Skeptophilia

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

One of the main reasons I recommend rationalism for everyone is that humans are really, really suggestible. Once strong emotions are engaged...

I'm currently working my way through a rewatch of the old television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker . The show was only on for one se...

It's seldom that we can pinpoint the exact moment of origin of an urban legend.  Much more commonly, they start out from a campfire tale...

For this week's Fiction Friday, a short story that was inspired by something that my son and a friend saw while walking along the Delawa...

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

Yesterday, we found out that the president of the United States ordered his lawyer to commit perjury before Congress, and has taken his ...