The Urban Legends Reference Pages, also known as snopes.com, is a website dedicated to determining the truth about many urban legends, Internet rumors and other such stories of uncertain or questionable origin. Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a couple from California who met on the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban and married. The couple also founded the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society, who were credited as the owners of the site until 2005. [1] The site is organized according to topic and includes a messageboard where questionable stories and pictures may be posted.
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Forums
The ULRP has a reasonably active forums community, its users referring to themselves as "snopesters". David and Barbara Mikkelson are active participants, with David going by the name "snopes" (lowercase s) and Barbara going simply as "Barbara".
The forums have a variety of subforums, and are split between discussion of urban legends, and general talk threads. The current forums have been around roughly since 2000, and are powered by UBB.classic.
External links
- Urban Legends Reference Pages, the Snopes main site
- ULMB Wikitory, the "unofficial reference pages on the snopes.com message board."