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Bosnian Beheading Rumor
Type: Rumor. Summary: During the nineteenth-century, a rumor circulated in Bosnia suggesting that a person could earn a million florins by volunteering to be beheaded in place of Baron de Rothschild. Text extracted from: Walsh, William. (1893). Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities. J.B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia. 1893: 473-474. The Levant Herald…
Monkeys Pick Cotton
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: A nineteenth-century rumor described an experiment in which a Southern planter trained monkeys to pick cotton. Monkeys picking pecans (see end of article). Throughout the nineteenth century a rumor circulated in the southern states of America alleging that a planter had experimented with training monkeys to…
Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
Type: Anti-corporate rumor. Summary: Despite a persistent rumor to the contrary, Neiman Marcus has never sold a cookie recipe for $250. URBAN LEGEND HAIKU Recipe was good, But it cost me too much dough. And now I am broke. (by AB) That’s a good cookie. I’ll get that Neiman Marcus.…
Paul Is Dead
Type: Part rumor, part hoax. Summary: In 1969 the possibility that Paul McCartney had died years ago in a car crash and been replaced by a double became one of the most hotly debated questions around the world. HOAX HAIKUSo many fake clues The three, the hand, the flowers Paul…
Rip-Off Recipe
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: A decades-old legend tells of a customer overcharged for a recipe. The tale of the Rip-Off Recipe was one of the most widely circulated urban legends of the twentieth century, and there is every indication that it is still going strong in the twenty-first. Over the…
Walt Disney Frozen
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: According to rumor, Walt Disney’s cryogenically preserved body is kept in a tank under Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Walt Disney Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, but a rumor has long persisted that his body was cryogenically frozen and…
Wingdings Prophecies
Type: Rumor. Summary: Conspiracy theorists claimed that anti-semitic messages were hidden in a font created by Microsoft. Wingdings are the funny looking fonts in Microsoft Word—the ones with symbols and pictures instead of letters. Each symbol corresponds to a different letter. In the early 1990s rumors alleged the existence of…
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Bosnian Beheading Rumor
Type: Rumor. Summary: During the nineteenth-century, a rumor circulated in Bosnia suggesting that a person could earn a million florins by volunteering to be beheaded in place of Baron de Rothschild. Text extracted from: Walsh, William. (1893). Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities. J.B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia. 1893: 473-474. The Levant Herald…
Monkeys Pick Cotton
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: A nineteenth-century rumor described an experiment in which a Southern planter trained monkeys to pick cotton. Monkeys picking pecans (see end of article). Throughout the nineteenth century a rumor circulated in the southern states of America alleging that a planter had experimented with training monkeys to…
Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
Type: Anti-corporate rumor. Summary: Despite a persistent rumor to the contrary, Neiman Marcus has never sold a cookie recipe for $250. URBAN LEGEND HAIKU Recipe was good, But it cost me too much dough. And now I am broke. (by AB) That’s a good cookie. I’ll get that Neiman Marcus.…
Paul Is Dead
Type: Part rumor, part hoax. Summary: In 1969 the possibility that Paul McCartney had died years ago in a car crash and been replaced by a double became one of the most hotly debated questions around the world. HOAX HAIKUSo many fake clues The three, the hand, the flowers Paul…
Rip-Off Recipe
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: A decades-old legend tells of a customer overcharged for a recipe. The tale of the Rip-Off Recipe was one of the most widely circulated urban legends of the twentieth century, and there is every indication that it is still going strong in the twenty-first. Over the…
Walt Disney Frozen
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: According to rumor, Walt Disney’s cryogenically preserved body is kept in a tank under Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Walt Disney Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, but a rumor has long persisted that his body was cryogenically frozen and…
Wingdings Prophecies
Type: Rumor. Summary: Conspiracy theorists claimed that anti-semitic messages were hidden in a font created by Microsoft. Wingdings are the funny looking fonts in Microsoft Word—the ones with symbols and pictures instead of letters. Each symbol corresponds to a different letter. In the early 1990s rumors alleged the existence of…