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."
http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/jan.harold.brunvand.html

Stiller Research Virus Hoax News

Virus and other hoaxes that spread by email.
http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm

About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore

Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/

Urban Legends & Modern Myths

Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
http://www.warphead.com/urbanlegends/

theFolklorist.com

Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.
http://thefolklorist.com/

Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again

E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
http://www.envasion.net/

Don't Spread That Hoax!

Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.
http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/

Christians United For The Truth

Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.
http://www.truthminers.com/truth/

Hoaxbusters

Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
http://HoaxBusters.ciac.org/

LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies

E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
http://www.liemails.com/

NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore

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

Email Tracking Program Hoax

Debunks an email hoax about a new program from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/hoax/05-13hoax.asp

Too Good to Be True

Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall01/032088.htm

Common E-mail Hoaxes

A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.
http://www.3oddballz.com/hoaxes/

Urban Myths & Legends

Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
http://www.delta-9.com/net47/myth/

The Urban Legend Combat Kit

Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/

Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit

A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
http://www.wdog.com/legends/

Calypso's Urban Legends

Small collection of famous urban legends.
http://www.angelfire.com/az2/urbanlegends/

Darwin Awards Urban Legends

Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/

Weird USA

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

Uncle Ken's Urban Myth Page

Small collection of common urban legends.
http://pw1.netcom.com/~uncleken/urbanmyths.html

The Cat in Urban Mythology

Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
http://messybeast.com/urbancat.htm

Tourist Of Death

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

HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work

What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm

The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens

Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/HorseText.html

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.
http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/eagles/hotel-california.htm

Global Monetary

Get your IDchip inplant.
http://www.idchip.com/s1/entry.htm

"The Hook..."

Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/FOLK/thehook.html

Weird US

Strange stories from around the States: ghosts, local legends, crazy characters, UFOs, and other oddities.
http://www.weirdnj.com/__weirdus/

Radek's Urban Legend Central

Small collection of urban legends and other stories.
http://geocities.com/rayman_7575/

BellaOnline: Urban Legends

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

Matt's Urban Legends

A collection of urban legends and superstitions.
http://www.geocities.com/neons2000/

The Museum of Hoaxes

A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/

Urban Legends & Superstitions Online

The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
http://urbanlegendsonline.com/

Don't Talk To Them

Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.
http://www.freewebs.com/locallegend/intro.htm

Hoax-Slayer

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

AFU and Urban Legends Archive

Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
http://tafkac.org/

Rocket Car Story

A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car.
http://www.rocketcarstory.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.
http://www.snopes.com/