Skeptophilia

What fascinates me about many claims of the paranormal is how persistent they are. Once the story of some otherworldly sighting gets around,...

After a recent post about the " Beast of Gévaudan ," an undeniably real creature that slaughtered between sixty and a hundred of t...

My puppy Jethro is currently convalescing from knee surgery, following an ACL injury caused by an over-enthusiastic wrestling match between ...

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

Thursday's post -- about a strange legend from England called the "fetch" and similar bits of odd folklore from Finland, Norwa...

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...