Urban Legends (Literature)

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Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories. http://www.envasion.net/ BellaOnline: Urban Legends Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics. http://www.bellaonline.com/site/urbanlegends/ The Urban Legend Combat Kit Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends. http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/ The Cat in Urban Mythology Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends. http://messybeast.com/urbancat.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 Urban Legends & Modern Myths Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore. http://www.warphead.com/urbanlegends/ Hoaxbusters Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet. http://HoaxBusters.ciac.org/ "The Hook..." Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend. http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/FOLK/thehook.html Darwin Awards Urban Legends Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true. http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/ Urban Legends Essay by Seppo Raudaskoski on urban legends. http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/PAPS/urbanl.html The Oracle Listing of contradictions in the bible and brief discussion of some hoaxes and controversial issues. http://www.geocities.com/tell_me_oracle/ Calypso's Urban Legends Small collection of famous urban legends. http://www.angelfire.com/az2/urbanlegends/ Urban Legends Research Centre Archive of annotated urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost legends, and superstitions, with FAQ. http://www.ulrc.com.au/ Virus Hoaxes and Netlore Information on virus hoaxes, chain letters, and netlore circulating via email. http://hoaxinfo.com/ 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/ 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. http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/eagles/hotel-california.htm Uncle Ken's Urban Myth Page Small collection of common urban legends. http://pw1.netcom.com/~uncleken/urbanmyths.html Weird US Strange stories from around the States: ghosts, local legends, crazy characters, UFOs, and other oddities. http://www.weirdnj.com/__weirdus/ 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/ LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view. http://www.liemails.com/ Don't Spread That Hoax! Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet. http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/ Radek's Urban Legend Central Small collection of urban legends and other stories. http://geocities.com/rayman_7575/ Legends From a Small Country From the collection of Arthur Goldstuck, South Africa's foremost authority on urban legends. http://www.legends.org.za/arthur/ul.htm Email Tracking Program Hoax Debunks an email hoax about a new program from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/hoax/05-13hoax.asp Matt's Urban Legends A collection of urban legends and superstitions. http://www.geocities.com/neons2000/ 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/ Stiller Research Virus Hoax News Virus and other hoaxes that spread by email. http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm 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 AFU and Urban Legends Archive Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group. http://tafkac.org/ The Museum of Hoaxes A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/ Hoax-Slayer Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore. http://urbanlegends.about.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 Weird USA Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings. http://www.angelfire.com/zine/WeirdUSA/ Urban Myths & Legends Submitted stories and other fantastic messages. http://www.delta-9.com/net47/myth/ theFolklorist.com Devoted to American folklore and urban legends. http://thefolklorist.com/ Global Monetary Get your IDchip inplant. http://www.idchip.com/s1/entry.htm 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 Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz. http://www.wdog.com/legends/ Rocket Car Story A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car. http://www.rocketcarstory.com/ Urban Legends & Superstitions Online The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey. http://urbanlegendsonline.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/ NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net. http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap.cfm?cat_show=Urban%20Folklore

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