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
March 13, 2000
Spector was an American record producer of the 1960s who was described by the writer Tom Wolfe a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 12, 2000
The single-engine plane carrying Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens crashed in an Io ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 9, 2000
Did Gene Siskel's will specify that he should be buried with his thumb up?
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 7, 2000
Have you ever wondered what ultimately becomes of the waves that radio and TV stations sent out ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 7, 2000
This legend has a long and tortuous history stretching back nearly 150 years.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 7, 2000
Daughter uses mother's birth control pills and replaces them with aspirin.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 7, 2000
Did the New York City blackout of 1965 result in a baby boom nine months later?
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 7, 2000
Girl becomes pregnant after swimming in pool into which male swimmers have ejaculated.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 6, 2000
Did a woman give birth to an octopus, lizard, frog, fish, or snake?
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March 1, 2000 (Updated: Aug. 25, 2022)
Horribly spelled warnings about homicidal teens playing "spunkball" began turning up on the inte ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 25, 2000
Politician cites the wrong verse as his favorite Biblical passage?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 25, 2000
NASA shuttle astronauts conducted sex experiments in space?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 24, 2000
NASA scientists did not find a 'missing day' in time and thereby prove Biblical accounts to be true.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 15, 2000
Did Frank Zappa win a gross-out contest by eating excrement on stage?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 14, 2000
Did Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother invent Liquid Paper?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 14, 2000
Did Keith Richards have his blood changed to beat a drug addiction?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 14, 2000
Was Frank Zappa the son of TV's Mr. Greenjeans?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 13, 2000
It's an amusing story, but the art rock band 10cc was not named for the amount of semen in the a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 10, 2000
Was Mick Jagger caught eating a Mars Bar out of Marianne Faithfull's vagina?
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