Skeptophilia

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

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

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...

One of the more horrifying stories from my home state of Louisiana is the more-or-less true tale of Madame Delphine Macarty LaLaurie . I qua...

When I was maybe twelve years old, the highlight of school was getting the monthly Scholastic Books sale flier. It had dozens of books, at p...

One of the questions I get asked the most often, in the context of skepticism and critical thinking, is, "What would it take to change ...

I've written a number of scenes that have affected me emotionally while I was writing them.  Honestly, that's always what I'm tr...

Yesterday, I was driving home from work, and was listening to Symphony Hall, the classical music station on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio, and t...

On her mom's side, my wife is descended from English nobility, a fact of which she reminds me periodically when I get uppity.  Her great...