The author aims to solve the mystery of the chupacabra--a blood-sucking beast whose origins are in Latin America--parsing through eyewitness accounts, looking at forensic analysis and exploring the cu
Radford (managing editor, Skeptical Inquirer ) decries the American media culture as one filled with lies, deceptions, and just plain meaninglessness. He comments about everything from smaller candy
New Mexico's twin traditions of the scientific and the supernatural meet for the first time in this long-overdue book by a journalist known for investigating the unexplained. Strange tales of ghosts,
Radford seeks to provide a well-researched, scholarly resource on evil, malicious, devious, and, in general, bad clowns throughout history and across the globe. While several different “bad clown” arc
For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world -- from America to Africa, Argentina to Scotland -- have reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that surface briefly, only to quick
Although the best-known media-fueled hoax of the early 20th century was the 1938 Orson Welles radio drama of a Martian invasion, the first incident was actually the London Riot hoax, which began with
The methods of critical thinking are described in the initial chapter, followed by a series of odd stories (here called case studies), that show what happens when people succumb to mob mentality and r
