Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The rumor of dollar bills hidden in hotel-room bibles

This is a rumor which I heard from an Intercontinental Hotels Group exec last week. The story goes that Christian evangelicals put money into hotel bibles, in the hope that people will open and look through the bible in the hope of finding the money. If there is no money there, well the rumor had the effect that the person has opened the bible and looked through it, and maybe they will read part of it. If the money is there, then they have given someone a gift, and also the person may well read the page in which the money was found (or maybe not).

Is this true, or just a rumor? I guess I am playing a part in promoting the rumor here with this blog post.

Snopes.com tracks the history of this particular rumor, which interestingly goes back to the 1950s, and exists in Jewish as well as Christian mythology.

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

Found a dollar in a Bible last night in Pen. May be more than just a rumor

Unknown said...

Found one tonight in Tenn

Unknown said...

Found one tonight in Tenn

Unknown said...

Found a dollar here last night at shoreline inn in Muskegon MI.

Unknown said...

Found a dollar here last night at shoreline inn in Muskegon MI.

Unknown said...

Found a dollar a few mins ago here in Niagara Falls Onterio Canada

Unknown said...

Just found a dollar :)

Unknown said...

Just found four dollar bills in Erie pa

Unknown said...

I found $163 at Discovery Inn ukiah California

Unknown said...

Just found $4 in Calico Rock, Arkansas. Leaving it for someone else.

Unknown said...

I just found $1.00 paris hotel and casino in vegas

Bbm said...

Found $20 in micro hotel in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Unknown said...

If you do find money in the Bible do you take it or leave it there

Unknown said...

I looked through one bible in Columbia, South Carolina at Holiday Inn Express and I found nothing 😔

Unknown said...

Me and my friend left 2 dollar bills in the bible at Fairfil inn and suites marriot at daytona

Unknown said...

Found 4$ just now and I will leave there. Lake park GA. Please read the verses. God bless!

Jen said...

Just found $1 Jerome Grand Hotel, AZ

Unknown said...

Found $2 in Atlanta Ga

Unknown said...

We took it and gave it to a street performer

Unknown said...

My daughter found $10 in our hotel room tonight in Boone NC

Rando said...

Found $5 in my room's bible in Chicago

Daisy said...

Found a dollar in a bible at Foxwoods casino in Connecticut, now I will try and turn that dollar into more

Unknown said...

Take it

Unknown said...

I went to a more wealthy hotel, it was a group room with two rooms with a combining door, anyways, I found 5 hundred dollar bills in one room, and a check for a thousand in another. Crazy the stuff you find when you read it...

Unknown said...

found 50 dollars in a swedish hotel, left it.

Unknown said...

Found 3 dollars in ellensburge hell yea

Anonymous said...

I just left $2 at the baymont hotel in Rock Springs,Wy.

Lynzee said...

Left $5 on age 143 cpl weeks ago at Garden Place Hotel in Buffalo, NY during a great overnight with my bf 💕

bre said...

my sis found $10 in atlantic beach

Michelle said...

Found a $5 in Phoenix, Az

Mike n Jenny said...

Found $6 bucks at Rocky Gap Casino Resort Hotel in Maryland. Leaving a buck trying to multiply the $5

Jeroen said...

I know the urban legend, and since I visit lots of hotels, i always look, but never found any money… until now! $20 and a folded page at John 3. I’m an atheist but I guess I’ll take the money and buy food for the needy when I can :-)

Leo said...

Definitely take it

Unknown said...

I leave a dollar at every hotel that has a bible. Yesterday it was In Kentucky Book of John 15.

D said...

$1 at holiday inn mount ascutney VT, Kids found and keep.