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• - A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.
  
• - Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about a hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.
  
• - Virus and other hoaxes that spread by email.
  
• - Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.
  
• - Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.
  
• - Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.
  
• - A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
  
• - Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.
  
• - Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture.
  
• - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
  
• - Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.
  
• - Strange stories from around the States: ghosts, local legends, crazy characters, UFOs, and other oddities.
  
• - The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
  
• - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
  
• - Debunks an email hoax about a new program from Microsoft.
  
• - A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.
  
• - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
  
• - From the collection of Arthur Goldstuck, South Africa's foremost authority on urban legends.
  
• - Small collection of famous urban legends.
  
• - Small collection of common urban legends.
  
• - Listing of contradictions in the bible and brief discussion of some hoaxes and controversial issues.
  
• - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
  
• - Information on virus hoaxes, chain letters, and netlore circulating via email.
  
• - Get your IDchip inplant.
  
• - Archive of annotated urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost legends, and superstitions, with FAQ.
  
• - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
  
• - Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
  
• - E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
  
• - Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.
  
• - Essay by Seppo Raudaskoski on urban legends.
  
• - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
  
• - Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
  
• - A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car.
  
• - Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
  
• - Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
  
• - Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
  
• - Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.
  
• - Transcript of an interview with folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, author of "Too Good to be True - The Colossal Book of Urban Legends."
  
• - A collection of urban legends and superstitions.
  
• - What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
  
• - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
  
• - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
  
• - Small collection of urban legends and other stories.
  
  

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