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Computer Virus Hoaxes
About.com: Hoax Information Center, Cyndi's List of Internet Stuff You Need to Kn, Fraud Bureau - Hoaxes Pocus, Hoax Warnings, Hoaxes and Scares, How to Spot a Virus Hoax, Indiana University Knowledge Base, Lies, Damn Lies and ICQ Messages, McAfee: Hoaxes, Stiller Research Virus Myths
Snuff Films
AFU Archive: Faces of Death Review, Planet Papers: Snuff Films, Skeptical Inquirer: Snuff Film; Making of an Urban, The Straight Dope: Is There Such a Thing as a Snuf, Urban Legends Reference Pages: A Pinch of Snuff
"The Hook..."
Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore
Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
AFU and Urban Legends Archive
Material from the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
BellaOnline: Urban Legends
Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.
Calypso's Urban Legends
Small collection of famous urban legends.
Christians United For The Truth
Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.
Common E-mail Hoaxes
A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.
Darwin Awards Urban Legends
Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
Don't Spread That Hoax!
Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.
Don't Talk To Them
Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.
Email Tracking Program Hoax
Debunks an email hoax about a new program from Microsoft.
Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again
E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
Global Monetary
Get your IDchip inplant.
Hoax-Slayer
Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.
Hoaxbusters
Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work
What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song l
Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about a hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.
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."
Legends From a Small Country
From the collection of Arthur Goldstuck, South Africa's foremost authority on urban legends.
LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies
E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
Matt's Urban Legends
A collection of urban legends and superstitions.
NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore
Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
Radek's Urban Legend Central
Small collection of urban legends and other stories.
Rocket Car Story
A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car.
Stiller Research Virus Hoax News
Virus and other hoaxes that spread by email.
The Cat in Urban Mythology
Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancie
Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
The Museum of Hoaxes
A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
The Oracle
Listing of contradictions in the bible and brief discussion of some hoaxes and controversial issues.
The Urban Legend Combat Kit
Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
theFolklorist.com
Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.
Too Good to Be True
Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
Tourist Of Death
A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.
Uncle Ken's Urban Myth Page
Small collection of common urban legends.
Urban Legends
Essay by Seppo Raudaskoski on urban legends.
Urban Legends & Modern Myths
Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
Urban Legends & Superstitions Online
The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
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.
Urban Legends Research Centre
Archive of annotated urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost legends, and superstitions, with FAQ.
Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit
A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
Urban Myths & Legends
Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
Weird US
Strange stories from around the States: ghosts, local legends, crazy characters, UFOs, and other oddities.
Weird USA
Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.