In a real-life incident perversely reminiscent of the old urban legend about gang initiates lying in wait under parked vehicles and slashing the ankles of unsuspecting drivers, WKMG-TV in Tulsa ... Read More

We take a brief respite from debunking to celebrate the creative fakery displayed in Paranormal Phenomena Guide Stephen Wagner's 2006 Photo Hoax Contest. This year's entries included hieroglyphic evidence of ... Read More

No, your eyes don't deceive you. The image at right shows a brood of piglets in tiger-striped jammies snuggling with a full-grown female Bengal tiger. As the story goes, the ... Read More

Folklorists call it "ostension," but the district attorney used a different phrase to describe 20-year-old Ryan Goff's actions when he complained to Traverse City, Michigan health authorities that he found ... Read More

"Symbols and gestures, I’ve noticed, can be misunderstood," observes our roving mythographer, Peter Kohler. "For example, last Friday as I hurried through the kitchen on my way out of ... Read More

From a recent Dear Abby column: "I recently made a batch of pancakes for my healthy 14-year-old son, using a mix that was in our pantry. He said that they ... Read More

A forwarded email circulating since April sounds an alarm against an alleged provision "slipped into" the No Child Left Behind Act requiring that any high school student who doesn't meet ... Read More

So, it turns out that the story published a couple of weeks ago about Hungarian workers who drank from a rum barrel that was later found to contain a dead ... Read More

Not exactly. The image at right is one of two circulating via email which actually depict a 20-storey "car tower" in Volkswagen's Autostadt theme park in Wolfburg, Germany. Car buyers ... Read More

Did you know that governments worldwide are stockpiling the antiviral drug Tamiflu in preparation for a bird flu pandemic even though only about a hundred people have died of the ... Read More

Via Museum of Hoaxes: A Hungarian police Web site reports that workers in the town of Szeged made a grisly discovery after sampling rum from a 300-liter barrel found on ... Read More

Some folks are girding their loins in anticipation of the sixth of June — 6-6-06 — a date they regard as the calendrical equivalent of 666, the Biblical "Number of ... Read More

Some say yes, some say no. It's an authentic photo, at any rate — and a famous one, at that — taken by U.S. Navy Ensign John Gay over the ... Read More