Skeptoid
The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative medicine schemes... Skeptoid has you covered. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred. Weekly since 2006.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 1029
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
Skeptoid #408: 15 Phreaky Phobias
Phobias are irrational, yet the brain surprisingly has a good reason for creating them.
00:13:26 |
Tue 01 Apr 2014
Skeptoid #407: The Death of Mad King Ludwig
What we do and do not know about the mysterious death of Bavaria's Mad King who built castles like Neuschwanstein.
00:12:36 |
Tue 25 Mar 2014
Skeptoid #406: The Disappearance of Glenn Miller
This popular bandleader disappeared over the English Channel during World War II, and here's what happened.
00:12:11 |
Tue 18 Mar 2014
Skeptoid #405: Aromatherapy: Sniffing Essential Oils
If you're expecting the pleasant aroma of certain flowers and herbs to be a medical treatment, you may be disappointed.
00:13:13 |
Tue 11 Mar 2014
Skeptoid #404: The Boggy Creek Monster
The Boggy Creek Monster captured our imaginations, but its true story is even more fascinating.
00:13:03 |
Tue 04 Mar 2014
Skeptoid #403: Out of Place Artifacts
Some objects found around the world seem to defy rational explanation.
00:13:26 |
Tue 25 Feb 2014
Skeptoid #402: Listener Feedback: Ancient Mysteries
I respond to questions and feedback sent in by listeners around the world.
00:12:56 |
Tue 18 Feb 2014
Skeptoid #401: Hemp, Hearst, and Prohibition
A popular urban legend claims that William Randolph Hearst conspired to make cannabis illegal in the United States.
00:13:23 |
Tue 11 Feb 2014
Skeptoid #400: It's Just Science
Some pseudoscience promoters attack the messenger rather than the evidence.
00:03:35 |
Tue 04 Feb 2014
Skeptoid #399: The Moving Coffins of Barbados
An old tale tells of coffins that jumbled themselves up in a crypt in Barbados.
00:12:56 |
Tue 28 Jan 2014
Skeptoid #398: Solving the Lead Masks of Vintem Hill
Two dead bodies were found in Brazil in 1966 with mysterious masks made of lead.
00:12:47 |
Tue 21 Jan 2014
Skeptoid #397: Fukushima vs Chernobyl vs Three Mile Island
Years after the disaster, some claim that Fukushima radiation is still going to cause widespread death.
00:13:54 |
Tue 14 Jan 2014
Skeptoid #396: The Biggest, the Oldest, and the Baddest
A tour of the Earth's biggest, oldest, and most lethal living creatures.
00:14:24 |
Tue 07 Jan 2014
Skeptoid #395: Student Questions: Food Woo, Food Woo, and More Food Woo
Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students, all of them this week pertaining to popular food pseudoscience.
00:12:37 |
Tue 31 Dec 2013
Skeptoid #394: Finding Butch and Sundance
Stories that outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid might have made it back from South America don't hold up.
00:12:10 |
Tue 24 Dec 2013
Skeptoid #393: The Hair of Samson
Hold onto your hats: Growing your hair long will not confer super strength or vitality upon you.
00:11:42 |
Tue 17 Dec 2013
Skeptoid #392: Listener Feedback: Consumer Ripoffs
Skeptoid responds to comments sent in by listeners who don't accept that they've been ripped off.
00:13:37 |
Tue 10 Dec 2013
Skeptoid #391: 8 Secret Bases: Real or Fictional?
Guess which of these secret military bases around the world are real.
00:13:51 |
Tue 03 Dec 2013
Skeptoid #390: The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave
Some say that an early Native American tribe were giant cannibals.
00:12:21 |
Tue 26 Nov 2013
Skeptoid #389: The JFK Assassination
After so many decades, the number of incompatible conspiracy theories about the death of JFK continues to grow.
00:13:33 |
Tue 19 Nov 2013
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