Guns That Look Like Cell Phones-Truth! Summary of eRumor: There are new guns that look like cell phones. The Truth: Guns that look like cell phones are real, but they’re not new. The most recent warnings about cell phones made to look like guns surfaced in February 2016. It started with a Facebook post by …
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.
Forwarded Emails Will Pay For The Heart Surgery of a Boy in Buenos Aires –Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A little boy named Brian in Buenos Aires has a failing heart muscle. An Internet service provider has offered to pay one cent per email that is forwarded with the subject “SOLIDARIDAD CON>>>BRIAN” to pay for Brian’s …
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The email warns never to call area code 809, 284, or 876 because you could get charged $25 or more per minute for the call. It goes on to describe various ways in which scam artists in the Virgin Islands are tricking people into returning their calls, then charging outrageous rates for making the call. (Complete versions are below.)
Neil Armstrong Wishing A “Mr. Gorsky” Good Luck from the Moon-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: 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. Years later, Mr. Armstrong says that now that Mr. Gorsky …
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A 10 Year Old Girl Named Asha Degree is Missing from North Carolina-Truth! Summary of eRumor: The email being circulated says Asha Degree disappeared on Valentine’s Day, 2000, and asks that people circulate a picture of her as a part of trying to solve the case and have her returned safely. The email says …
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George Carlin or Ted Nugent’s article on “A Bad American”-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This is a widely-circulated piece of social and political commentary, said to have been written by comedian George Carlin. Other versions say it has been written by musician Ted Nugent. (The full text is below) The Truth: TruthOrFiction.com has found this attributed …
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Bananas from Costa Rica Infected with Flesh Eating Bacteria-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: People are warned by this email not to buy or eat bananas for three weeks because of the discovery that they can carry the dreaded flesh-eating bacteria. The story says that scientists have discovered the bacteria on bananas from Costa Rica, but …
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The Effort by “Citizens Against Breast feeding” to Ban Nursing in The U.S.-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The message says an organization called CITIZENS AGAINST BREAST-FEEDING has collected more than 200,000 signatures on a petition calling for the criminalization of breast feeding. The group has a website at www.banbreastfeeding.com. The Truth: The website is …
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“The Beast,” a supercomputer in Belgium, is Being Used to Track Every Human Being on Earth-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: A three-story computer in Brussels, Belgium called “The Beast,” is described as being the brain-child of the European Common Market. It is said to be “self programming” and is intended to track the buying …
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