Time once again to clean up the mess I've made.

On a podcast that talks about a different urban legend every week, so much information

comes through on so many disparate subjects that I'm bound to get a few facts wrong.

Today, we've got some corrections on the vanishing village of Lake Angiakuni, the disappearance

of young Australian pilot Frederick Valintich, and more.

And that's right now on Skeptoid.

In that topic, but mistakes still creep in, everything from slips of the tongue while

recording to getting information from an erroneous source in which I put too much trust,

to just plain being humanly wrong about everyday stuff that seems so obvious I don't even

bother to check.

I've done over 400 Skeptoid episodes and every one of them has been a lesson in the need

to work harder.

Here is my latest batch of corrections, usually even more interesting than the original

mistakes.

My favorite correction this time around had to do with the old tale of the vanishing

village of Angiakuni Lake, which is a story of an old trapper in Canada who visited an

Inuit village in Nunavut where he'd been many times, only to find it deserted with no trace

of wherever the people had gone.

It had many familiar story elements like meals, half eaten, and evidence that people had

left with no preparation.

My conclusion turned out that the entire story had been made up by author Frank Edwards,

who gave it three pages in his 1959 book Stranger Than Science.

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