Hoax Slayer (stylized as Hoax-Slayer) was a fact-checking website[2][3] established in 2003 by Brett Christensen, dedicated to critically analyzing the veracity of urban legends. While it was best known for debunking false stories and internet scams, it also hosted a page listing strange but true stories.[4][5]
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HoaxSlayer (stylized as Hoax-Slayer) was a fact-checking website established in 2003 by Brett Christensen, dedicated to critically analyzing the veracity...
Seed) Imprisonment in UAE Archived 2017-06-19 at the Wayback Machine. Hoax-slayer.com. Retrieved on 2015-04-24. "Indian in UAE denies using poppy seeds...
Brett M. (9 February 2017). "Q33 NY Wingdings Hoax – Elevens and the Wrath of the Eagle". Hoax-Slayer. Archived from the original on 1 July 2020. Retrieved...
March 19, 2022. Retrieved January 3, 2021. "Lou Ferrigno Is NOT Dead". HoaxSlayer. May 29, 2014. Archived from the original on June 30, 2014. Retrieved...
March 17, 2015. Christensen, Brett M. (April 19, 2012). "Boeing 797 Hoax". Hoax-Slayer. Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Baseler, Randy. "Air mail...
Yamba New South Wales Archived 8 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Hoax-Slayer.com, August 2008. accessed 5 November 2010. A. Lander, The foam is back...
Snopes. 2008-08-05. Retrieved 2009-06-08. "Montauk 'Monster' Photograph". HoaxSlayer. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2008-08-13. Boyd...
Christensen, Brett M. (July 26, 2012). "'Private Message' Phishing and Survey Scam Emails". HoaxSlayer. Archived from the original on October 25, 2019....
suicides", and that it was "entirely possible" that a canal killer or 'gay slayer' was the cause for at least some of the deaths. By the time of the article's...
Retrieved 12 August 2016. "Burundanga Business Card Drug Warning". Hoax-Slayer.com. 12 October 2008. Archived from the original on 7 March 2009. "Beware...
(November 2, 2009). "Bush Hid The Facts - Notepad Conspiracy Claim". HoaxSlayer. Archived from the original on 2010-03-15. Kaplan, Michael S. (14 June...
positively identified to explain such incidents as the 1983 livestock slayings, with them now being attributed to other causes such as large dogs. Despite...
Putin's Speech to the Duma on Minorities". "Fat Pussy - Porn video". www.hoax-slayer.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023. Latypova, Leyla (27 September 2022). "Ethnic...
Brett. "Advance Fee Scams – Nigerian Scams – 419 Scam Information". hoax-slayer.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2016...
Urban legends about drugs Theorists and analysis Jan Harold Brunvand HoaxSlayer Linda Dégh Gary Alan Fine Patricia Turner Snopes TV series Beyond Belief:...
Microsoft. Retrieved 2022-12-06. "Cannot Create Windows Folder Named Con". Hoax-slayer.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2014-01-28....
November 2006, the Hoax-Slayer website revealed Phil Gardner to be the author of The Peter Marlin Story, an elaborate online hoax written in 2004 and...
(in Bulgarian). Retrieved June 19, 2011. "Hoax: Nadia Comaneci's Gymnast Granddaughter Viral Video". hoax-slayer.com. Archived from the original on November...
Retrieved 14 January 2015. "Salt Water Ebola Prevention Hoax Leads to Deaths". hoaxslayer. 2014-10-09. Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved...
indie film Trafficked with Ashley Judd, and in 2019 star in horror film Hoax alongside Adrienne Barbeau; in 2022 appeared in historical thriller film...
by a boss character called the "Cow King". The cow level originated as a hoax about a secret level perpetrated by players of 1997's Diablo, and has been...
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