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This procedure promising facial rejuvenation is basically a full face tattoo of your own blood.
A bizarre subculture of Helen Keller Truthers believe that she was either faking her deafblindness or even that she didn't exist at all.
A roundup of 15 common myths about coffee. Which ones had you always believed?
Skeptoid answers another round of listener feedback questions.
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The story goes that this stone covered with Viking runes was found in a Minnesota field in 1898. Its true history is much more interesting.
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A close look at where recycling of some common materials is actually at these days.
It's time once again for Skeptoid to correct another round of errors in previous shows.
Some say creepy children with huge balloon heads stalk the woods at night, waiting to attack you.
The not-so-famous UFO case that caused the US Congress to spend millions of taxpayer dollars.
This controversial treatment for PTSD involves moving the eyes side to side.
Part 3 in our roundup of scientists who took the ultimate plunge and experimented on themselves.
In 2006, a flying saucer spent minutes literally hovering right above Chicago's O'Hare International Airport... so the story goes.
Can everything important about you and those you interact with be boiled down to a single digit?
What were these early UFOs that chased and harried World War II fighter pilots?
Were two waves of ax murders in the American south in the early 20th century truly associated with Louisiana Voodoo?
Proponents of alien visitation often claim the Alcubierre drive makes faster than light possible. Here's why it can't exist.
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