Urban Legends
Urban Legends Links
- AFU and Urban Legends Archive Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
- 4UrbanLegends A guide to modern fairy tales. Large resource of hoaxes, scams and urban legends.
- Glass: Liquid or Solid Science vs. an urban legend.
- HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work What they are, where they come from and why they spread so quickly.
- The Legend of the Gnome A narrative story about a lawn gnome that was brought across the U.S. and returned to its owners.
- Weird USA Not all weird tales need be of the supernatural. Urban legends, ghost sightings, hauntings, stories, and more.
- NetScrap.com Category: Urban Folklore Here are just a few of the great myths floating around the net.
- CampusNut.com: Urban Myths Over fifty urban myths ranging from scary to stupid.
- Break The Chain Works to reduce the amount of junk e-mail by educating e-mail users to recognize hoaxes and urban legends.
- Urban Legends of Southern Africa Three legends taken from Arthur Goldstuck's books on urban legends of South Africa.
- Internet ScamBusters Urban Legends and hoaxes revealed
- It Ain't So A list of widely believed falsehoods about the world of science. I also try to show why these myths are not so and include links for further reading.
- The Urban Legend Generator Hop on the misinformation superhighway with our Urban Legend Generator. Simply make your selections from the menus and we will do the rest.
- Don't Spread That Hoax Debunking hoaxes that spread on the internet.
- Darwin Awards Urban Legends Darwin Awards Urban Legends are cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true. These inspirational narratives of legendary Darwin Awards contenders include some of the most popular Darwin Awards fictions.
- US Dept of Energy - Computer Incident Advisory Capability Internet Hoaxes
- IBM Hype alerts.
- The Lost Playground Submitted local legends, strange experiences, and photos; inspired by the magazine Weird N.J.
- Urban Legends Reference Pages Snopes.com, the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society's definitive Internet/WWW reference source for urban legends, myths, and folklore.
- The Urban Legend Combat Kit Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited Internet myths and urban legends.
- McNally World Discover the secret of Rand McNally. Vote for big women, embarrass friends, find pranks, observe world domination of Rand Mcnally. Who IS Rand McNally?
- Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, including the Kidney Thief, Bad Neighbor, the Letter Home, and the Vanishing Hitchhiker, by Sarah Wichlacz.
- Cyndi's List of Internet Stuff You Need to Know Computer Viruses, E-mail Chain-letters, Folklore, Hoaxes, Misunderstandings & Scams
- Envasion: We're Making Paranoia Fun Again Urban legends, paranoia, conspiracy, theories, news, humor.
- Spiffo's Urban Myths And Legends All of the classics along with a whole load of stories you may not have seen before.
- Origin of the Rocket Car-In-The-Cliff Legend Possibly the true story behind the age-old legend of the "rocket-powered car that flew into the cliff", also mentioned in the Darwin Awards.
- Virus Hoaxes and Netlore Up-to-date information on virus hoaxes, chain letters, and netlore circulating via email.
- Urban Legends Research Centre Internet reference tool with a growing library of research reports and a free research request service.
- The Great Library of Congress Fraternity Legend Debunks the myth that all college fraternity and sorority secret ritual books are kept in the Library of Congress.
- About.com Guide - Urban Legends and Folklore Features, links, bulletin board, chat, and a growing archive of urban and Internet folklore
- Christians United For The Truth Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes, and myths, and urges people to stop forwarding hoax email; membership provides monthly newsletter, forum digest and reply service for email hoaxes.
- LIEmails: the truth about e-mail lies E-mail lies (e-mail hoaxes), listed for reference, and debunked, from a Christian point of view. A ministry that educates Christians about e-mail lies.
- Sorry, But You're Wrong Examines modern myths and hysteria in the light of reason.
- What Are Urban Legends? Popular urban legends including "The Man with the Hook" and "The Kentucky Fried Rat."
- Stiller Research Virus Hoax News Despite the title, covers many recent hoaxes, not just computer viruses.
- Superstition Superstitions about every subject from a to z, old wives tales and beliefs about death and dying, wedding superstitions, good luck omens and customs.
- E-mail Folklore Home page Chain Letters, Virus Warnings and more
- Legends from a small country Arthur Goldstuck's collection. He is probably South Africa's foremost authority on native Urban Legends.
- Message to Customers on 'Email Tracking Program' Hoax Recently an email has been circulating on the Internet about a new "email tracking system" from Microsoft. As you may have suspected, this is a hoax and did not originate from Microsoft.
- Calypso's Urban Legends Lists many urban legends and some variations. Visitors are encouraged to submit their legends and take part in discussions.
- Urban Legends Research Centre A free urban legends research service and reference library.
- Urban Legends Reference Pages A compendium of scams, pranks, hoaxes, urban legends, and other unusual items.
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