BBC News and other sources are reporting that a half-a-foot-long predatory bug popularly known as a "camel spider" apparently hitched a ride from Afghanistan in the luggage of a British ... Read More

If you haven't heard of the medical scourge known as "fan death," you're not from South Korea. Or Canada, for that matter, where isolated rumblings about the dangers of running ... Read More

The closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing were barely over when a missive arrived in my inbox sporting a list of 10 on-air bloopers allegedly made by ... Read More

Contrary to recurring rumors, 62-year-old country singer Dolly Parton has not died of congestive heart failure. According to her representatives she is alive and well, having performed in concert as ... Read More

Nick Mediati and Anne B. McDonald have compiled a fun, if idiosyncratic, list of "Eight Crazy E-Mail Hoaxes Millions Have Fallen For" for the current edition of PC World. Most ... Read More

An anonymous email advises drivers to lock their car doors manually instead of using a wireless remote key because thieves have supposedly figured out how to "clone" the security codes ... Read More

The outfit responsible for last Friday's press conference promising scientific proof that Bigfoot exists has admitted the whole thing was a hoax. According to SearchingforBigfoot.com impresario Tom Biscardi, the two men ... Read More

A chain email circulating since the end of June asks for prayers for Katie Fitch, a 3-year-old girl in South Carolina suffering from hepatoblastoma, a form a liver cancer primarily ... Read More

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Bigfoot on Ice. According to a press release issued yesterday by Searching for Bigfoot Inc., the 7-foot, 7-inch-tall corpse of an ape-like creature found in ... Read More

A 10-inch-tall garden gnome missing and believed stolen since last September turned up on the doorstep of its owners in Gloucestershire, England last week, along with a photo album chronicling ... Read More

I am told that the Chinese government chose 8:08:08 p.m. on 8/8/08 as the time and date of the Olympic Games opening ceremonies because eight is considered a lucky number ... Read More

According to this email flier, the answer is yes. Because if you don't, the next customer may be able to "piggyback" on your transaction, meaning you'll be charged for their ... Read More

The Net is awash in angry emails criticizing Tyson Foods' decision to replace the Labor Day holiday with a paid day off honoring the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr at ... Read More

UPDATED: Although rumors declaring comedian Bernie Mac dead last week proved to be false at the time -- he was in the hospital under treatment for pneumonia, a spokesperson said ... Read More

Via The Dish Rag: Heath Ledger died of an overdose. Special effects technician Conway Wickliffe died in a stunt-car crash. Christian Bale was arrested on assault charges just before the ... Read More

Not only does Barack Obama refuse to salute the flag, Internet rumormongers inform us, but he also took the "disgraceful" measure of replacing it on the tail of his Boeing ... Read More

Biologists now believe the heretofore unidentified creature whose decomposing remains washed ashore on Long Island two weeks ago was probably a raccoon, according to news reports yesterday. Media types had ... Read More