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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?