Urban Legends

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	Hoaxbusters URL: http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ ODP description: Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet. Page title: HOAXBUSTERS Home Page
	Too Good to Be True URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall01/032088.htm ODP description: Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt. Page title: Too Good to Be True (Main Page)
	The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens URL: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/HorseText.html ODP description: Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University. Page title: Notes on Horse and Maiden
	Radek's Urban Legend Central URL: http://geocities.com/rayman_7575/ ODP description: Small collection of urban legends and other stories. Page title: Urban Legand Central
	The Museum of Hoaxes URL: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/ ODP description: A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception. Page title: Museum of Hoaxes
	Hoax-Slayer URL: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ ODP description: Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes. Page title: Latest Email Hoaxes - Current Internet Scams - Hoax-Slayer Newsletter
	Weird USA URL: http://www.angelfire.com/zine/WeirdUSA/ ODP description: Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings. Page title: UPDATED! Weird USA - Are You Weird Enough?!!
	Tourist Of Death URL: http://www.touristofdeath.com/ ODP description: A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture. Page title: Tourist of Death Page description: Tourist of Death
	Urban Myths & Legends URL: http://www.delta-9.com/net47/myth/ ODP description: Submitted stories and other fantastic messages. Page title: Net47 presents URBAN MYTHS & LEGENDS
	About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore URL: http://urbanlegends.about.com/ ODP description: Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore. Page title: Urban Legends and Folklore Page description: THE starting place for exploring Urban Legends and Folklore on the Web: Internet hoaxes, rumors, urban legends and urban myths debunked.
	Don't Spread That Hoax! URL: http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/ ODP description: Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet. Page title: Don't Spread that Hoax!
	Calypso's Urban Legends URL: http://www.angelfire.com/az2/urbanlegends/ ODP description: Small collection of famous urban legends. Page title: Calypso'
	theFolklorist.com URL: http://thefolklorist.com/ ODP description: Devoted to American folklore and urban legends. Page title: theFolklorist.com-Main Page-Pareidolia Data Uploaded Page description: (summary)
	LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies URL: http://www.liemails.com/ ODP description: E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view. Page title: LIEmails
	Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico? URL: http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/eagles/hotel-california.htm ODP description: Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about an hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico. Page title: Todos Santos Pages - Hotel California Page description: Todos Santos - urban legend or truth - the real story about the Hotel California, the Eagles and Todos Santos.
	BellaOnline: Urban Legends URL: http://www.bellaonline.com/site/urbanlegends/ ODP description: Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics. Page title: BellaOnline -- The Voice of Women Page description: BellaOnline is a site written by Women, sharing helpful tips from a female point of view! We have how-to articles, recipes, relationship tips, shopping links, articles, tips, plus community message boards and chat where our visitors are the focal point.
	Urban Legends & Superstitions Online URL: http://urbanlegendsonline.com/ ODP description: The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey. Page title: Urban Legends & Superstitions Page description: Popular urban legends, myths and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
	AFU and Urban Legends Archive URL: http://tafkac.org/ ODP description: Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group. Page title: The AFU & Urban Legends Archive
	Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand URL: http://www.janbrunvand.com/ ODP description: 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. Page title: Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand Homepage
	HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm ODP description: What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly. Page title: Howstuffworks "How Urban Legends Work"
	The Urban Legend Combat Kit URL: http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/ ODP description: Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
	Christians United For The Truth URL: http://www.truthminers.com/truth/ ODP description: Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest. Page title: Truth Miners Page description: Find out if that email is 100% true before forwarding on a lie. We debunk email and internet lies, hoaxes, urban legends and internet myths because even a half truth is a whole lie.
	Urban Legends & Modern Myths URL: http://www.warphead.com/urbanlegends/ ODP description: Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore. Page description: A collection of Urban Legends, modern myths and American folklore
	Darwin Awards Urban Legends URL: http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/ ODP description: Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true. Page title: Darwin Awards: Urban Legends Page description: Urban Legends: Darwin Awards are TRUE stories, but Urban Legends are included here by popular request. Apocryphal stories (JATO, Dog and Jeep, Raccoon Rocket) are examples of Herculean Darwinian efforts. Be glad, be very glad, these people don't exist!
	The Cat in Urban Mythology URL: http://messybeast.com/urbancat.htm ODP description: Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends. Page title: THE CAT IN URBAN MYTHOLOGY
	Jan Harold Brunvand URL: http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/jan.harold.brunvand.html ODP description: Transcript of an interview with folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, author of "Too Good to be True - The Colossal Book of Urban Legends." Page title: CNN - Chatpage - Books
	Common E-mail Hoaxes URL: http://www.3oddballz.com/hoaxes/ ODP description: A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email. Page title: Common Internet And E-mail Hoaxes
	Christian Urban Legends URL: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm ODP description: Documents known urban legends and pious frauds. Page title: Christian Urban Legends, etc. Page description: christian urban legends, fables, relics, myths, stories
	"The Hook..." URL: http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/FOLK/thehook.html ODP description: Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
	Matt's Urban Legends URL: http://www.geocities.com/neons2000/ ODP description: A collection of urban legends and superstitions. Page title: Introduction to Roleplaying
	Don't Talk To Them URL: http://www.freewebs.com/locallegend/intro.htm ODP description: Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love. Page title: Local Legends..: The Local Site.. Page description: Local Legend, the website dedicated to bringing you the village idiot's roll of honour.
	Snopes.com Urban Legends Reference Pages URL: http://www.snopes.com/ ODP description: Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture. Page title: Urban Legends Reference Pages Page description: The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation
	Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again URL: http://www.envasion.net/ ODP description: E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories. Page title: Envasion Page description: Envasion
	NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore URL: http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap.cfm?cat_show=Urban%20Folklore ODP description: Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net. Page title: NetScrap.com: Stuff and Things for You! Page description: NetScrap(TM) is the central repository for all the email jokes floating around the net. Our goal is to find the people who writes this stuff.
	Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit URL: http://www.wdog.com/legends/ ODP description: A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.