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In somewhat the same vein as yesterday's post, which was about the capacity of subsonic standing waves to induce the sensations we often...

One of the difficulties with discouraging bogus claims of the paranormal is the profit motive. A lot of it, of course, is that the money tha...

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...