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- AFU and Urban Legends Archive
*Cool Site* - Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
- About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore
- Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
- 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.
- 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.
- Email Tracking Program Hoax
- Debunks an email hoax about a new program from Microsoft.
- Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again
- E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
- The Great Library of Congress Fraternity Legend
- Debunks the legend that all college fraternity and sorority secret ritual books are kept in the Library of Congress.
- Hoaxbusters
- Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
- 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.
- Information About Email You Receive
- Quick summary on hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information sent through the internet.
- 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."
- Legends From a Small Country
- From the collection of Arthur Goldstuck, South Africa's foremost authority on urban legends.
- LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies
- E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
- The Lost Playground
- Submitted local legends, strange experiences, and photos; inspired by the magazine Weird N.J.
- Monkeyburgers - Tasty Urban legends
- Includes urban legends circulating in the Netherlands.
- NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore
- Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
- Psychoanalytic and Semiotic Analysis of Two Urban Legends
- Brief comparative student essay.
- The Rocket Car-In-The-Cliff Legend
- The "true" story behind the legend.
- Spiffo's Urban Myths And Legends
- All of the classics along with stories you may not have seen before.
- Stiller Research Virus Hoax News
- Virus and other hoaxes that spread by email.
- theFolklorist.com-Welcome
- A website 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 Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story
- Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
- Uncle Ken's Urban Myth Page
- Small collection of common urban legends.
- The Urban Legend Combat Kit
- Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
- The Urban Legend Generator
- Hop on the misinformation superhighway with the Urban Legend Generator and e-mail your selection to everyone you know.
- Urban Legends & Modern Myths
- Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
- Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit
- A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
- 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.
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
- A compendium of scams, pranks, hoaxes, urban legends, and other unusual items.
- Urban Legends Research Centre
- Archive of annotated urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost legends, and superstitions, with FAQ.
- Urban Myths!
- Compilation of famous urban legends, scare mails, and scams.
- Urban Myths & Legends
- Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
- 4UrbanLegends
- Lists of annotated links to hoaxes, scams, and urban legends.
- Virus Hoaxes and Netlore
- Up-to-date information on virus hoaxes, chain letters, and netlore circulating via email.
- Weird USA
- Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.
- What Are Urban Legends?
- Brief introduction with some examples.
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