With statues being front and center in the news earlier this month, we decided to take a few tours of the stranger side of statues. From graveyard statues that take strolls when you're not looking to spooky statues that allegedly can't be photographed. Myths involving...
Urban legends
Squaring the Strange: Rumor Roundup!
New, bonus episode of Squaring the Strange is now out! We present to you a rumor roundup, talking about all sorts of weird--and sometimes harmful--nonsense that's swirling around social media these days. A veritable cornucopia of rumor and myth, ranging from Wayfair...
Squaring the Strange # 124: Snuff Films: Menace or Myth?
The recent episode of Squaring the Strange is out! This time around we examine the legend of snuff films--movies in which one or more of the actors are (really) killed! We are joined by filmmaker and encyclopedia of weird film knowledge Erik Kristopher Myers....
Squaring the Strange #122: Plant Folklore
If you need a break from the cornucopia of bad news, check out Squaring the Strange!. We chat about the passing of a physicist who explored popular sports illusions, and attempting to get answers from the "Plandemic" filmmaker. Then we cover a veritable salad of flora...
Squaring the Strange # 123: Truth and Myths of Snuff Films
In the new episode of Squaring the Strange, we are joined by filmmaker and encyclopedia of weird film knowledge Erik Kristopher Myers. The notion of a "snuff film" is a strange convergence of conspiracy thinking, urban legend, moral panic, and actual film trivia,...
Are People Really Having ‘Coronavirus Parties’?
So this is cool... I'm quoted in a recent article in Rolling Stone about rumors of "coronavirus parties." ...
Reopening the Chase Vault Mystery
The current issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine features an investigation I did into a famous mystery, the Chase Vault in Barbados. Coffins were said to have mysteriously moved while sealed in the vault, attributed to curses, ghosts, flooding, and more. ...
On Russian TV Talking Monsters! “Не факт! Фантастические твари.”
For my Russian-speaking friends, I present my appearance on a Russian television show talking about monster folklore. Though Moscow paid for it, I promise my part (around 19 minutes in) is not Putin's dezinformatsiya, and I got no Shill Rubles for it! You can see it...
Squaring the Strange # 110: The Head Show
The new episode of Squaring the Strange is out, it's "The Head Show!" It's all about heads--too many and too few. Folklore about multi-headed or headless monsters, multi-headed people throughout history, beheadings, experiments on heads, and shrunken heads. Oh, and...
‘Wrinkles the Clown’ Now on DVD and Streaming
If you missed the 2019 documentary I'm in, "Wrinkles the Clown," it's now available on DVD and streaming. It's a fascinating look at a real-life evil clown hired by parents to scare kids--or maybe something else entirely... More info is HERE!