This email says that there has been a case in Taiwan of a person eating shrimp shortly after taking vitamin-C and then dying. The message claims that the combination somehow causes arsenic poisoning.
The Pictures of the Man-Eating Snake–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This eRumor comes in several versions. All of them include pictures of a large snake that has obviously swallowed a very large meal. Then there are pictures of a human body apparently being cut from the belly of the snake. The differences among the versions are …
Steven Spielberg is Planning a Film on the Crusades as a Response to The Passion.–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Steven Spielberg is quoted as saying he’s going to fight fire with fire and release a film on the Crusades in reaction to Mel Gibson’s film The Passion. The Truth: The eRumor is a hoax. We don’t …
Steven Spielberge filming the crusades?-Fiction! Read More »
Nostradamus Predicted the Terrorist Attack on New York–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: An eRumor is circulating that quotes what it says are predictions of the famous 16th century astrologer Nostradamus that seem to anticipate the attack on New York by terrorists on September 11. The prophecy is said to have referred to the …
Nostradamus predicted the World Trade Center terrorism-Fiction! Read More »
Picture of a Great White Shark Attacking a Soldier Hanging From a Helicopter-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The picture is of a military helicopter hovering over the ocean with a soldier dangling from a ladder. A great white shark is leaping from the water at the soldier. Some versions say the picture is from England …
Picture of a great white shark attacking a soldier hanging from a helicopter-Fiction! Read More »
The Pentagon Was Not Struck by a Hijacked Jet on September 11-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The allegation is that the destruction at the Pentagon on September 11 was not the result of being hit by a hijacked American Airlines 757, but some other cause. The theories range from the building being hit by a remote-control …
The Pentagon was not struck by a hijacked jet on September 11-Fiction! Read More »
A List of Hard-to-Believe Court Awards That Have Inspired the “Stella Awards”-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This email lists seven alleged court decisions in various states in the U.S. that awarded large cash awards to people under apparently absurd circumstances, including occasions when they were responsible for their own injury or loss. Later versions say …
The Painful Lives of the Our Gang Cast Members-Truth! & Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The eRumor lists some of the cast members of the famous Our Gang comedies and their troubled lives saying that Robert Blake, who the eRumor says played Spanky, has added to the list by being accused of killing his wife. …
The unhappy lives of the cast of the "Our Gang" comedies-Truth!
& Fiction! Read More »
Arizona Man Preserves His Dead Wife in a Coffee Table-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Jeff Green couldn’t bear to part with his deceased wife, Lucy, so he had a special glass enclosure constructed that would preserve her body…and turned it into a coffee table for his front room. The eRumor says he got special permission …
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 »
