Episode Guide - Urban Legends
| 6/18/13 | Who Is the Grinning Man? (Skeptoid #367) - A mysterious "grinning man" is said to appear and terrorize UFO witnesses. Read | Listen (12:51) | Discuss |
| 6/4/13 | The Black Knight Satellite (Skeptoid #365) - Is a mysterious 13,000-year-old alien satellite orbiting the Earth? Read | Listen (14:19) | Discuss |
| 5/14/13 | Polybius: Video Game of Death (Skeptoid #362) - Did a 1981 video arcade game sicken players while government agents collected the data? Read | Listen (11:27) | Discuss |
| 4/30/13 | Lincoln Kennedy Myths (Skeptoid #360) - An old story claims a long list of astonishing similarities between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy. Read | Listen (11:07) | Discuss |
| 4/2/13 | John Titor, Time Traveler (Skeptoid #356) - An Internet legend claims that a man named John Titor is a visitor from the year 2036. Read | Listen (10:42) | Discuss |
| 3/26/13 | The Airplane that Wasn't There (Skeptoid #355) - A B-25 bomber ditched in a Pennsylvania river in broad daylight 1956 and, seemingly impossibly, was never found. Read | Listen (13:27) | Discuss |
| 3/12/13 | Pope Joan (Skeptoid #353) - Was a Middle Ages pope actually a woman in disguise? Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 1/29/13 | The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine (Skeptoid #347) - This most famous of all fabled "lost mines" has a history that fails to stand up to skeptical scrutiny. Read | Listen (14:38) | Discuss |
| 11/20/12 | The Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Sea (Skeptoid #337) - Two regions of ocean are said to be mysteriously dangerous. What's the truth behind this popular belief? Read | Listen (13:37) | Discuss |
| 10/30/12 | The Betz Mystery Sphere (Skeptoid #334) - A mysterious silver ball that seemed to move on its own came to a Florida family in 1974. Was it alien? Read | Listen (12:05) | 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 |
| 10/9/12 | The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter (Skeptoid #331) - A rural family spent half a night battling what they thought were space aliens. Read | Listen (13:02) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7/31/12 | Skinwalkers (Skeptoid #321) - Navajo witches are said to be able to shapeshift into animals. Is it just a tall tale, or is there some truth to it? Read | Listen (13:55) | Discuss |
| 7/24/12 | The Suicide Dogs of Overtoun Bridge (Skeptoid #320) - There's a bridge in Scotland where dogs are said to deliberately commit suicide. Read | Listen (11:36) | Discuss |
| 7/10/12 | The Loch Ness Monster (Skeptoid #318) - The world's most famous cryptid is said to swim in Scotland's most famous loch. Read | Listen (12:22) | Discuss |
| 6/19/12 | The Tehran 1976 UFO (Skeptoid #315) - Declassified military documents show that Iranian fighter planes engaged a UFO in 1976. What really happened? Read | Listen (15:01) | Discuss |
| 6/5/12 | Area 51 Facts and Fiction (Skeptoid #313) - Some say alien spacecraft are tested at Nevada's legendary Area 51 site; what does history have to say? Read | Listen (12:47) | Discuss |
| 5/1/12 | Picnic at Hanging Rock (Skeptoid #308) - Is this classic tale of the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls fact or fiction? Read | Listen (11:25) | Discuss |
| 4/24/12 | The Siberian Hell Sounds (Skeptoid #307) - Russian scientists are said to have drilled a borehole that broke into hell and released the screams of the damned. Read | Listen (13:05) | 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 |
| 3/20/12 | De Loys' Ape (Skeptoid #302) - A geologist claimed to have discovered a new species of great ape in Venezuela in the early 20th century. Read | Listen (12:02) | 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 |
| 2/7/12 | The Versailles Time Slip (Skeptoid #296) - Did two women visiting Versaille in 1901 time-travel back to the days of Marie Antoinette? Read | Listen (13:46) | 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 |
| 1/17/12 | Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons (Skeptoid #293) - Did the Nazis really have super-advanced technology, even anti-gravity flying saucers? Read | Listen (13:48) | Discuss |
| 1/10/12 | The Grey Man of Ben MacDhui (Skeptoid #292) - A thin, dark phantom three times the height of a man is said to stalk this peak in the Cairngorms. Read | Listen (12:26) | Discuss |
| 1/3/12 | The Toxic Lady (Skeptoid #291) - In 1994, fumes from a woman's body knocked out most of an emergency room staff. What happened? Read | Listen (12:37) | 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 |
| 12/13/11 | Pit Bull Attack! (Skeptoid #288) - Pit bulls have a reputation for being the most dangerous dog breed. Is this reputation deserved? Read | Listen (12:13) | Discuss |
| 12/6/11 | Korean Fan Death (Skeptoid #287) - An urban legend in Korea states that running an electric fan at night can kill you. Read | Listen (12:38) | 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 |
| 11/1/11 | The Jersey Devil (Skeptoid #282) - This creature has been haunting New Jersey for nearly 300 years. From whence did it come? Read | Listen (11:56) | Discuss |
| 10/18/11 | Finding Shakespeare (Skeptoid #280) - Was William Shakespeare the author of his own works, or was he merely someone else's pseudonym? Read | Listen (12:25) | Discuss |
| 10/4/11 | Brainwashing and Deprogramming (Skeptoid #278) - Can people really be brainwashed, and then deprogrammed back to who they were before? Read | Listen (11:43) | 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 |
| 6/14/11 | The Haitian Zombies (Skeptoid #262) - Are Haiti's legendary zombies real, or just an imagination fiction? Read | Listen (13:08) | Discuss |
| 5/31/11 | Military Dolphins: James Bonds of the Sea (Skeptoid #260) - Are dolphins actually trained to attack divers and place limpet mines on ships? Read | Listen (12:14) | Discuss |
| 5/17/11 | Spontaneous Human Combustion (Skeptoid #258) - People can catch on fire... but can it really happen when there is no external source of ignition? Read | Listen (12:01) | Discuss |
| 5/10/11 | The Secret of Plum Island (Skeptoid #257) - Does this secret government lab really create genetic mutants and biological weapons? Read | Listen (12:26) | Discuss |
| 4/26/11 | Superhuman Strength during a Crisis (Skeptoid #255) - Popular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. Can the human body really do such feats? Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 4/19/11 | Finding the POW/MIAs (Skeptoid #254) - Are American POW/MIAs still being held captive inside Vietnam? Read | Listen (12:50) | Discuss |
| 1/18/11 | The Alien Buried in Texas (Skeptoid #241) - Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas. Read | Listen (12:05) | 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 |
| 12/28/10 | More Hollywood Myths (Skeptoid #238) - Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors. Read | Listen (11:39) | Discuss |
| 12/21/10 | Hollywood Myths (Skeptoid #237) - Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true. Read | Listen (11:30) | Discuss |
| 11/30/10 | The South Atlantic Anomaly (Skeptoid #234) - Was this mysterious region in the south Atlantic responsible for the crash of Air France flight 447? Read | Listen (11:36) | Discuss |
| 11/9/10 | The Mystery of STENDEC (Skeptoid #231) - What was the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash? Read | Listen (11:56) | Discuss |
| 10/5/10 | The Brown Mountain Lights (Skeptoid #226) - A ghost light in North Carolina has people scratching their heads. What's the explanation? Read | Listen (14:47) | Discuss |
| 9/21/10 | Alien Downpour: The Red Rain of India (Skeptoid #224) - News agencies have long been promoting a 2001 red rainfall as being of alien origin. What's the evidence? Read | Listen (12:23) | 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 |
| 8/17/10 | Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrids (Skeptoid #219) - Did Josef Stalin order the creation of an army of half-ape, half-human hybrids, and did these experiments take place? Read | Listen (13:14) | Discuss |
| 8/10/10 | The Astronauts and the Aliens (Skeptoid #218) - A close look at some of the stories of UFOs said to have been reported by NASA astronauts. Read | Listen (12:53) | 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 |
| 6/15/10 | The North American Union (Skeptoid #210) - Are the United States, Canada, and Mexico planning to merge into a single huge police state? Read | Listen (12:52) | 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 |
| 5/4/10 | Mengele's Boys from Brazil (Skeptoid #204) - Is the unusually high twin rate of a town in Brazil due to continued medical experiments by Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi Angel of Death? Read | Listen (12:15) | Discuss |
| 2/23/10 | The Denver Airport Conspiracy (Skeptoid #194) - Is the Denver International Airport really a headquarters for the New World Order? Read | Listen (14:25) | Discuss |
| 2/9/10 | Ball Lightning (Skeptoid #192) - We've all heard of it, we all believe it exists - but what does science have to say? Read | Listen (11:58) | Discuss |
| 1/26/10 | The Bell Island Boom (Skeptoid #190) - Was the cause of this shattering boom in Newfoundland natural, or a test of a superweapon? Read | Listen (12:02) | Discuss |
| 9/22/09 | Daylight Saving Time Myths (Skeptoid #172) - What does daylight saving time really do for us, and what are the real reasons we have it? Read | Listen (11:10) | Discuss |
| 8/4/09 | Real or Fictional: Food and Fashion (Skeptoid #165) - See if you can tell whether these food and fashion products are named after real people or fictitious people. Read | Listen (14:45) | Discuss |
| 6/23/09 | The Mothman Cometh (Skeptoid #159) - A skeptical look at the Mothman, an alleged prophet of disaster. Read | Listen (11:15) | Discuss |
| 6/9/09 | High Fructose Corn Syrup: Toxic or Tame? (Skeptoid #157) - A skeptical look at whether high fructose corn syrup is really any worse for you than sugar. Read | Listen (12:32) | Discuss |
| 6/2/09 | Falling into Mel's Hole (Skeptoid #156) - Mel's Hole is said to be a mysterious bottomless pit in eastern Washington state. Read | Listen (11:03) | Discuss |
| 5/19/09 | Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier? (Skeptoid #154) - We all know that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, but did others beat him to it? Read | Listen (17:24) | Discuss |
| 5/5/09 | Attack of the Globsters! (Skeptoid #152) - Are mysterious blobs of flesh washed up on the world's beaches really unworthy of skeptical attention? Read | Listen (12:39) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1/27/09 | Is He Real, or Is He Fictional? (Skeptoid #138) - A look at some popular characters from history. Were they real or fictional? Read | Listen (13:26) | Discuss |
| 1/20/09 | The Angel of Mons (Skeptoid #137) - Did a mysterious heavenly host save a small group of British from a large German force in World War I? Read | Listen (10:29) | 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 |
| 11/11/08 | The Truth about Aspartame (Skeptoid #127) - The artificial sweetener aspartame is falsely accused of being the cause of nearly every disease. Read | Listen (12:29) | Discuss |
| 10/21/08 | Betty and Barney Hill: The Original UFO Abduction (Skeptoid #124) - A critical look at the original UFO abduction story, that so many people take for granted. Read | Listen (13:18) | Discuss |
| 10/7/08 | HAARP Myths (Skeptoid #122) - A close look at HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and the claim that it's a superweapon. Read | Listen (12:59) | Discuss |
| 9/30/08 | Scalar Weapons: Tesla's Doomsday Machine? (Skeptoid #121) - Did Nikola Tesla really design a superweapon capable of vaporizing whole parts of the earth? Read | Listen (10:45) | Discuss |
| 9/9/08 | Demystifying the Bell Witch (Skeptoid #118) - An exploration of the best way to evaluate an old, unsubstantiated folk legend like The Bell Witch. Read | Listen (11:28) | Discuss |
| 8/19/08 | Search for the Missing Cosmonauts (Skeptoid #115) - Did a young pair of Italian brothers uncover evidence of Soviet cosmonauts dying in space? Read | Listen (13:38) | 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 |
| 7/1/08 | Spy Radio: Numbers Stations (Skeptoid #107) - A look at mysterious shortwave "numbers stations" around the world. Read | Listen (10:28) | 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 |
| 3/4/08 | Can You Hear the Hum? (Skeptoid #90) - An exploration of the mysterious rumble that some people hear all over the world. Read | Listen (11:35) | Discuss |
| 12/25/07 | Are Microwave Ovens Safe? (Skeptoid #80) - An examination of the various claims that microwaved food and water are poisonous. Read | Listen (11:01) | Discuss |
| 12/11/07 | Medical Myths in Movies and Culture (Skeptoid #78) - Do doctors ever really stab people in the heart with a syringe? Does chocolate really cause acne? Read | Listen (9:19) | 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 |
| 8/28/07 | Subliminal Seduction (Skeptoid #63) - How true is Wilson Key's magnum opus work about subliminal advertising? Read | Listen (9:11) | Discuss |
| 8/9/07 | Will Drinking from Plastic Bottles Kill You? (Skeptoid #60) - A recent fad states that plastic water bottles leech toxic chemicals. Is it true? Read | Listen (8:01) | Discuss |
| 7/30/07 | All About Fluoridation (Skeptoid #58) - A few fringe activists claim that fluoridation of water carries more danger than benefit. Read | Listen (9:20) | Discuss |
| 7/25/07 | Email Myths (Skeptoid #57) - A look at some of those persistent hoax emails that you receive almost every day. Read | Listen (12:28) | Discuss |
| 7/5/07 | Borley Rectory: the World's Most Haunted House? (Skeptoid #53) - Were the events at Borley Rectory a real haunting, or the product of a hoaxster? Read | Listen (12:05) | Discuss |
| 3/7/07 | The Devil Walked in Devon (Skeptoid #31) - Was the devil responsible for a set of 100-mile footprints in 1855? Read | Listen (6:51) | Discuss |
| 2/15/07 | Chemtrails: Real or Not? (Skeptoid #27) - What you always thought were simply contrails are really dangerous chemicals being sprayed. Read | Listen (9:06) | Discuss |
| 12/24/06 | The Real Philadelphia Experiment (Skeptoid #16) - Did a US Navy warship completely disappear in 1943? Read | Listen (6:50) | Discuss |
| 12/15/06 | Cell Phones on Airplanes (Skeptoid #14) - Cell phones are perfectly safe on airplanes. So why can't we use them? Read | Listen (6:35) | Discuss |
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