What's the real science behind all the popular UFO claims on television?

What's the true history behind today's growing beliefs in Atlantis, the flat earth theory,

and ancient aliens? And when you take away the media hype, what do scientists really say

about COVID-19 and global warming?

Since 2006, the Skeptoid podcast has been revealing the true science, true history, and true facts

behind nearly a thousand of our most popular urban legends and mysteries.

Each episode of Skeptoid looks at a famous story you know and reveals the part of it you haven't heard.

Check out episodes covering mysteries such as popular ghost stories, famous UFO cases,

alternative science claims, cryptids and urban legends, or conspiracy theories.

Find out why the truth behind these popular legends is even more interesting.

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Skeptoid, critical analysis of pop phenomena.

Your hands are clenched with fear.

Your heart is beating fast, and your eyes are squeezed shut.

You know you should open them, but you're too scared of what you might see when you do.

You don't know where you've just arrived, but you do know when.

And you've been dreading your visit to this period.

You're in the late Cretaceous, around 70 million years ago.

It's a time that's infamous for being home to some of the biggest and baddest predators that the world ever saw,

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