From: Don@cosmoslair.com   
      
   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   
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   >> "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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