Skeptophilia

One of the strangest tales out of old England comes from the turbulent reign of King Stephen , which lasted from 1135 to 1154. Stephen was t...

In C. S. Lewis's novel Perelandra,  the protagonist, Elwin Ransom, goes to the planet Venus.  In Lewis's fictional universe Venus is...

Ever heard of the " Bonneville Slide ?" It sounds like some obscure country line dance, but the real story is more interesting, an...

My mom was an extremely devout Roman Catholic, and I still recall her instructing me to "pray to St. Jude " when I was worried abo...

I don't own many things that are all that old. I'm referring to human-made objects, of course.  I have a couple of Devonian-age brac...

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...

The oral tradition presents anthropologists and historians with a difficult, sometimes insurmountable, problem; given that by definition its...

I thought that after writing this blog for twelve years, I'd have run into every cryptid out there. But just yesterday a loyal reader o...

One of the difficulties with accepting tales of the paranormal, or even ones where the paranormal isn't explicitly invoked but which fal...