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).
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Sept. 7, 2000
Wife throws flammable substance into toilet; unsuspecting husband lights a cigarette and blows up.
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Sept. 4, 2000
Is 'The Second Coming Project' seeking to clone Jesus?
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Sept. 1, 2000
Ten minutes? Fifteen minutes? Until the scheduled end of class?
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Aug. 31, 2000
Congregation's prayer to move a mountain to make way for a new church's parking lot is answered?
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Aug. 28, 2000
Respected instructor is forced to obtain advanced degree in subject he wrote textbook for.
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Aug. 28, 2000
Did calamity strike at Myron Kropp's piano recital in Bangkok?
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Aug. 25, 2000
A war-separated couple is reunited by a tablecloth.
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Aug. 25, 2000
Legends about lunatic asylums, buses, and mistaken identities.
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Aug. 24, 2000
A collection of unusual questions asked of snopes.com.
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Aug. 23, 2000
A humorous narrative describes FBI agents holed up in a psychiatric hospital attempting to order ...
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Aug. 22, 2000
Space race legend claims NASA spent millions of dollars developing an 'astronaut pen' that would ...
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Aug. 20, 2000
Intoxicated motorist makes hilarious 911 call after hitting a deer.
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Aug. 16, 2000
A list of 'Communist Rules for Revolution' was supposedly discovered by Allied forces in Germany ...
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Aug. 13, 2000
An April Fool's lesson on the perils of vetting material you haven't read thoroughly.
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Aug. 10, 2000
What was the last song played by the Titanic's musicians?
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Aug. 8, 2000
Did psychologist B.F. Skinner raise his daughter in a 'Skinner box'?
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Aug. 4, 2000
Is the medical phenomenon known as 'penis captivus' for real?
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Aug. 3, 2000
Naked man is inadvertently locked out of his home.
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July 29, 2000
A young couple is surprised by party guests while engaging in sexual play.
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