# Does a bio exist for the Snopes folks?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-bio-exist-for-the-snopes-folks/155731
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 17, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-bio-exist-for-the-snopes-folks/155731 "2003-02-17T21:56:44Z")
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### Author: ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-bio-exist-for-the-snopes-folks/155731/1 "2003-02-17T21:56:44Z")

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Barbara and David P. Mikkelson. owner/writers/operators of the Urban Legends Reference Pages. Didn’t see anything in the FAQ on their site, and I was wondering about their background – who they are, why they started [snopes.com](http://snopes.com), how they operate their site, etc.

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### Author: ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-bio-exist-for-the-snopes-folks/155731/2 "2003-02-17T23:40:45Z")

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According to [this article](http://www.unansweredquestions.net/timeline/2002/insight031102.html), David is a web programmer and Barbara is a housewife.

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### Author: ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-bio-exist-for-the-snopes-folks/155731/3 "2003-02-18T11:32:28Z")

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Why don’t you ask them?

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### Author: ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-bio-exist-for-the-snopes-folks/155731/4 "2003-02-18T11:46:03Z")

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She’s a very busy housewife! She must churn out masses of pages of virtual print every day, and much of that stuff appears to be extremely heavily researched.

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### Author: ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-bio-exist-for-the-snopes-folks/155731/5 "2003-02-18T12:49:56Z")

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Both were / are regulars on the usenet group alt.folklore.urban, which has its own website [urbanlegends.com](http://www.urbanlegends.com/) and hundreds of contributors.

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### Author: ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-bio-exist-for-the-snopes-folks/155731/6 "2003-02-18T13:12:43Z")

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IIRC the two met through that newsgroup. I vaguely recall that they announced their engagement on April 1. It may still be on google if you’re patient enough to search.