"The Hook..."
Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend. |
About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore
Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore. |
AFU and Urban Legends Archive
Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Global Monetary
Get your IDchip inplant. |
Hoax-Slayer
Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes. |
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. |
Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico?
Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about a 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. |
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. |
Rocket Car Story
A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car. |
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. |
The Museum of Hoaxes
A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception. |
The Urban Legend Combat Kit
Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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