Classics
Snopes Classics from back in the day.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 19, 2003
You probably didn't know most of them because they're not true.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 28, 2004
Warning claims parking lot carjackers are placing flyers or $100 bills on the windows of cars, t ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
June 7, 1998
The kidnapping, string of murders, and wood chipper incident portrayed in the film "Fargo" suppo ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 8, 2000
A college student makes a horrifying discovery.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 30, 2006
Glurge: A deceased mother finds a way to tell her son what their last dinner together meant to her.
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 23, 2011
A video seemingly captures Tampa Bay infielder Evan Longoria making an amazing bare-handed catc ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 1, 2009
List documents fifty lies told by Barack Obama.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 27, 2000
Did Art Linkletter's daughter, Diane, jump out a window while high on LSD?
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
June 19, 2005
Urban legend holds that a child successfully smuggled a penguin out of an amusement park by conc ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 24, 1999 (Updated: Sept. 22, 2022)
Many answers have been offered to this classic trivia question, but the correct one is rather ob ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
April 15, 2005
"I remember going by that house and how scary it was."
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 17, 2001
An outdated petition decries the true and horrific death of Jamie Bulger at the hands of Jon Ven ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2008
Barack Obama supposedly admitted to being a Muslim during an ABC News interview.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 4, 2008
Do electric fans left running overnight kill persons sleeping in the breeze they generate?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 25, 2005
One of the oldest Internet hoaxes holds that Microsoft and other companies are giving $5,000 to ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 6, 2010
Folklore supplies two "reasons" for sun showers, one having to do with animals, the other with t ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Oct. 11, 2000
Was a little girl hanging out of a school bus window decapitated by a road sign?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 30, 2004
A infamously viral newspaper photograph shows a pregnant woman smoking a cigarette and complaini ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 4, 2001
The frequency of attachment of an urban legend to the largest company or corporation is so commo ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 24, 2004
An essay that postulates what steps the devil might take in order to corrupt human civilization ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 8, 2000
Among the most powerful lures of the myth is the idea that we could harness the remaining portio ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 19, 2008
"Obama said he's going to campaign in 57 states, and it turns out that there are 57 Islamic stat ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 8, 2002
Lee Marvin and Bob 'Captain Kangaroo' Keeshan were both in the military during World War II, but ...
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