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Legend This label describes events so general or lacking in detail they could have happened to someone, somewhere, at some time, and are therefore essentially unprovable. Learn more about our rating system here.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 15, 2001
A 1977 'Star Wars' trading card seemingly depicted C-3P0 with an oversized appendage.
Written by: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 9, 2000
Legend holds that an unfamiliar driver set the cruise control on his vehicle and then slipped in ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 1, 2000
A get-rich scheme supposedly involved a scammer's leaving blank deposit slips imprinted with his ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 1, 2000
Old collegiate legend involves a student's coming up with a clever proof about the physical prop ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 28, 2000
We turn to the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game for this ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 24, 2000
The tear-jerking tale of a little boy who selflessly agreed to transfuse his sister, believing t ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 5, 2000
Horror legend holds that a teenage girl was found dead in the arms of a graveyard statue.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Nov. 3, 2000
"We don't have a clue, but if it ain't true, it ought to be."
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 19, 2000
The 'Rules for Teachers - 1872' list prompts us to marvel at the grimness of a late nineteenth c ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 16, 2000
Poking fun at people for the way they talk is is one of our oldest prejudices.
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: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 28, 2000
Legend holds that a prisoner killed himself using a deck of playing cards.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 27, 2000
A long-circulating urban legend, "AIDS Mary," holds that a woman seduces men with the intent of ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 26, 2000
A crazed killer is discovered hiding in the back seat of woman's car at a gas station.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 8, 2000
A college student makes a horrifying discovery.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 7, 2000
Wife takes revenge on a philandering husband by supergluing his penis to his leg.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
Sept. 7, 2000
Wife throws flammable substance into toilet; unsuspecting husband lights a cigarette and blows up.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
Aug. 3, 2000
Naked man is inadvertently locked out of his home.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 14, 2000
A competitor one-ups a company proud of their new ultra-thin wire by drilling a hole through it.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 10, 2000
A man insured his cigars against fire, then tried to collect for fire damage after smoking them.
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