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Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
May 13, 2000
An old rumor warns that discarded rice eaten by birds can expand in their tiny birdy stomachs an ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
May 12, 2000
Cautionary drug tale posits that dealers use hollowed-out bodies of dead children to smuggle coc ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 10, 2000
Someone should start a museum to house all the non-existent things that thousands of people have ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 9, 2000
Was Buddy Holly's group named 'The Crickets' because a cricket appeared on one of their songs?
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 24, 2000
The 1992 animated classic is one of many Disney films with questionable conspiracy theories.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 22, 2000
A classic piece of Disneyland lore.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 16, 2000
Using Coke as a spermicide has been part of contraceptive lore at least since the 1950s.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 10, 2000
"People are so sure in their own minds that they have seen [the snake bite] happen that I now ju ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 6, 2000
Let's fact-check that.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 22, 2000
Is the U.S. Postal Service discontinuing the Black Heritage series of postage stamps?
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 14, 2000
Legend asserts that Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford decide to found their own university after bein ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 13, 2000
Spector was an American record producer of the 1960s who was described by the writer Tom Wolfe a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 12, 2000
The single-engine plane carrying Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens crashed in an Io ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 8, 2000
Reports that an Australian grandmother blew the testicles off the two men who raped her granddau ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 7, 2000
Have you ever wondered what ultimately becomes of the waves that radio and TV stations sent out ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 7, 2000
This legend has a long and tortuous history stretching back nearly 150 years.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 6, 2000
Did a woman give birth to an octopus, lizard, frog, fish, or snake?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 24, 2000
NASA scientists did not find a 'missing day' in time and thereby prove Biblical accounts to be true.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Feb. 13, 2000
Was the model for the Statue of Liberty a chain-laden black woman?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 13, 2000
It's an amusing story, but the art rock band 10cc was not named for the amount of semen in the a ...
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