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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend

"Urban Legend" I have always been intrigued about the idea of urban myths and legends. One issue i see with this article that i can fully contribute to is it needs to contain more urban legends such as Sasquatch or Big Foot just to name a few. The article talks more about facts instead of listing and describing old folktales of creatures that may or may not exist. This article could be written a lot better if it used more conspiracies rather than facts.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/creepiest-urban-legend-in-every-state-american-folklore I liked this articles because it actually shows us the history of each states most popular urban legends

https://people.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm This shows a little more about what an urban legend is and the truth and reasons behind how they start and develop into something bigger

http://theconversation.com/why-urban-legends-are-more-powerful-than-ever-76718 More information on why they are relevant in the present and why they matter true or not

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Urban legend An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore. It usually consists of fictional stories, often presented as true, with macabre or humorous elements, rooted in local popular culture. These legends can be used for entertainment purposes, as well as semi-serious explanations for random events such as disappearances and strange objects. Urban legends are spread by any media, including newspapers, e-mail, and social media, and the internet. Throughout many years, people have adapted to changes in technology to shape the way others hear about urban legends. Some urban legends have passed through the years with only minor changes to suit regional variations. More recent legends tend to reflect modern circumstances, like the story of people ambushed and anesthetized, who awaken minus one kidney, which was supposedly surgically removed for transplantation.

Internet Internet urban legends are folklore stories that are spread through the internet. They may be spread through Usenet or email, or more recently by social media. Types Crime stories As with traditional urban legends, many Internet rumors are about crimes either fictional, or based on real events but blown out of proportion. The heightened sense of a real-world crime story put in the perspective of a witness or someone in on the action gives people more to believe about rather than what happened. Chain email letters Chain letters are a variety of urban legends concerning e-mails that tell the reader to make copies of, and redistribute, the e-mail or they will meet a terrible fate. Most all of these are used around certain holidays throughout the year to help people get more involved in that holidays tradition. Whether that be to scare one around Halloween or to spread the love around valentines day. Fake virus and malware alerts Fake virus alerts, telling people of non-existent threats to their computer, are commonly distributed by email. Use in marketing Marketing and advertisement have a way to persuade an audience that something said is true. People love the idea of mystery and creativity because their minds just wonder and stumble across theories of what they believe is the truth. The capacity of the internet to spread rumors has been used in marketing, for instance with the low-budget film The Blair Witch Project, which was advertised as if it were about a genuine urban legend, rather than a work of original fiction. Simple, yet satisfying to some viewers of the film, it depicts something that seems all to real to be fake, but something viewers can believe. Marketing and advertisements of different urban legends peaks people’s curiosity into believing something that may or may not be true.

Documenting The Internet makes it easier to both spread urban legends and debunk them. Discussing, tracking, and analyzing urban legends is the topic of the Usenet newsgroup, alt.folklore.urban and several web sites, most notably snopes.com. The United States Department of Energy had a service, now discontinued, called Hoaxbusters, that dealt with computer-distributed hoaxes and legends. Television shows such as Urban Legends, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and later Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed, feature re-enactments of urban legends detailing the accounts of the tales and (typically) later in the show, these programs reveal any factual basis they may have. The Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters (2003–2016) tried to prove or disprove urban legends by attempting to reproduce them using the scientific method. The 1998 film Urban Legend featured students discussing popular urban legends while at the same time falling victim to them. Between 1992 and 1998, The Guardian newspaper "Weekend" section published the illustrated "Urban Myths" column by Phil Healey and Rick Glanvill, with content taken from a series of four books: Urban Myths, The Return Of Urban Myths, Urban Myths Unplugged, and Now! That's What I Call Urban Myths. The 1994 comics anthology the Big Book of Urban Legends, written by Robert Boyd, Jan Harold Brunvand, and Robert Loren Fleming, collected two hundred urban legends told in comics form. The British writer Tony Barrell has explored urban legends in a long-running column in The Sunday Times. These include the story that Orson Welles began work on a Batman movie in the 1940s, which was to feature James Cagney as the Riddler and Marlene Dietrich as Catwoman; the persistent rumor that the rock singer Courtney Love is the granddaughter of Marlon Brando; and the idea that in a famous 1970s poster of Farrah Fawcett, there is a subliminal sexual message concealed in the actress' hair.