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Urban Legends:

About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore

Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/

BellaOnline: Urban Legends

Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.

http://www.bellaonline.com/site/urbanlegends/

Calypso's Urban Legends

Small collection of famous urban legends.

http://www.angelfire.com/az2/urbanlegends/

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

The Cat in Urban Mythology

Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.

http://messybeast.com/urbancat.htm

Christian Urban Legends

Documents known urban legends and pious frauds.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm

Christians United For The Truth

Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.

http://www.truthminers.com/truth/

Common E-mail Hoaxes

A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.

http://www.3oddballz.com/hoaxes/

Darwin Awards Urban Legends

Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.

http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/

Don't Spread That Hoax!

Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.

http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/

Don't Talk To Them

Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.

http://www.freewebs.com/locallegend/intro.htm

Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand

Official site of the folklorist who wrote several books on urban legends beginning with "The Vanishing Hitchhiker". Features personal and professional information, works, and a FAQ.

http://www.janbrunvand.com/

Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again

E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.

http://www.envasion.net/

Hoaxbusters

Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

Hoax-Slayer

Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens

Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/HorseText.html

HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work

What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm

Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico?

Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about an hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.

http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/eagles/hotel-california.htm

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."

http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/jan.harold.brunvand.html

LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies

E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.

http://www.liemails.com/

Matt's Urban Legends

A collection of urban legends and superstitions.

http://www.geocities.com/neons2000/

The Museum of Hoaxes

A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/

NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore

Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.

http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap.cfm?cat_show=Urban%20Folklore

Radek's Urban Legend Central

Small collection of urban legends and other stories.

http://geocities.com/rayman_7575/

Snopes.com 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.

http://www.snopes.com/

"The Hook..."

Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/FOLK/thehook.html

theFolklorist.com

Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.

http://thefolklorist.com/

Too Good to Be True

Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall01/032088.htm

Tourist Of Death

A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.

http://www.touristofdeath.com/

The Urban Legend Combat Kit

Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.

http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/

Urban Legends & Modern Myths

Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.

http://www.warphead.com/urbanlegends/

Urban Legends & Superstitions Online

The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.

http://urbanlegendsonline.com/

Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit

A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.

http://www.wdog.com/legends/

Urban Myths & Legends

Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.

http://www.delta-9.com/net47/myth/

Weird USA

Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.

http://www.angelfire.com/zine/WeirdUSA/

New Urban Legends

Recent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com. [RSS]

http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.xml

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