Literature Urban Legends
Below are some useful links about Urban Legends on Literature:
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- Recreation: Humor: Pranks (100)
- Science: Science in Society: Skeptical Inquiry (155)
- Society: Paranormal (1,900)
AFU and Urban Legends Archive  - Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group. |
| About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore. |
| BellaOnline: Urban Legends - Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics. |
| Calypso's Urban Legends - Small collection of famous urban legends. |
| The Cat in Urban Mythology - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends. |
| Christian Urban Legends - Documents known urban legends and pious frauds. |
| Christians United For The Truth - Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest. |
| Common E-mail Hoaxes - A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email. |
| Darwin Awards Urban Legends - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true. |
| Don't Spread That Hoax! - Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet. |
| Don't Talk To Them - Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love. |
| 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. |
| Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories. |
| Hoax-Slayer - Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes. |
| The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University. |
| HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work - What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies - E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view. |
| Matt's Urban Legends - A collection of urban legends and superstitions. |
| The Museum of Hoaxes - A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception. |
| NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore - Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net. |
| Radek's Urban Legend Central - Small collection of urban legends and other stories. |
| 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. |
| "The Hook..." - Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend. |
| theFolklorist.com - Devoted to American folklore and urban legends. |
| Too Good to Be True - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt. |
| Tourist Of Death - A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture. |
| The Urban Legend Combat Kit - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends. |
| Urban Legends & Modern Myths - Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore. |
| Urban Legends & Superstitions Online - The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey. |
| Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz. |
| Urban Myths & Legends - Submitted stories and other fantastic messages. |
| Weird USA - Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings. |
| New Urban Legends - Recent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com. [RSS] |