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4UrbanLegends -- A guide to modern fairy tales. Large resource of hoaxes, scams and urban legends.
911-Emergency Humor Center -- Jokes, True Stories, Urban Legends, Games, Quotes, Things That Make You Go Hmmm, Cartoons, Audio Files and more.
AFU and Urban Legends Archive -- :-)
About.com Guide - Urban Legends and Folklore -- Features, links, bulletin board, chat, and a growing archive of urban and Internet folklore
Barbara''s Tales of the Wooden Spoon -- A grab bag of urban legends and faxlore, wickedly unusual news stories, false-but-oddly-believable reports, and "fractured facts.".
CIAC Internet Hoaxes -- Where I send people who send me these hoaxes in the mail
Cyndi''s List of Internet Stuff You Need to Know -- Computer Viruses, E-mail Chain-letters, Folklore, Hoaxes, Misunderstandings & Scams
Don''t Spread that Hoax! -- Debunking hoaxes that spread on the Internet
E-mail Folklore Home page -- Chain Letters, Virus Warnings and more
IBM -- Hype Alerts
In Pursuit of Reason -- Exposing the truth about conspiracy theories.
Internet ScamBusters -- Urban Legends and hoaxes revealed
It Ain''t So -- A list of widely believed falsehoods about the world of science. I also try to show why these myths are not so and include links for further reading.
It''s The End Of The World As We Know It...Again -- The wild and wacky world of apocalyptic prophecy and the history of Doomsday hysteria.
Legends from a small country -- Arthur Goldstuck''s collection. He is probably South Africa''s foremost authority on native Urban Legends.
Library of Congress Ritual Myth -- A response to the myth that the Library of Congress has a copy of all Greek rituals - except yours!
NetScrap.com Category: Urban Folklore -- Here are just a few of the great myths floating around the net.
Origin of the Rocket Car-In-The-Cliff Legend -- Possibly the true story behind the age-old legend of the "rocket-powered car that flew into the cliff", also mentioned in the Darwin Awards.
Rumor Control -- Dousing the flames of chain-letter e-mail hoaxes
Sorry, but you''re wrong -- Examine modern myths and hysteria in the light of reason.
Stiller Research Virus Hoax News -- Stiller Research: Virus Hoax News
Superstition -- Superstitions about every subject from a to z, old wives tales and beliefs about death and dying, wedding superstitions, good luck omens and customs.
The Legend of the Gnome -- A narrative story about a lawn gnome that was brought across the U.S. and returned to its owners.
The Slade -- The Slade offers a variety of unique and bizarre stories that fit into the realm of "The truth is stranger than fiction."
The Urban Legend Combat Kit -- A free collection of canned responses to help you combat Internet myths and urban legends.
The Urban Legend Generator -- Hop on the misinformation superhighway with our Urban Legend Generator. Simply make your selections from the menus and we will do the rest.
The Urban Legend Magazine -- Interactive online magazine from New Zealand featuring sharp humour and satire with twisted news and current events stories told with a straight face.
US Postal Service: Chain Letters -- Official advice - the law and the dangers.
Urban Legends Reference Pages -- The definitive Internet/WWW reference source for urban legends, myths, and folklore.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Thousand Dollar Bill) -- Is Microsoft''s Bill Gates offering $1,000 to everyone who forwards his e-mail message?
Urban Legends Research Centre -- Urban Legends Research Centre: a free Urban Legends research service and Urban Legends reference library!
Urban Legends Research Centre -- Internet reference tool with a growing library of Urban Legend research reports and a free Urban Legend research request service.
Urban Legends on AmericaOnline -- The home page for Urban Legends on America Online. Urban Legends, Library of Legends, Legend of the Day, Urban Legend Newsletter, links to other Urban Legends sites.
Urban Myth -- Debunks the urban myth involving kidneys stolen for transplants.

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