This is True's Archive:

More Than 3,500 Searchable Stories and Headlines

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 7 of the This is True book series, which covers July 1994 through June 2001. 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 the latest to go online, Volume 7, or those in Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, or Volume 6.

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