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by: Don Freeman - Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:40 UTC

On 1/20/2023 4:02 PM, Ray Depew wrote:
> On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 5:41:54 PM UTC-6, Mark Shaw wrote:
>> What's the go-to resource for debunking ULs these days? Snopes seems
>> to have evolved into pure fact-checking, and I've found nothing else
>> useful.
>>
>> Thanks-
>>
>> --
>> Mark Shaw moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
>> ========================================================================
>> "All of my mistakes are giving me ideas." - Natalie Lileks
>
> Wow, they're all gone.
>
> I just had a look at/for all of the old goto sites.
>
> * snopes.com, as you observed, is nothing like what it used to be.
> * Likewise, truthorfiction.com, while it's still there, hasn't been updated lately.
> * urbanlegends.about.com no longer exists, and typing in the URL takes you to a fluff page.
> * The grand old tafkac.org ("The Archive Formerly Known as Cathouse") is no more. The URL has been taken over by what looks like a business operating under the dot-org rubric instead of dot-com.
> * urbanlegends.com is a page selling stuff.
> * urbanlegends.org takes you to Arthur Goldstuck's UL blog, and it hasn't been updated since 2012.
>
> All the sparkling edifices of the 1990s and 2000s are crumbling to dust.
>

There the subreddit r/UrbanMyths though it does seem to be mainly
recounting ghost stories.

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by: Don Freeman - Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:46 UTC

On 1/25/2023 12:40 PM, Don Freeman wrote:

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> There the subreddit r/UrbanMyths though it does seem to be mainly
> recounting ghost stories.
>

There is also r/UrbanLegends but it is the same as the one above.

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