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Dans le cadre de mes recherches bibliographiques autour de l'émission radio La Guerre des Mondes d'Orson Welles, j'ai terminé la lecture de "The Martians Have Landed! A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes". Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de Robert E. Bartholomew et de Benjamin Radford.

A man visiting British Columbia's Lake Okanagan last week claims to have captured video of Ogopogo, Canada's version of the Loch Ness Monster.

One of the interesting things in skeptical research to see is how (or whether) skeptical investigations make it into the mainstream literature. After all, it's all well and good for skeptics to know that a case has been solved, but the real benefit is when the greater public realizes it.

The experiences aren't paranormal, but are manifestations of brain function gone awry, says research.

What more do you want? The person was there, he saw who did it, and unless he's a proven liar the case is closed. Except it's not.

A Texas teenager claims to have killed el chupacabra, but has he actually committed a felony?

It sounds like the stuff of urban legend, but it's horrifically true: An Ohio woman killed her baby in a microwave oven after an argument with her boyfriend. China Arnold was convicted last week of aggravated murder in the death of her daughter Paris, who was not yet a month old when she died.

Just before Christmas 1997, tens of thousands of Japanese schoolkids tuned in to watch the latest TV episode of the cartoon series Pokémon, and thousands of them fainted and were hospitalised. Ben Radford conducts a postmortem on one of the most extensive cases of ‘mass hysteria’ in recent years.

Many people claim to have grown up hearing about the vampire el chupacabra. Did they?

Everyone knows that the Chupacabra, or goatsucker, is a terrifying bipedal livestock vampire who lives in Puerto Rico. But what if... the Chupacabra wasn't real? And what if... it were actually Natasha Henstridge from the 1995 sci-fi horror movie Species?