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Urban legends serve as modern cautionary tales.LiveScience: Urban Legends: How They Start and Why They Persist Often, these myths feature careless behavior of some variety that brings the lead character to grief. There is a new breed of urban myth that survives on the Internet in the form of chain emails and forwards; these are routinely debunked by any number of urban legend Internet clearinghouses.
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- Leading scholar is Jan Harold BrunvandLiveScience: Urban Legends: How They Start and Why They Persist
- Subject of 1998 feature film Urban Legend
- Urban Legends cable series mixes authentic legends with made-up onesHistory Television: Urban Legends
- May perpetuate cultural, sexual and gender stereotypesDyneslines: Fakelore, urban legends, and ethnic stereotypes
- States often have regional popular myths, like the Jersey Devil
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Popular Urban Legends
- Alien AbductionCollege Library: Alien Abduction
- Vanishing HitchhikerSnopes: Vanishing Hitchhiker
- Kidney ThievesMetro Times: Kidney Thieves
- Bloody MaryUrban Legends Online: Bloody Mary
- Alligators in SewersSnopes: alligator Alligator in Sewer
- Walt Disney Cryogenically FrozenUrban Legends Online: Walt Disney
- Hormones in Cows MilkUrban Legends Online: Cows Milk
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Snopes.com: Urban Legend Reference Pages
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Wikipedia: Urban Legend Entry
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PsychologyToday.com: What Fuels Urban Legends? (April, 2002)
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5min.com: How to debunk Hollywood urban legends (Time 3:36)
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MuseumofHoaxes.com: Urban Legend Blog
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Amazon.com: Encyclopedia of Urban Legends (by Jan Harold Brunvand)
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Portfolio.com: Urban Travel Legends
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Passage - Chapter 11: This chapter contains two urban legends. The first about why people see ghosts and shadow.. http://bit.ly/1Vu8Ea
@brigsdewriter | November 12, 2009 08:09 PM -
@the_george 10-4. If urban legends weren't real then what would I believe in?
@JohnMcKee | November 12, 2009 07:42 PM -
Other Disney Urban Legends . . . http://www.snopes.com/disney/disney.asp
@disneytips | November 12, 2009 07:11 PM -
@jacobian The core docs are meh, the "user-maintained" stuff is a mix of lies and urban legends.
@kantrn | November 12, 2009 06:20 PM
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View All Urban Legends Questions (124) | Ask a QuestionAre "negative calories" a diet urban legend? (1 Answer)NO they aren't. Some foods burn more calories than they actually provide. read moreSpontaneous human combustion: Urban legend or an unconfirmed truth? (1 Answer)Apparently many supposed victims of sponataneous combustion turned out to be smokers who were drunk and fell asleep with a lit cigarette or pipe. Scientists are unconvinced that there is ... read moreIs Karl Urban actually in the film Outlander or am I just imagining things? (2 Answers)You're right. Urban was in talks to star in the film back during the pre-production period in 2005 (see article below). However, James Caviezel is the star of the picture. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_7929.php read moreDoes coffee really help you sober up? Or is this an urban legend? (4 Answers)The other answers are correct in so far as they say that no, it does not sober you up. But the spin is wrong. One of the main effects of ... read more
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