Urban Legends

The Museum of Hoaxes - A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/

theFolklorist.com - Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.
http://thefolklorist.com/

The Cat in Urban Mythology - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
http://messybeast.com/urbancat.htm

Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand - Official site of the folklorist who wrote several books on urban legends beginning with "The Vanishing Hitchhiker". Features personal and professional information, works, and a FAQ.
http://www.janbrunvand.com/

HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work - What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm

Matt's Urban Legends - A collection of urban legends and superstitions.
http://www.geocities.com/neons2000/

"The Hook..." - Variants and analysis of this classic urban legend.
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/FOLK/thehook.html

Urban Myths & Legends - Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.
http://www.delta-9.com/net47/myth/

New Urban Legends - Recent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com. [RSS]
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.xml

Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico? - Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about an hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.
http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/eagles/hotel-california.htm

About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/

Tourist Of Death - A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.
http://www.touristofdeath.com/

Christians United For The Truth - Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.
http://www.truthminers.com/truth/

Darwin Awards Urban Legends - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/

LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies - E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.
http://www.liemails.com/

BellaOnline: Urban Legends - Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.
http://www.bellaonline.com/site/urbanlegends/

Snopes.com Urban Legends Reference Pages - Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture.
http://www.snopes.com/

Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.
http://www.envasion.net/

Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
http://www.wdog.com/legends/

Jan Harold Brunvand - Transcript of an interview with folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, author of "Too Good to be True - The Colossal Book of Urban Legends."
http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/jan.harold.brunvand.html

Too Good to Be True - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall01/032088.htm

Common E-mail Hoaxes - A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.
http://www.3oddballz.com/hoaxes/

Urban Legends & Modern Myths - Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.
http://www.warphead.com/urbanlegends/

NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore - Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.
http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap.cfm?cat_show=Urban%20Folklore

Urban Legends & Superstitions Online - The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.
http://urbanlegendsonline.com/

Rocket Car Story - A possibly true story about four guys who attach a jet engine to their car.
http://www.rocketcarstory.com/

Calypso's Urban Legends - Small collection of famous urban legends.
http://www.angelfire.com/az2/urbanlegends/

Christian Urban Legends - Documents known urban legends and pious frauds.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm

Weird USA - Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.
http://www.angelfire.com/zine/WeirdUSA/

Radek's Urban Legend Central - Small collection of urban legends and other stories.
http://geocities.com/rayman_7575/

The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/HorseText.html

Don't Spread That Hoax! - Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.
http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/

Hoaxbusters - Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

Don't Talk To Them - Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.
http://www.freewebs.com/locallegend/intro.htm

Hoax-Slayer - Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

The Urban Legend Combat Kit - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.
http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/