Urban Legends in the Yahoo! Directory

About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore
Articles, FAQs, and a searchable archive of urban legends and Internet folklore.
urbanlegends.about.com
AFU & Urban Legends Archive
Collection of urban legends that appear mysteriously and spread spontaneously in many different forms.
www.tafkac.org
Alligators in the Sewers (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Alligators_in_the_Sewers
Andrew Warriner's Legendary Pages
Includes examination of such legends as the Sphinx's nose, Lord Horatio Nelson's body, and the Philadelphia Experiment.
www.xnet.com/~warinner
Bonsai Kitten (3)
Read about Bonsai Kitten, through sites providing articles on the internet hoax which purported to to combine the art of bonsai with body modification in house pets as a form of decoration.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Bonsai_Kitten
Cat in Urban Mythology, The
Looks at how society's ambivalent attitude towards cats shows up in urban legends. The article includes tales of giant cats, dead cat myths, and other strange stories that are often passed off as true.
www.messybeast.com/urbancat.htm
Citizens Against Breast-Feeding (1)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Citizens_Against_Breast_Feeding
Consuming Fire That is klapTor, The
Reptile man, born of a child's imagination.
www.angelfire.com/pa/jwmofo/klaptor.html
Darwin Awards: Urban Legends
Apocryphal stories are included as examples of Herculean Darwinian efforts.
www.darwinawards.com/legends
Dave's Web of Lies
Employs a trained team of specialized researchers to trawl the world's information nets seeking out falsehoods.
www.davesweboflies.com
Dog Island (2)
Learn the truth about Dog Island, an urban myth about a place where dogs live and roam free through sites offering the truth about the island near Florida.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Dog_Island
FAQ - The Alt.Folklore.Urban Page
Web version of the FAQ list for AFU newsgroup, which is devoted to the discussion and debunking of urban legends and other related issues.
www.panix.com/~sean/afufaq
Gloomy Sunday@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Lyrics/Gloomy_Sunday
Hoax Photo Test
Test your pop culture literacy and decide whether these images widely circulated in the media and on the Internet are hoax or real.
www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.html
HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work
A look at urban legends to see what they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
people.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm
Kaycee Nicole Hoax (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Kaycee_Nicole_Hoax
Kentucky Fried Chicken Hoax (3)
Find out more about the Kentucky Fried Chicken Hoax, the rumor about the restaurant chain. Sites offer articles which explain the claim that KFC no longer use the word 'chicken' because they serve meat from genetically engineered animals.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Kentucky_Fried_Chicken_Hoax
Klingerman Virus (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Klingerman_Virus
Museum of Hoaxes [read review]
Tracks great, deceptive acts and schemes since the beginning of the 18th century.
www.museumofhoaxes.com
MythBusters@
Find out about MythBusters, the television program which use scientific methods test the validity of rumors and urban legends. Sites provide episode guide, news, tv clips, fan pages, and message board for the show starring special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Science/MythBusters
Neiman Marcus Cookies (2)
Learn about the Neiman Marcus Cookies, the urban legend involving a supposed recipe for a popular chocolate chip cookie. Sites feature the recipe of the chocolate chip cookie and the legend behind the recipe going public.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Neiman_Marcus_Cookies
Researchers Record the Screams of the Damned
Newspaper account and sound files of alleged screams from the underworld.
www.amightywind.com/hell/aboutsounds.htm
Sex Bracelets (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Sex_Bracelets
Shark Photo of the Year (2)
Unravel the myth behind Shark Photo of the Year hoax, through sites articles which explain the hoax involving a spliced photograph of a shark jumping out of a water.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Shark_Photo_of_the_Year
Simonya Popova Hoax (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Simonya_Popova_Hoax
Slavery Reparation Tax Credit (1)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Slavery_Reparation_Tax_Credit
Snakehead Attack? Wok, Don't Run!
Collection of articles addressing the Northern Snakehead fish and some of the outlandish claims surrounding its nature and abilities.
urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-an072902.htm
Snopes.com
Snopes is a searchable database of urban legends and myths, email hoaxes, computer virus warnings, and folklore.
www.snopes.com
Snopes.com: An Electronic Art Exhibit
Photographic works by Sarah Wichlacz based on classic urban legends.
www.wdog.com/legends
Snopes.com: Disney
Lists the urban legends, myths, and rumors concerning Walt Disney, the Disney Company, the theme parks, and the films.
www.snopes.com/disney
Snopes.com: Horrors
Collection of scary urban legends, including horror stories of murdering madmen, freakish fatalities, supernatural tales, and gruesome discoveries.
www.snopes.com/horrors
South American Blush Spider (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/South_American_Blush_Spider
Spamming and Urban Legends
From the Internet Roadmap
webreference.com/roadmap/map09.html
theFolklorist.com
Features urban legends and a collection of pareidolic images.
www.thefolklorist.com
Toothing (8)
Read about toothing, the media hoax which claimed that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones were being used to arrange sexual encounters. Sites provide articles and messageboards on the casual sex trend.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Urban_Legends/Toothing
TruthOrFiction.com
Provides reality checks and information about warnings, offers, requests for help, and humorous or inspirational stories which are circulated by email.
www.truthorfiction.com
Twelve Days of Christmas Legend@
Find sites for the Twelve Days of Christmas, the festive days beginning the evening of Christmas Day through the morning of Epiphany. Sites provide history, articles, and lyrics to the song, and hidden meanings behind the items in the song.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Popular_Christmas_Songs_and_Lyrics/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas
Urban Legends & Superstitions
Collection of popular, creepy, and interesting myths and superstitions. Also offers local New Jersey and Hollywood urban legends.
www.urbanlegendsonline.com
Urban Legends and Hoaxes Resource Center
Help protect yourself from Internet scams.
www.scambusters.org/legends.html
Urban Legends of Southern Africa
Offers excerpts from Arthur Goldstuck's books.
pubweb.is.co.za/arthur/legbooks.html
Warphead.com: Urban Legends
Collection of urban legends and other modern folktales, featuring a searchable database, forums, polls, galleries and more.
www.warphead.com
Weird N.J.
Travel guide focusing on places not found on state-funded maps or tourist-attraction pamphlets. Learn about New Jersey's local heroes and villains, weird animals, ghosts, and UFOs.
www.weirdnj.com
Weird U.S.
Collection of odd news clippings, bizarre facts, little-known historical anecdotes, and anomalous encounters from around the country.
www.weirdus.com
Wikipedia: Urban Legend
Entry for urban legends, describing their structure, how they are spread, and their documentation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend