Urban legends are, in a basic sense, anecdotes that people share with one another, akin to jokes or tall tales. But although many urban legends are humorous in nature, they typically serve a ...

and there are many versions that vary in the details 3. (Note that veracity or lack thereof is not considered a marker of a legend; although perhaps fully three-quarters of circulating urban ...

3. The Island of the Dolls ... reflects the complex interplay between good and evil in Mexican folklore. Urban legends are ...

In his 2017 book Legendy Miejskie Warszawy (Warsaw’s Urban Legends) the writer and draughtsman Marek Dąbrowski says that the legend of the Black Volga is, by far, the ‘most popular’ Warsaw urban ...

One of Pokémon’s most well-known urban legends is that there’s a rare Pokémon — Mew — hidden under a truck in Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. Where did this come from? No one really knows.

Urban Legend tells the story of a group of pretty college students at a remote New England university. The focus of the story is Natalie, a beautiful, academically-gifted student who has a dark ...