All Episodes
Squaring the Strange — 295 episodes
Episode 288 - Dragon Con, 9-11 and Sci-Fi Skepticism with Paul and Andy
Episode 287 - Roswell Rods, a.k.a. Skyfish
Episode 286 - Bob Nygaard, psychic-busting investigator
Episode 285 - Grab Bag! Jimothy and Dr. Fauci walk into a bar...
Episode 284 - Author Elizabeth Shreeve on Dinosaurs to Dragons
Episode 283 - A skeptical look at Americana
Episode 282 - CSI Con in Buffalo: 50 years of skepticism... plus a folklore con!
Episode 281 - Glowing Aerial Jellyfish? Ben revisits the Pachacamac Video mystery
Episode 280 - Conspiracy rumors about Trump staging his assassination attempts
Episode 279 - SkeptiCamps and Mini-Cons, a breakdown and how-to
Episode 278 - WTF is up with Bigfoot?! With Matt Crowley and Sharon Hill
Episode 277 - Your Brain on Caricature, with Jacob Shaw
Episode 276 - Micronation Machinations
Episode 275 - Bigfoot Bombshell and Leo Igwe on fighting witchcraft accusations in Africa
Episode 274 - Houses after the haunting, with Kenny Biddle
Episode 273: Grab Bag! Ugly Veggies, Elk Death Conspiracy Redux & Inspirational Glurge
Episode 272 - The Data Drought with Kyle Polich
Episode 271 - What can the Taos Hum teach us?
Episode 270 - Listener Questions and Looking Back at 2025
Episode 269: Fluoride fallacies and dentistry weirdness with Dr. Grant Ritchey, DDS
Episode 268 - Daniel Reed on Vegetable Man and Gray Barker
Episode 267 - Billionaire Boogeymen with Brian Dunning
Episode 266 - Jon Michael visits, plus corporate lore and legends!
Episode 265 - The Alleged ghosts of the Territorial House, with Cody Polston
Episode 264 - SCAMPOCALYPSE with Brian Brushwood
Episode 263 - The Tylenol Presser and Sailing Stones with Brian Dunning
Episode 262 - Bigfoot Tracks with Matt Crowley
Episode 261 - Hobos, Swingers and Masons: Secret Signs in Plain Sight
Episode 260 - Food History and Flavor Myths with Sarah Lohman
Episode 259 - The Columbus poltergeist case, with Kenny Biddle
Episode 258 - A ship of skeptics in the Bermuda Triangle!
Episode 257 - A Skepticism Chat with Susan Gerbic
Episode 256 - Look Into My Eyes with Richard Saunders
Episode 255 - Phantom Attackers with Robert Bartholomew
Episode 254 - Grimoires with Owen Davies
Episode 253 - Pascual's farewell and the Berkshire UFO Abduction Incident
Episode 252 - Acronyms, Bacronyms and Questionable Etymologies
Episode 251 - Incredible tales of survival!
Episode 250 - Cryptids go Pop! with Sharon Hill
Episode 249 - Grab bag: Remembering Joe Nickell, real-time folklore, "transgender mice," and RFK Jr. vs. measles
Episode 248 - Furries with Gail De Vos
Episode 247 - Love Lies and Potions
Episode 246 - Pop psych, superstitions, and luck with Stuart Vyse
Episode 245 - Maligning the BMI: What is Body Mass Index for?
Episode 244 - New Year's Day rituals, our yearly wrap-up, and some minor castration confusion
Episode 243 - Drones and Christmas Folklore
Episode 242 - FAIKs and Faiklore with Perry Carpenter
Episode 241 - Wildfire Conspiracies with Gail de Vos
Episode 240 - A second Trump term has skeptics worried
Episode 239: Halloween sadists with Joel Best & zombie evolution with Mikel Koven
Episode 238 - Electric vehicle mayhem with Brian Dunning
Episode 237 - Watery Weirdness
Episode 236 - Pet Rumors and Catching Up with Kenny Biddle
Episode 235 - Black Dog Folklore with Mark Norman
Episode 234 - Hoofed Beasts: Pegasus, Unicorns, and Centaurs!
Episode 233 - Sensed Presence Effect: Imaginary Friends When You Need Them Most
Episode 232 - Brace yourselves. We talk politics.
Episode 231 - Monster Hunts, then and now, with Daniel Loxton
Episode 230 - Pseudoarchaeology and Misinformation in Chicano Studies, with Kurly Tlapoyawa
Episode 229 - Skepticamp, Spiders, and the West Palm Beach Killer Clown Case
Episode 228 - The Science of Weird Sh!t, with Chris French
Episode 227 - Book bans, then and now
Episode 226 - Dim Mak "the death touch" with Peter Huston
Episode 225 - The folklore of Scooby Doo, with Mark Norman
Episode 224.5 - Bonus episode! Our 6th anniversary!
Episode 224 - A Grab Bag of Springtime Skepticism
Episode 223 - Deception Studies with Curt Anderson
Episode 222 - Modifying the Weather
Episode 221 - What Giant Penguins Can Teach Us, with Daniel Loxton
Episode 220 - You are gonna believe this: Truth Default Theory
Episode 219 - Ai yie yie! AI Roundtable with Kyle Polich
Episode 218 - Requiem for Bigfoot
Episode 217 - Dark Play with Libby Tucker
Episode 216 - Absinthe, Murder and Panic
Episode 215 - Dallas Zoo Animal Disappearances, with Kristina Downs
Episode 214 - Gargoyles!
Episode 213 - Gef the Talking Mongoose, with Sharon Hill
Episode 212 - The Rise and Fall of Slenderman, with Andrea Kitta
Episode 211 - SWAYSO Grab Bag and DragonCon Live!
Episode 210 - The UFO movie THEY don't want you to see, with Brian Dunning
Episode 209 - Agritainment and rural haunts with Betty Aquino
Episode 208 - Feral kids, for real, kids?
Episode 207 - Legend Tripping with Jeff Debies-Carl
Episode 206 - We are Barbie, and Barbie is us
Episode 205 - Banachek on Randi, Project Alpha and the New York Times
Episode 204 - Of Submersibles and Cybermyths
Episode 203 - The Dover Demon
Episode 202 - Reincarnation Ruminations
Episode 201 - Miraculous Chimayo
Episode 200 - Circus of the Scars
Episode 199 - Richard Saunders and the Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project
Episode 198 - Rabbit Roundup! Folklore, Horror, and Fertility
Episode 197 - Peter Ash of Under the Same Sun
Episode 196 - News Grab Bag and Ben's Time in Malawi
Episode 195 - The Bible Code Resurfaces, with David Thomas
Episode 194 - The Missing 411 with Kyle Polich
Episode 193 - Coke + Folklore = Cokelore!
Episode 192 - Romance Scams with Wendy Hughes
Episode 191 - Predictions, Mistakes and Films
Episode 190 - Vile Vans and Sinister Sedans: Vehicular Vernacular in Folklore
Episode 189 - "AI Cryptid" Loab and Lesser-known Lake Monsters
Episode 188 - Reading between the Ley Lines
Episode 187 - The Curious Case of Dr. Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA, with guest Sharon Hill
Episode 186 - Our Scary Favorites
Episode 185: Dr. Stan Stepanic on Vampires
Episode 184 - Djinnception and Pirates!
Episode 183 - Secrets of the Coral Castle
Episode 182 - "America the Fearful," with Ben Radford!
Episode 181 - Hey, What Happened to My Penis? Koro Happened.
Episode 180 - Burn Baby Burn . . . Effigies!
Episode 179 - Deviant Death Rites and Bizarre Burials
Episode 178 - You Don't Know Jack (alopes)! Michael Branch and the Art of the Hoax
Episode 177 - Field Trip to Bagansland with Susan and Kenny!
Episode 176 - Mass Shootings and Media Literacy
Episode 175 - Dangers of DIY Baby Formula and Herbal Abortions
Episode 174 - A Musical History of the Devil
Episode 173 - Alien Implants
Episode 172 - Stigmata and Stigmatics
Episode 171 - Deathbed Confessions, Real and Rumored
Episode 170 - Pet Psychics and Psychic Pets
Episode 169 - Levitation and the Indian Rope Trick (with Prof. Richard Wiseman)
Episode 168 - Sex Urban Legends (with opener guest Russ Dobler)
Episode 167 - Bob Larson, the D-List Demon Dispatcher
Episode 166 - 2021 Skeptical Movie Roundup!
Episode 165 - Moral Panic Series Part 4: LITERATURE AND COMIC DANGER!
Episode 164 - Moral Panic Series Part 3: Film and TV Danger!
Episode 163 - Moral Panic series part 2: MUSIC DANGER!
Episode 162 - Moral Panics Series Part 1: GAME DANGER!
Episode 161 - Magician Roundtable!
Episode 160 - The Entity with Kenny Biddle
Ep. 159 - Havana Syndrome with Robert Bartholomew
Episode 158 - Magic Cards: Decks of Divination and Deception
Episode 157 - The Aztec UFO Crash with Dave Thomas
Episode 156 - Thylacines with Folklorist Daisy Ahlstone
Episode 155 - The Soothing Sounds of Woo: Vibrational and Sound Healing
Episode 154 - Fishy, Fraudulent Food
Episode 153 - Brian Regal Talks Pseudoscience and Pseudohistory
Episode 152 - Feelin' Hot, Hot, Hot: Spontaneous Human Combustion
Episode 151 - Mick West and UFO video analysis
Episode 150 - Mysterious Masked Musicians
Episode 149 - The Beast of Gévaudan with Jay Smith
Episode 148 - Steak-Umms' tweets of reason, and the 2001 Monkey Man Panic!
Episode 147 - Brian Regal and the Secret History of the Jersey Devil
Episode 146 - 666, the Number / Mark of the Beast
Episode 145 - Bottomless Pits and Spooky Geology with Sharon Hill
Episode 144 - Prof. Jeannie Banks Thomas and the SLAP test
Episode 143 - Merfolklore, Merfact, and Merfiction
Episode 142 - Crankery and Notable Cranks
Episode 141 - The Crying Boy Curse, with David Clarke
Episode 140 - Steve Kulls and the Georgia Bigfoot Body Hoax
Episode 139 - 2020 Hindsight!
Episode 138 - Insurrection Wednesday and an Antivax Primer
Episode 137 - Musical Legend Grab Bag
Episode 136 - Revisiting Dr. Leo Igwe on Witchcraft Persecution in Africa
Episode 135 - Investigative Skepticism with Kenny Biddle
Episode 134 - The Ghost Army and Military Deception, with Col. Francis Park, Ph.D.
Episode 133 - A History of Contacting the Dead
Episode 132 - Pop Music Plagiarism, from Vanilla Ice to Alien Globolinks
Episode 131 - Baby Lake & Sea Monsters
Episode 130 - The Bangladesh Toilet Ghost: A Study in Mass Hysteria
Episode 129 - Faked Abductions
Episode 128 - ¡Feliz Cumpleaños, el Chupacabra!
Episode 127 - Susan Gerbic on Misinfo, Wikipedia, and Psychic Shananigans
Bonus Episode - Rumor Roundup!
Episode 126 - Strangeness Set in Stone: Mysterious Statues
Episode 125 - Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's Covid-1999
Episode 124 - Antifa as an Emergent Panic
Episode 123 - Snuff Films with Erik Kristopher Myers
Episode 122 - Plant Folklore (Bring Us a Shrubbery!)
Episode 121, Noah Nez, Native Skeptic
Episode 120 - Emery Emery on Science Friction
Episode 119 - Poll Lotta BS
Episode 118 - Our Third Anniversary! (While Sheltered in Place)
Episode 117 - Testing Psychic Detectives in Real Time, part 2
Episode 116 - Testing Psychic Detectives in Real Time, part 1
Episode 115 - A Few Angles on the Bermuda Triangle
Episode 114 - The Minnesota Iceman with Ron Pine
Episode 113 - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Myths & Misinfo, Plus a Virus Lesson from Doctor Dan
Episode 112 - Literary Hoaxes, part 1 of ?
Episode 111 - The Mothman
Episode 110 - The Head Show
Episode 109 - Penis Castles, Teletubby Purses, and Suicidal Larpers
Episode 108 - Dangers and Consequences of Ghost Hunting
Episode 107 - Crystal Skullduggery
Episode 106 - Leo Igwe on Modern Witchcraft Accusations
Episode 105 - Pop Culture and Music in the Shadow of the Satanic Panic
Episode 104 - A Brief History of Clown Panics
Episode 103 - Mysterious Animal Deaths and the Great Elk Murder Conspiracy
Episode 102 - Alienstock, Joker Fears, Homicidal Dwarves, and the Ica Stones
Episode 101 - Vaccines with Dr. Hans House and Academic Snake Oil with Kenny Biddle
Episode 100 - "Alienstock" and Numerology
Episode 99 - Movie Curses with Erik Kristopher Myers
Bonus Mini-Not-So-Mini-Episode!
Episode 98 - Talking Bigfoot Conferences and the Skookum Cast with Matt Crowley
Episode 97 - The Dancing Coffins of Chase Vault
Episode 96 - Organ Theft Tales
Episode 95 - MLMania!
Episode 94 - Psychic Hot Takes on the Holly Bobo Case
Episode 93 - Grab Bag!
Episode 92 - The Skinny on Djinn
Episode 91 - eHarmony Dissonance
Episode 90 - Doppelgangers, They're Just Like Us!
Episode 89 - Some Sketchy Psychological Tests
Episode 88 - Bad Cryptozoological Arguments and What They Can Teach Us
Episode 87 - Momo & Part 2 of Enter the Warren-verse!
Episode 86 - Psychic Sting and the Ballad of Ed & Lorraine Warren, part 1
Episode 85 - Snake Squeezins and Other Oily Elixirs
Episode 84 - Hyman's Proper Criticism
Episode 83 - Ogopogo-a-go-go
Episode 82 - Grab Bag 2018
Episode 81 - But Won't Someone Think of the Children?
Episode 80 - Harold Camping's Apocalypse Countdown
Episode 80 - Harold Camping's Apocalypse Countdown
Episode 79 - Challenges of the Million Dollar Challenge
Episode 78 - Bigfoot on Film
Episode 77 - Halloween History, Hell Houses, and Scares!
Episode 77 - Halloween History, Hell Houses, and Scares!
Episode 76 - Human Barbie and Other Plastic Tales
Episode 75 - Escaping the Rabbit Hole with Mick West
Episode 75 - Escaping the Rabbit Hole with Mick West
Episode 74 - The Pokemon Panic
Episode 73 - Skeptical Burnout
Episode 72 - Ghost Trains
Episode 71 - The Brown Recluse and Arachnopanic
Episode 70 - Guests in Spaaaaaaace . . .
Episode 70 - Guests in Spaaaaaaace . . .
Episode 69 - Have You Seen the Toucan Man?
Episode 68 - Going Wild with Animal Abilities
Episode 67 - Woo to Expect When You're Expecting
Episode 66 - Unraveling the "Best Case" for Psychic Detectives
Episode 65 - All About the Benjamins
Episode 64 - Butterfly Kisses with Erik Kristopher Myers
Episode 63 - A Sundry Sack of Skepticism
Episode 62 - Movie Myths and More
Episode 61 - The Pulse Nightclub Attack
Episode 60 - Pseudo-experiments: Less-than-Credible Gimmicks as "Science"
Episode 59 - Music Myths with Kyle Konkiel of Bad Wolves
Episode 58 - Does It Make Yanny Sense? How Our Senses Fail Us
Episode 57 - Zombies Sans Apocalypse
Episode 56 - Search, Research, and Re-Research!
Episode 55 - The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Near Death Experiences
Episode 54 - School Shooting Conspiracy Rumors and the People Who Perpetuate Them
Episode 53 - Going Guerrilla with Susan Gerbic
Episode 52 - Strangerversary Spectacular!
Episode 51 - Lookin' for Loot in All the Wrong Places
Episode 50 - Adventures in Boogeysitting
Episode 49 - Good Times with Pink Slime
Episode 48 - It's Coelacanth, Not Coelacan't
Episode 47 - Getting Scientifical with Sharon A. Hill
Episode 46 - Misleading Documentaries
Episode 45 - Kuchisake-Onna
Episode 44 - The Miraculous Staircase
Episode 43 - On Being Believed
Episode 42 - Investigating Ghosts
Episode 41 - Good. Bad. I'm the Guide With the Tour.
Episode 40 - Curses Foiled Again!
Episode 39 - A Diet High in Skepticism
Episode 38 - Bro-science with The Credible Hulk
Episode 37 - Logical Fallacies
Episode 36 - The Importance of Replication
Episode 35 - Champ's no Chump: The Best Evidence for Lake Monsters
Episode 34 - This is an Outrage!!!
Episode 33 - "They" Divide and Conquer
Episode 32 - Practical Skepticism
Episode 31 - Our Skeptic Heroes
Episode 30 - Halloween Horrors and Hoaxes
Episode 29 - Bad Clowns
Episode 28 - Ghost Lovin'
Episode 27 - Chupacabra Cha Cha
Episode 26 - Live from the Apocalypse!
Episode 25 - Conspiracy Theories THEY Don't Want You to Know About
Episode 24 - The Copycat Effect
Episode 23 - Allegedly Psychic
Episode 22 - Time Travel and Bubonicon
Episode 21 - Never Sleep Again
Episode 20 - Deadly Urban Legends
Episode 19 - Mixed Bag of Tricks
Episode 18 - Chewing the Fat on GMOs
Episode 17 - Legal Skepticism with Andrew Torrez
Episode 16 - The Lizard Man of Scape Ore
Episode 15 - In Defense of Pedantry
Episode 14 - Stonehenge Surprise: The Best Case for Crop Circles
Episode 13 - Uphill Both Ways
Episode 12 - The Mirror in the Last Haunted House
Episode 11 - Gambling Superstitions with Celestia
Episode 10 - Of Emperors and Clothes
Episode 9 - Until the Light Takes Us
Episode 8 - Popobawa-da-vida
Episode 7 - Stop, Corroborate and Listen
Episode 6 - Roswell That Ends Well
Episode 5 - The Rolling Calf
Episode 4 - The White Witch of Rose Hall
Episode 3 - Psychics
Episode 2 - What Are We Skeptical About?
Episode 1 - Hoaxes