Snopes: Urban Legends and Myths
Tags: fun, reference | Added: 15 Nov, 2007 (4,807 Views)Snopes tags itself as an ‘Urban Legends Reference Pages’, and that’s exactly what it is: thousands of entertaining stories, urban legends, myths, old wife’s tales, odd news stories, gossip, rumors and so on.
“We are following the more expansive popular (if inaccurate) use of “urban legend” as a term that embraces not only urban legends but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives’ tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items.”
Examples
- Dating Disasters: The Fart in the Dark.
- Dumb Crooks: 911 Surrender.
Things you can do at Snopes
- Browse legends by category (over 40 cats.): Autos, College, Crime, Humor, Sports, Religion, Travel, Politics, Love, etc.
- Legends classified as: true, false, multiple truth values, undetermined, or as unclassified veracity.
- See currently ‘Hottest 25‘ legends and myths. Also available via RSS.
- Subscribe to the latest legends by email.
- For more details go to Snopes FAQ page.
Check out Snopes @ www.snopes.com
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I’d urge caution with Snopes — I use it all the time, but it’s run by a husband and wife and I’ll occasionally come across subjects that they aren’t very objective about.
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