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Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 9, 2005
Determinations on whether or not to commit a person are based on the subject's current behavior ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
June 21, 2005
Many CPR students have been taught to check if a patient is unconscious by gently shaking the do ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 11, 2005
An issue of 'Parents' magazine displaying unfortunate cover placement is just an illustrative mo ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 7, 2005
A photograph capturing a KKK member being treated by an all-black emergency room staff was part ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 5, 2005
Photographs of a rare, recently discovered trans-species of human-dog hybrid are actually pictur ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 5, 2005
Despite decades of media mirth-making about the supposed statement, former vice president Al Gor ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 21, 2005
Do our eyes deceive us? This common piece of folk wisdom actually originated with the British ai ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 19, 2005
Are actors from the 'Our Gang' series the victims of a curse causing them to die unexpectedly young?
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 19, 2005
Does the exclamation "holy smoke" derive from the burning of the ballots used to elect a Pope?
Written by: Snopes Staff
April 18, 2005
Warnings that rapists are employing children pretending to be lost in order to lure victims to t ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
April 15, 2005
"I remember going by that house and how scary it was."
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 14, 2005
Was the fashion of sagging one's pants born of a prison mode of signaling sexual availability?
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 26, 2005
This bit of doggerel was penned by an adult male child psychologist, not a terminally ill girl
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 26, 2005
A 7-year-old girl named Amy Bruce is not dying of lung cancer and a brain tumor and didn't write ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 2, 2005
Who wouldn't want their wedding cake to be catered by Hostess?
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Feb. 23, 2005
Rumor holds that popular singer Ciara was born male and discussed her childhood transition to fe ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Feb. 14, 2005
A letter describing a LARK program under which Gitmo detainees will be housed with liberals who ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 22, 2005
A viral ad featuring the Volkswagen Polo automobile and a suicide bomber was not created at the ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 13, 2005
It's the same long-running hoax with a rodent twist.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 2, 2004
Can store cashiers steal from customers by secretly initiating cash back requests and then pocke ...
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