Snopes debunks (or verifies!) 14 Bay Area myths



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If your Aunt Ruth has a habit of sending you interminable chain emails, you've probably been to Snopes.

Snopes is the land where urban legends go to die. Among their most popular urban legends right now are articles debunking the theory that Americans are immune to the Zika virus and a story reassuring anyone who fell for the "Mr. T is dead" hoax circulating on the internet.

Snopes also has a number of Bay Area-based myths. Some are famous (did Mark Twain really call the coldest winter of his life a summer in San Francisco?) while others are more obscure (did a Bay Area hospital kill 15 patients by turning off their life support during Earth Hour?).

Find out if 14 Bay Area legends are fact or fiction in the gallery above.