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Has this ever happened to you?

You get an email from a family member or friend,

and when you open it, you find that it's a long chain of forwarded messages that contain an amazing story and ends up by urging you to pass it on to friends.

For some people, the act of passing on that story makes them feel like they've helped make the world a better place.

It only takes a few seconds and they've shared something they feel is helpful or useful,

or that they agree with, or that amazes them.

But how many of them take the time to ask, is this thing I'm sending out actually true?

Here's the thing. For the run of this show, I've been interested in asking a lot of questions.

One of them is usually along the lines of this

Tales of Munster X are pretty interesting but is Munster X real? Well we really can't answer that.

Often the best we can do is check and see if the facts surrounding

the story make logical sense or if there's reasons it can't be true. It gets

complicated stories often come down to anecdotes passed on and re-told. We lose

the sort of crime scene evidence that would be lab

testable. Memories change. Stories evolve. Retellings embellish. In the end we

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