Oliver North Hoax
Status: Hoax
Oliver North was involved in hearings concerning covert government support of the Iran Contra. However, someone wants us to think that he was involved with Bin Laden and that he was somehow prophetic in knowing that Bin Laden was a danger way back then. |
Clinton and GoldStar Mothers Hoax
Status: Hoax
If you check the Gold Star Mothers website, you will see that the two mothers who went to visit Hillary, did so without an appointment. The day they showed up, Hillary was not in the office, so of course she did not meet with them. |
Hanoi Jane Warning
Status: Hoax
There is no disputing the claim that Jane did go to North Vietnam in 1972, did particilate in an orchestrated press conference where she claimed that POWs were humanely treated, and did defame POWs, calling them liars, when they returned home and described their treatment. However, most of the other facts in ... |
Cindy Williams Warning
Status: Hoax
In this message, all the facts are wrong or distorted to make this appear to be a recent attack on our service men and women. |
Fuji Deletes Israel Hoax
Status: Hoax
This map was made by a company in the Republique de Cote d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) without their knowledge or consent. They are currently taking "Corrective Action" against the company.
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Black Panthers and Hilary Clinton
Status: Hoax
Essentially, Hilary Clinton (Former first lady and senator) and Bill Laun Lee (acting head of the Justice Department's civil rights division) are allegedly supposed to have defended the panthers and helped the murderers get off. |
Lieberman to France Letter
Status: Hoax
This letter, which chastizes the French for their indifference to the plight of the Jews is supposed to have been written by Senator Joe Lieberman.
This letter is a hoax. Senator Lieberman was not involved in any way with the writing or distributing of it. |
Unbelievable U.S. Stamps Warning
Status: Hoax
This message describes a real, U.S., postage stamp, that was issued in August of 2001. The stamp was part of the postal service's Holiday Celebrations Series and highlighted the Muslim holiday of Eid. In this warning message, the writer is taking the very un-American position of blaming all members of the... |
Bill Gates Assassinated Warning
Status: Hoax
This one is totally invented history. If you search on the people mentioned in the message you turn up multiple websites with information about the assassination of Bill Gates in 1999 by a Alek Hidell and a supposed police cover-up. |
The Practice Story
Status: Hoax
This story is essentially true, however, it leaves out several important facts. For example, the person who replied from ABC was not an ABC spokesperson but a tech hired to manage the website. When ABC found out what had happened they apologised to Mr. Neugent and fired the tech.
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Hotel Key Card Warning
Status: Hoax
This rumor started with a real investigation but the key card information got spread around out of context.
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Heart Test Story
Status: Hoax
This nice story may bring a tear to your eye, but it is total fiction. |
Giant Hog Killed on a Plantation in Georgia
Status: Hoax
An Associated Press story circulated with the picture of this giant hog but, as the article points out, there's no real proof about the actual size of the hog except the two men who say they killed it.
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The Huge Mountain Lion of Leon, Kansas, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Etc.
Status: Hoax
This eRumor includes a picture of a large mountain lion saying it weighed more than 200 pounds and was shot in Leon, Kansas, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.
According to an article in the Wichita Eagle on 1/25/04, a local naturalist named Kirk Woods has been looking for any evidence of mountain li... |
The English Fisherman Who was Swallowed by a Whale and Survived
Status: Hoax
An English commercial fisherman in the early part of the 20th Century is thrown from his whaling ship and presumed lost at sea. Later, he is discovered alive inside a whale that is harpooned by the whaling ship. He is taken back to England where after receiving medical treatment he lives out his life, alth... |
Redemption from 9/11
Status: Hoax
This story has all the earmarks of having been fabricated and is not substantiated by any evidence.
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Israelis escape WTC attack
Status: Hoax
Nothing in this report fits with any of the facts that are known about the terrorist attacks.
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The POW & the Protester
Status: Hoax
The story is fiction. In addition to the unlikely events described, the folks in Moscow, Idaho say it never happened. |
Oliver North & Osama Bin Laden
Status: Hoax
According to the Congressional Record, there was no mention of Osama Bin Laden during the Iran-Contra hearings by Oliver North or anyone else. |
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