Videos purporting to show the rare natural phenomenon of ball lightning are popping up on social media. Are they real or fake?
Tag: hoaxes
Your friendly neighborhood mon$ter
In a post on Skeptoid blog, I suggest that paranormal-based tourism, such as ghost tours and monster festivals, which are growing in popularity, border on fraud. “Even if there are […]
Chupacabra gets a necropsy: Ben Radford’s new book does the dirty work
We were given a teaser of the stunning new findings about the chupacabra in Ben Radford’s preceding book Scientific Paranormal Investigation, which I reviewed here. I was excited to dig […]
Louisiana Swamp Monster – Hoax
Cryptomundo now has blog entry on the Louisiana Swamp Monster picture that I noticed in the news feed this morning. It took me a total of maybe 5 minutes to […]
Trying to boost your local tourism? Become a hauntrepreneur.
I came across a news story (link broken) about “haunted” Lafayette, Indiana. It’s a typical soft news story about local authors and their new book of collected yarns. It also […]