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Skeptoid corrects another round of errors in past episodes pointed out by listeners.

Celebrating Halloween with the creepiest ghost stories sent in by you, our listeners.

Do lots of famous pop musicians really die at the age of 27, or is there something in science that just makes us think so?

Did the village of Nazareth exist at the time of Jesus, making it possible for there to have been a Jesus of Nazareth?

Some claim that artificial turf sports fields emit poisonous chemicals, making them dangerous for children.

What better way to celebrate 17 years of the Skeptoid podcast than a 17-question pop quiz!

Does a monster salamander the size of Asia's largest live undiscovered in the Pacific Northwest?

If you're going to be at CSICon 2023, join the Skeptoid Flashmob! skeptoid.com/store

Can you really make your eyesight better with a simple series of eye movements and exercises?

Severed feet have been washing up on the shores of the Salish Sea since 2007. What could be the cause?

How an old Italian UFO hoax became proof of alien visitation to the US Congress

This supplement is claimed by social media influencers to be Nature's Ozempic.

Reports from some extreme adventurers say that a benevolent presence sometimes appears to provide comfort.

Pop culture tells us the famous Norden bombsight from World War II was actually terribly inaccurate. Was it?

This greatest of all imaginable treasures from the Dead Sea Scrolls probably never existed.

Is the world record highest air temperature a solid measurement, or might it be invalid?

Are these remarkable stones natural, or proof of an ancient advanced civilization?

Were these two men from an Amazon tribe that had been massacred, or could their story be explained more simply?

A look into the origin story of swamp gas as the explanation for UFOs.

A roundup of the ways that work — and that don't work — to help a conspiracy theorist free himself from the rabbit hole.

In which I issue yet another round of corrections to past episodes.

Popular wisdom tells us that just touching fentanyl can produce a lethal overdose. What's the fact and what's the fiction?

Are ground sloths that somehow survived their extinction responsible for cryptid sightings in the Amazon?

Did giants really walk the Earth in our recent past?

Skeptoid answers a round of student questions recorded during a visit to the College of Central Florida.

Skeptoid answers a round of student questions recorded during a visit to the College of Central Florida.

This Bigfoot-like cryptid is said to haunt the swamps of Florida. But has the story been around as long as people think?

Watch out next time you take a poll... is someone trying to learn about you, or manipulate you?

The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined.

The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined.

The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined.

A popular Internet claim asserts that the DNA of the octopus is literally alien in origin.

Although the Expanding Earth may seem like a silly conjecture, it was actually one of the leading geophysical models quite recently.

Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s?

Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s?

Today's quiz tests whether you've been skeptical of what you think you know about St. Patrick's Day.

Popular tales claim no plants at all will grow inside this round clearing in North Carolina, said to have been made by the Devil himself.

After every earthquake, there's always someone who claims to have predicted it. Is earthquake prediction possible?

The state of the climate so far... how we're doing, and what do we need to work on the most.

See if you can tell whether each of these popular beliefs about Valentine's Day are true or false.

Is there such a thing as a type of electricity running through your home's wiring that delivers horrific health impacts to anyone living there?

Stories of goat men are all over the world. Why is the Pope Lick goat man disproportionately famous?

Once again we round up the people working hardest to spread misinformation.

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by friendly folks all over the world.

Some great ways to think about all the current UFO craze.

Was this megalithic site in the South Pacific built by the people who lived there at the time, or by aliens?

In which we wrap up 2022 by letting Skeptoid premium members Ask Me Anything.

The latest form of magnet therapy promises to cure everything from headaches to cancer.

Is it true that mosquitoes like some people better than others?

A look at some of the logically fallacious statements used to sell many of today's most popular products.