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Brian Dunning · 1,094 episodes with transcripts
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Hunting the Pictish Beast
October 6, 2026
Brian Dunning (0:03)
We're the Scottish Moors, once the realm of a strange and magical beast, unlike any other creature. It is known not from bones, nor from legend, but from countless detailed renditions carved into the Pictish Standing Stones, which have stood guard over Scotland for some 1500 years. Whatever histories they may tell…
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Brian Dunning (2:43)
You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from skeptoid.com. Hunting the Pictish Beast. Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not. I first came upon the…
No discussion of the Pictish Beast is complete without first laying the foundation for who the Picts were, as their depiction in pop culture has long been heavily mythologized. This has often been as a race of savage, face-painted barbarians from some exotic place like Scythia or Thrace, who took over Scotland and…
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