A Baltimore man says he bit into a deep-fried mouse while eating a fried chicken meal from a Popeye's restaurant. According to WBAL-TV, investigating health officials have found no current ... Read More

An email hoax masquerading as a CNN news story dated September 18, 2003 claims that Earvin 'Magic' Johnson has succumbed to AIDS and is currently in a coma, near death, ... Read More

Email rumors claiming that the carcasses of dogs and cats have been seen hanging in the refrigerators of two Chinese restaurants in Edinburgh, Scotland are taking a toll on the ... Read More

Interesting picture circulating as an email attachment since Wednesday, purporting to show the approach of Hurricane Isabel at sea. Alas, it's a hoax.

A chain letter campaign originating from the American Family Association's OneMillionDads.com Website lambastes Target Corp. subsidiary Marshall Field's for marketing FCUK (French Connection U.K.) brand products to teens. The promotion ... Read More

A yard-long, 20-pound alligator sighted off and on for the past few months in Blue Heron Park, Staten Island was captured and turned over to Animal Control officers over the ... Read More

'Because of the trauma and mayhem caused by the terrorist attacks two years ago, some people will not fly or ride the train around this time ever again,' according to ... Read More

Seen on Usenet: 'Ok, something just dawned on me a little while ago. While mentioning show leads like John Ritter who had passed away during their hit shows, they kept mentioning Redd ... Read More

By a strange twist of fate — or so it seemed at the time — his face would become as recognizable in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001 World ... Read More

Operators looking for the cause of a malfunction in Harvard University's Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator on September 9, 1945 discovered a moth trapped in its innards and Scotch-taped the ... Read More

'Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that ... Read More

The longstanding factoid to the effect that a duck's quack doesn't echo has been disproven yet again, this time by acoustic expert Trevor Cox of the University of Salford with ... Read More

Beware emails purporting to come from Microsoft with attachments alleged to be 'security patches' for Internet Explorer — these attachments are actually Internet worms which, when installed, give hackers backdoor ... Read More

Have you ever cooked salmon in your dishwasher? The first time he heard of it, Associated Press reporter J.M. Hirsch assumed dishwasher cookery was an urban legend, so he looked ... Read More

The answer is yes, according to Bill Orvis, who runs the Department of Energy's Hoaxbusters Website. 'Chain letters are the ideal place to collect addresses,' he told CNN. 'I've seen ... Read More

Although 'cough CPR,' a self-resuscitation technique described in an email flier circulating since 1999, remains controversial among cardiologists, Polish heart specialist Dr. Tadeusz Petelenz announced the results of a study ... Read More