David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 8, 2008
Photographs show a 30-point buck shot by a 14-year-old Amish boy using a longbow?
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Dec. 8, 2008
Did Thomas Jefferson say that 'banks and corporations will deprive the people of all property'?
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Dec. 7, 2008
Snopes investigated claims made about the company regarding sales, location numbers, and the pro ...
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Dec. 1, 2008
Sending cash via the United States Postal Service may not be advisable, but no law prohibits tha ...
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Dec. 1, 2008
Is it illegal to resell U.S. postage stamps for a price greater than their face value?
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Nov. 27, 2008
Warnings about scammers who sell boxes supposedly containing valuable merchandise.
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Nov. 25, 2008
A four-year-old boy named Jeremiah is missing from his Nashville-area home?
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Nov. 24, 2008
Rumor claims Nancy Pelosi spurned use of the House Speaker's 'small private jet' and demanded it ...
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Nov. 22, 2008
Dr Pepper is giving away coupons for free soda in conjunction with the release of Guns N' Roses' ...
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Nov. 21, 2008
Photographs show a bridge that collapsed when movers tried to pull a house across it?
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Nov. 18, 2008 (Updated: Aug. 15, 2022)
As this rumor goes, an abbreviation for "Furman University's Christian Knights" would be F-U-C…
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Nov. 11, 2008
College prank: Students let loose a herd of livestock with an apparently missing member.
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Nov. 9, 2008
The numbers 6-6-6 were the winning combination in an Illinois lottery the day after Election Day ...
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Nov. 6, 2008
Information about the 'Amazing Speech by Obama' computer virus warnings.
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Nov. 6, 2008
The purpose of articles in some publications is not always to inform readers, but to entertain o ...
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Nov. 5, 2008
A video clip that shows an airplane making a safe landing after losing a wing was a promotional ...
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Nov. 4, 2008
Massachusetts is no longer mailing notifications for driver's license renewals?
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Nov. 4, 2008
His own mother's death may have been the most shattering moment of Walt Disney's life.
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Nov. 3, 2008
E-mail reproduces letter from John and Cindy McCain to John Hinckley?
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