Snopes.com officials claim this page has been there the whole time. Nobody bothered to look it up.
David and Barbara Mikkelson, who founded the site in 1995, confirmed in their latest post that “nearly 94% of the content” on the site “was made up and written with no actual research whatsoever, with vain and sometimes misguided attempts to be clever and cute.”
For years, chatrooms and message boards all over the world had posited that the site was a hoax, and how ironic it was that a site dedicated to debunking myths and urban legends was itself a myth.
“Yeah, we thought that was pretty cool, at least for a while,” said David Mikkelson, who apparently has made himself quite a pretty penny for his efforts. “We were telling people what was and wasn’t real, and we weren’t real ourselves. It’s trippy.”
After deflecting the e-mails and accusations for more than a decade, though, the couple felt they had no more lies left in them to litter the internet with. “We’d lied to the media, we’d lied to the world wide web, we’d ruined lives and insulted people. We had nothing left to give,” said Barbara Mikkelon.
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