Skeptophilia

The brilliant composer Alan Hovhaness's haunting second symphony is called Mysterious Mountain  -- named, he said, because "mounta...

Once or twice a week I volunteer to sort book donations for our local Friends of the Library biannual book sale.  This particular event, hel...

I've noticed a tendency amongst some people that is a little bit like what would happen if the sunk-cost fallacy had an unholy bastard c...

One of the difficulties with establishing paranormal claims is that there are so many ways of getting the wrong answer. There are the inevit...

When I was a kid, the high point of my year was the two-week trip my dad and I took every August to Arizona and New Mexico.  He was an avid ...

I've been interested in the occult since I was a teenager.  It started when I was about fifteen, on one of the annual trips with my dad ...

When I was little, I had a near-obsession with figuring out whether things were real. I remember pestering my mom over and over, because I f...

Sometimes I think my friends are trying to kill me. I say this because of the frequency with which they send me links to articles that cau...