All posts tagged "Classics"

Today we look back at a story that was first reported over a decade ago and is still debated to this day: Was an intact breaded chicken head served to a McDonald’s customer?

A decades-long warning claims that a new gang initiation involves men slipping into the back seats of cars at gas stations in order to kidnap, kill, or burglarize women.

The mythical 5-second rule holds that food dropped on the floor may still be safely consumed provided it is picked up within five seconds. Results from studies on the topic indicate that other factors may play a bigger role in the transfer of bacteria than merely time spent on the floor.

Tales of mythical jackrabbits with antelope antlers began to spread from Wyoming in the 1940’s. Where did they come from? Today we explore the legendary jackalope hoax.

In 1990, President Bush Sr. was tricked into taking a phone call from an impostor claiming to be the president of Iran. Today we revisit this classic hoax.

The most popular image on the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Flickr account is a vintage photo of a somber postal carrier holding a baby in a mail bag. Oddly enough, this photo was staged, but several children were sent via “mail” in the 1910s.

On April Fools Day 1957, the BBC aired a fictitious story about the Swiss spaghetti harvest which depicted laborers reaping spaghetti noodles from spaghetti trees. Scores of people contacted the station to find out how they could obtain their own “spaghetti bush.” Today we look back at this classic hoax.

Today we look back at a craft called the “Hotelicopter,” the alleged flying hotel room in a helicopter which first circulated in 2009.