Urban Legend News

When can we finally retire the urban legend repeated in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today? Namely this : The debate puts the first-term senator in an uncomfortable place.

I have heard tonight a rumor of a great lebanese restaurant and store or deli somewhere in South Broward County.

There's an urban legend involving an ice fisherman who decides to use dynamite to blast a hole in a frozen lake.

Everyone has at least one friend or co-worker who loves to forward the latest email warning about gang initiation rites, political alert about government corruption or plea from a dying child who wants to collect business cards.

Yesterday on TMZ TV , our lawyer Jason told a story about how Dikembe Mutombo once walked into a party at Georgetown University and stated, "Who wants to have sex with Dikembe?!?" After the piece ran, several people wrote in, alleging that Jason's story is purely an urban legend.

In the story making the rounds here in Mexico's drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor.

Sarah Palin haters will stoop to just about anything to malign the woman they most fear - including lying.

When Michelle Foster heard about Noah Biorkman's wish for Christmas cards, she immediately thought about a movie about a British lad named Craig Shergold.

My sister is far from an alarmist, so her e-mail about "exploding Pyrex" took my full attention.

A study in the British Journal of Criminology makes the point that drink-spiking date-raping is basically an urban legend: Abstract .

There's an urban legend about an unfaithful husband who strikes up an online relationship with a woman.

More stories by this author... It's laughable what mainstream media folks relish as fodder for boring their readers, viewers and listeners in these days of plummeting circulation, fragmented audiences and declining ad revenues.

How bizarre is it when the number two link on Google for Brian Chontosh, a bona fide war hero and recipient of the Navy Cross, goes to a site devoted to "debunking" urban myths? Is the idea that a Marine officer could perform acts of heroism so outlandish that it requires debunking? If so, there's little doubt why so many Americans might doubt such ...

Gnomes. Yes, gnomes. Apparently unhappy with being demoted from "player character race" to "monster" in the latest edition of that game , they've begun terrorizing teens in Argentina.

One of keys to Twitter 's success is its propensity for letting its users improve on the basic product.

Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. Story Created: Nov 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM CST Story Updated: Nov 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM CST You always hear about razor blades and poison in candy, so much so it's almost become an urban legend.

A robbery spree mystery is brewing on Long Island. More than a dozen homes have been hit so far.

Get our new Windows 7 eBook for $7 with 70+ Tips. Download Now ! Monday, November 2nd, 2009 by the oracle Though I am not in that preferred 18-34 demographic any longer, I find that those I interact with are like myself and still purchase music on CD.

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree is pretty unusual, in that its a romantic song about a recently released convict.

Jacqui's black cat looks the part of Halloween, but I'm told is a sweet kitty. Jacqui Black cats and Halloween have gone together for centuries.