Posts in Urban Myths

The Recruitment Industry Explained: How Different Agency Models Actually Make Money

If you’ve ever uploaded your resume to a “staffing agency” or been contacted by a “talent recruiter,” you might think these companies exist to help[…]

Sinbad Shazaam Mandela Effect Deboonked and Explained

Thousands of people insist they watched a 1990s movie called “Shazaam” starring comedian Sinbad as a genie. They remember specific plot details, the VHS box[…]

Who / What is Q*Bert? An Exhaustive Study

The Game (What We Think We Know) In 1982, an orange creature appeared in arcades across America. Q*bert—or, as the cabinet originally read during testing,[…]

The Dolphin Rape Cave: Debunking the Internet’s Most Disturbing Marine Mammal Myth

What happens when internet hoaxes meet real marine biology? You get a viral legend that’s been terrifying beachgoers since 2016—and actual scientific research that’s somehow[…]

Leprosy – Your One-Stop Guide

Leprosy. Hansen’s disease. The Big L. The OG outcast illness. For thousands of years, it was the disease that got you exiled from society, marked[…]