Skeptoid

The Grand Duchess Anastasia did not survive her family's 1918 execution, and did not go on to live in the US.

A look at the possibility that legends of Haitian zombies may have a grain of truth.

A comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports of a brush with the afterlife.

The facts behind the stories of military dolphins trained to attack divers and plant mines on ships.

Westerners' belief that Chinese have long relied on alternative medicine is due in part to clever book publishers.

People can catch on fire… and there doesn't seem to be anything too mysterious about any given case.

This secret government lab was said to create genetic mutants. Here's what they actually did.

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

Popular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. The science behind it is less than compelling.

American POW/MIAs are probably not still being held captive inside Vietnam.

The 1996 mass murder in Tasmania was not secretly a plot by the government to get firearms banned.

The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book.

Skeptoid answers more listener feedback. Recorded live at the 250th Episode party.

A trip through the centuries to see how human knowledge is reflected through music.

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

Exorcisms are a brutal torture ritual with no hope of actually helping a person who believes themselves possessed.

This famous story of God once healing an amputee falls apart under historical scrutiny.

Skeptoid revisits another batch of episodes with errors, and rights the wrongs.

Historians actually have a pretty complete picture of what happened to the "missing" Roanoke colonists.

Atmospheric smoke from a nuclear war would not result in devastating global cooling.