Looks like Ken Gerhard and I are quoted in a news story about the chupacabra legend.... Check it out HERE! Plus of course you can also read more in my book on the topic!
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Squaring the Strange # 140: Steve Kulls and the Georgia Bigfoot Body Hoax
For those who didn't see it, in the recent episode of Squaring the Strange we talk with Bigfoot investigator Steve Kulls, who shares with us his tenets of research and then discusses his role in uncovering the Georgia Bigfoot body hoax of 2008--a tale involving a...
Pepe The Frog, Feels Good Man, And The Treachery Of Images
The new documentary Feels Good Man, directed by Arthur Jones, tells the strange story of how an otherwise obscure and innocuous frog cartoon character became a symbol of hate. The frog in question is named Pepe, created by an unassuming, otherwise unknown...
Quoted by McGill University’s Office for Science and Society on… Twin Telepathy!
I'm quoted in an article from McGill University's Office for Science and Society on the topic of... alleged twin telepathy. As one is.... You can read it HERE. You can find more on me and my work with a search for "Benjamin Radford" (not "Ben...
My Chapter on Vaccination Controversies…
That time I wrote a chapter in a book on vaccination controversies...
My tribute to the Amazing Randi
I'm delighted to join Margaret Downey, Chip Taylor, Leonard Tramiel, Jim Underdown, Celestia Ward, Penn & Teller, Jamy Ian Swiss, Richard Saunders, Angie Mattke, Susan Gerbic, Geo Hrab, Brian Engler, and many others in offering our remembrances of our colleague,...
Squaring the Strange #164: Moral Panic Series Part 3: Film and TV Danger!
This penultimate episode in our moral panic series starts with a discussion of the TikTok worries that interrupted schools last week as authorities braced for possible gun violence. Then we talk cinema and television from old to new, and the themes in moral panicking...
“Big–If True: Adventures in Oddity” Available in Paperback and Kindle!
Pleased to announce that my new book 'Big-- If True: Adventures in Oddity' is now available in paperback and Kindle. Please check it out if you feel so inclined! You can get it HERE!
‘Why Are You Asking?’ Reporting The Black Santa Story
In a previous blog I discussed my research into an ugly episode of racial hatred that tainted the 2016 holiday season. The Mall of America hired its first African-American Santa Claus, an Army veteran named Larry Jefferson. A local newspaper, the Minneapolis Star...
Squaring the Strange #135 – Investigative Skepticism with Kenny Biddle
"This episode we discuss the otherworldly monolith that's popped up in a remote part of Utah, and Ben shares another in his series of "used book mysteries," this one perfectly timed for the election. For our main segment, we have a lengthy discussion with newly minted...