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
Aug. 4, 1999 (Updated: Oct. 6, 2022)
This story has circulated in various forms since at least the 1960s.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 31, 1999
Is the film 'The Blair Witch Project' really a film shot by students who mysteriously disappeared?
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July 30, 1999
Dog shelter kill million of dog, cost money. Dog shelter cremate dog cost money. Dog shelter nee ...
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July 30, 1999
Are some brands of cat litter radioactive?
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July 30, 1999
Signing an e-petition will convince the Air Force to retire its colony of space chimps instead o ...
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July 30, 1999
Should you attempt to come between an elephant and the object of his affections?
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July 30, 1999
Was Madonna interview hilariously mistranslated by a Hungarian newspaper?
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July 30, 1999
Text of the infamous 'Tounge of Frog.'
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July 29, 1999
Woman raped during a campus's midnight scream session, but her cries for help go unnoticed amids ...
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July 24, 1999
Was a memorable episode of 'Gilligan's Island' an inadvertent re-creation of what Lucille Ball e ...
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July 20, 1999
Was the derisive title of one of George Bernard Shaw's plays changed after it wreaked havoc on t ...
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July 18, 1999
Rumor holds that duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
July 14, 1999
Sometimes you really do need to pay attention to things other people shouldn't see.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 13, 1999
Did early attempts at computer translation of human languages produce humorous results?
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July 12, 1999
Did the word "fuck" originate as an acronym of the phrase "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"?
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 11, 1999
These Halloween hanging stunts went terribly wrong.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 10, 1999 (Updated: Sept. 22, 2022)
The "orange juice man" was one of the most ubiquitous pieces of LSD scarelore in the 1960s.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
July 7, 1999
Heard the legend about a misunderstood J. Edgar Hoover directive?
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July 5, 1999
"It turns out that the piece of chicken contained a tumor, and when the woman bit into it it exp ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 3, 1999
Family mistakenly eats remains of cremated relative?
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