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Urban legends often have nebulous origins.  As author Jan Harold Brunvand describes in his wonderful book The Choking Doberman and Other Urb...

I'm going to make a dual plea to all y'all: Before you accept a paranormal or supernatural explanation for something, make sure you...

I was asked a couple of days ago by a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  if I'd ever heard of  The Backrooms  -- and if so, if I thought ther...

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...

Sometimes, you can mislead people not only by what you say, but by what you leave out. Take, for example, the " Moodus noises ," t...

One of the beefs a lot of aficionados of the paranormal have with us skeptics has to do with a disagreement over the quality of evidence. Ta...

In today's News of the Surreal, we have: the Vatican is tightening the rules on what it's willing to call divine supernatural phenom...

I'm always interested in looking into where tales of the paranormal get started.  We've seen a number of examples here at Skeptophil...

A while back, my wife and I were lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit the lovely island of Puerto Rico.  On the way there, Carol as...