Hmm.. I think I just realized that I had fallen for the "lights out" hoax for the longest time. I heard about it first in an email around 1998. I believed it to

Hmm.. I think I just realized that I had fallen for the "lights out" hoax for the longest time. I heard about it first in an email around 1998. I believed it to be true until I read this Faxlore wikipedia link today. Wow! To clarify, just a month after I heard about this, I had a confirming event. I was in Detroit at that time and my wife and I were staying in a motel. It was just after sundown. We pulled out of the motel parking lot into the road. It was less than a minute later that I realized I did not have my car headlights turned on and I switched them on. Seconds later, a cop who was following us stopped us and questioned us if we just pulled out of a parking lot. He didn't give me a ticket, just an enquiry and let us off. That incident worked as a confirming event for me. Bunch, Michael: "Technology Aided Spread of Terrifying Hoax", San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 4, 1993 – "Lights Out" gang initiation legend spreads by fax and copier.