Warning of Attacks
Status: Hoax
A September 28 article from IDG News Service, however, says the message was a non-specific threat that did not mention the World Trade Center. |
Iranian Pilot on United flight 93?
Status: Hoax
There is no record that we can find of a Hossein Mahmoudi among the crew or passengers on United Flight # 93. According to United Airlines, the pilot was Captain Jason Dahl; the first officer was Leroy Homer.
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Dunkin Donuts
Status: Hoax
According to this story, the owner of a Dunkin Donut store, was seen burning a U.S. Flag.
No evidence has been found to support this story. |
Daisy the WTC Hero Dog
Status: Hoax
Allegedly Daisy the hero dog went back into the building and lead 392 survivors to safety. |
Auto Donations to 9 /11 Victims
Status: Hoax
This message says that although U.S. car manufacturers have donated generously to the victims of the Attack on America, the foreign car makers have not. This is simply not true. |
Near Disaster
Status: Hoax
A picture of two Air Force Thunderbird jets appearing to have gotten into a potential disaster by getting too close to each other during a maneuver in their performance at an air show.
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In Case of Rapture
Status: Hoax
This false story alleges that some airline companies schedule Christian pilots along with non-Christian pilots in case the Biblical "rapture" takes place and the Christian pilot suddenly disappears. |
Contact with space aliens illegal?
Status: Hoax
This ridiculous message says that a law ,already passed by Congress, makes it illegal to have contact with a space alien and establishes penalties for anybody who does. |
Armstrong-Gorsky
Status: Hoax
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is quoted as saying, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky" during his first lunar walk in 1969 on the Apollo 11 mission. He says that when he was a child, he overheard his neighbor, a Mr. Gorsky, being told by his wife that when the kid next door walks on the moon...that... |
Space Pen
Status: Hoax
The message says that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent ten years and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity for use by astronauts.
The government did not fund the development of the pen, it did not cost $12 million to perfect, and neither the Americans nor the R... |
Missouri Sky Divers
Status: Hoax
None of the facts in this story has checked out with newspaper or public records. It seems to have been written by someone who is terrified of the thought of skydiving and wanted to have a tale that would support that fear. |
NAASA and the Missing Day
Status: Hoax
An email says that NASA has stumbled across some computer generated evidence that the Bible is true.
NASA has issued a statement flatly denying that any such event ever took place. |
Grammy Gordon
Status: Hoax
This story alleges that an 83-year-old grandmother named Ruth "Grammy" Gordon, who is confined to a wheelchair, got into a scuffle with six security guards at an airport and got the upper hand on all of them.
This is a piece of fiction. |
Alaska Air Crash
Status: Hoax
The email being circulated says that a pastor's wife on a doomed Alaska Airlines plane addressed the passengers for 9 minutes and led them in prayer before the plane crashed.
There is absolutely no evidence that this occurred |
The Hotel Soap
Status: Hoax
This email says it is the record of a series of actual, humorous exchanges between a London hotel and one of it's guests.
It is actually the humor of comedian Shelly Berman, a comedian popular in the 60's. |
Spears-Davis
Status: Hoax
Allegedly if you forward this email to 10 people, you will see Brittany Spears & Terell Davis dancing. |
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