Classics
Snopes Classics from back in the day.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 30, 1998
A pair of brothers were surprised when the fictitious name they made up for a free yearly ice cr ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 13, 2005
Not one of the better schemes for those who need cash in a hurry.
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: 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: Barbara Mikkelson
March 9, 2009
Did the term '86' (to get rid of someone or something) enter the English language as part of a r ...
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
April 2, 2003
This fact check is not safe for anywhere.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 6, 1996
Prankish Disney animators supposedly drew Jessica Rabbit without underwear in a few frames of 'W ...
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
Dec. 4, 2009
An account of Muslims' allegedly engaging in a 'dry run' hijacking in 2009 was contradicted by a ...
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
Jan. 2, 2001
Gruesome Hollywood legend holds that the automobile crash that killed Jayne Mansfield also decap ...
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
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: Snopes Staff
Feb. 4, 2001
Urban legend describes a rock star who collapses at a party and has a pint of semen pumped from ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 11, 1999
Rumor: The characters in 'Captain Pugwash' had names that were sexual double entendres.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 11, 2002
Did a "Newlywed Game" contestant say the weirdest place she'd ever "made whoopee" was "up the butt"?
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
Oct. 8, 2001
Contrary to common belief, being an only child (or an only son) does not automatically exempt yo ...
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
Jan. 23, 2011
Rumor holds that McDonald's buys their meat from a company called '100% Beef,' which allows them ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 20, 2000
Accounts warn of death and disease caused by rat urine on soda cans. True stories, or more Inte ...
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
Feb. 20, 2008
Claims that archaeologists discovered Pharaoh's chariot and the bones of horses and men under th ...
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