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Did 40 Marines Rescue Kids From a Pentagon Daycare Facility on 9/11?
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Barbara Mikkelson
May 25, 2010 (Updated: Aug. 26, 2022)
American Flight 77 crashed into Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. on that fateful day.
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Richard Gere and the Gerbil
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David Mikkelson
March 28, 1998
Hoary urban legend reports a celebrity was taken to a hospital emergency room to have a gerbil r ...
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Wgasa
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David Mikkelson
Nov. 25, 2002
Is the San Diego Wild Animal Park's monorail named after a crude acronym?
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Did an 11-Year-Old Girl Shoot and Kill 'Illegal Aliens' Burglarizing Her Home?
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David Mikkelson
May 2, 2007
The fake story of two undocumented immigrants burglarizing a home and being killed by a little g ...
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Prayer Request: Child Shot by Nail Gun?
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David Mikkelson
Aug. 9, 2010 (Updated: June 30, 2025)
A prayer request about a 22-month-old child who shot himself in the heart with a nail gun has ci ...
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Man Burns to Death Rescuing Dog from Hot Springs
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David Mikkelson
July 23, 2001 (Updated: Jan. 8, 2022)
Burn deaths and injuries result from people trying to retrieve straying pets from boiling hot sp ...
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Can You Sell a Testicle for $35,000 to $50,000?
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David Mikkelson
Oct. 13, 2005
Not one of the better schemes for those who need cash in a hurry.
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Did Jane Fonda Betray US POWs by Handing Over Messages to North Vietnamese Captors?
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David Mikkelson
June 20, 2000
The long-standing claim that Jane Fonda turned smuggled messages from U.S. POWs over to their No ...
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Dead Scuba Diver in Tree
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Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 2, 1997
Was the charred body of a scuba diver recovered from a tree after a forest fire?
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Jamie Lee Curtis: Male and Female?
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Snopes Staff
Barbara Mikkelson
April 6, 2001
Long-standing rumor holds that actress Jamie Lee Curtis acknowledged in an interview that she wa ...
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Did a Topless Woman Appear in Disney's 'The Rescuers'?
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David Mikkelson
Jan. 13, 1999
An image of a topless woman can be fleetingly seen in the initial home video version of the anim ...
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Brian Peppers
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David Mikkelson
May 24, 2005
A photograph of a man named Brian Peppers, who was a registered sex offender in Ohio, was indeed ...
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'Captain Pugwash' Double Meanings
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David Mikkelson
Sept. 11, 1999
Rumor: The characters in 'Captain Pugwash' had names that were sexual double entendres.
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Sylvester Stallone Porn Film
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Snopes Staff
June 8, 1997
One of the future 'Rocky' actor's first cinematic efforts was a role in a porn film.
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'Up the Butt, Bob'
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David Mikkelson
Oct. 11, 2002
Did a "Newlywed Game" contestant say the weirdest place she'd ever "made whoopee" was "up the butt"?
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Are Robbers Subduing Victims with Perfume?
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David Mikkelson
June 12, 2000
Long-standing crime warning holds that thieves are trolling parking lots and rendering their vic ...
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Romantic Encounter with a Necrophiliac?
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Barbara Mikkelson
May 8, 2001
A girl's unusual medical condition supposedly led to the discovery that the boy she'd been intim ...
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Were Jimmies Named After Jim Crow?
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Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 25, 2009
Rumor holds that Jimmies, the chocolate sprinkles used on confections, are so named as a referen ...
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Did M&Ms Turn Down 'E.T.'?
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Barbara Mikkelson
July 24, 2001
Rumor has it that Mars, Inc. passed on the chance to be the candy featured in the hit film 'E.T.'
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Buried Atari Cartridges
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David Mikkelson
March 25, 2001
Did Atari bury millions of unsold 'E.T.' game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill?
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Theodore Roosevelt on Immigration
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David Mikkelson
April 11, 2006
Former president Theodore Roosevelt's words regarding the assimilation of immigrants into Americ ...
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Did Alan Simpson or Dick Durbin Call Americans 'The Greediest Generation'?
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David Mikkelson
March 7, 2011
An anonymous letter took senators Alan Simpson and Dick Durbin to task for hypocritically referr ...
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Golf Club Death
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Barbara Mikkelson
July 1, 2008
Rumor: A golfer angered by a bad shot was killed by the club he threw in frustration.
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Beheaded Lover
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Barbara Mikkelson
July 28, 1999
In December of 1993, Gregory Glover paid the ultimate penalty for messing with another fellow's ...
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Origin of 'Baby on Board' Signs
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Barbara Mikkelson
July 1, 2003
Rumor: The death of an infant in an auto accident led to the invention of 'Baby on Board' signs.
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