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Urban legends
A community portal about Urban legends with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: An urban legend is a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. The term is... [more]
A community portal about Urban legends with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: An urban legend is a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. The term is often used with a meaning similar to the expression "apocryphal story." Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often false, distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized. Despite the name, urban legends do not necessarily take place in an urban setting. The name is designed to differentiate them from traditional folklore in preindustrial times.
Perhaps you've heard this illustration of the power of prayer: A missionary ... documented urban legend with no basis in reality (though I have heard it used in two different sermon illustrations). Here is what the well-respected urban legend website ...
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By David Lambert - In each episode of this fascinating disc, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, the MYTHBUSTERS, set out to explore three urban legends. Can a penny dropped from a skyscraper kill a pedestrian... (more)
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From thehoot.net
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Choose the most correct answer for each question. Bear in mind, all the questions pertain to urban legends, so a correct answer isn't necessarily a true one. Good luck!
Question #1: Decades after my death, my private parts are still on display in a jar of formaldehyde at the Smithsonian. Who am I?
• Adolf Hitler
• John Dillinger
• Clark Gable
• Albert Einstein
• Milton Berle
Play the Urban Legends Name Game! originally appeared on...
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From z.about.com
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A program explaining urban legends, those stories that circulate on the Internet warning about dangerous or disgusting situations, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in Linscheid Library instruction room on the library’s main level.
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- The Urban Legends Slide Show (z.about.com)
With permission, I am republishing the post Smithsonian Urban Legends written by Jennie Weber. I think it is interesting and worth publishing again.-----------Smithsonian Magazine had an article on urban myths (to refute) them recently. My personal favorite:Myth #8: There is a subterranean archive center underneath the National Mall.Fact: The Smithsonian’s storage facilities are mostly located in Suitland, Maryland.Backstory: The notion that a...
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From worldhistoryblog.com
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Even though the famous atheist’s body [Madalyn Murray O’Hair] was discovered in 1998 and positively identified in Texas -- and even though she apparently has been dead since she disappeared in 1995 -- patently false rumors about her alleged anti-Christian campaigns continue to spread. Credulous Christians who once forwarded these kinds of rumors in mimeographed chain letters or spread them on talk radio now can broadcast them around the world...
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From museumofhoaxes.com
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Which is a greater threat to your pets at Halloween: ritual satanic sacrifice, or your kids' trick or treat bag? Yes, it's that time of year when the flood of cult cat sacrifice stories start piling up in the inbox, with that breathless "forward this to...
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- Halloween pet threats Urban legends vs. reality -- are your pets safe? (news.google.com)
‘You’ve heard of us, even if you don’t know it yet. Remember that boy driving you mad on the bus, playing music on his mobile at full volume? He’s listening to us. So is his sister, his best mate, his best mate’s older brother and his teacher. We make…
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From list.co.uk
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Folks love urban legends - the woman crushed by shrink-to-fit jeans, the kid who explodes from Pop Rocks and 7-Up, the secret code on the dollar bill that foretold the death of Michael Jackson. Urban legends make the world more...
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