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AFU and Urban Legends Archive     tafkac.org Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.

About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore  urbanlegends.about.com Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.

BellaOnline: Urban Legends  www.bellaonline.com/site/urbanlegends Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.

Calypso's Urban Legends  www.angelfire.com/az2/urbanlegends Small collection of famous urban legends.

The Cat in Urban Mythology  messybeast.com/urbancat.htm Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.

Christian Urban Legends  www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm Documents known urban legends and pious frauds.

Christians United For The Truth  www.truthminers.com/truth Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.

Common E-mail Hoaxes  www.3oddballz.com/hoaxes A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.

Darwin Awards Urban Legends  www.darwinawards.com/legends Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.

Don't Spread That Hoax!  www.nonprofit.net/hoax Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.

Don't Talk To Them  www.freewebs.com/locallegend/intro.htm Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.

Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand  www.janbrunvand.com 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.

Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again  www.envasion.net E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.

Hoax-Slayer  www.hoax-slayer.com Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.

The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens  www.rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/HorseText.html Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.

HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work  www.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.

Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico?  www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/eagles/hotel-california.htm Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about an hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.

Jan Harold Brunvand  www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/jan.harold.brunvand.html Transcript of an interview with folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, author of "Too Good to be True - The Colossal Book of Urban Legends."

LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies  www.liemails.com E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.

Matt's Urban Legends  www.geocities.com/neons2000 A collection of urban legends and superstitions.

The Museum of Hoaxes  www.museumofhoaxes.com A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.

NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore  www.netscrap.com/netscrap.cfm?cat_show=Urban%20Folklore Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.

Radek's Urban Legend Central  geocities.com/rayman_7575 Small collection of urban legends and other stories.

Snopes.com Urban Legends Reference Pages  www.snopes.com Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture.

"The Hook..."  www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/FOLK/thehook.html Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.

theFolklorist.com  thefolklorist.com Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.

Too Good to Be True  www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall01/032088.htm Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.

Tourist Of Death  www.touristofdeath.com A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.

The Urban Legend Combat Kit  www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.

Urban Legends & Modern Myths  www.warphead.com/urbanlegends Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.

Urban Legends & Superstitions Online  urbanlegendsonline.com The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.

Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit  www.wdog.com/legends A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.

Urban Myths & Legends  www.delta-9.com/net47/myth Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.

Weird USA  www.angelfire.com/zine/WeirdUSA Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.

New Urban Legends  www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.xml Recent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com. [RSS]