Sometimes if you keep searching, digging, and sifting, you’ll find a nugget that is bigger than anything you expected. That happened to us when we looked for additional evidence to refute a questionable claim of Francine Shapiro, founder of a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. In the September/October 2024 issue of Skeptical Inquirer, we had considered several controversies surrounding eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), a strategy developed by Shapiro that induces eye movements to process traumatic memories (Rosen and Pankratz 2024). In addition to concerns that eye movements were an unnecessary and implausible part of the treatment, we challenged Shapiro’s stated “origin story.” Shapiro had claimed that she came upon the idea of using eye movements during a walk in 1987, at which time she noticed her eyes moving in multi-saccadic fashion as distressing thoughts lost their disturbing qualities. We pointed out the mythical nature of this origin story; specifically, research has shown that people are unable to perceive these particular eye movements (e.g., Clarke et al. 2017). We cited evidence that Shapiro’s interest …