Urban Legends

Everyone loves a good urban legend / gossip :
1) Will the earth be destroyed in 20 years?
2) Do mermaids exist in the sea?

Here is a bad news for all you guys..The Urban Legends Reference Pages, also known as www.snopes.com, is a website dedicated to determining the truth about many urban legends, Internet rumors, email forwards, and other such stories of uncertain or questionable origin. Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a couple from California who married after meeting on the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban. The couple also founded the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society, who were credited as the owners of the site until 2005. The site is organized according to topic and includes a messageboard where questionable stories and pictures may be posted.

For those which are not in there....there is always google.com