Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, or simply legend) is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual (usually scary) or humorous...
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This is a list of urban legends. An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the...
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Polybius is a fictitious 1981 arcade game that features in an urban legend. The legend describes the game as part of a government-run crowdsourced psychology...
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Urban Legend is a 1998 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, and starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid...
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A Japanese urban legend (日本の都市伝説, Nihon no toshi densetsu) is a story in Japanese folklore which is circulated as true. These urban legends are characterized...
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Urban Legend is the third studio album by American rapper T.I., released on November 30, 2004, through Grand Hustle Records and Atlantic Records. The album...
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Look up urban legend or urban myth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Urban legend normally refers to a modern folklore, compelling stories often thought...
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or interpretation of fiction as fact, many being now recognized as urban legends. In 1911, Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846–1937) and Eleanor Jourdain (1863–1924)...
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According to urban legend, Goatman is a creature resembling a goat-human hybrid often credited with canine deaths and purported to take refuge in the woods...
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Urban Legends: Final Cut (also known as Urban Legend 2) is a 2000 slasher film directed by John Ottman in his directorial debut, and starring Jennifer...
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is a fictitious being that originated on the Internet as a Japanese urban legend. First mentioned on websites in 2001, the Kunekune is typically described...
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Touhou Shinpiroku ~ Urban Legend in Limbo. (Japanese: 東方深秘録 ~ Urban Legend in Limbo., lit. "Eastern Record of Deep Mysteries") is a fighting game developed...
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thus "Urban legends" are a feature of rumour. When Willian Hugh Jansen suggested that legends that disappear quickly were "short-term legends" and the...
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Snopes (redirect from Urban Legend Reference Pages)
Snopes (/ˈsnoʊps/), formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website. It has been described as a "well-regarded reference...
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There are multiple urban legends centering around the fast-food chain McDonald's. These legends include claims about the food and allegations of discrimination...
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chapters.) Seemayer, Zach (November 4, 2019). "Why Does The Lincoln-Kennedy Urban Legend Persist Decades After It Was Disproved?". Ranker. Retrieved June 13,...
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Many urban legends and misconceptions about drugs have been created and circulated among young people and the general public, with varying degrees of...
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Urban Legend is an American horror media franchise consisting of three slasher films. The first installment was written by Silvio Horta, directed by Jamie...
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rule led to the modernisation of the Russian Empire, many urban legends arose, some legends based on true events, concerning her sexual behaviour. Catherine...
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Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (also known as Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary or simply Urban Legend 3) is a 2005 American direct-to-video supernatural slasher...
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seat; local legend claims that a girl who sits in it will be married within a year.[unreliable source?] "Haunted Places and Urban Legends from Illinois...
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Headless Rider (首なしライダー Kubinashi Rider) is a Japanese urban legend of a motorbike rider with a missing head. A piano wire is stretched across a road at...
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The Urban Legend is an ongoing Eritrean/Norwegian comic book series created by Josef Tzegai Yohannes and Steve Baker. "The Urban Legend" refers to Malcolm...
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Walt Disney (redirect from Walt Disney hibernation urban legend)
conservationists, stopped the building of the resort. A long-standing urban legend maintains that Disney was cryonically frozen. Disney's daughter Diane...
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Urban Legends is an American documentary-style television series hosted by Michael Allcock with David Hewlett became the new host in 2011. In each episode...
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Pass by catastrophe (section Examples of the legend)
Pass by catastrophe is an academic urban legend proposing that if some particular catastrophic event occurs, students whose performance could have been...
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Bloody Mary (folklore) (redirect from Bloody Mary (urban legend))
Queen Behind the Haunting Urban Legend?". Curious Archive. 2022-01-24. Retrieved 2022-01-26. "The Ghost in the Mirror: The Legend of Bloody Mary Revealed"...
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sites endemic to locations identified in local urban legends, and can serve as a rite of passage. Legend tripping has been documented most thoroughly to...
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Murphy Ranch (section The Urban Legend)
Angeles, built in the 1930s by Winona and Norman Stevens. A long-running urban legend claims the ranch was built to serve as a pro-Nazi enclave. From 1950-1965...
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Fighting Maroons. Gokongwei's married to Perry Pe, an Atenista lawyer. An urban legend relating to the Robinsons Galleria flourished in the 1990s, which claimed...
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