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Celebrating Halloween with the creepiest ghost stories sent in by you, our listeners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Do lots of famous pop musicians really die at the age of 27, or is there something in science that just makes us think so? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Did the village of Nazareth exist at the time of Jesus, making it possible for there to have been a Jesus of Nazareth? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some claim that artificial turf sports fields emit poisonous chemicals, making them dangerous for children. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

What better way to celebrate 17 years of the Skeptoid podcast than a 17-question pop quiz! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Does a monster salamander the size of Asia's largest live undiscovered in the Pacific Northwest? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you're going to be at CSICon 2023, join the Skeptoid Flashmob! skeptoid.com/store Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Can you really make your eyesight better with a simple series of eye movements and exercises? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Severed feet have been washing up on the shores of the Salish Sea since 2007. What could be the cause? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

How an old Italian UFO hoax became proof of alien visitation to the US Congress Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This supplement is claimed by social media influencers to be Nature's Ozempic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Reports from some extreme adventurers say that a benevolent presence sometimes appears to provide comfort. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pop culture tells us the famous Norden bombsight from World War II was actually terribly inaccurate. Was it? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This greatest of all imaginable treasures from the Dead Sea Scrolls probably never existed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Is the world record highest air temperature a solid measurement, or might it be invalid? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Are these remarkable stones natural, or proof of an ancient advanced civilization? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Were these two men from an Amazon tribe that had been massacred, or could their story be explained more simply? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look into the origin story of swamp gas as the explanation for UFOs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A roundup of the ways that work — and that don't work — to help a conspiracy theorist free himself from the rabbit hole. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In which I issue yet another round of corrections to past episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Popular wisdom tells us that just touching fentanyl can produce a lethal overdose. What's the fact and what's the fiction? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Are ground sloths that somehow survived their extinction responsible for cryptid sightings in the Amazon? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Did giants really walk the Earth in our recent past? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers a round of student questions recorded during a visit to the College of Central Florida. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers a round of student questions recorded during a visit to the College of Central Florida. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This Bigfoot-like cryptid is said to haunt the swamps of Florida. But has the story been around as long as people think? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Watch out next time you take a poll... is someone trying to learn about you, or manipulate you? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A popular Internet claim asserts that the DNA of the octopus is literally alien in origin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Although the Expanding Earth may seem like a silly conjecture, it was actually one of the leading geophysical models quite recently. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Today's quiz tests whether you've been skeptical of what you think you know about St. Patrick's Day. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Popular tales claim no plants at all will grow inside this round clearing in North Carolina, said to have been made by the Devil himself. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After every earthquake, there's always someone who claims to have predicted it. Is earthquake prediction possible? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The state of the climate so far... how we're doing, and what do we need to work on the most. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

See if you can tell whether each of these popular beliefs about Valentine's Day are true or false. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Is there such a thing as a type of electricity running through your home's wiring that delivers horrific health impacts to anyone living there? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Stories of goat men are all over the world. Why is the Pope Lick goat man disproportionately famous? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Once again we round up the people working hardest to spread misinformation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by friendly folks all over the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some great ways to think about all the current UFO craze. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Was this megalithic site in the South Pacific built by the people who lived there at the time, or by aliens? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In which we wrap up 2022 by letting Skeptoid premium members Ask Me Anything. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The latest form of magnet therapy promises to cure everything from headaches to cancer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Is it true that mosquitoes like some people better than others? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at some of the logically fallacious statements used to sell many of today's most popular products. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The latest news, and some clips, from my indie documentary The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices