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An urban legend says that children with completely black eyes go around trying to be allowed inside.

This New Age alternative health fad is not, in fact, based on ayurveda.

Donations to Skeptoid Media are now fully tax deductible.

Phobias are irrational, yet the brain surprisingly has a good reason for creating them.

What we do and do not know about the mysterious death of Bavaria's Mad King who built castles like Neuschwanstein.

This popular bandleader disappeared over the English Channel during World War II, and here's what happened.

If you're expecting the pleasant aroma of certain flowers and herbs to be a medical treatment, you may be disappointed.

The Boggy Creek Monster captured our imaginations, but its true story is even more fascinating.

Some objects found around the world seem to defy rational explanation.

I respond to questions and feedback sent in by listeners around the world.

A popular urban legend claims that William Randolph Hearst conspired to make cannabis illegal in the United States.

Some pseudoscience promoters attack the messenger rather than the evidence.

An old tale tells of coffins that jumbled themselves up in a crypt in Barbados.

Two dead bodies were found in Brazil in 1966 with mysterious masks made of lead.

Years after the disaster, some claim that Fukushima radiation is still going to cause widespread death.

A tour of the Earth's biggest, oldest, and most lethal living creatures.

Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students, all of them this week pertaining to popular food pseudoscience.

Stories that outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid might have made it back from South America don't hold up.

Hold onto your hats: Growing your hair long will not confer super strength or vitality upon you.

Skeptoid responds to comments sent in by listeners who don't accept that they've been ripped off.