Peter Dinklage, who won a best supporting actor Golden Globe award recently, highlighted an attack on a fellow actor which was claimed to have been inspired by the sketchy sport of dwarf tossing. But a closer look reveals there's more (and less) to the story. You can...
Psychology
The Shoot-or-Not Debate in the Bigfoot Community
In the new TV show optimistically titled Finding Bigfoot, a man who claims to have captured a Bigfoot on video complains that even if he got a crystal-clear image of the mysterious beast, no one would accept it. While it's true that a body (live or dead) would be...
State Trooper Mistakes Dog Tails for Deer, Shoots Woman
A woman was mistakenly shot by a hunter while walking her dogs in an accident on New Year's Eve. She was shot by a state trooper--the kind that Bigfoot and UFO believers claim are unusually good eyewitnesses, and the case offers a sobering lesson in psychology. You...
Interviewed by the New York Daily News on 2012 Doomsday…
I was interviewed by a reporter for the New York Daily News about the marketing and commercialization of the 2012 phenomenon. Yep, everbody's cashing in! You can read the story HERE.
Hide Your Daughters! ‘Oily Man’ Monster Stalks Malaysia
What's scarier than Rick Santorum as president? The orang minyak (Malay for "oily man"), a bizarre monster said to abduct young women by night throughout Malaysia. The creature has been occasionally sighted for decades, but never captured.... My article on this...
Astrology, Racism, and Job Discrimination
How is astrology like racism? In many ways, but recently a Chinese company has decided it won't hire people born under two specific sun signs... You can read the story HERE.
Life on The Loch: The Lonely Hunt for Monsters
Steve Feltham’s eyes and smile grow wide when the subject of the Loch Ness monsters comes up. “I think they’re out there, certainly,” he says, though he adds with a hint of sadness that it may not be true for much longer....You can read the story HERE.
Twilight Film Causes Seizures in Epileptics- Pokemon Revisited
A scene in the latest installment of the Twilight franchise has reportedly been causing viewers across the country to have seizures. I investigated the "original" and best known case of photosensitive epilepsy in 2001. You can read the story HERE.
New Phoenix Lights UFO Mystery Solved
On Friday night Oct. 28, four bright lights were seen and videotaped during a high school football game in Scottsdale, Ariz., near Phoenix. The strange lights, which were seen by hundreds of people and videotaped by at least two of them, seemed to move slowly in the...
Sexual Harassment in Schools Survey: Analysis of Alarmism
I recently heard about a new report claiming that half of students in grades 7 through 12 reported being sexually harassed in school. Having analyzed many media claims before (and written a book titled Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers...