November 30 is St. Andrew's Day, a feast dedicated to Scotland's patron saint and an excuse to celebrate all things Scottish, including the sometime national dish of Scotland, haggis. A sausage ... Read More

In Roger Corman's grim 1963 sci-fi/horror flick "X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes," Ray Milland plays a doctor who invents x-ray eyedrops that are so effective ("Suddenly he could ... Read More

In honor of World Toilet Day, celebrating that most relied upon yet taken for granted of all modern conveniences, a sampling of toilet folklore from the archives: • The Exploding Toilet ... Read More

"I can confirm that the calendar we are selling is an official Jamie Oliver calendar that is exclusive to Boots," writes Rebecca Hulme-Edwardson, Boots PR person, in response to my inquiry ... Read More

It appears retailer Boots.com has indeed been hoaxed. The cropped image on Boots' Website purporting to represent Jamie Oliver's 2004 calendar looks nothing like the actual product depicted on the ... Read More

A photograph purporting to show the cover of a new Jamie Oliver calendar generated a fair amount of Internet chatter this past week because, in the words of Sun columnist ... Read More

I haven't seen the actual email yet, but Gawker.com reports that the following "news item" has been making the inbox rounds today: 12:03 (CNN) NY - Britney Spears, the pop music ... Read More

From BBC News: A study on visual false memories conducted at Ohio State University found that a majority of tested subjects "remembered" seeing things that were never there. Volunteers were ... Read More

Lolis Elie of the New Orleans Times-Picayune spoke with Melba Kovalak, one of Gertrude M. Jones' daughters, who confirmed that the deceased was a lifelong Democrat who, though she didn't ... Read More

A reader has dug up an alternative obituary for Gertrude M. Jones and questions the timing of the Oct. 2 version: "Why would the Times-Picayune 'obituary' for Gertrude Jones, who ... Read More

TV's "Mythbusters" Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman left an urban legend standing — or rather lying — when they failed to prove one way or the other whether murdered Teamster ... Read More

Louisiana resident Gertrude M. Jones died in August 2003 at the age of 81, but her political convictions (at least we think they're hers — see update) live on thanks ... Read More

As you probably read in the news last weekend, a 19th-century "vampire killing kit" complete with crucifix, wooden stake, and a pistol with 10 silver bullets was auctioned off at ... Read More

Thanks mainly to faked footage of migrating lemmings hurtling en masse over a cliff in the Oscar-winning 1958 Disney documentary 'White Wilderness,' it has been popularly believed for decades that ... Read More

False email rumors of a serial killer who uses recordings of a crying baby to lure women out of their homes began circulating in Australia last month, causing a flood ... Read More