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. 1, 1998
Did a Sears catalog photo include a glimpse of a male model exposing himself?
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June 15, 1998
Student is secretly anesthetized and sodomized by his gay roommate.
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June 9, 1998
The exotic foreign medallion worn so proudly by a society matron bore an embarrassing inscriptio ...
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April 20, 1998
A female student embarrassingly asks the biology instructor why semen tastes so salty.
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March 28, 1998
Hoary urban legend reports a celebrity was taken to a hospital emergency room to have a gerbil r ...
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March 14, 1998
In an urban legend from the early days of chat rooms, a college student purportedly meets and en ...
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Feb. 17, 1998 (Updated: Sept. 16, 2022)
As the long-held story goes, a woman ends up in the emergency room after using a frozen hot dog ...
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Feb. 15, 1998
Was the "hidden" acrostic in the famous Beatles song a coincidence or a cheeky pun?
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Jan. 25, 1998
A woman's ribald telephone message describing her previous night's date is forwarded all over town.
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Jan. 25, 1998
Dozing juror mistakes note containing rape victim's testimony for a personal communication.
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Jan. 10, 1998
Girl impales herself on gearshift lever after being slipped some Spanish Fly by her boyfriend.
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Jan. 8, 1998
White newlywed gives birth to black child nine months after her wild bachelorette party.
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Jan. 1, 1998
Did a journalism instructor announce a pop quiz by running an ad in the morning paper?
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Dec. 31, 1997
Does Belle appear in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?
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Dec. 12, 1997
One of the most ubiquitous of film legends holds that a munchkin hanged himself on-camera during ...
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Dec. 7, 1997
The 1989 film 'Back to the Future II' did not correctly predict Chicago would be the winner of a ...
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Dec. 7, 1997 (Updated: Oct. 22, 2021)
The actor was killed on the set of the film by a fragment of a dummy bullet while shooting one o ...
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Nov. 9, 1997
Was John Wayne offered the lead role in 'Gunsmoke'?
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Oct. 21, 1997
Man mangled in accident is kept alive long enough for one last kiss from his wife.
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Sept. 7, 1997
Was Humphrey Bogart the model for the Gerber baby?
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