Urban legends are realistic stories concerning recent events or alleged events with an ironic or supernatural twist; urban beliefs or rumours are reports of such events that lack the storyline of the urban legend. Urban legends and beliefs spread not only through word of mouth, but also through the internet in the form of e-rumours, chain letters, and e-mail and computer virus hoaxes. Computer Virus Hoaxes (16) Conspiracy Theories@ (159) Cow Tipping (8) Scientific Hoaxes@ (49) Snuff Films (5) 1. "The Hook..." - Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend. 2. About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore. 3. AFU and Urban Legends Archive - Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group. 4. BellaOnline: Urban Legends - Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics. 5. Calypso's Urban Legends - Small collection of famous urban legends. 6. Christians United For The Truth - Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest. 7. Common E-mail Hoaxes - A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email. 8. Darwin Awards Urban Legends - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true. 9. Don't Spread That Hoax! - Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet. 10. Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories. 11. Hoaxbusters - Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet. 12. HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work - What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly. 13. LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies - E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view. 14. Matt's Urban Legends - A collection of urban legends and superstitions. 15. Radek's Urban Legend Central - Small collection of urban legends and other stories. 16. Rocket Car Story - A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car. 17. 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. 18. The Cat in Urban Mythology - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends. 19. The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University. 20. The Museum of Hoaxes - A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception. 21. The Urban Legend Combat Kit - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends. 22. theFolklorist.com - Devoted to American folklore and urban legends. 23. Too Good to Be True - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt. 24. Tourist Of Death - A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture. 25. Urban Legends & Modern Myths - Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore. 26. Urban Legends & Superstitions Online - The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey. 27. Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz. 28. Urban Myths & Legends - Submitted stories and other fantastic messages. 29. Weird USA - Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings. 30. Don't Talk To Them - Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love. 31. Hoax-Slayer - Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes. 32. Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico? - Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about a hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico. 33. 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." 34. NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore - Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.

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