Classics
Snopes Classics from back in the day.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 30, 2009
The legend tends to confirm a theory that many want to believe: that even bad people are sometim ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
June 7, 1998
The kidnapping, string of murders, and wood chipper incident portrayed in the film "Fargo" suppo ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 1, 1998
Analysis of restaurant food eaten by a young woman reveals the presence of semen from HIV- or ST ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 14, 1999
Does drinking Mountain Dew cause one's testicles to shrink?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 31, 2005
News photographs alternately described subjects of different races as 'looting' or 'finding' sup ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 1, 2001
Did Michael Jackson's prosthetic nose fell off during a recent TV special ?
Written by: Snopes Staff
March 31, 2001
What it all came down to was that President Bush became the scapegoat for an economic recession.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 21, 2004 (Updated: Sept. 14, 2022)
Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl from the Andean village of Ticrapo who made medical history when sh ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 4, 2002
Sometimes the most innocuous of foodstuffs contain constituents whose origins are less than appe ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 5, 2005
Despite decades of media mirth-making about the supposed statement, former vice president Al Gor ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 30, 1996
Viewers claim that clouds of dust form the word S-E-X in the Disney animated film 'The Lion King.'
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 17, 2011
First Lady ripostes that ex-boyfriend would have been President if she'd married him?
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 6, 2005 (Updated: Feb. 2, 2021)
Did the jilted wife of the owner of Home Depot create the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 23, 1999
Contrary to what mystery and crime dramas might portray, ingesting ground glass isn't inherently ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 29, 1999
A babysitter receives mysterious, threatening phone calls.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 13, 2003
We'd like to think beheadings happen only in campfire tales and low-budget thrillers, but they t ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 7, 2010
A photograph purportedly shows a newly discovered species of moth.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 3, 2003
Photographs show a suspect who was decapitated by a wrought-iron fence while fleeing from police.
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: David Mikkelson
July 10, 2006
A humorous meme about cargo lost in the Titanic's sinking leading to the creation of the Cinco d ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Jan. 27, 2000
Did KFC change its name from 'Kentucky Fried Chicken' to eliminate the word 'fried'?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 14, 2004
The legendary newspaperman addressed the difficulties of good men reaching national office when ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 27, 1996
Lemmings don't commit mass suicide, so filmmakers had to use various camera tricks to capture sc ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
March 18, 2001 (Updated: July 18, 2022)
A list of ten steps on how to be a good wife was said to come from a 1950s high school home econ ...
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