Urban Legends
Discover the origins of popular urban legends and learn how these modern stories spread and evolve. Find out which tales have kernels of truth and which are pure fiction.
Alligators in Sewers
In New York City a tourist can find any manner of person or thing stocked as the city is with cultures as varied as they are different. As for a local, they...
Bargain Buy Nets Millions: The Urban Legends
It is the ultimate dream of the bargain hunter to walk into a flea market and rummage in a bargain bin, spot an item of unique value worth a fortune, and buy...
Bloody Mary
“Bloody Mary killed your wife.” Sort of an odd thing to say especially when standing in a bathroom with the lights out and staring in a mirror. Yet kids...
Casinos Pump Oxygen to Keep Patrons Gambling
Casinos can sometimes seem to exist in another dimension. Walking in from a dark street to a bright room filled with flashing lights the noise of machines an...
Gold Finger Actress' Death from Paint
It is 1964 and displayed across the cover of Life magazine, as well as countless other places, is the lithe, prone body of a woman made of gold. At least it...
Hanging Man Halloween Decoration
Halloween - a time of spooky decorations and dressing up in costumes for the chance to thrill and chill friends and neighbours—yet sometimes the scary effo...
Human Fingers Choking a Dog
This urban legend has been around for a few decades but like many has received new life thanks to the internet and email. Now email boxes around the world ar...
Kidney Stealing
One of the most frightening of urban legends is the one about the organ harvesters. Based very tenuously on real life events the story about the waylaid trav...
Lightning And Your iPod
Out for a fun run on a sunny afternoon you are distressed to see clouds coming in low and fast. It seems a storm is brewing and, while you don’t relish the...
Millionaire Rewards Good Samaritan
This story has a few variations in terms of who the millionaire is and what the good deed was but they all follow the same formula. A friend of a friend of a...
Razorblades in Halloween Candy
Halloween is a time for kids to collect candy…lots and lots of candy. Each and every year bags of candy are collected brought home, and dumped on the dinni...
Roach Eggs in Envelope Glue
This particular urban legend has caused more than a few people to give up on licking envelopes for life. The story of roach eggs in envelope glue is actually...
Soda and Pop Rocks
The playground was buzzing with the news- Liam was actually going to do it! The crowd of youngsters gathered around the daredevil who held in one hand a bag...
Temporary Tattoos can Scar
Vacationing on a cruise ship can be a lot of fun and the ports of call can be exciting. Stopping off in the Bahamas offers a lot of sights and experiences, a...
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
We tend to associate ghosts with ancient castles or creepy, crumbling graveyards, and we usually expect them to appear at night. It can be especially jarring...