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
July 7, 2000
Woman whose wallet was stolen offers centerfold as identification for a check.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 7, 2000
Did a girl swallow a wire that had come loose from a barbeque grill cleaning brush?
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July 6, 2000
A college student sends her parents a letter filled with disastrous news.
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July 5, 2000
A warning alerts social media users that Facebook is about to cancel their accounts if they don' ...
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July 4, 2000
The legend of non-Jewish Danes donning yellow stars in solidarity with Jews during the Nazi occu ...
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June 30, 2000
Was a woman poisoned by a dress formerly used to dress a corpse?
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June 30, 2000
A chain email purports to explain Manson's macabre brand.
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June 23, 2000
Rumor holds that the 1980s sitcom 'Joanie Loves Chachi' garnered tremendous ratings in Korea due ...
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June 22, 2000
The unusual tale of a soccer team advancing in a cup match by deliberately scoring a goal agains ...
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June 22, 2000
Did Colonel Sanders' will direct KFC to give money to the KKK?
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June 22, 2000
Did Cher have ribs removed to make her waist smaller? Did anybody?
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 22, 2000
The 'rabbit test' for pregnancy didn't actually mean that if the rabbit died, you were pregnant.
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June 21, 2000
A 'Prayer for Our Nation' variously attributed to the Rev. Billy Graham and Paul Harvey was penn ...
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June 20, 2000
The long-standing claim that Jane Fonda turned smuggled messages from U.S. POWs over to their No ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 15, 2000
Tall tales were common biographical elements in teen magazine articles about 1960s pop stars.
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June 12, 2000
Long-standing crime warning holds that thieves are trolling parking lots and rendering their vic ...
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June 11, 2000
The FBI spent years and untold amounts of money investigating a salacious rumor that they could ...
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June 9, 2000
Is the government recalling Massachusetts quarters because they include depictions of guns?
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June 9, 2000
Did a teenage boy make $71,000 from a chain mail scheme?
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