Urban legend
What really happened in the case of the Philadelphia Experiment?
According to legend, in 1943 the USS Eldridge disappeared, victim of an experiment gone wrong - but the reality was much more mundane
If you should go at midnight: legends and legend tripping in America
In his new book, sociologist Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl examines 'legend tripping': the adolescent rite of passage of seeking out purported sites of creepy or paranormal experiences
Bizarre double death: spontaneous human combustion, or merely tragic coincidence?
Alice Ann Kirby and her little sister Amy died in separate, mysterious fires - some claim spontaneous human combustion explains the double tragedy
MSG and the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome: the persistence of a nutritional myth
Fears around "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" and MSG are based on a letter to the New English Journal of Medicine... later revealed to be a hoax
The Hairy Hands of Devon: how a tabloid tale spiraled into a full-blown urban legend
Legendary horror stories of monstrously hairy hands sending drivers in Devon to their death can be traced back to a spate of tabloid tales in the 1920s
The return of a myth: Satanic ritual abuse and the sacred status of Argos
In June 2020, the Dutch radio program Argos brought false claims of satanic ritual abuse back into mainstream discourse.
Havana Syndrome: a primer for skeptics in an age of alternative facts
Are the symptoms of so-called Havana Syndrome really caused by secret sonic weapons and covert chemical attacks, or does the answer lie in psychology?
Is there really a recent spike in cases of spiking by injection?
Recent media reporting over the risk of being spiked by injection has caused a great deal of anxiety, without any real evidence that such an epidemic exists.
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