Urban Legend: Money Left in Gideon Bibles
July 16, 2006 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Hotels
Some travel rumors never die, they just crop back up every few months or so.
That seems to be the case with the resurfaced rumor about money left in Gideon Bibles. I’ve received several emails about this topic in the last few weeks.
The Gideons are an evangelical Christian organization, founded in 1899, that leaves bibles in hotel rooms, in the hope that guests will read them. While hotel guests have occasionally used the Bible to hide money when they out of their hotel room, the Gideons do not leave money to entice guests to read the good book.
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