Many of those who take a somewhat cynical view of Skeptoid are of the opinion that I bring

a preconceived conclusion to every episode that I already know I'm going to debunk or

otherwise find everything to be false.

So today I have for you a list of episodes for which whatever preconceived notions I may

have had turned out to be false.

In some cases, dramatically so.

That's coming up right now on Skeptoid.

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The episodes that changed my mind, part one.

Perhaps the most common question I get when I'm having a conversation with someone and

explaining what I do for a living is which topics I've covered that surprised me the most.

Generally when someone asks me this, what they're really looking for are the times when

I did a show about some paranormal or supernatural thing, and I went in with a cynical materialistic

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