StS Episode 78: Bigfoot on Film
Episode Summary: Award-winning filmmaker Erik Kristopher Myers joins Ben and Celestia to discuss Bigfoot on film. Starting with a quick analysis of the famous and most influential Bigfoot film, the…
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StS Episode 77: Halloween History, Hell Houses, and Scares!
Episode Summary: Celestia reports back from her hurried day at CSI con, and Ben recounts a news story about a graveyard dowser. Then we look at Halloween subjects: what are…
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StS Episode 76: Human Barbie and Other Plastic Tales
Episode Summary: First, Ben examines some disturbing consequences to child abduction rumors on a popular app in India and Mexico. Then we look at modern plastic surgery oddities and, specifically,…
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StS Episode 75: Escaping the Rabbit Hole with Mick West
Episode Summary: This week Ben and Celestia recount some woo encounters “in the field” that, for a few reasons, they chose not to battle. Then for our main topic we…
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StS Episode 74: The Pokemon Panic
Episode Summary: This week we start with a quick look at a dog-buys-cookies story that took Celestia down a path of searching out pet videos and, finally, reading about whether…
Read MoreStS Episode 73: Skeptical Burnout
Episode Summary: This week we start with an announcement and then a look at a Bridezilla tale and a psychic mountain lion encounter. Then Ben, Celestia, and Pascual discuss skeptical…
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StS Episode 72: Ghost Trains
Episode Summary: This week we start with a discussion of Spike Lee’s Black Klansman movie and the notion of holding narrative movies “based on” real events to some imagined standard…
Read MoreStS Episode 71: The Brown Recluse and Arachnopanic
Episode Summary: We start with a look at some so-called logos unveiled as a fundraiser and compare them to NASA’s logo to see how a real Space Force manages branding.…
Read MoreStS Episode 70: Guests in Spaaaaaaace . . .
Episode Summary: This week is a potpourri of space and sci-fi strangeness, starting with a look back (and forward) at Project Blue Book, the Air Force study of UFO sightings…
Read MoreStS Episode 69: Have You Seen the Toucan Man?
This week Celestia is skeptical of Rule 34, as even creatures that don’t really exist are making news this week for being in porn. Ben takes us on a quasi-serious…
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