Skeptoid

A rural family spent half a night battling what they thought were space aliens.

The facts and the fiction of one of the most intriguing psychological phenomena.

See if you can tell which of these famous women from history are real, and which are fictional.

The secret of history's greatest stringed instrument, the Stradivarius violin, is that there is no secret.

The true history of the most famous holy relic from Biblical times.

Some 60 ancient stone forts in Scotland have vitrified walls, with the stone melted into glass. Here's what we know.

For centuries, claims both scientific and pseudoscientific have been made for the golden ratio.

Skeptoid responds to some listener emails that question the validity of the scientific method.

These strange places around the world rank among the most macabre, but have interesting explanations.

Negative calorie foods, said to require more energy to digest than they provide, are a popular food fad.

Navajo Skinwalkers were said to be able to shapeshift into animals, but don't worry, it's just a tall tale.

There's a bridge in Scotland where dogs are said to deliberately commit suicide.

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

The world's most famous cryptid is said to swim in Scotland's most famous loch.

A look at the belief that nanotechnology may result in an army of self-replicating machines that consume society.

Skeptoid announces two new paperbacks: "Astronauts, Aliens, and Ape-Men" plus "The Secret of the Gypsy Queen".

Some say that Persian theologian al-Ghazali was solely responsible for the end of the Golden Age of science.

Declassified military documents show that Iranian fighter planes engaged a UFO in 1976. Here's what's actually known.

Skeptoid goes back and corrects some errors from previous episodes.

Now that Area 51 has been declassified, we finally have proof that what they did had nothing to do with aliens.