Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and "Investigative Files" Columnist for Skeptical Inquirer. A former stage magician, private investigator, and teacher, he is author of numerous books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1998), Pen, Ink and Evidence (2003), Unsolved History (2005) and Adventures in Paranormal Investigation (2007). He has appeared in many television documentaries and has been profiled in The New Yorker and on NBC's Today Show. His personal website is at joenickell.com.
The Real Secrets of Fatima
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.6, November / December 2009
Investigative Files
Among the intriguing mysteries of modern Catholocism are the "miracles" and "secrets" supposedly imparted by the Virgin Mary...
Deflating the Balloon-Boy Tale
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
October 28, 2009
Publicity seeker may get what’s coming to him.‘Paranormal Activity’: Fright on the Cheap
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October 20, 2009
Talk About Low Budget!Body Worlds and Leonardo
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October 16, 2009
Body Worlds exhibition draws religious ire, scientific praise.British Apology to Codebreaker
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October 12, 2009
Two Who Marched with King
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October 1, 2009
Ghost Hunters Spooked at Dragon*Con
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September 24, 2009
Angry response reveals emotional basis of belief in ghosts.Angels-Magazine Stories
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September 18, 2009
Angels on Earth is weak in critical thinking.Reflections on Dragon*Con 2009
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September 16, 2009
Creationists Tout “Nessie”
Free Thinking (centerforinquiry.net)
September 9, 2009
An evangelical course treats the Loch Ness Monster as fact.The Man Who Sold Bigsuit
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September 2, 2009
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The Questionable Research of Hans Holzer, Dean of Ghost Hunters (1920-2009)
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.5, September / October 2009
News & Comment
During the second half of the twentieth "Dr." Hans Holzer, a self-styled parapsychologist who died April 2, 2009, at the age...
Pirates’ Ghosts: Aar-r-gh!
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.5, September / October 2009
Investigative Files
They embody legend: romantic, swashbuckling, heroic figures--enchanting rogues whose ghosts eternally guard their buried...
John Calvin and the Shroud of Turin
Skeptical Briefs Volume 19.3, September 2009
Investigative Files
While writing an introduction for an edition of John Calvin’s 1543 Treatise on Relics, I became intrigued by a little mystery...
Vatican Miracle Game
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August 25, 2009
Medical science shortchanged by miracle claim.Encountering ‘Aliens in the Attic’
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August 21, 2009
Paleontologists Tour “Creationist Disneyland”
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August 14, 2009
Great Quackery Collector Dead
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August 4, 2009
Olgierd Lindan, freethinker and quackbuster, dies at 95.Thought-Reader Banachek
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July 30, 2009
Famous ‘Psychic’ Blindsided
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July 10, 2009
Rosemary Altea fails to “see” self being scammed.Crop Circles Evolve
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July 3, 2009
England’s crop-circle formations prompt an iconological study.Quest for the Giant Eel
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.4, July / August 2009
Investigative Files
On a six-day trip to the Canadian province of Newfoundland in Labrador, I encountered some very large creatures...
The Child Preachers
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June 25, 2009
Bigfoot and ETs: Developing Mythologies
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June 22, 2009
We watch as mythologies develop for our times.“Champ” Sighting Solved?
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June 9, 2009
“Is Anybody There?”
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June 3, 2009
Movie with Michael Caine skirts the Great Beyond.Available in the Print Edition. Subscribe Here.
Cardiff’s Giant Hoax
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
Book Review
Review of A Colossal Hoax: The Giant from Cardiff that Fooled America by Scott Tribble
Demons in Connecticut
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 33.3, May / June 2009
Investigative Files
Take a house reeking of death, bring in a "demonologist," commission a professional writer to enhance the alleged events...
The Image of Edessa Revealed
Skeptical Briefs Volume 19.2, June 2009
Investigative Files
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Among certain reputedly miraculous images of Jesus was the Image of Edessa, known later to the Byzantines as the Mandylion.
