Urban Legend: Money Left in Gideon Bibles
Some travel rumors never die, they just crop back up every few months or so.
That seems to be the case with the resurfaced rumor about money left in Gideon Bibles. I’ve received several emails about this topic in the last few weeks.
The Gideons are an evangelical Christian organization, founded in 1899, that leaves bibles in hotel rooms, in the hope that guests will read them. While hotel guests have occasionally used the Bible to hide money when they out of their hotel room, the Gideons do not leave money to entice guests to read the good book.
Check out this urban legend, and others, before forwarding them on to your friends.
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2 opinions for Urban Legend: Money Left in Gideon Bibles
Astroprof
Jul 16, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Whenever I get one of those forwarded email things, I always check. Almost none are true. I generally don’t even forward the ones that are. Another good site to check on the validity of these things is: http://urbanlegends.about.com/
Sometimes an urban legend makes it past one of the sites that monitor them, but it is often on the other one.
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Aug 9, 2006 at 9:51 pm
[…] This is one of those urban myths that never seem to go away. Somehow the internet seems to be a garden for these things. The ones that used to die off just keep going, and going, and going. Mary Jo recently posted a blog entry of her own on an urban travel myth that just seems to keep going and going. She has a good recommendation, something that I’ve been doing for years now. Before forwarding any of these email “news” things, or doing any action at all with them, check them out. I have found that most are false. There are a couple of good web sites for checking out urban myths and email hoaxes. One is Urban Legends and Folklore and the other is Snopes. Check both of them out. Sometimes one will catch an urban myth before the other one does. If everyone, or even a large number of people, would check these things out before mindlessly passing them along, then there would be a lot less useless stuff filling up our email inboxes. […]
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