A sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer. Benjamin Radford turned up across the archive's lake monster, cryptid and UFO cases. In 2003 he recreated Sandra Mansi's Champ photograph with an Instamatic 110 and a marker at 150 feet. He and Joe Nickell came to favor a floating log. June 2010. He met Madelyne Tolentino outside San Juan and found her sincere, but her chupacabra story had shifted. On the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp he called Christopher Davis's account riddled with implausibilities.
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Skeptical Inquirer writer who read the woodcut as folklore
Pro earlySceptical investigator who inspected the vault in 2019 and found the brickwork intact
Pro earlyCo-author of Lake Monster Mysteries
Pro earlySkeptical author of Lake Monster Mysteries
Pro earlySceptical investigator, co-author of Lake Monster Mysteries (2006), general explanations for Ogopogo
Pro earlySceptical investigator who rebutted the sleeper shark hypothesis
Pro earlyCo-author of Lake Monster Mysteries (2006)
Pro earlySkeptical Inquirer writer who reviewed the case in 2017
Skeptical investigator on the 2005 Is It Real? re-measurement
Skeptical Inquirer investigator
Author of Tracking the Chupacabra (2011), which discusses the case
Pro earlySkeptical Inquirer author of a 2021 critical review
Sceptical investigator who reconstructed the photo, 2003
Pro earlySceptical investigator, co-author of Lake Monster Mysteries
Pro earlySceptic author who attributes many Champ sightings to otters
Pro earlySceptical investigator, 2009 LiveScience review
Sceptical investigator, Skeptical Inquirer
Pro earlySceptical investigator, co-author of Lake Monster Mysteries
Pro earlyCo-author of Lake Monster Mysteries (2006), proposed the otter explanation
Pro earlySkeptic investigator who visited Zanzibar in 2007
Pro earlySkeptical investigator who visited Zanzibar in 2007
Skeptic investigator who interviewed her in 2010 and wrote Tracking the Chupacabra
Pro earlySkeptical writer who lists the Nantucket Blob among notable globsters
Pro earlySceptical investigator; wrote 'The Monkey Man Panic: 20 Years Later'
Sceptical investigator and author
Pro earlyAuthor of Tracking the Chupacabra, sceptical investigator
Pro earlySceptical writer who analysed the case
Writer who explained the mange hypothesis and wrote Tracking the Chupacabra
MonsterTalk co-host who argued fair use
Pro earlySceptical investigator; argued uneven melting can distort bear tracks (2018)
Pro earlySceptical investigator who discussed the case on MonsterTalk
Life's Little Mysteries columnist who called the videos highly dubious
Pro earlySceptical writer for NBC News and LiveScience
Pro earlyCommittee for Skeptical Inquiry investigator who concluded it was a bug on the lens
Skeptical Inquirer writer who analysed the sightings