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Urban Legends Reference Pages
This is the top urban legends site on the web. If you have heard a story or received on in your email and suspect it may be an urban legend, check here first, as they keep a Currently Circulating section up to date with all the latest myths. Comprehensive and very entertaining, with good analysis of the legends.


AFU and Urban Legends Archive  
Ongoing collection of urban myths and legends, based on the Material from the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup. This is a huge and reliable reference source for modern myths.


Good Luck Mr Gorsky
This is a book exploring the meaning of hundreds of urban myths. Two chapters of the paperback are available to read for free online. If you are interested in urban myths you will find it fascinating. We liked it so much we hosted the pages ourselves!

Urban Legends - Urban Legends collections, archives

About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.

Calypso's Urban Legends - Small collection of famous urban legends.

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.

Email Tracking Program Hoax - Debunks an email hoax about a new program from Microsoft.

Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.

The Great Library of Congress Fraternity Legend - Debunks the legend that all college fraternity and sorority secret ritual books are kept in the Library of Congress.

Hoaxbusters - Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.

HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work - What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.

Information About Email You Receive - Quick summary on hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information sent through the internet.

Legends From a Small Country - From the collection of Arthur Goldstuck, South Africa's foremost authority on urban legends.

LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies - E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.

The Lost Playground - Submitted local legends, strange experiences, and photos; inspired by the magazine Weird N.J.

Monkeyburgers - Tasty Urban legends - Includes urban legends circulating in the Netherlands.

NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore - Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.

Spiffo's Urban Myths And Legends - All of the classics along with stories you may not have seen before.

Stiller Research Virus Hoax News - Virus and other hoaxes that spread by email.

theFolklorist.com-Welcome - A website devoted to American folklore and urban legends.

Too Good to Be True - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.

Uncle Ken's Urban Myth Page - Small collection of common urban legends.

Urban Folklore - Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies.

The Urban Legend Combat Kit - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.

The Urban Legend Generator - Hop on the misinformation superhighway with the Urban Legend Generator and e-mail your selection to everyone you know.

Urban Legends & Modern Myths - Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.

Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.

Urban Legends Research Centre - Archive of annotated urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost legends, and superstitions, with FAQ.

Urban Myths! - Compilation of famous urban legends, scare mails, and scams.

Urban Myths & Legends - Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.

4UrbanLegends - Lists of annotated links to hoaxes, scams, and urban legends.

Virus Hoaxes and Netlore - Up-to-date information on virus hoaxes, chain letters, and netlore circulating via email.

Weird USA - Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.

Urban Legends - specific Urban Legends, essays

The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.

The Cat in Urban Mythology - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.

The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.

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."

Tourist Of Death - A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.


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