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.
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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Subject of 1998 feature film Urban Legend
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Urban Legends cable series mixes authentic legends with made-up onesHistory Television: Urban Legends
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States often have regional popular myths, like the Jersey Devil
