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Urban Legends
Urban legends are realistic stories concerning recent events or alleged events with an ironic or supernatural twist; urban beliefs or rumours are reports of such events that lack the storyline of the urban legend.
Urban legends and beliefs spread not only through word of mouth, but also through the internet in the form of e-rumours, chain letters, and e-mail and computer virus hoaxes.
Urban legends and beliefs spread not only through word of mouth, but also through the internet in the form of e-rumours, chain letters, and e-mail and computer virus hoaxes.
Sites in Urban Legends
Legends From a Small Country
From the collection of Arthur Goldstuck, South Africa's foremost authority on urban legends.
Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again
E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
Urban Legends Research Centre
Archive of annotated urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost legends, and superstitions, with FAQ.
Don't Spread That Hoax!
Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.
Christians United For The Truth
Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.
Hoaxbusters
Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies
E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
Jan Harold Brunvand
Transcript of an interview with folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, author of "Too Good to be True - The Colossal Book of Urban Legends."
Stiller Research Virus Hoax News
Virus and other hoaxes that spread by email.
NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore
Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
Virus Hoaxes and Netlore
Information on virus hoaxes, chain letters, and netlore circulating via email.
Email Tracking Program Hoax
Debunks an email hoax about a new program from Microsoft.
About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore
Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
Urban Legends & Modern Myths
Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
Too Good to Be True
Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
theFolklorist.com
Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.
Common E-mail Hoaxes
A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.
Urban Myths & Legends
Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
The Urban Legend Combat Kit
Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit
A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
Calypso's Urban Legends
Small collection of famous urban legends.
Darwin Awards Urban Legends
Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
Weird USA
Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.
Uncle Ken's Urban Myth Page
Small collection of common urban legends.
The Cat in Urban Mythology
Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
Tourist Of Death
A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.
HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work
What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens
Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico?
Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about a hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.
Global Monetary
Get your IDchip inplant.
"The Hook..."
Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
Urban Legends
Essay by Seppo Raudaskoski on urban legends.
Weird US
Strange stories from around the States: ghosts, local legends, crazy characters, UFOs, and other oddities.
Radek's Urban Legend Central
Small collection of urban legends and other stories.
BellaOnline: Urban Legends
Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.
Matt's Urban Legends
A collection of urban legends and superstitions.
The Oracle
Listing of contradictions in the bible and brief discussion of some hoaxes and controversial issues.
The Museum of Hoaxes
A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
Urban Legends & Superstitions Online
The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
Don't Talk To Them
Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.
Hoax-Slayer
Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.
AFU and Urban Legends Archive
Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
Rocket Car Story
A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car.
Urban Legends Reference Pages
Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture. |
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