The Arkansas Woman Who Thought The Rapture Was Taking Place and Got Killed on a Highway–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: According to this story, an Arkansas woman is riding in the car with her husband in Arkansas City, Arkansas, when she sees two startling things: Jesus walking along the side of the road and 12 people …
The motorist who thought the Biblical rapture was taking place-Fiction! Read More »
A woman is discovered sitting in her car in a grocery store parking lot with her hands held behind her head. A customer asks the woman if she’s okay. She says that she’s been shot in the back of the head and has been sitting there for more than an hour holding her hands over the wound to keep her brains from falling out. Paramedics are called and they discover that what she thought was her brain is actually a huge wad of bread dough. They finally figure out that when she got into the driver’s seat, a Pillsbury Biscuit can exploded from the groceries she had placed in the back seat and between the sound of the explosion and the sensation of something hitting her head, she thought she had been shot and also thought the dough was her brains falling out.
The Saga of the Hotel Soap-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This email says it is the record of a series of actual, humorous exchanges between a London hotel and one of it’s guests and was submitted to the Sunday Times in London for publishing. The Truth: This is not a real conversation between a guest …
The “noisy cactus” That Turned out to Have Thousands of Tarantulas In It–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A lady buys an expensive decorative cactus to put into her home. One day, the cactus starts swaying and humming. Alarmed, the homeowner calls 911, happens to get an operator who knows what is going on and who tells the …
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How various Black male celebrities got used to spread a “somewhat racist” bit of folklore.
This is a forwarded email that contains what appeared to be a news article alleging that TSA screenings of Muslims was ruled unconstitutional.
A statement allegedly by Russian President Vladimir Putin made about U.S. President Obama. The statement was, “Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game.”
Comedian Joan Rivers told a street reporter that President Obama is the country’s first gay president and that Michelle Obama is a transgender.
This is a forwarded email or a Facebook post of an article that alleged that November has been set aside by President Obama to celebrate National Muslim Appreciation.
This is a forwarded email that contains an article alleging that, while addressing a group of Congressional Summer Interns, President Obama said that instead of celebrating Independence day that he believed that “we should celebrate where we are going.”
