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Welcome to the complete* online archives of This is True, a weekly column featuring weird-but-true news stories from around the world by Randy Cassingham. True is an Internet pioneer: it has been publishing by e-mail since 1994.

*Currently online: stories from our first seven years -- otherwise known as stories in Volume 1 through Volume 8 of the This is True book series, which covers late June 1994 through the end of June 2002. We are adding stories to the archive a Volume at a time.

To get started, use the "Search" box in the upper right, go to a random story, start with the first story ever, or see a list of all the stories and headlines in...

Volume 1 (1994-1995)
Volume 2 (1995-1996)
Volume 3 (1996-1997)
Volume 4 (1997-1998)
Volume 5 (1998-1999)
Volume 6 (1999-2000)
Volume 7 (2000-2001) and
Volume 8 (2001-2002)

Our "offline" archives are also available: in book form. See this page for details on what's available.