Skeptoid

How factual are the urban legends about Japanese soldiers in the Pacific who never heard the war ended?

A look at the science-based myths and misconceptions about eclipses, plus some things you might not know.

Skeptoid responds to some listener feedback, updating a few episodes and clarifying some others.

This famous 1964 UFO sighting by a New Mexico police officer has several interesting explanations.

Let's have a look at the traits that define a crank, to make sure your new hero isn't one.

Through their constant promotion of false history, TV networks may have done Amelia Earhart's legacy irreparable harm.

The Grand Canyon is millions of years old, not thousands; despite the efforts of Young Earthers.

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.

We analyze some of your stories of precognitive experiences.

How likely is the most common type of UFO report to be an alien spacecraft?

Here are the podcast episodes with conclusions that surprised me the most (part 2).

Here are the podcast episodes with conclusions that surprised me the most (part 1).

A study of how a conspiracy theory as absurd as "There is no Finland" can even exist.

False pregnancies are not only real, they're probably more complex than you imagined.

This sideshow attraction convinced a few real scientists that it was an actual ape-man.

We take a look at some more of the most exciting space missions, past, present, and future.

Three simple steps anyone can follow to learn to tell what's true and what's not.

I respond to some listener feedback that enhances some recent episodes of the show.

Those stories about children raised by animals probably aren't what you've been led to believe.

A miniature of all China's waterways in liquid mercury is said to be at the heart of the First Emperor's tomb.