend from England called the "fetch" and similar bits of odd folklore from Finland, Norwa...

I ended up going down a rabbit hole yesterday -- not, honestly, a surprising nor an infrequent occurrence -- when a friend of mine asked if ...

The difficult thing about any sort of historical research is that sometimes, the evidence you're looking for doesn't even exist. In ...