This is a bunch of bull. Everybody has known for years that it is a husband and wife running it. It is obvious public information. Trying to make out that snopes is some sort of super-smart answering service for any question is ridiculous.

Snopes is basically Mythbusters, except that Snopes was first. And obviously snopes is a website, not a teevee show. So they don't have all the special effects.

As you can see from this quote, anybody who wanted to find out, anybody who did some basic research, would know that snopes is a husband and wife team. It's not some big secret.

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"Back in 1992 I started reading alt.folklore.urban or AFU. I posted before I really understood the group. The first person to bait me and then beat up on me was snopes. The first person to reach out to me and try explain what was going on was Barbara.

I know David as someone who has a pretty fair ego, but at the same time he is smart and reasonably fair. He does care about the facts and would argue them incessantly (with a fair dollop of sarcasm, kinda like some around here). I know Barbara as someone who is smart and fair and funny.

Snopes.com was created as a commercial site, and there was a big controversy at AFU at the time as Snopes and Barbara were big contributors to TAAKAC (The archive also known as cathouse) which was a non profit place where AFU members put there definitive stuff and archives from AFU discussions. I was one of the contributors. The criteria on AFU and TAAKAC were very high, the list was full of academics and others who all had a very sceptical view of urban legends."