A true investigator has to admit this. They cannot be a gullible believer and still hang on to credibility. In the same breath they cannot be ruthless debunkers. To dismiss all of the stories is disingenuous. That is why I believe that most people who claim to be skeptics are in reality debunkers.
Skeptics have open minds.
They think openly with a caveat of analyzing things critically. They are not smug, or condescending and they look for the truth without being clouded by stories and ideas that only confirm or build up their agendas, and prejudices. As humans we are often guided by our own prejudice. What we see is what we know. Our brains fill in the blanks with the philosophies that we have been indoctrinated with.