Urban Myths

Remember that cooler everyone bought on Kickstarter with the built-in blender, radio, speaker, LED light and onboard nuclear generator? They raised $13 million to start their company, but now that have run out of money. This might be the most expensive cooler in history. It was a cool idea at the time. Here’s what you were supposed to get:

And here’s what real dollars had to pay them to not get your Imaginary Coolest Cooler:

So how did this happen? How is $13 million not enough money when they only set out to raise $50,000?  Creator Ryan Grepper explained that while the campaign raised well over $13 million (from 62,642 backers), [...]

AN Internet Conspiracy Theorist speculate that Katy Perry is actually JonBenét Ramsey, the child beauty queen who was murdered in 1996. But what proof do they have? A YouTube conspiracy video, that’s what.

See the eerie resemblance between Jon-Benet Ramsey, the 6 year old girl who was mysteriously murdered in 1996 in her Colorado home, and Katy Perry, the singer who is mysteriously still alive? Could it be that Jon-Benet’s murder was faked so that she could one day grow up and be a rich, famous pop singer?

In a word: No.

YouTube conspiracy video expert Dave Johnson says,“JonBenét Ramsey did not die, nobody died, nobody got hurt. But she was [...]

Over the last week or so several media outlets (hello Hillary Clinton supporters) have been questioning, and indeed even spreading nasty rumors, regarding Bernie Sanders credentials as a civil rights activist in the 1960s.

Bernie Sanders, right, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality steering committee, stands next to University of Chicago President George Beadle, who is speaking at a CORE meeting on housing sit-ins in 1962. (Special Collections Research Center / University of Chicago Library)

A famous picture of Bernie Sanders speaking to student activist at the University of Chicago became the subject of speculation that [...]

You know that e-mail hoax about Muslim extremists being killed with bullets that had been dipped in pig’s blood? Apparently Donald Trump doesn’t know that it was a hoax. He used it in a stump speech to gleefully talk about how he would deal with terrorists.

Really Trump? You’re going to fight  terrorists with bullets dipped in pigs blood? via the NY Daily News:

His supporters rabidly cheered him on as the GOP presidential front-runner turned myth into his own reality, telling them at a rally in North Charleston, S.C., about U.S. Gen. John Pershing supposedly executing dozens of Muslims held prisoner in the [...]

Whether you like Kanye West, his music, or how weird line of women’s fashion or not, his recent meltdown has taken even his detractors by surprise.  Kanye’s antics have crossed over from the usual PR stunt to the bizarre, causing many to wonder if he has totally lost it. Or if he needs professional help. Before. It’s Too. Late. Here’s a roundup of Kanye’s most recent meltdowns. You decide.

HEAR KANYE’s SNL TEMPER TANTRUM

Kanye almost walked out of his recent appearance on Saturday Night Live due to some issue he had with the floor on the set, or something.  Little did he know [...]