Footage shot in Manitoba shows Bigfoot, viewers say

Hundreds of people have now streamed through a home in northern Manitoba to view a 2-minute 49-second video that has...

Urban Legend: Saggy pants came from sexually active prison inmates

False. The rumor becomes a way of passing along one group’s disdain for another’s sartorial practice. Communicating that the saggers...

Urban Legend: HBC makes annual payments pelts and furs to the Queen

False. In 1670, Charles II of England granted a Royal Charter to Prince Rupert and seventeen associates (known collectively as...

Urban Legend: Pravda got Checkov on Star Trek

The character of Ensign Chekov was added to the television series Star Trek because an editorial in the Communist newspaper...

April Fools’ Day Origins

IT has become tradition on the first of April to pull jokes of the harmless variety on those near and...

Urban Legend: Soldier crossing his fingers while shaking hands with Hillary Clinton

Photograph shows soldier shaking hands with Sen. Hillary Clinton while crossing his fingers. True. Military history includes many instances when...

Urban Legend: Big Brother dollars

The plastic strip embedded in U.S. bank notes enable the Feds to tell how much money you have on you....

Urban Legend: Boxing Day comes from the need to rid the house of empty boxes

False. Few Americans have any inkling that there even is such a thing as Boxing Day, let alone what the...

Cropless Crop Circles

Large designs have been appearing on San Francisco’s ocean beach tidal flats at low tides. Cropless Crop Circles – Phidelity.com...

Urban Legend: AOL has “the right to use anything in your IM messages without compensation to you.”

False. An AOL spokesman explained to eWeek, the controversial clause was listed under the “Content You Post” section of the...