Urban legends are just cozy. They used to be shared person to person, often in some sort of idyllic, spooky setting, like the ring around a campfire or at a sleepover. More recently, we’ve traded the light and shadow of campfire flames for the glow of a computer monitor, which is less romanticized but has […]
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Urban legends didn’t just inspire a kickass ’90s movie starring the Noxzema girl. They also gave way to an awesomely imperfect Wikipedia index of actual urban legends mixed in with weird stories and curiosities. According to Jan Harold Brunvand, the professor and folklorist who popularized the concept of urban legends, they’re wild stories with a […]
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You can never underestimate the power of hearsay. Sometimes, something sounding like it could be true is enough to convince people that it must be. And while this phenomenon can have disastrous real-world consequences when applied to science and politics, it’s also responsible for some memorable instances of collective storytelling. From hook-handed murderers to gerbils […]
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From the moment that the very first humans settled in the very first city, they were already sharing scary stories. What we now know as urban legends are simply the natural progression of a primal urge to make sense of society’s fears, a fact that Clive Barker was aware of when he wrote The Forbidden, […]