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Urban Legends Revealed

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Me, Myself, and I: An urban legend or urban myth is a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. (The term is often used with a meaning similar to that of the expression "apocryphal story"). Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized. Despite the name, a typical urban legend does not necessarily originate in an urban setting. The term is designed to differentiate them from traditional folklore in preindustrial times.

Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by e-mail. People frequently allege that such tales happened to a "friend of a friend"—so often, in fact, that "friend of a friend", or "FOAF", has become a commonly used term when recounting this type of story.

The urban legend phenomenon is well-known in other languages. In the Netherlands, for example, a tale about monkey meat gave rise to the term "broodje aap verhalen" (i.e., monkey sandwich stories).

Some urban legends have survived a long time, evolving only slightly over the years, as in the case of the story of a woman killed by spiders nesting in her elaborate hairdo. Newer legends tend to reflect modern circumstances, like the story of people ambushed, anaesthetized and waking up minus one kidney, which was surgically removed for transplantation.

Britain's Wasted Youth
urban legends rock..nuff sed

4/7/09
the GARLic MAN
wow i know most of these but i love them!

7/30/08
Jennifer Fason
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7/23/08 via Mobile
Carey Wakeman
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7/14/08 via Mobile
James
i heard about the one where the girl is gettin gas and she gets out the car and a guy gets in the back seet without her nowing??!! then he kills her

6/22/08
Missy
I think the legends are cool but when you get prompted to forward it to other people that is not cool, i really think people just need to grow up, This is suppose to be for entaertainment not to scare someone into doing certain things.

9/4/07
Sally
I've just read all the urban legends you had posted and they really do make you sit up and pay attention. there are some weirdos and weird stuff going on out there!!!!

8/25/07
Marian Lizzie D. Young
Dear, fans i'am sorry to say that on the behalf of Ms.Sarah Young. Ms.Young's old profile have been some how cancelled so that mean Ms.Young can not any more add up to the urban legend talls. Ms.Young say's she'll see in what she can do to add up to the urban legend tall's.

6/9/07