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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
Nale Ba or Naale Baa (Kannada: ನಾಳೆ ಬಾ, lit."Come Tomorrow") is a popular folk legend which features prominently in areas across Karnataka, India. [1] [2] "Naale Baa" has been found written on the doors and walls of the towns and villages for certain years.
The 1998 film Urban Legend featured students discussing popular urban legends while at the same time falling victim to killings re-enacting them. [34] The 1999 film The Blair Witch Project purposefully positioned itself as an urban legend to gain viral hype and succeeded in fooling many that it was based on a real disappearance. [35]
American urban legends (3 C, 27 P) J. Japanese urban legends (2 C, 20 P) P. Philippine urban legends (6 P)
Whether it be a creepy ghost story in the form of a haunted road or vengeful spirit, or something a little harder to explain, like an extraterrestrial hotbed or a beastly Sasquatch, urban legends ...
The story of Rudolph Fentz is an urban legend from the early 1950s and has been repeated since as a reproduction of facts and presented as evidence for the existence of time travel. The essence of the legend is that in New York City in 1951 a man wearing 19th-century clothes was hit by a car. The subsequent investigation revealed that the man ...
Native legends often talk of the little people playing pranks on people, such as singing and then hiding when an inquisitive person searches for the music. It is often said that the little people love children and would take them away from bad or abusive parents or if the child was without parents and left in the woods to fend for themselves.
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