I admit that of all the people I know I am the most likely to believe an interesting story.
I remember telling my daughter about "The tribe that Hides" a primitive race in the Philippenes learning about the modern world. I remembered the story from a documentary I watched in high school. I was fascinated that the tribesmen marveled when they saw farmers using an ox to pull a cart, but hardly thought twice about seeing a jet fly overhead. She let me know that that story was one of the great hoaxes in history.
I've also retold a story I seem to remember from one of Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story" about Leland Stanford and his wife being rudely treated by the President of Harvard Universtiy when they sought to make a donation in the memory of their son who attended -- then instead using the money to start Stanford Universtiy. Alas, another urban legend.
Does anybody else fall for these stories or am I the only one?
I remember telling my daughter about "The tribe that Hides" a primitive race in the Philippenes learning about the modern world. I remembered the story from a documentary I watched in high school. I was fascinated that the tribesmen marveled when they saw farmers using an ox to pull a cart, but hardly thought twice about seeing a jet fly overhead. She let me know that that story was one of the great hoaxes in history.
I've also retold a story I seem to remember from one of Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story" about Leland Stanford and his wife being rudely treated by the President of Harvard Universtiy when they sought to make a donation in the memory of their son who attended -- then instead using the money to start Stanford Universtiy. Alas, another urban legend.
Does anybody else fall for these stories or am I the only one?
