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	Urban legend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor).
		Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by e-mail.
		Urban legends often are born of fears and insecurities, or specifically designed to prey on such concerns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urban_legend (1253 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Urban Legends Reference Pages, also known as snopes.com, is a website dedicated to determining the truth about many urban legends, internet rumors and other such stories of uncertain or questionable origin.
		Although they research their topics heavily and provide references when possible, not all of their sources (especially those which are personal interviews, phone calls, or e-mails) are fully verifiable.
		The Mikkelsons have stressed the reference portion of the name Urban Legends Reference Pages, indicating that their intention is not merely to dismiss or confirm misconceptions and rumors but to provide evidence for such debunkings and confirmations as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urban_Legends_Reference_Pages (858 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages - TheBestLinks.com - Snopes, Myth, Urban legend, William Faulkner, ...
		Urban Legends Reference Pages - TheBestLinks.com - Snopes, Myth, Urban legend, William Faulkner,...
		Snopes, Urban Legends Reference Pages, Myth, Urban legend, William Faulkner...
		The Urban Legends Reference Pages (also known as Snopes.com) is a site dedicated to determining the truth about several urban legends, modern-day myths, and other stories floating around of uncertain or questionable origin.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Snopes.html (148 words)

	Urban Legends
		Legend of the Gnome, The - the story of a lawn gnome and three college graduates.
		Urban Legends - collection of urban myths and information on the background to the phenomena.
		Urban Legends Research Centre - dedicated to the rational and entertaining examination of urban legends, urban beliefs and folklore.
	www.partyguideonline.com /cultures/mythology/urbanlegends.html (509 words)

	KSL Reference Weblog: Scary Fun SItes
		Links on the front page will take you to the newest and 25 hottest urban legends.
		References and links to related information are often included.
		These pages describe some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mailservers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact." You can browse by category (including fake virus/malicious code warnings) or search the archive.
	blog.case.edu /orgs/ksl/reference/2005/10/26/scary_fun_sites (340 words)

	OJR article: Debunking Urban Legends
		The police, newspaper and public might have saved themselves a lot of trouble, if only they were regular readers of Urban Legends Reference Pages.
		From hydrogen-laced beer causing Japanese karaoke singers to breathe fire, to radioactive kitty litter to exploding toilet seats, Mikkelson and her husband, David, have been painstakingly debunking e-mail-transmitted urban legends -- and catching the news organizations that fall for them -- since early 1995.
		Urban Legends' readers include a growing number of journalists, according to Mikkelson.
	www.ojr.org /ojr/ethics/1017968425.php (734 words)

	Legends & Hoaxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Urban Legends Reference Pages: Before you forward that horror-story e-mail to "everyone you know" (that's usually the tip-off), check the Urban Legends Reference Pages (http://www.snopes.com) to see if it's a hoax.
		Aspartame -- According to the Urban Legends Reference Pages, the claim that the artificial sweetener aspartame is responsible for an epidemic of diseases such as multiple sclerosis and lupus is
		According to the Urban Legends Reference Pages, the claim that it's recommended one attempt to rhythmically cough during a heart attack to increase the chance of surviving it is
	www.dacurrie.com /legends.html (1303 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Folklore: Literature: Urban Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Cat in Urban Mythology - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
		Darwin Awards Urban Legends - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
		Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
	dmoz.org /Society/Folklore/Literature/Urban_Legends (661 words)

	Urban Legends About Names
		Perhaps you're cousin swears her cousin was stuck in an elevator with Eddie Murphy, and his dog...(if you haven't heard this one, visit the Urban Legends Reference Pages.)
		Urban legend names are most prolific because people swear by them.
		The Urban Legends Reference Pages has a nice article on these names as well.
	www.namenerds.com /uucn/advice/urbanlegends.html (970 words)

	Mrs. Donner’s Urban Legend WebQuest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Write a legend that is about one typed page in length.
		Reference any information you borrow by giving credit to the speaker and site where you found the information.
		Email one of the urban legend experts and tell him or her what you appreciate about the research and presentation online.
	coe.west.asu.edu /students/jdonner/webquest (1045 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages \| csmonitor.com
		ULRP also includes actual events that, if they weren't backed up by facts presented at the site, would be considered apocryphal - such as Charlie Chaplin losing a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest, or passengers on the Titanic viewing the 1911 version of The Poseidon Adventure as their ship struck the iceberg.
		Some categories also demonstrate the large number of legends that can be generated about very specific subjects, such as Weddings, the Titanic, the Urban Legendary world of Disney, and -of course- Sex.
		Each story has its own page and is introduced with a one line summary and color-coded ball, indicating the level of certainty the webmasters have in the veracity of the tale.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0613/p25s01-stin.html?sciTechNav (561 words)

	Hoaxes & Urban Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The AFU and Urban Legends Archive — an extensive collection of urban legends that is searchable by subject
		Hoaxbusters — These pages describe some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mailservers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact.
		Urban Legends Reference Pages — separates fact from fiction and embraces not only urban legends, but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items
	www.hoover.lib.al.us /reflinks/hoaxes.htm (183 words)

	Quotations Weblog » Archive » Snopes.com - The Urban Legends Reference Pages
		Not only have they been a helpful reference for the strange stories that we like to fax and email each other, they tend to write wonderfully.
		Beware the pull on your heartstrings — it’s often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
		Authenticity matters little, though–our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.
	www.quotationspage.com /weblog/2005-08-24-snopescom-the-urban-legends-reference-pages (312 words)

	Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
		One of the legends in circulation is simply a picture of an American soldier.
		The Urban Legends References Pages, which catalogued this legend, has listed this story’s veracity as undetermined.
		They include legends about Dick Cheney’s daughter going to Iraq as a human shield, a verse from the Quran about American troops “cleansing the lands of Allah,” and a peace plan offered up by comedian Robin Williams.
	www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=4131 (507 words)

	Online Hoaxes
		This is the name assigned by the Urban Legends Reference Pages to this hoax.
		The Urban Legends Reference Pages describes this as a variation of the American Cancer Society 3¢ Hoax.
		The Urban Legends Reference Pages categorizes this as a variant of the Hairy Arm hoax in its "Shopping Mauled" section.
	www.rossde.com /frauds_n_hoaxes/hoaxes.html (3151 words)

	Homer News Online Homer McMoose photo: It's a long way from Madawaska 04/21/05
		In February, the Urban Legends Reference Pages said it could not determine the veracity of the photograph.
		On their Web site, they write, "A tale is considered to be an urban legend if it circulates widely, is told and retold with differing details (or exists in multiple versions) and is said to be true."
		The Urban Legends Reference Pages also protects its copyright, and on its Web page notes that it charges a $250 reprint fee for unauthorized use of material — something that caught Kaufman's eye.
	www.homernews.com /stories/042105/news_0421new014.shtml (915 words)

	Urban Legends - dKosopedia
		Most of us know Snopes site's Urban Legends Reference Pages There is also About.com's section on Urban Legends and Folklore.
		They usually do a good job on listing urban legends and wether they are true or not, but somehow fail to expose the neocons most blatant lies.
		This page was last modified 00:32, 27 February 2005.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Urban_Legends (380 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| The rumor busters
		Two of the Net's most trusted hoax-busters are Barbara Mikkelson, 42, and David Mikkelson, 41, who run Snopes.com, the Urban Legends Reference Pages.
		Barbara and David met on the Net in a Usenet discussion group about urban legends, and have been publishing their truth-serum site for six years.
		Barbara told us what the lies, hoaxes and urban legends born of the terrorist attacks tell us about the terror in our heads.
	archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2001/10/31/snopes (671 words)

	Urban Legends Concerning the Terrorist Attack on America
		Urban Legends Concerning the Terrorist Attack on America
		Below is a link to the Urban Legends Reference Pages.
		They have a special page dedicated to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and its aftermath.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/534176/posts (478 words)

	Urban Legend Zeitgeist: Hypodermic Hysteria
		The legends go something like this: a man or woman engages in a one night stand with a stranger and awakes the next morning to find the lover gone and a note left or message written on the mirror saying, "Welcome to the world of AIDS" or "Welcome to the AIDS club."
		Perhaps the movies are seen as cause of social decay or maybe it is just part of a general urban angst of depraved criminals and evildoers striking anywhere.
		AIDS Mary from the Urban Legends Reference Pages
	tafkac.org /ulz/needles.html (509 words)

	Urban Folklore - Urban Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Such tales as these are urban legends, tales of "true" happenings passed through word of mouth, or the folklore term FOAF (friend of a friend).
		Everywhere there are urban legends, such as the "Mass Poisoning in Europe," where people in France were haunted by a false rumor for years.
		The following are urban legend narratives that students invented for a class assignment.
	www.indiana.edu /~urbanflk/urban_legends/index4.html (243 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Toxin du jour (Dihydrogen Monoxide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Urban Legends Reference Pages: Toxin du jour (Dihydrogen Monoxide)
		That said, this example does aptly demonstrate the kind of fallacious reasoning that's thrust at us every day under the guise of "important information": how with a little effort, even the most innocuous of substances can be made to sound like a dangerous threat to human life.
		Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-1999 by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
	illusions.gen.fl.us /dihydrogenmonoxide.html (652 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: College (Playboy's Party Schools)
		Urban Legends Reference Pages: College (Playboy's Party Schools)
		Which leads us straight into the legend which has sprung up around this famed list.
		Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2000 by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~omnipro/partyschools.html (354 words)

	The Urban Legend Combat Kit
		I use my urban legend bookmarklet to search for a page at snopes.com that either supports or refutes that urban legend.
		I then copy the URL of the page that either supports or refutes that urban legend and then paste that URL into a semi-personalized canned reply.
		This site is a free search engine for urban legends, and I use it all the time.
	www.netsquirrel.com /combatkit (804 words)

	Yellow Journalism - urban legend about flesh-eating bacteria in bananas shipped from Costa Rica - Urban Legends ...
		The FDA and the CDC reassured the public that the bacteria could not survive long on the surface of a banana.
		The episode shows the Internet's ability to speed the spread of urban legends.
		For the "toxins du jour," check out the Urban Legends Reference Pages at www.snopes.com, maintained by the San Fernando Folklore Society.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BJI/is_9_30/ai_63125349 (224 words)

	Urban Myths
		San Fernando Valley Folklore Society's resource on urban legends, Internet hoaxes and other late 20th century folklore.
		Legends and myths about Walt Disney, the Walt Disney Company, and Disney films and theme parks.
		Anne Morrison Mary - I did a simple search in Yahoo on "urban legends" and found a site that just added today a message that this too, is an urban legend.
	www.mythome.org /UrbnMyth.html (253 words)

	Website of the week - 16
		Once "urban legends" were told around a campfire late at night.
		Snopes categorizes all the different "Urban Legends" out there by topics, like "food" or "crime." Enjoy perusing this site, wondering both at the people who make this stuff up, and the fools who believe it.
		Maybe next time someone sends you a convincing email asking you to boycott some company or product, you may remember Snopes and check it out before you jump on the bandwagon.
	www.scbar.org /pmap/Websiteoftheweek_16.asp (199 words)

	Urban Legend Zeitgeist: Scary Mall Legends
		What 'Inside Edition' did not show was that such ruses were commonly used by criminals or even one instance of such a crime.
		The attempted kidnapping at Tuttle Mall is a variation on a classic urban legend that urban folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand dubbed 'The Hairy Armed Hitchhiker'.
		Urban Legend: Madalyn Murray O'Hair's Religious Broadcasting Ban
	tafkac.org /ulz/mall.html (321 words)

	Week 8: urban legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Urban Legends (urban belief tales or contemporary legends): Take a quick look a some popular urban beliefs and try to guess how many of them are true?
		The Elevator story --I fell for this urban legend, but I am now much wiser!
		Some students have tried to create their own urban legend, and you can look at one a student created two years ago.
	www.siskiyous.edu /class/engl12/WEEK8.htm (310 words)

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