Skeptoid

The legend of the disappearing Eskimo village of Angikuni Lake turns out to be simple pulp fiction.

Background music really can influence our buying decisions in a shopping environment.

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

Lawmakers are often pressured by ideologues to pass laws based on bad science.

A mysterious "grinning man" is said to appear and terrorize UFO witnesses.

Vortexes of spiritual energy are claimed to exist in Sedona, but science suggests we remain skeptical.

An object claimed to be 13,000-year-old alien satellite orbiting the Earth is just a piece of an old space shuttle.

Skeptoid answers questions sent in by listeners pertaining to conspiracy theories.

In fact, handwriting analysis tells us nothing useful about the personality and aptitudes of the writer.

The infamous arcade game Polybius, said to drive players to suicide or madness, was never more than an urban legend.

The book and movie "Sybil" told the story of a woman purported to have Multiple Personality Syndrome.

An old story claims a long list of astonishing similarities between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy.

Some believe that bruise-causing suction on the skin provides a variety of health benefits.

Skeptoid digs into the feedback mailbag and answers questions about aliens and UFOs.

There is a popular fringe theory about human evolution that claims we went through an aquatic phase.

An Internet legend claims that a man named John Titor is a visitor from the year 2036.

A B-25 bomber ditched in a Pennsylvania river in broad daylight 1956 and, seemingly impossibly, was never found.

Some say that it wasn't an airliner that struck the Pentagon on 9/11, but a missile.

This apocryphal Middle Ages pope said to be a woman in disguise probably never existed.

The Schumann Resonance, 7.83Hz, is one natural radio band in our atmosphere, but holds no mystical powers.