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Welcome to the Urban Legends Zone!


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Whether told around the campfire or forwarded to your inbox, an urban legend is a modern-day folk tale.  Some urban legends are pure fiction, while others hold at least a grain of truth.  Two things that all urban legends have in common are high entertainment value and just enough plausibility to be believed. 

 

This site is a collection of articles and links about urban legends.  Enjoy!  Live feeds mean new urban legends every day, so be sure to check back often.

Sites About Urban Legends

  • Rumor has it.
  • Newest Urban Legends. The Top 25 at a Glance. Test Your Urban Legends IQ. Urban Legends Slide Show. Submit a Rumor / Hoax / UL.
  • These apocryphal stories are included as examples of Herculean Darwinian efforts. Be glad, be very glad, these people don't exist.
  • Welcome to a comprehensive site for creepy and interesting myths and superstitions.
  • Examining dubious claims and mischief of all kinds.
  • The following is a collection of the more entertaining of these folktales.
  • Email is a powerful tool, but its ability to quickly, widely and cheaply spread false information is a danger. "Let every matter be established," the Bible says.
  • Sample alt.folklore.urban for yourself (beware: some residents are reputed to have social skills that differ slightly and/or significantly from socially accepted norms).
  • The latest urban legends.
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by Adam Mcculley

Submitted for your approval: A sort of deconstruction of 911...and it's conspiracy madness. My source? The findings of The institute of technology and standards. Not a blog, not a flimsy documentary...More>
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by Regina Sunderland

Global warning – fact or fiction – I guess would have to be the real question here. The fact is that our climate is shifting once again. Regions which always have been cold are now growing...More>
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by Bill Stone

There have been many cases of gas station explosions in recent years, and the cause of the large majority of them have been a buildup of static electricity on the person's body. This is most often ca...More>
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by Victoria Lucas

Ouija boards do in fact "work" depending on how you view the word "work" when it comes to using a Ouija board. Let me explain: There are many stories out there about Ouija board...More>
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by Nicole Morgan

Maybe it's my inquisitive mind, or perhaps the fact that I'm a bit of a geek but I have a strange fascination with Urban Legends and any other myths of questionable origin. So whether I have a few spa...More>
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Comments (1 to 9 of 9)

JoAnne Windsinger
May 01, 09 at 06:39 PM
Interesting!
Raven Lebeau
Apr 22, 09 at 10:01 PM
Thanks, all, for stopping by! Glad you're enjoying the zone. I come back here every few days myself to check the feeds-- there's always a few new stories to read. As far as groups go, there is a Cryptozoology group: http://www.helium.com/groups/groupshow/205, but not an Urban Legends group, per se.
Mechelle McCarrell ICS.LPN
Apr 19, 09 at 07:05 PM
Wow! I really like your zone do you have a similar group i can join?
Mechelle McCarrell ICS.LPN
Apr 19, 09 at 07:04 PM
Wow! I really like your zone do you have a similar group i can join?
Jim Bessey
Apr 19, 09 at 03:17 PM
What fun! Fascinating reading. It's all true, so there! :-) ~Jim
A W Drake
Apr 17, 09 at 01:07 PM
Great zone. Just the kind of subjects that inerest me. I will be snooping around your zone again!
Patrick Bernauw
Apr 09, 09 at 07:28 AM
And this also is... yeah... awesome!
Shaheen Darr
Mar 29, 09 at 08:38 PM
Alligators in sewers (imagine if rats started to evolve into them...yikes). Interesting zone,lots to read, will definitely be back for more thrills and chills...
Ethel Smith
Mar 27, 09 at 10:50 AM
This is interesting, Eileen

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Latest e-mail hoaxes

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    Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:18:00 GMT
  • Message circulating on Facebook that includes a photograph of a badly injured puppy claims that the Humane Society will donate $1 towards an operation to help the dog every time the photo is shared.
    Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:01:00 GMT

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by Julius Albert Custodio

Red Room is a horrifying Flash animation based on an urban legend of the same name. In a short span of time, it reached a high-level of fame among tech-savvy teens and urban legend fanatics alike. Its...More>
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by Debbie Robus

I have had a lot of crazy stories come my way in chain e-mail... animals with two heads, incredible photos that are supposedly real, diseases from soda pop cans that are the figment of someone's wild ...More>
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