12/31/97 - Molasses Clocked at 35 mph... in January
Hard evidence that too much sweet stuff can kill -- the Great Boston Molasses Flood of January 15, 1919.

12/17/97 - Instant Messages Stole My Password!
Read about the latest in a never-ending stream of America Online hoaxes.

12/10/97 - The Reluctant Mythmaker
The author of A Visit from St. Nicholas never wanted to see the poem published, but helped shape an enduring myth of our time.

12/01/97 - Grace Under the Scalpel
"I hope you're all Republicans," said the president to the surgeons. Or did he?

11/24/97 - 'Please Tell Me I'm Not Crazy!!!'
More reader mail -- on baby formula boycotts, X-rated Disney, and the perils of badmouthing the Internet.

11/15/97 - War and Pizza
Is the volume of pizza deliveries to the White House and Pentagon a predictor of U.S. military operations? A look at the Domino's theory.

11/12/97 - Anatomy of a Hoax
How to debunk a bogus chain letter in seven easy steps.

11/05/97 - My Mailbox Runneth Over!
Dear Guide: is it true that any intelligent teenager could do your job?

10/29/97 - A User's Guide to Craig Shergold
Craig Shergold, 18, has led a charmed life... except for one nagging, little detail.

10/15/97 - Woman Bites Dog
It's been a hectic month for urban legends in the news. Here's what's fit to print.

10/01/97 - Gerber Baby Food Hoax
Rumors of a huge class action settlement from Gerber are circulating again. They're still false.

09/17/97 - 'What about that thing with Richard Gere and the gerbil?'
Okay, I've put it off as long as I can. Here, finally, is the #1 story on the Top Ten Urban Legends list, by popular request.

09/07/97 - Apocrypha Now!
Movie Legends: did the ghost of a young boy make an unscripted appearance in the motion picture Three Men and a Baby?

08/31/97 - The Uses and Abuses of Superglue
As befits its status as a modern miracle invention, legends of Superglue loom large in urban folklore. Here are a few of the tales associated with the substance I like to call cyanoacrylate.

08/24/97 - "What exactly are urban legends?"
Infrequently Answered Questions -- an ongoing attempt to respond to the questions everybody asks about urban legends, but few are foolhardy enough to try to answer.

08/17/97 - Attack of the Penis Shrinkers!
The long and short of a toxic rumor currently wreaking havoc in West Africa.

08/10/97 - The Misinformation Superhighway
Fact and fiction collide in cyberspace: reflections on the Vonnegut commencement speech hoax.

08/04/97 - Sympathy for the Devil
Procter & Gamble goes to court in hopes of squelching rumors of Satanism... again.

07/20/97 - 1994's Most Bizarre Suicide
Another Internet scoop that might just be too good to be true: the complicated demise of Ronald Opus.

07/13/97 - All the Ingredients of a Legend
A classic: the familiar tale of a cookie recipe that cost somebody a whole lotta dough.

07/06/97 - Roswell: the Birth of a Legend
Thoughts on why the "Roswell Incident" still haunts us, fifty years later.

06/29/97 - The Kidney Snatchers
Rumors spread like viruses, and are sometimes just as lethal. Case in point.

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