Donate to Save Toby the Rabbit’s Life-Unproven! Suspected Hoax! Summary of eRumor: Radio, TV reports, and emails about www.savetoby.com, a site that says a bunny is going to be killed on June 30, 2005 unless $50,000 is raised. The Truth: At this writing, the site is real. It was posted in March, 2005, …
Donate to save Toby the rabbit-Unproven! Probable Hoax! Read More »
Veteran CNN Reporter Breaks Down On The Air After Being Touched by the Quality of American Marines-Unproven! Summary of eRumor: The eRumor says CNN’s Martin Savidge offered to let some Marines call home from the Iraq war on his video phone. One of them, a 19-year-old Marine asked if his platoon sergeant could …
Summary of eRumor: This eRumor is usually in pictures without any text although sometimes there is mention of a beach in Maryland. It is a collection of pictures of Jesus sculpted in sand. There are numerous Internet sites that have the pictures posted without reference to where the sand sculptures appeared or who the artist …
Inspirational sand sculptures in Maryland-Truth! Read More »
Sears is Providing Financially for Employees Who are Reservists on Active Duty-Truth! Summary of eRumor: The eRumor says that Sears is doing more than the law requires by paying the difference between active duty pay and their salaries for reservists called to serve and providing other benefits. The Truth: According to a spokesman …
Sears is Providing Financially for Employees Who are Reservists on Active
Duty-Truth! Read More »
Secret Service Impressions of the Clintons and the Bushes–Unproven! Summary of eRumor: The email says it’s the observations of a “Secret Service Officer” who guards presidents. It is critical of the Clintons and complimentary of the Bushes. The Truth: There is no substantiation of this email. The Secret Service agent is quoted anonymously, is called …
A Secret Servie agent's impressions of the Bushes versus the
Clintons-Unproven! Read More »
A “Sign” From God After a Florida Hurricane-Truth! Summary of eRumor: The eRumor says that the high winds of Hurricane Charlie in Florida in 2004 ripped a previous sign from a billboard, leaving a previous billboard visible for all to see that said, “WE NEED TO TALK…GOD” The Truth: Hurricane Charlie was one of …
Kerry Supporter Who Stole Bush Campaign Sign is Arrested For Multiple Crimes-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The first-hand story of a Bush supporter in the 2004 presidential race who caught someone stealing a Bush sign from his front yard in Vancouver, Washington. The thief turned out to be driving without a license, using license plates …
The Criminal Kerry Supporter Who Stole a Bush Sign-Fiction! Read More »
Unconditional Acceptance at McDonald’s–Unproven! Summary of eRumor: The story of a woman who for a college class was supposed to smile at folks and note their reactions. She runs into a couple of homeless men at McDonalds, engages their smiles, buys them breakfast, and learns a lesson in what she describes is unconditional …
The power of a smile and unconditional acceptance at McDonald's-Unproven! Read More »
Truck Driver Who Turned-in the DC Snipers Had Prayed They Would be Caught–Truth! Summary of eRumor: Truck Driver Ron Lantz, according to the eRumor, was among 50 other drivers who had met to pray that the Washington DC snipers would be caught. A week later, Lantz turned out to be the one who …
The man who found the DC snipers had prayed for them to be caught-Truth! Read More »
NASA Spent $12 Million For a Space Pen While the Russians Just Use Pencils–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: 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 pen will write upside down, underwater, …
NASA Space Pen: a ten-year, $12 million price tab-Fiction! Read More »
