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This was a fantastic episode, thank you!

I’d love it if Skeptoid would investigate the “CNN ghost attacks reporter on air” story. It’s very compelling but I just don’t believe it.

Also, strictly, nobody "knows" things that are wrong, as "knowing" means a justified *true* belief. It would be more correct to say that people believe things that are wrong. Or maybe you meant it ironically and I missed the intention.

More people should use the word "hydromancy".

really disappointing that you didn't acknowledge Federal Rules of Evidence 702 and Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993) which deals with these issues in practice. Issues from Daubert on the admissibility of scientific evidence (which is always presented by expert testimony): Whether the theory or technique employed by the expert is generally accepted in the scientific community; Whether it has been subjected to peer review and publication; Whether it can be and has been tested; Whether it has a known error rate; and Whether the research was conducted independent of the particular litigation or dependent on an intention to provide the proposed testimony. the purposes of the scientific method and admissibility of forensic evidence are not the same and neither is perfect.

Have heard these misinformation stories since childhood. I really appreciate hearing the more realistic story. Thank you! Obviously the stories are to attract tourists... So who's making all the money now? That's a missing part of your teardown.

Safe to imply, it's a distilled petroleum of some sort. Natural tarpits & alchemy. Slowly heating tar and distilling it's vapors into kerosene or even something closer to gasoline. We have only recently learned how reproduce the infamous, Damascus Steel. It's everywhere now & it's Gorgeous. If they olny had phosphorus back then huh? It can burn through steel.

The real Greek Fire was the friends we made along the way.

NCIS (the TV show) uses the Mass Spectrometer like it’s an evidence microwave.

Hi Brian. My son was born at Ft. Irwin , CA, 37 miles from Barstow, California. I was stationed there for 2 years. We had a number of soldiers that died due to the terrain out there in the high Desert (Mojave).

Very good thank you

As a Californian who loves the history of the gold rush, I've always been curious about the name of Yreka. I've never heard the bakery story, and had always assumed it was some play off the city name, and gold-discovering exclamation, Eureka. But, I find this explanation far more enticing. Thanks for this...

Saying Blavatsky danced close to white supremacy is a wild and unsubstantiated claim. You’d have to make a full study of her worldview to know that.

It's really cool place to drive by and look at on your way to rocky mountain national park where you can camp for much cheaper than it would be to stay at that hotel

I, too, love these dumb little dudes. They're like a parody of a cryptid

Another food source was the bunnies who laid chocolate eggs.

As a previous caretaker of dogs and cats, I now oppose human-nonhuman symbiosis in most cases. It usually is not a great deal for the pet, especially in urban settings. True, allowing these individuals to roam free is usually not a better life for them. Keeping a captive companion may also be harmful to the captor mentally and morally.

Nothing the us needs a president who is gonna enact true justice for Israel’s transgressions against our nation with severe interest

Ugh

Yes, it’s a real tingling sensation on my scalp to my neck. I’ve always experienced it since I was a child when people did certain things. It’s real and it’s wonderful.

Strange Angel was a very interesting series about Jack Parsons and his Occult religion.

The Earth is expanding due to the release of its previous huge atmosphere. It is more less, "decompression" from earlier stages, when Earth was a gas giant. There are four "gas giants" that are in our solar system that are forming new Earths in their interiors right now. The Earth formed under thousands + Gpa (gigapascal), metal and rocks are very compressible under those stresses. Think of gas giants (formerly stars) as giant planet ovens. I hope this helps.

Humans love their woo, be it phrenology, reading tea leaves, using pendulums or whatever nonsense they come up with

The question we should be asking about billionaires is how many billionaires does it take to usurp our democracy. We’ve already seen through history how someone with a lot of money which equals a lot of power i.e. Kellogg has influenced our country. That is the question that we should be looking at and what we can do to prevent those with outsized resources from impacting the rest of us.

Fatima falls under the category of "private revelation", which means that Catholics are not required to believe in it, even though many do. In declaring that Fatima is worthy of belief all the Church is saying here is that there is nothing in the Fatima revelations that goes against the rest of Church teaching so if you want to believe in them, you may. Not every "private revelation" gets Church approval; in fact, there were two in the latter half of the 20th century that were actively condemned by the Church. These were Bayside, New York and Necedah, Wisconsin. In a rare move, the Vatican placed both under interdict, meaning that not only were they were off-limits to Catholics but any Catholic who knowingly traveled to these sites to take part in the activities there was automatically excommunicated. There are other private revelations such as Garabandal and Medjugorje that the Church has not yet made a ruling on one way or another as far as I know. So to recap, all that "worthy of belief" means is that there is nothing contained in this particular revelation that contradicts Catholic teaching; it does not mean you have to believe it to remain a Catholic in good standing. As far as the ones where the jury is still out, again belief is still optional; it is only when the Church has made a ruling that the contents of a particular private revelation is not in compliance with its teachings that it steps in and says, you are not to believe this or to promote it in any way, and again, this is very, very rare. If I recall correctly the problem with both Bayside and Necedah is that the visionaries insisted on promoting their message even after they were ordered to cease and desist by local diocesan authorities. The fact that they willfully defied these authorities is what led the Vatican to step in and take the action it did. Again, extremely rare. What a lot of people might not understand is that there are two types of revelation in the Catholic Church. One is what is called the Deposit of Faith, which includes Scripture, Tradition and the Creeds. Nothing new can be added to this so that even when the Pope makes an ex-cathedra statement of faith and morals it has to build upon and show a connection to what has gone before. These are the core teachings of the Faith which are binding on all Catholics. When it comes to private revelations, however, these are not binding; furthermore it is the CHURCH that determines whether a particular revelation is in line with the rest of what it teaches, not the visionaries. Which is why Sister Lucia had to comply with her superiors when ordered to write down the Fatima "secrets." Had she not done so, Fatima would most likely have been ruled not worthy of belief and anything associated with it put under interdict. Now, was Sister Lucia telling the truth about these events? I'd say she knew which side her bread was buttered on and where not to cross the line regarding Church authority.

seems like the details of the system (storage, pumps, heater, ignitor, etc.) would be state secrets and the particulars lost to time.

Maybe the people who knew how to make it died before they could pass on the secret

That tone would not relax me. Even as it was being played, I was crawling out of my skin.

Funny how all these people who have the secret of immortality seem to just die of old age.

I guess it don’t work for Van Tassel.

A floating mine? I realized, immediately after posting, how unlikely it would be for a mine and a torpedo seconds apart to explode, but it's... possible?

Hmm i think this is Antisemitic

In first shot of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining there was no maze!

I think life just isn't interesting enough for ghosts to exist.

One thing i know , the Catholic church does not take sanctioning miracles lightly. Also , the church at the time ( and even to large extent today ) had access to the best and foremost in thier field , scientiric and medical ( whether they Catholic or not ). So if those scientific and medical experts claimed a miracle they were mistaken ? Just sayin

an experienced or professional poker player can usually read tells, specifically, whether an opponent is lying (bluffing). here's a freebie: talk to an opponent during a hand about anything, maybe about the weather. a player with a strong or made hand (flush or straight) will usually answer in a calm voice because he or she has little to worry about. a player with an potentially winning or guaranteed winner hand that is not presently an odds favorite (the presently unmade hand will lose 4 out of 5 times) will often display a slightly noticeable anxiety. it's not 100% accurate for reasons that should appear obvious, but its relied on by people whose money is at stake where losing is not a theoretical issue solvable by polling kollege kids.

I love the sweatshirt ;)

Did you hear the news Brian? We had disclosure yesterday! Yes, we had a real life former Army Colonel, with credentials out the wazoo say that we have data that the U.S. has had contact with NHI. Former Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet echoed Karls sentiments and said this, “My colleague, retired Army Colonel Karl Nell, gave an exceptional interview at the recent SALT conference. His topic was UAP, formerly UFOs, and he said with 100% certainty that the world is being visited by higher level, non-human intelligence (NHI). I know he is correct with complete certainty.” "Not the first time that Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet has given us confirmation of NHI, verbatim." So there you go, Aliens are visiting and our government knows about it but they are looking for ways of disclosure but now we've had catastrophic and sudden disclosure, so it's all over with, we can go home now. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

... I'm still going with "Aliens" 🎉🍻

I mean, jeez, what a strange conspiracy. So, let's start a new one, 'cause apparently people will believe anything. I propose - 'Airplanes Aren't Real.' Also, Brian... That supposed 'mid Atlantic' speech was incredible. I've often wondered about the nearly 'British' sound of some American actors from early Hollywood. (wish I had an example, but I can't think of one immediately.) This clip reminded me of that. Is there some relation? I'd swear I read about that somewhere, at some point, many many years ago.

I am visually impaired and approximately once a year I get accused of faking my blindness buy some random stranger simply because I have the audacity to be a competent human being It's very frustrating to say the least.

This is worse than the "birds aren't real" conspiracy theory. At least those guys know it's a joke. Or at least, I think they do.

Thanks for putting the premium feed here. I haven’t been able to access it on Apple Podcasts

Thanks 😊

I think that whoever has a security camera placed outside, can observe these things.

Could you do a video on "15 minute cities"

Please do a show on CBD oil. I’d love to hear a segment that separates the facts from the fiction.

Podcaster Jimmy Akin will be doing a program on this story. It will be interesting to get his take also. True, many stories are embellished or fully fictional, and some would seem very true, the former not negating the latter. There is a 'biblical' phrase "to rightly divide the word". This is as one must try to do in considering or examining such stories, as is also said to "test the spirits". Otherwise one might believe anything, true or not.

UFoologists are all liars.

Even people who self report. They aren't sure themselves. Many say "i dont know who my dad is". "My mom was white my dad was Mexican." "My mon was Puerto Rican, my dad was black." Or "my parents are German but they immigrated to Mexico City, and my wife is Indian, as in native american, south of the border" I really see your point ovet "race".....just saying.