Munchkin Land, Fort Myers, FL

http://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/amy-williams/2015/04/10/history-detectives-wanted-munchkin-land-mystery/25578175/

The News-Press [Fort Myers, FL]

11 April 2015

History detective swanted for Munchkin Land mystery

AMY BENNETT WILLIAMS

[…] For decades, rumors have persisted about a secretive village of little people that once lived in their own south Lee County neighborhood that stood where The Landings is now. Stories occasionally surface of a satellite colony of circus retirees or snowbirds of short stature seeking respite from an often-unkind world. Teens supposedly used to get high and dare each other to go in; many still tell tales of those wild nights. […]

http://www.news-press.com/story/news/local/amy-williams/2015/04/29/munchkinland-fort-myers-urban-legend-midget-braden-sutphin-landings/26600243/

The News-Press [Fort Myers, FL]

30 April 2015

Digging for truth about rumored little people village

AMY BENNETT WILLIAMS

Senator Harry Reid's Eye Injury

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/reid-eye-injury-gives-rise-rumor-and-legend

Las Vegas Review-Journal

19 April 2015

Reid eye injury gives rise to rumor and legend

By STEVE TETREAULT

REVIEW-JOURNAL WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON — To most people it seemed curious but straightforward enough when Sen. Harry Reid said he suffered a serious facial injury while exercising at home on New Year’s Day. A few days later he acknowledged the freak accident happened, embarrassingly enough, while he was working out in his bathroom.

But since the Nevada Democrat announced on March 27 he would retire from the Senate when his term expires, the right wing of the Internet and talk radio has had a field day with conjecture about what really must have happened to him in Henderson over the holiday. […]

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/apr/26/big-lie-las-vegan-watches-his-reid-tale-takes/

Las Vegas Sun

26 April 2015

The big lie: Las Vegas man watches as his Harry Reid tale takes off

By Ric Anderson

A Las Vegas man claims he started a false rumor that the injuries suffered by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid several months ago were the result of an attack by Reid’s brother, not an exercise accident.

Larry Pfeifer, a 50-year-old former consultant in the nightclub and entertainment industry, said he fabricated the story after becoming appalled that right-wing political blogger John Hinderaker published a rumor that Reid’s injuries stemmed from an assault by a Mafia enforcer. Pfeifer said he pitched his fake story about the Reid brothers’ supposed fight to Hinderaker, author of the Power Line blog, to test whether the blogger would publish it, as well. When Hinderaker reported it and the rumor was subsequently spread by others in conservative media, Pfeifer says he began plotting to self-report it as a lie to show the lack of credibility and journalistic standards among partisan media figures. […]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/harry-reid-injuries-_n_7160880.html

Huffington Post

28 April 2015

The Story Behind The Story Behind The False Story Of Harry Reid's Injuries

Sam Stein