Knowledge: urban legends
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- Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again
http://www.envasion.net/ - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
- Don't Spread That Hoax!
http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/ - Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.
- Christians United For The Truth
http://www.truthminers.com/truth/ - Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.
- Hoaxbusters
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ - Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
- LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies
http://www.liemails.com/ - E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
- Jan Harold Brunvand
http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/jan.harold.brunvand.html - Transcript of an interview with folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, author of "Too Good to be True - The Colossal Book of Urban Legends."
- NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore
http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap.cfm?cat_show=Urban%20Folklore - Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
- About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore
http://urbanlegends.about.com/ - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
- Urban Legends & Modern Myths
http://www.warphead.com/urbanlegends/ - Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
- Too Good to Be True
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall01/032088.htm - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
- theFolklorist.com
http://thefolklorist.com/ - Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.
- Common E-mail Hoaxes
http://www.3oddballz.com/hoaxes/ - A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.
- Urban Myths & Legends
http://www.delta-9.com/net47/myth/ - Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
- The Urban Legend Combat Kit
http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/ - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
- Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit
http://www.wdog.com/legends/ - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
- Calypso's Urban Legends
http://www.angelfire.com/az2/urbanlegends/ - Small collection of famous urban legends.
- Darwin Awards Urban Legends
http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/ - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
- Weird USA
http://www.angelfire.com/zine/WeirdUSA/ - Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.
- The Cat in Urban Mythology
http://messybeast.com/urbancat.htm - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
- Tourist Of Death
http://www.touristofdeath.com/ - A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.
- HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm - What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
- The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/HorseText.html - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
- Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico?
http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/eagles/hotel-california.htm - Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about a hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.
- "The Hook..."
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/FOLK/thehook.html - Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
- Radek's Urban Legend Central
http://geocities.com/rayman_7575/ - Small collection of urban legends and other stories.
- BellaOnline: Urban Legends
http://www.bellaonline.com/site/urbanlegends/ - Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.
- Matt's Urban Legends
http://www.geocities.com/neons2000/ - A collection of urban legends and superstitions.
- The Museum of Hoaxes
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/ - A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
- Urban Legends & Superstitions Online
http://urbanlegendsonline.com/ - The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
- Don't Talk To Them
http://www.freewebs.com/locallegend/intro.htm - Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.
- Hoax-Slayer
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ - Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.
- AFU and Urban Legends Archive
http://tafkac.org/ - Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
- Rocket Car Story
http://www.rocketcarstory.com/ - A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car.
- Snopes.com Urban Legends Reference Pages
http://www.snopes.com/ - Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture.
- New Urban Legends
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.xml - Recent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com.
- Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand
http://www.janbrunvand.com/ - 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.
- Christian Urban Legends
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm - Documents known urban legends and pious frauds.
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