Episode Guide - Ancient Mysteries
| 3/12/13 | Pope Joan (Skeptoid #353) - Was a Middle Ages pope actually a woman in disguise? Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 11/27/12 | The Flat Earth Theory (Skeptoid #338) - Rumor has it some people think the Earth is flat. Do they really? And have they ever really? Read | Listen (12:41) | Discuss |
| 10/16/12 | The Phantom Time Hypothesis (Skeptoid #332) - A number of theories claim that several centuries never actually happened, and were faked by the Church. Read | Listen (13:17) | Discuss |
| 9/11/12 | Raiding the Ark of the Covenant (Skeptoid #327) - The true history of the most famous holy relic from Biblical times. Read | Listen (11:53) | Discuss |
| 9/4/12 | The Mystery of the Vitrified Forts (Skeptoid #326) - About sixty prehistoric stone forts in Scotland have vitrified walls, where the stone was melted into glass. How was it done? Read | Listen (12:23) | Discuss |
| 8/28/12 | The Golden Ratio (Skeptoid #325) - For centuries, claims both scientific and pseudoscientific have been made for the golden ratio. Read | Listen (13:18) | Discuss |
| 8/14/12 | 8 Spooky Places, and Why They're Like That (Skeptoid #323) - These strange places around the world rank among the most macabre, but have interesting explanations. Read | Listen (13:20) | Discuss |
| 4/3/12 | Catching Jack the Ripper (Skeptoid #304) - A look at what is and isn't known about history's most infamous serial killer. Read | Listen (12:28) | Discuss |
| 3/13/12 | The Beale Ciphers (Skeptoid #301) - Treasure hunters comb Virginia search for a legendary hoard of gold and silver. Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 1/31/12 | Finding Amelia Earhart (Skeptoid #295) - Popular modern reports claim Amelia Earhart made it to an island and survived for a time. Might that be true? Read | Listen (13:05) | Discuss |
| 12/20/11 | The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (Skeptoid #289) - The facts, as we know them, about what really happened to maritime lore's most famous missing crew. Read | Listen (12:05) | Discuss |
| 11/15/11 | The Fate of Fletcher Christian (Skeptoid #284) - Did the leader of the Bounty mutineers die on Pitcairn Island, or did he eventually make it back to England? Read | Listen (11:42) | Discuss |
| 10/11/11 | Noah's Ark: Sea Trials (Skeptoid #279) - Could a wooden vessel like Noah's Ark actually have been made seaworthy? Read | Listen (12:11) | Discuss |
| 9/20/11 | The Monster of Glamis (Skeptoid #276) - Did a living beast actually haunt Scotland's Glamis Castle for the better part of a century? Read | Listen (13:15) | Discuss |
| 8/2/11 | The Abominable Snowman (Skeptoid #269) - How likely is it that the Yeti of the Himalayas is a real creature? Read | Listen (12:11) | Discuss |
| 6/21/11 | Anastasia (Skeptoid #263) - Did the Grand Duchess Anastasia survive her family's 1918 execution, and go on to live in the United States? Read | Listen (12:25) | Discuss |
| 4/5/11 | The Voynich Manuscript (Skeptoid #252) - The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book. Read | Listen (13:48) | Discuss |
| 2/15/11 | Finding the Lost Colony of Roanoke (Skeptoid #245) - One of the early attempts of the English to colonize America ended with every person simply disappearing from the Roanoke colony. Read | Listen (12:17) | Discuss |
| 1/11/11 | Mystery Spots (Skeptoid #240) - Are the various "mystery spots" around the world actually gravitational anomalies, or might the explanation lie elsewhere? Read | Listen (12:02) | Discuss |
| 9/14/10 | The Frog in the Stone (Skeptoid #223) - Stories abound of living frogs being found encased in solid rock. What's really going on here? Read | Listen (12:49) | Discuss |
| 9/7/10 | Toil and Trouble: The Curse of Macbeth (Skeptoid #222) - The Curse of Macbeth should make Shakespeare's play too dangerous to perform. Is this the case? Read | Listen (11:31) | Discuss |
| 8/24/10 | Yonaguni Monument: The Japanese Atlantis (Skeptoid #220) - A look at a massive stone structure off the coast of Japan, said to be a manmade pyramid. Read | Listen (11:53) | Discuss |
| 7/6/10 | Mozart and Salieri (Skeptoid #213) - Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart actually murdered by his rival composer Antonio Salieri? Read | Listen (13:29) | Discuss |
| 6/8/10 | The Lost Ship of the Desert (Skeptoid #209) - The facts behind tall tales from the American southwest of ships found in the middle of the desert. Read | Listen (11:09) | Discuss |
| 4/20/10 | The Mystery of Pumapunku (Skeptoid #202) - Were the stone structures at Pumapunku truly so advanced that the ancient Tiwanakans could not have made them unassisted? Read | Listen (12:32) | Discuss |
| 4/13/10 | The Virgin of Guadalupe (Skeptoid #201) - Is the Virgin of Guadalupe a miraculous apparition, a dismissable religious icon, or does it have more importance? Read | Listen (14:50) | Discuss |
| 3/30/10 | Cargo Cults (Skeptoid #199) - We point the skeptical eye at native religious groups in the South Pacific hoping to recreate WWII's influx of material goods. Read | Listen (12:17) | Discuss |
| 2/2/10 | Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids? (Skeptoid #191) - It's a popular story, but all the documentary and historical evidence tells us that no Jews were in Egypt at the time of the pyramids. Read | Listen (12:30) | Discuss |
| 12/15/09 | The Antikythera Mechanism (Skeptoid #184) - Does this ancient device, 1000 years ahead of its time, prove we were visited by aliens or time travelers? Read | Listen (12:06) | Discuss |
| 12/8/09 | The Naga Fireballs (Skeptoid #183) - What is the source of the glowing balls that rise from the Mekong river each October? Read | Listen (12:38) | Discuss |
| 11/24/09 | The Baigong Pipes (Skeptoid #181) - Do modern metal pipes buried in ancient Chinese stone prove that aliens must have visited? Read | Listen (11:16) | Discuss |
| 9/29/09 | All About Astrology (Skeptoid #173) - Does astrology have any plausible foundations; and does it actually work? Read | Listen (15:23) | Discuss |
| 8/25/09 | Decrypting the Mormon Book of Abraham (Skeptoid #168) - Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith allegedly translated the adventures of Abraham in Egypt. Read | Listen (12:23) | Discuss |
| 4/14/09 | Coral Castle (Skeptoid #149) - Was one man able to move these huge coral blocks using some unknown technology? Read | Listen (11:41) | Discuss |
| 3/10/09 | The Case of the Strange Skulls (Skeptoid #144) - A collection of bizarre human skulls from around the world. Read | Listen (15:13) | Discuss |
| 2/10/09 | The Bosnian Pyramids (Skeptoid #140) - Does the world's oldest and largest ancient pyramid stand unnoticed in the open in a tiny village in Bosnia? Read | Listen (13:25) | Discuss |
| 12/23/08 | Chasing the Min Min Light (Skeptoid #133) - What is the source of the Australian outback's mysterious channel country jack o' lantern? Read | Listen (10:45) | Discuss |
| 11/25/08 | The Oak Island Money Pit (Skeptoid #129) - Is a pirate treasure buried in this mysterious pit in Nova Scotia? Read | Listen (10:31) | Discuss |
| 7/22/08 | Illuminating the Fatima "Miracle of the Sun" (Skeptoid #110) - Did three children miraculously predict a dancing sun in Portugal in 1917? Read | Listen (11:05) | Discuss |
| 7/8/08 | Mystery at Dyatlov Pass (Skeptoid #108) - A look at one of the most bizarre cases in Russian cross country skiing history. Read | Listen (10:30) | Discuss |
| 6/24/08 | King Tut's Curse! (Skeptoid #106) - A look at the tale, the popular explanation, and the real science behind it. Read | Listen (10:43) | Discuss |
| 4/29/08 | The Crystal Skull: Mystical, or Modern? (Skeptoid #98) - Is the crystal skull truly an ancient Mayan artifact with mysterious powers? Read | Listen (8:53) | Discuss |
| 3/25/08 | Apocalypse 2012 (Skeptoid #93) - The real science behind the events predicted in 2012. Read | Listen (11:15) | Discuss |
| 9/18/07 | The Greatest Secret of Nostradamus (Skeptoid #66) - How much of the pop-culture information about Nostradamus is true? Read | Listen (14:38) | Discuss |
| 5/6/07 | A Mormon History of the Americas (Skeptoid #43) - Can the history of the American continent as presented in the Book of Mormon be true? Read | Listen (9:32) | Discuss |
| 1/15/07 | Living Stones of Death Valley (Skeptoid #21) - An examination of the mysterious stones that move by themselves across the desert floor. Read | Listen (3:46) | Discuss |
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