The headline of a viral article attributed to Hobby Lobby CEO David Green misleadingly suggests the company is closing more than 500 stores. Status: Misrepresented

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In the 1940s, Russian researchers conducted an experiment in which five prison inmates were kept awake for 15 days straight. To say it didn't go well is an understatement.

A babysitter calls the parents who hired her to ask if she can cover up the disturbing, life-sized clown statue in the living room.

Wouldn't you know it, they picked the worst possible night to go necking on Lovers' Lane.

After coming home late and getting ready for bed in the dark, a college coed wakes up the next morning to receive the shock of her life.

Urban legend says if you stand in front of a mirror and chant "Bloody Mary" three times, a terrifying ghost will appear.

Viral warnings claim perfume samples received in the mail have proven to be poisoned and are responsible for the deaths of at least seven people.

Chain-letter-style Internet postings tell the story of Carmen Winstead, a 17-year- old girl supposedly pushed down a sewer and killed by a gang of girls from her school.

Viral image purports to show President Obama kneeling at a "mosque prayer session" on the White House grounds in Washington, DC. Have we been lied to?

A female driver agrees to give a ride to the good Samaritan who helped her fix a flat tire. Turns out he's not such a good Samaritan after all.

A babysitter receives harassing phone calls from a stranger who keeps telling her to "check the children."

Several years ago, "they" say, actor Richard Gere was admitted into the emergency room of a Los Angeles hospital with a foreign object lodged in a bodily orifice.

A long time ago, before adequate technology for detecting patients' critical life signs existed, people were sometimes buried alive. That's a fact.

A teenager drove his date to Lovers' Lane for a make-out session before it was time to take her home. The place was dark and deserted. They were just getting started when an announcement came over the radio that sent them scurrying.

The honeymooners came upon a young woman hitchhiking on a deserted road in the middle of the night. It proved to be an encounter they'd never forget.

Home alone, but there's nothing to fear with your trusty dog keeping watch under the bed. Or is there?

Circulating via social media, this viral image supposedly documents the existence of a "melanistic" or black lion on a game refuge in Africa.

Notwithstanding the many and various urban legends that have grown up around the meaning of "420" and its connection with marijuana, the true story behind that connection is surprisingly prosaic.

According to Internet lore, a typical blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates... and you wonder why the ocean is so salty!

A viral "news story" claims that products manufactured by the Arizona Beverage Company contain human urine as an "active ingredient."

Dear Urban Legends: I've heard from a few places that Jamie Lee Curtis is genetically male.

A 15-year-old girl was babysitting her little sister while her parents were out at a party. She had just curled up on the couch to watch TV when she noticed a wrinkled old man approaching the sliding glass door.

Rumor has it that children's TV show host Mr. Rogers was a tattoo-wearing Navy SEAL or Marine sniper with dozens of kills to his credit.