Urban legends often come with a dose of skepticism. (No, a killer with a hook hand has never terrorized necking couples.) But ...

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Every country, state, and town has its own urban legends known to residents and fans of the paranormal. Some are clear attempts to explain mysterious phenomena or tragedies, while others are ...

Hallmarks of urban legends is that they are generally apocryphal in nature, are repeated as true stories, have a local connection to the teller (e.g., "My sister told me this happened to her ...

The Toadies' hit gripped listeners, whose elaborate theories about the song involved tales of serial killers and the occult ...

In his 2017 book Legendy Miejskie Warszawy (Warsaw’s Urban Legends) the writer and draughtsman Marek Dąbrowski says that the legend of the Black Volga is, by far, the ‘most popular’ Warsaw urban ...

"But also some species that people may not think of as adaptable to urban environments." The legend of the Mothman ... story that we can't prove it's not true?" Fidino studies animals, not people ...

While many adults think about old urban legends involving razor blades and ... “The more you hear something, the more you think it’s true. Our present presidential campaigns, they say the ...

Urban legends reflect a community’s anxieties and ... or the modern fascination with true crime podcasts. We humans love a scary story, and all the better if it’s true: The Dorothea Puente ...