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Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
Christians United For The Truth Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.
Hoaxbusters Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
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."
NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
Urban Legends & Modern Myths Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
theFolklorist.com Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.
Common E-mail Hoaxes A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.
Urban Myths & Legends Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
The Urban Legend Combat Kit Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
Darwin Awards Urban Legends Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
Weird USA Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.
The Cat in Urban Mythology Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
Tourist Of Death A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.
HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
"The Hook..." Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
BellaOnline: Urban Legends Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.
The Museum of Hoaxes A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
Urban Legends & Superstitions Online The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
Hoax-Slayer Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.
AFU and Urban Legends Archive Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
Rocket Car Story A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car.
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.
New Urban Legends Recent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com.
Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand 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.
Christian Urban Legends Documents known urban legends and pious frauds.

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