Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Oct. 14, 2022
"But in this footage, no one seems worried about being caught with their pants down."
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 8, 2008 (Updated: Oct. 14, 2022)
Given the fear and uncertainty engendered by the economy, it was only a matter of time until som ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 9, 2000 (Updated: Oct. 13, 2022)
Some versions of this rumor posit that the cow eyes are used as hamburger filler, or to make bee ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
April 25, 2010 (Updated: Oct. 12, 2022)
Some people believe that storing batteries in a fridge or freezer will help them not lose their ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 27, 2006 (Updated: Oct. 11, 2022)
The poem has been anthologized in several books, including "Chicken Soup for the Christian Famil ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Oct. 10, 2022
The truth of the matter regarding Home Depot and Walker, a Georgia Republican candidate for U.S. ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
Nov. 12, 2006 (Updated: Oct. 10, 2022)
As the story goes, her father drove his truck into a pile of leaves in which she was playing, ki ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 6, 2015 (Updated: Oct. 7, 2022)
Digital editing strikes again.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 19, 2001 (Updated: Oct. 6, 2022)
Once upon a time, there was website called ManBeef.com that advertised "human meat" and detailed ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 4, 1999 (Updated: Oct. 6, 2022)
This story has circulated in various forms since at least the 1960s.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
May 24, 2000 (Updated: Oct. 5, 2022)
The tradition in which one partner carries the other over a doorway traces back to Roman times.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Oct. 3, 2022 (Updated: Oct. 5, 2022)
A popular tweet with more than 300,000 likes showed a picture of three windows appearing to with ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 10, 2014 (Updated: Oct. 4, 2022)
Nope. A video of a mushroom-cloud explosion at a chemical plant in Donetsk, Ukraine, erroneously ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 31, 2018 (Updated: Oct. 4, 2022)
Contrary to a false report circulating in 2018, country singer Loretta Lynn did not die after ch ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 2, 2021 (Updated: Oct. 3, 2022)
The bookings were advertised in 2021 as a promotion for a new "Scream" sequel.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 22, 2015 (Updated: Oct. 3, 2022)
The image of an autumnal landscape was first published on Flickr in 2006.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 24, 2001 (Updated: Sept. 30, 2022)
According to legend, the Disneyland hearse was originally used to carry the religious leader's b ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 29, 2022
The video, which went viral instantly, was allegedly shot in the Devonwood neighborhood of Fort ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 12, 2015 (Updated: Sept. 29, 2022)
A rumor claimed that more than 60 people died in Mozambique because they consumed beer that was ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
June 1, 1997 (Updated: Sept. 29, 2022)
In 1955, film icon James Dean was killed in a car accident when his new Porsche Spyder crashed h ...
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