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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.

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• - Essay by Seppo Raudaskoski on urban legends.
  
• - A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.
  
• - Small collection of common urban legends.
  
• - A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.
  
• - Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.
  
• - Small collection of urban legends and other stories.
  
• - Strange stories from around the States: ghosts, local legends, crazy characters, UFOs, and other oddities.
  
• - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
  
• - A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
  
• - Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.
  
• - E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
  
• - Small collection of famous urban legends.
  
• - Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
  
• - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
  
• - Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.
  
• - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
  
• - Debunks an email hoax about a new program from Microsoft.
  
• - Virus and other hoaxes that spread by email.
  
• - A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car.
  
• - Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
  
• - Listing of contradictions in the bible and brief discussion of some hoaxes and controversial issues.
  
• - Archive of annotated urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost legends, and superstitions, with FAQ.
  
• - From the collection of Arthur Goldstuck, South Africa's foremost authority on urban legends.
  
• - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
  
• - The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
  
• - Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.
  
• - Transcript of an interview with folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, author of "Too Good to be True - The Colossal Book of Urban Legends."
  
• - Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture.
  
• - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
  
• - Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
  
• - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
  
• - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
  
• - Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about a hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.
  
• - Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.
  
• - Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.
  
• - Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.
  
• - A collection of urban legends and superstitions.
  
• - Information on virus hoaxes, chain letters, and netlore circulating via email.
  
• - Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
  
• - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
  
• - Get your IDchip inplant.
  
• - Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
  
• - What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
  
  

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