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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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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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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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Urban Legends Questions
Is the e-mail about Irena Sendler rescuing Jewish babies true? 1 AnswerYes, there was a woman named Irena Sendler (Irena Sendlerowa, born in Warsaw on February 15, 1910, died May 12, 2008) who did rescue Jewish children during the ... read more
Are "negative calories" a diet urban legend? 1 AnswerNO they aren't. Some foods burn more calories than they actually provide. read more
Spontaneous human combustion: Urban legend or an unconfirmed truth? 1 AnswerApparently 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... read more
Is Karl Urban actually in the film Outlander or am I just imagining things? 2 AnswersYou'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... read more
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snopes.com: 25 Hottest Urban Legends November 25 2009: http://digg.com/d31AzaA?t USA based info
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RT @NicJWhite: ...... I nearly termed a successful 'urban' group 'urban legends'. >> LOL. Sum becum 'legends ' in 3 yrs or even 1 song
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Photo: One of my favorite NYC urban legends. Alligators in NYC sewers - Boing Boing http://tumblr.com/xcj48i0kk
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Copywriting Hijinks Of The 00s: today I nearly termed a successful 'urban' group 'urban legends'.
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@domfromguam do u know the name of the song Jian taught to for Urban Legends?
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