Classics
Snopes Classics from back in the day.
Written by: David Mikkelson
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
March 28, 1998
Hoary urban legend reports a celebrity was taken to a hospital emergency room to have a gerbil r ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 13, 2005
Not one of the better schemes for those who need cash in a hurry.
Written by: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson
April 6, 2001
Long-standing rumor holds that actress Jamie Lee Curtis acknowledged in an interview that she wa ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 9, 2010 (Updated: June 30, 2025)
A prayer request about a 22-month-old child who shot himself in the heart with a nail gun has ci ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 13, 1999
An image of a topless woman can be fleetingly seen in the initial home video version of the anim ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 12, 2000
Long-standing crime warning holds that thieves are trolling parking lots and rendering their vic ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 17, 2002
"In his zeal to have this sharply defined nose, he's had so many things done, the tissue is no l ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 11, 1999
Rumor: The characters in 'Captain Pugwash' had names that were sexual double entendres.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 23, 2001 (Updated: Jan. 8, 2022)
Burn deaths and injuries result from people trying to retrieve straying pets from boiling hot sp ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 24, 2005
A photograph of a man named Brian Peppers, who was a registered sex offender in Ohio, was indeed ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 9, 2009
"I never meant to lie and destroy Michael Jackson but my father made me to tell the lies."
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 24, 2001
Rumor has it that Mars, Inc. passed on the chance to be the candy featured in the hit film 'E.T.'
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 25, 2009
Rumor holds that Jimmies, the chocolate sprinkles used on confections, are so named as a referen ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 26, 1996 (Updated: June 29, 2021)
The true story went viral on TikTok 47 years to the day.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 28, 1998
A photograph shows the aftermath of a grisly tug-of-war contest in which two men lost their arms.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 25, 2000
Rumor has it a saguaro cactus crushed the same man who damaged it.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
May 8, 2001
A girl's unusual medical condition supposedly led to the discovery that the boy she'd been intim ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 25, 2001
Did Atari bury millions of unsold 'E.T.' game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill?
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 2, 1997
Was the charred body of a scuba diver recovered from a tree after a forest fire?
Written by: Snopes Staff
June 8, 1997
One of the future 'Rocky' actor's first cinematic efforts was a role in a porn film.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 30, 1998
A warning about gang members driving around with their headlights off, then killing anyone who f ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 12, 2011
Barack Obama did not appropriate the Social Security number of a dead man born in 1890 and use i ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 28, 1999
In December of 1993, Gregory Glover paid the ultimate penalty for messing with another fellow's ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 3, 1996
A student mistook examples of unsolved math problems for a homework assignment and solved them.
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