- Snopes.com
 - Snopes is a searchable database of urban legends and myths, email hoaxes, computer virus warnings, and folklore. - TruthOrFiction.com
- Provides reality checks and information about warnings, offers, requests for help, and humorous or inspirational stories which are circulated by email.
- About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore
- Articles, FAQs, and a searchable archive of urban legends and Internet folklore.
- Museum of Hoaxes
- Tracks great, deceptive acts and schemes since the beginning of the 18th century.
- MythBusters@
- Find out about MythBusters, the television programme which use scientific methods test the validity of rumors and urban legends. Sites provide episode guide, news, tv clips, fan pages, and message board for the show starring special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.
- Weird N.J.
- Travel guide focusing on places not found on state-funded maps or tourist-attraction pamphlets. Learn about New Jersey's local heroes and villains, weird animals, ghosts, and UFOs.
- Dog Island (2)
- Learn the truth about Dog Island, an urban myth about a place where dogs live and roam free through sites offering the truth about the island near Florida.
- Urban Legends and Hoaxes Resource Center
- Help protect yourself from Internet scams.
- Hoax Photo Test
- Test your pop culture literacy and decide whether these images widely circulated in the media and on the Internet are hoax or real.
- Dave's Web of Lies
- Employs a trained team of specialised researchers to trawl the world's information nets seeking out falsehoods.
- Warphead.com: Urban Legends
- Collection of urban legends and other modern folktales, featuring a searchable database, forums, polls, galleries and more.
- Bonsai Kitten (3)
- Read about Bonsai Kitten, through sites providing articles on the internet hoax which purported to to combine the art of bonsai with body modification in house pets as a form of decoration.
- Neiman Marcus Cookies (2)
- Learn about the Neiman Marcus Cookies, the urban legend involving a supposed recipe for a popular chocolate chip cookie. Sites feature the recipe of the chocolate chip cookie and the legend behind the recipe going public.
- Shark Photo of the Year (2)
- Unravel the myth behind Shark Photo of the Year hoax, through sites articles which explain the hoax involving a spliced photograph of a shark jumping out of a water.
- Wikipedia: Urban Legend
- Entry for urban legends, describing their structure, how they are spread, and their documentation.
- Twelve Days of Christmas Legend@
- Find sites for the Twelve Days of Christmas, the festive days beginning the evening of Christmas Day through the morning of Epiphany. Sites provide history, articles, and lyrics to the song, and hidden meanings behind the items in the song.
- Weird U.S.
- Collection of odd news clippings, bizarre facts, little-known historical anecdotes, and anomalous encounters from around the country.
- Toothing (8)
- Read about toothing, the media hoax which claimed that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones were being used to arrange sexual encounters. Sites provide articles and messageboards on the casual sex trend.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken Hoax (3)
- Find out more about the Kentucky Fried Chicken Hoax, the rumor about the restaurant chain. Sites offer articles which explain the claim that KFC no longer use the word 'chicken' because they serve meat from genetically engineered animals.
- Sex Bracelets (3)
- AFU & Urban Legends Archive
- Collection of urban legends that appear mysteriously and spread spontaneously in many different forms.
- Gloomy Sunday@
- Klingerman Virus (3)
- HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work
- A look at urban legends to see what they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
- South American Blush Spider (3)
- Darwin Awards: Urban Legends
- Apocryphal stories are included as examples of Herculean Darwinian efforts.
- Alligators in the Sewers (2)
- Cat in Urban Mythology, The
- Looks at how society's ambivalent attitude towards cats shows up in urban legends. The article includes tales of giant cats, dead cat myths, and other strange stories that are often passed off as true.
- Snopes.com: Disney
- Lists the urban legends, myths, and rumors concerning Walt Disney, the Disney Company, the theme parks, and the films.
- Kaycee Nicole Hoax (4)
- Slavery Reparation Tax Credit (1)
- Researchers Record the Screams of the Damned
- Newspaper account and sound files of alleged screams from the underworld.
- Snopes.com: Horrors
- Collection of scary urban legends, including horror stories of murdering madmen, freakish fatalities, supernatural tales, and gruesome discoveries.
- Usenet's Frequently Posted Urban Legends
- From the alt.folklore.college newsgroup.
- Urban Legends & Superstitions
- Collection of popular, creepy, and interesting myths and superstitions. Also offers local New Jersey and Hollywood urban legends.
- Andrew Warriner's Legendary Pages
- Includes examination of such legends as the Sphinx's nose, Lord Horatio Nelson's body, and the Philadelphia Experiment.
- Snakehead Attack? Wok, Don't Run!
- Collection of articles addressing the Northern Snakehead fish and some of the outlandish claims surrounding its nature and abilities.
- Simonya Popova Hoax (3)
- Radek's Urban Legend Central
- Includes tales such as Someone in the Backseat, the Hook, the Vanishing Hitchhiker, and other classic spooky urban legends.
- Spamming and Urban Legends
- From the Internet Roadmap
- Urban Legends of Southern Africa
- Offers excerpts from Arthur Goldstuck's books.
- Citizens Against Breast-Feeding (1)
- theFolklorist.com
- Features urban legends and a collection of pareidolic images.
- Consuming Fire That is klapTor, The
- Reptile man, born of a child's imagination.
- Snopes.com: An Electronic Art Exhibit
- Photographic works by Sarah Wichlacz based on classic urban legends.
- FAQ - The Alt.Folklore.Urban Page
- Web version of the FAQ list for AFU newsgroup, which is devoted to the discussion and debunking of urban legends and other related issues.
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