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. 1, 1998
Does a talking 'Lion King' book say something nasty?
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Nov. 29, 1998
Rumor has it a disgruntled Disney artist sought revenge on the company by drawing a castle spire ...
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Nov. 18, 1998
Did Marion Barry really say all those dumb things?
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Nov. 3, 1998
College students tripping on LSD stared at the sun until they went blind?
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Oct. 30, 1998
This Halloween urban legend dates back to the late 1970s.
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Oct. 28, 1998
Snopes has been getting variations on this warning for over 20 years.
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Oct. 28, 1998
Were a couple of Intel engineers fired after etching the phrase 'Bill sux' onto a new version of ...
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Oct. 20, 1998
"It's probably not surprising that Janet Reno has attracted the ravings of a subterranean lunati ...
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Oct. 14, 1998
Police officer catches man pleasuring himself with with a pumpkin.
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Sept. 28, 1998
A photograph shows the aftermath of a grisly tug-of-war contest in which two men lost their arms.
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Sept. 25, 1998
Did Kenneth Starr decry 'perverts who provide the media with pornographic material' in a 1987 in ...
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Sept. 20, 1998
Did John Barrymore pull a screen test prank on John Carradine?
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Sept. 17, 1998
Did Bill Clinton say in 1974 that President Richard Nixon should resign for lying to government ...
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Sept. 16, 1998
Neil Armstrong supposedly offered a cryptic remark to a 'Mr. Gorsky' during the Apollo 11 moon l ...
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Sept. 12, 1998
We learned about stamens in biology class, but not quite like this.
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Aug. 22, 1998
A mischievous registrar fills a class with students having animal surnames.
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Aug. 19, 1998
Was the community of Tarzana, California, named after Tarzan?
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Aug. 17, 1998
A group returns a soused young man to his hometown, not realizing he's a newly-married groom on ...
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Aug. 17, 1998
Group returns soused young man to his hometown, not realizing he's a newly-married groom on his ...
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Aug. 9, 1998
The 1867 wedding of a princess and a duke was reportedly marred by tragedy on an unprecedented s ...
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