Urban Legends Directory

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• Recreation: Humor: Pranks  (100)
• Science: Science in Society: Skeptical Inquiry  (155)
• Society: Paranormal  (1,900)

• AFU and Urban Legends Archive   - Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.

• About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
• 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.
• The Cat in Urban Mythology - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
• Christian Urban Legends - Documents known urban legends and pious frauds.
• 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.
• Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand - 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.
• Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
• Hoax-Slayer - Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.
• The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
• 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 an 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.
• The Museum of Hoaxes - A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
• 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.
• Snopes.com 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.
• "The Hook..." - Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
• 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.
• The Urban Legend Combat Kit - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
• 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: 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.

• New Urban Legends - Recent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com. [RSS]