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• AFU and Urban Legends Archive - Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.

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

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

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

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

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

  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/

  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/

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

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

  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

  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. http://www.janbrunvand.com/

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

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

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

  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

  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

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

  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

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

  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/

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

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

  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. http://www.snopes.com/

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

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

  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

  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/

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

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

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

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

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

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