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A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  commented that the last few posts have been pretty grim, and maybe I should write about something more uplif...

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

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

A point I've made here at Skeptophilia  more than once is that I don't automatically  disbelieve  in anyone's claim of having a ...

It seems like every day I'm forced to face the unfortunate fact that I don't seem to understand my fellow humans very well. All I ha...

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

My house is, to put not too fine a point on it, kind of a disaster area. A friend described it as "looking like a museum run by lunatic...

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

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...

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...