| Finding Slumach's Gold (Skeptoid #952) - Is this just another in a long line of legendary lost mines that never produced a speck of gold, or is there more to it this time? September 3, 2024 |
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| A Sea of Younger Dryas Woo (Skeptoid #945) - Pseudoarchaeologists often will cite the Younger Dryas climatic event as proof of their ancient advanced civilization. July 16, 2024 |
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| A Visit to Lemuria (Skeptoid #939) - The true history of a mythical place. June 4, 2024 |
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| Helen Keller on Trial (Skeptoid #937) - A bizarre subculture of Helen Keller Truthers believe that she was either faking her deafblindness or even that she didn't exist at all. May 21, 2024 |
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| Decoding the Kensington Runestone (Skeptoid #934) - The story goes that this stone covered with Viking runes was found in a Minnesota field in 1898. Its true history is much more interesting. April 30, 2024 |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. Myths (Skeptoid #918) - We break down four popular myths about Martin Luther King Jr. that just won't go away. January 9, 2024 |
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| The Secret of the Norden Bombsight (Skeptoid #897) - Pop culture tells us the famous Norden bombsight from World War II was actually terribly inaccurate. Was it? August 15, 2023 |
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| The Hard Fall of the Nephilim (Skeptoid #887) - Did giants really walk the Earth in our recent past? June 6, 2023 |
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| The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 3 (Skeptoid #882) - The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. May 2, 2023 |
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| The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 2 (Skeptoid #881) - The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. April 25, 2023 |
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| The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 1 (Skeptoid #880) - The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. April 18, 2023 |
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| What the Oil Companies Really Knew, Part 2 (Skeptoid #877) - Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s? March 28, 2023 |
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| What the Oil Companies Really Knew, Part 1 (Skeptoid #876) - Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s? March 21, 2023 |
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| St. Patrick's Day Myths (Skeptoid #875) - Today's quiz tests whether you've been skeptical of what you think you know about St. Patrick's Day. March 14, 2023 |
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| 7 Valentine's Day Myths (Skeptoid #871) - See if you can tell whether each of these popular beliefs about Valentine's Day are true or false. February 14, 2023 |
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| The Non-Mystery of Nan Madol (Skeptoid #865) - Was this megalithic site in Micronesia built by the people who lived there at the time, or by aliens? January 3, 2023 |
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| The Day Science Was Overthrown (Skeptoid #854) - A look at six times when there was a major paradigm shift in science. October 18, 2022 |
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| On the Trail of Papillon (Skeptoid #848) - How much truth was there to the prison escape story of Henri Charriere? September 6, 2022 |
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| Seeking the Soviet Battle Mole (Skeptoid #845) - The story goes that the Soviet Union had nuclear-powered underground vehicles for waging a whole new kind of war. August 16, 2022 |
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| What Sank the Lusitania? (Skeptoid #840) - Many believe that the true cause of the Lusitania's sinking was not the torpedo, but a mysterious second explosion that followed. July 12, 2022 |
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| False Flag Attack? The USS Liberty (Skeptoid #835) - Officially, Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty was accidental friendly fire; but many claim it was a deliberate conspiracy. June 7, 2022 |
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| What Greek Fire Really Was (Skeptoid #832) - This ancient weapon of terror struck fear throughout the ancient world, and stokes a number of mysteries today. May 17, 2022 |
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| What Really Happened on Easter Island (Skeptoid #827) - The popular known history of Easter Island — that deforestation brought about its demise — is not generally accepted. April 12, 2022 |
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| Demystifying the Winchester Mystery House (Skeptoid #824) - The unfortunate false narrative of the Winchester Mystery House obscures a wonderful story of one of California's great women pioneers. March 22, 2022 |
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| On Railroad Tracks and Roman Chariots (Skeptoid #818) - The urban legend that train track gauge descends from Roman war chariots falls apart at every link in the chain. February 8, 2022 |
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| Nazis and the Occult (Skeptoid #814) - Popular tales of the occult underpinnings of the Nazis are largely modern fiction. January 11, 2022 |
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| On the Authorship of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Skeptoid #799) - The most famous organ work in history has a surprising mystery -- we're not really sure who composed it! September 28, 2021 |
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| What Made the Shroud of Turin Immortal (Skeptoid #795) - A close look at what true science and true history can tell us about this most sacred Catholic relic. August 31, 2021 |
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| Why You Needn't Worry About the Missing 411 (Skeptoid #794) - A popular conspiracy theory claims that lots of people disappear under unexplainable circumstances in America's national parks. August 24, 2021 |
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| Your Turn Yet Again (Skeptoid #793) - Skeptoid gives our take on some spooky experiences sent in by listeners. August 17, 2021 |
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| The Engineered Moon Conspiracy (Skeptoid #776) - Science refutes the claim made by some that the Moon is a hollow spaceship engineered by aliens. April 20, 2021 |
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| Inside the Mountain Meadows Massacre (Skeptoid #768) - Myths, conspiracies, and coverups cloak this 1857 massacre of American emigrants. February 23, 2021 |
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| Tartaria and the Mud Flood (Skeptoid #765) - Some claim that all of world history is a coverup for the mighty ancient nation of Tartaria. February 2, 2021 |
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| The Death Ship SS Ourang Medan (Skeptoid #756) - This ship was said to be discovered with all its crew dead under unexplainable circumstances. December 1, 2020 |
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| Pop Quiz: Myths of the Middle Ages (Skeptoid #751) - How well do you know the Middle Ages? Can you tell what's fact and what's fiction? October 27, 2020 |
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| Hitler's Operation Long Jump (Skeptoid #747) - Popular stories claim that the Nazis tried to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin in Tehran in 1943. September 29, 2020 |
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| The Phantom Fortress (Skeptoid #742) - This B-17 supposedly completed a mission and returned to base, all without an aircrew. August 25, 2020 |
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| New World Tobacco in Old World Mummies (Skeptoid #736) - Some believe that traces of tobacco in Egyptian mummies prove the Egyptians were first to the New World. July 14, 2020 |
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| The Stoned Ape Theory (Skeptoid #734) - Some believe that psychedelic drugs played an irreplaceable role in the evolution of Homo sapiens. June 30, 2020 |
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| The Skeletons of the Great Eastern (Skeptoid #730) - A popular tale claims that the skeletons of two riveters were found between the hulls of this mighty ship. June 2, 2020 |
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| Decoding Gobekli Tepe (Skeptoid #724) - This archaeological site in Turkey is said to change everything... but what does that really mean? April 21, 2020 |
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| Draining the Holy Grail (Skeptoid #723) - The true history of the Holy Grail, the most precious of all artifacts. April 14, 2020 |
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| Pandemic Conspiracies and Politics (Skeptoid #722) - How the conspiracy theories around today's pandemic compare to those of the past. April 7, 2020 |
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| Debunking Ancient Aliens, Part 3 (Skeptoid #721) - A look at some of the ancient artworks and artifacts that the show Ancient Aliens gets totally wrong. March 31, 2020 |
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| Debunking Ancient Aliens, Part 2 (Skeptoid #720) - A look at some of the ancient sites and cities that the show Ancient Aliens gets totally wrong. March 24, 2020 |
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| Debunking Ancient Aliens, Part 1 (Skeptoid #719) - A look at some of the ancient sites and cities that the show Ancient Aliens gets totally wrong. March 17, 2020 |
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| Vermeer and the Camera Obscura (Skeptoid #707) - Popular claims that the painter Vermeer used a camera obscura contradict the evidence. December 24, 2019 |
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| Thirteen: The Private History of a Curse (Skeptoid #692) - The number 13 may have more relevance in your life than you suspect. September 10, 2019 |
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| The True Fate of the Amber Room (Skeptoid #680) - State-sponsored disinformation continues to drive treasure hunters who seek the legendary Amber Room. June 18, 2019 |
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| Yamashita's Gold (Skeptoid #673) - The facts behind the urban legend that billions in Japanese gold lie buried in the Philippines. April 30, 2019 |
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| Refeeding Syndrome and Sudden Death (Skeptoid #672) - Can starving people actually die immediately upon being given their first bite of food? April 23, 2019 |
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| Pop Quiz: History and Pseudohistory (Skeptoid #669) - Test your knowledge on these subjects, all covered by Skeptoid, on false history claims. April 2, 2019 |
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| The Historicity of Jesus Christ (Skeptoid #666) - A review of the evidence for and against the life of Jesus of Nazareth as a real living man. March 12, 2019 |
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| Illuminating the Illuminati (Skeptoid #657) - The surprisingly humble beginnings and even more surprising modern rebirth of the Illuminati. January 8, 2019 |
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| Are They Real, or Are They Fictional? (Skeptoid #618) - Another round of famous names from the past: Can you guess whether each is real or fictional? April 10, 2018 |
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| Were There Irish Slaves in America? (Skeptoid #609) - Online articles claiming the first slaves in the Americas were white are fictional and racially motivated. February 6, 2018 |
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| Alert 747: The Vela Incident (Skeptoid #592) - In 1979, a mysterious flash occurred over the southern ocean that could have been a nuclear bomb. October 10, 2017 |
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| Relict Japanese Soldiers (Skeptoid #585) - How factual are the urban legends about Japanese soldiers in the Pacific who never heard the war ended? August 22, 2017 |
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| Amelia Earhart Redux: Competing Networks, Competing Craziness (Skeptoid #580) - Through their constant promotion of false history, TV networks may have done Amelia Earhart's legacy irreparable harm. July 18, 2017 |
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| The Mercury Rivers of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (Skeptoid #566) - A miniature of all China's waterways in liquid mercury is said to be at the heart of the First Emperor's tomb. April 11, 2017 |
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| Beethoven's Hair (Skeptoid #561) - Popular stories claim Beethoven died of lead poisoning, but the science so far doesn't hold up. March 7, 2017 |
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| Hitler's Antarctic Fortress Unmasked (Skeptoid #559) - Deconstructing a wild tale about a Nazi military base deep inside Antarctica. February 21, 2017 |
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| Who Were the Berserkers? (Skeptoid #557) - These mighty Norse warriors fought with a frenzy that seems all but inexplicable. February 7, 2017 |
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| The D. B. Cooper Mystery (Skeptoid #552) - The world's only unsolved hijacking case is filled with misinformation. January 3, 2017 |
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| There's No Such Thing as Race... Or Is There? (Skeptoid #546) - Genetically, race does not exist; but there are still inconvenient places for it in science. November 22, 2016 |
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| First in Flight (Skeptoid #545) - You always thought the Wright Brothers were the first to fly a plane? Well, it depends what country you're from. November 15, 2016 |
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| Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 3 (Skeptoid #537) - The hard, testable, scientific proof that we actually did land humans on the moon. September 20, 2016 |
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| Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 2 (Skeptoid #536) - The science behind many of the specific claims made by Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theorists. September 13, 2016 |
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| Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 1 (Skeptoid #535) - The history of the Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theory, and those who believe in it. September 6, 2016 |
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| Who Killed the Red Baron? (Skeptoid #532) - A look at which of the six competing claims for who killed the Red Baron was probably true. August 16, 2016 |
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| Demythologizing the Shaolin Monks (Skeptoid #516) - Just about everything you think you know about the Shaolin Monks was made up for tourists. April 26, 2016 |
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| Decrypting Mother Teresa (Skeptoid #512) - It's popular to criticize Mother Teresa, but that criticism might be better directed at the real culprit. March 29, 2016 |
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| Ninjas Unmasked (Skeptoid #509) - These superheroes of martial arts lore may not be exactly what you thought they were. March 8, 2016 |
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| Demythologizing the Knights Templar (Skeptoid #508) - More pseudohistory than fact surrounds this ancient order's depictions in pop culture. March 1, 2016 |
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| No, Hitler Did Not Escape (Skeptoid #507) - There is no truth to the popular myth that Hitler escaped Berlin and went to Argentina. February 23, 2016 |
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| Did the 1914 Christmas Truce Really Happen? (Skeptoid #498) - Popular stories tell of WWI soldiers laying aside their rifles on Christmas 1914. The facts are not quite so simple. December 22, 2015 |
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| Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites (Skeptoid #495) - The worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation. December 1, 2015 |
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| Deconstructing the Tasaday Tribe (Skeptoid #490) - Some say this tribe of "gentle savages", discovered in 1971, was just a hoax. The truth isn't quite so simple. October 27, 2015 |
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| About That 1970s Global Cooling... (Skeptoid #487) - No, climatologists in the 1970s did not believe we're headed into another ice age. October 6, 2015 |
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| The Flying Saucer Menace (Skeptoid #486) - The true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore. September 29, 2015 |
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| Holocaust Denial (Skeptoid #485) - Why some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it. September 22, 2015 |
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| Franklin's Cannibals (Skeptoid #482) - The fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition gives a valuable lesson in types of evidence. September 1, 2015 |
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| Captain Kidd's Treasure (Skeptoid #481) - Think you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again. August 25, 2015 |
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| The Nazi of Nanking (Skeptoid #480) - This most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives. August 18, 2015 |
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| Listener Feedback: History vs. Pseudohistory (Skeptoid #475) - Brian responds to listener feedback about past history episodes. July 14, 2015 |
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| Lysenko and Lesser Science Grifters (Skeptoid #472) - Trofim Lysenko mixed pseudoscience and ideology to set back Soviet biology. June 23, 2015 |
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| 5 Answers for Creationists (Skeptoid #466) - Creationists have presented 5 questions they don't think 'evolutionists' can answer. Here are some answers. May 12, 2015 |
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| Satanic Ritual Abuse (Skeptoid #462) - The history of claims that secret Satanic cults are abusing children. April 14, 2015 |
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| Forgetting the Alamo (Skeptoid #457) - The myths and facts behind the events that made the Alamo famous reveal it may not be worth remembering much. March 10, 2015 |
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| Cattle Mutilation (Skeptoid #456) - Cow mutilation may have a simpler explanation than alien experimentation. March 3, 2015 |
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| Robert Ripley: Believe Him... or Not? (Skeptoid #450) - We examine Believe it or Not! and determine if we can believe this stuff. January 20, 2015 |
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| Ancient Astronauts (Skeptoid #449) - Did aliens visit the ancient Earth and inspire human cultures? Some people claim so. January 13, 2015 |
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| Myths of Alcatraz (Skeptoid #444) - Alcatraz Island is veiled in the fog of myth. December 9, 2014 |
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| SS Iron Mountain (Skeptoid #443) - This large riverboat is said to have vanished without a trace on the Mississippi River in 1872. December 2, 2014 |
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| The War of the Worlds Panic Broadcast (Skeptoid #438) - On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles panicked a nation with a single broadcast. Or did he? October 28, 2014 |
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| The Death of Rasputin (Skeptoid #432) - Legend says that Grigori Rasputin, the "Mad Monk", was hard to kill; but the truth about his life is the real story. September 16, 2014 |
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| The Santa Barbara Simoom of 1859 (Skeptoid #424) - Stories of a lethally hot storm wind in Santa Barbara in 1859 persist to this day. July 22, 2014 |
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| Hillary vs. Mallory: The First to Everest (Skeptoid #420) - From the evidence we have, it seems clear there's no way Mallory could have beaten Hillary to the summit of Everest. June 24, 2014 |
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| The Riddle of Flight 19 (Skeptoid #417) - The 1945 disappearance of five fighter planes in the Bermuda Triangle was real, but hardly how it's portrayed. June 3, 2014 |
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| 3-7-77: The Montana Vigilance Code (Skeptoid #413) - This mysterious code representing vigilante justice has a history steeped in mystery. May 6, 2014 |
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| The Death of Mad King Ludwig (Skeptoid #407) - What we do and do not know about the mysterious death of Bavaria's Mad King who built castles like Neuschwanstein. March 25, 2014 |
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| The Disappearance of Glenn Miller (Skeptoid #406) - This popular bandleader disappeared over the English Channel during World War II, and here's what happened. March 18, 2014 |
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| Out of Place Artifacts (Skeptoid #403) - Some objects found around the world seem to defy rational explanation. February 25, 2014 |
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| Hemp, Hearst, and Prohibition (Skeptoid #401) - A popular urban legend claims that William Randolph Hearst conspired to make cannabis illegal in the United States. February 11, 2014 |
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| The Moving Coffins of Barbados (Skeptoid #399) - An old tale tells of coffins that jumbled themselves up in a crypt in Barbados. January 28, 2014 |
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| Finding Butch and Sundance (Skeptoid #394) - Stories that outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid might have made it back from South America don't hold up. December 24, 2013 |
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| The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave (Skeptoid #390) - Some say that an early Native American tribe were giant cannibals. November 26, 2013 |
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| Who Discovered the New World? (Skeptoid #387) - Of all the many claims of Europeans being first to the New World, only one is true. November 5, 2013 |
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| The Riddle of the L-8 Blimp (Skeptoid #380) - The crew of a blimp mysteriously vanished in 1942, but their blimp came back OK... without them. September 17, 2013 |
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| Legendary Places: Real or Fictional? (Skeptoid #378) - We look at twelve legendary places that you've heard of, but may not know whether they're real or not. September 3, 2013 |
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| The Secrets of MKULTRA (Skeptoid #373) - The urban legend that the CIA conducted unethical mind control experiments has a grain of truth. July 30, 2013 |
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| The Vanishing Village of Angikuni Lake (Skeptoid #371) - The legend of the disappearing Inuit village of Angikuni Lake turns out to be simple pulp fiction. July 16, 2013 |
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| Legislating Pseudoscience (Skeptoid #368) - Lawmakers are often pressured by ideologues to pass laws based on bad science. June 25, 2013 |
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| The 16 Personalities of Sybil (Skeptoid #361) - The book and movie "Sybil" told the story of a woman purported to have Multiple Personality Syndrome. May 7, 2013 |
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| Lincoln Kennedy Myths (Skeptoid #360) - An old story claims a long list of astonishing similarities between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy. April 30, 2013 |
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| The Pentagon and the Missile (Skeptoid #354) - Some say that it wasn't an airliner that struck the Pentagon on 9/11, but a missile. March 19, 2013 |
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| Pope Joan (Skeptoid #353) - This apocryphal Middle Ages pope said to be a woman in disguise probably never existed. March 12, 2013 |
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| 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. January 29, 2013 |
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| The Cult of Nikola Tesla (Skeptoid #345) - The name of Nikola Tesla is associated with crazy conspiracy claims that have nothing to do with his real work. January 15, 2013 |
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| The Hollow Earth Theory (Skeptoid #343) - Throughout history there have been a number of different beliefs that the Earth might be hollow. January 1, 2013 |
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| The Flat Earth Theory (Skeptoid #338) - The Flat Earth Theory has its origins not in alt-science but in Christian Fundamentalism. November 27, 2012 |
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| The Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Sea (Skeptoid #337) - Contrary to popular belief, no unusual number of disappearances has ever happened inside these two ocean regions. November 20, 2012 |
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| Raiding the Ark of the Covenant (Skeptoid #327) - The true history of the most famous holy relic from Biblical times. September 11, 2012 |
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| The Versailles Time Slip (Skeptoid #296) - We can be sure that two women visiting Versaille in 1901 did not time-travel back to the days of Marie Antoinette. February 7, 2012 |
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| Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids? (Skeptoid #191) - It's a popular story, but all the evidence tells us that no Jews were in Egypt at the time of the Pyramids. February 2, 2010 |
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