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A local urban legend is that there is a series of tunnels that connect the universities, prominent buildings, etc, in our city's downtown. My apartment is in an old house built by a wealthy ...
In true urban legend fashion, ... One of the most obvious yet outlandish-sounding claims about Coca-Cola's origins is based in truth: It was made with cocaine. Indeed, in 1885, the drink was named ...
An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture
In 1994, [8] [9] [10] David and Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become Snopes.com. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly presented search results of user discussions based at first on their contributions to the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) where they'd been active. [11]
Some of these eerie legends stem from real-life tragedies, while others were born to be fictional creepy campfire tales. However, regardless of a story's origin, these 50 urban legends will send ...
As with traditional urban legends, many internet rumors are about crimes or crime waves – either fictional or based on real events that have been largely exaggerated. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Such stories can be problematic, both because they purport to be relevant modern news and because they do not follow the typical patterns of urban legends.
A similar urban legend is The Clown Statue or The Clown Doll. [6] [7] [8] A babysitter is unnerved by what she assumes is a hideous life-sized statue of a clown in the corner of the room. When the mother or father of the children she is caring for calls home to check in, the babysitter asks if she can cover the clown statue with a blanket.
Raymond Theodore Robinson (October 29, 1910 – June 11, 1985) was a disfigured American man whose years of nighttime walks made him into a figure of urban legend in western Pennsylvania. Robinson was so severely injured in a childhood electrical accident that he could not go out in public without fear of causing a panic, so he went for long ...