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...
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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 ...
David Emery's Urban Legends BlogAbout - News & Issues (blog)On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: a free laptop from Sony Ericsson. ...
A gallery of odd and arresting viral images -- some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic -- as circulated on the Internets! Start here...The Urban Legends Slide Show originally appeared on About.com Urban Legends on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at 02:30:07.Permalink | Comment | Email this
This is a look at some of the best movie urban legends and myths. From movie myths about sneaky movie scenes to deadly urban legends, the movie myths and urban legends here are just as interesting as the movies they involveContributor: Aida EkbergPublished: Nov 23, 2009
Hey folks. We’re almost there! I am super excited for Thanksgiving, a holiday I have often considered my favorite. Most likely, I will write a post on my blog next week about the Native Americans and the United States of Genocide and all that fun st...
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...
PHOTO BY Max Shay/The Hoot" />PHOTO BY Max Shay/The Hoot" title="MCS_1618" width="350" height="232" class="size-medium wp-image-7119" />The Myth of the Castle: The Castle, currently used as sophomore housing, is often thought of by students to have secret passageways (as highlighted above). In fact, these passageways are old utility chases for piping and wire.PHOTO BY Max Shay/The…
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...
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...
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)
Philip Bump writes on Mediaite:
If you have older relatives, and they have email accounts, I’d guess that you’re pretty familiar with Snopes.com. It’s likely that, for the first few months of their sending you urgent messages about free Applebee’s dinners or gang members threatening people’s lives, you dutifully found rebuttals from Snopes to pass on, intending to limit occasion for embarrassment when they send such things to others.
Then you...
Snopes snoops out online scams and urban legendsDetroit Free PressInitially, David Mikkelson told me, their focus was on examining urban myths and legends. But it snowballed and now the site does everything from debunking ...and more »
TPM Reader RM takes his hand in debunking one of the greats ... (is this really the origin of the whole porn-loving terrorists storyline?) The "hero on a plane" email you've been covering reminds me of how this weird idea...