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Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 18, 2014
Photograph claimed to be a 430-pound buck shot in Hartford, Michigan.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Oct. 29, 2014
Extant pieces of racist memorabilia serve as reminders of 20th century American racial attitudes.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 21, 2014
"People came up to me all night telling me that my face made them want to throw up ..."
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 14, 2014
Photographs purportedly show giant mutant spiders produced by government DNA experiments in Miss ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 6, 2014
Photographs purportedly illustrate a trip to San Francisco in 1940 as described in a letter by H ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 20, 2014
Tragedies are bad enough without misrepresenting them via repurposed videos.
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 27, 2014
Using misleading photographs to impugn the patriotism of the Obamas became a cottage industry.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 10, 2013
WARNING -- DISTURBING IMAGES: Photographs purportedly showing people in Thailand carving up and ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 3, 2013
"We have decided that your word is worth nothing. The conversation is over."
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 11, 2013
"Can you imagine finding these on your phone after a drunken night out?"
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 29, 2012
A photograph is said to show a tree that grew around a bicycle left behind by a boy who went off ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 16, 2012
A photograph purportedly captures the moment torero Álvaro Múnera became an opponent of bullfights.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 13, 2012
A levitating car developed by Volkswagen exists only as a concept that was given form for displa ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 26, 2012
Cutaneous fibromas (warts) occur among white-tailed deer due to a phenomenon caused by a virus, ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 3, 2012
When the target audience is teens and the topic is drinking and texting while driving, experienc ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 23, 2011
A Christmas card featuring a family photograph taken in jail appears to be a repurposed use of a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 22, 2011
A touching photograph has nothing to do with Japan, an earthquake, or a policeman.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 18, 2010
Photographs supposedly show a cache of weapons confiscated from a site on the Arizona border.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 24, 2010
The 'strongest dog in the world' reportedly works 'in the Russian army special forces.'
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 10, 2010
A viral photograph doesn't really show a pregnant woman waiting to welcome home a military husba ...
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