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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...

I know there are a lot of reasons why people believe weird shit.  It's tempting to settle on the self-congratulatory solution of "B...

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...

Have you ever heard of the New York Supreme Court Case, Stambovsky v. Ackley ? I hadn't, until yesterday. This came up because of a link...

I sometimes get grief from readers because of my tendency to dismiss claims of the paranormal. In my own defense, I am convincible.  It jus...