Urban Legend News

I always thought that story about two people from Wisconsin getting pulled over for simultaneously driving the same car drunk was a complete urban legend since I'd only heard talk of it in Minnesota.

New studies show that academics do not influence their students politics in the US.

November brings two remarkable holidays: Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. I thought of both when I came across the touching urban legend about the creation of "Taps," the tune that gives me a lump in my throat ...

AN urban legend has it that a onetime minister who enjoyed a hilarious Instant Cafe Theatre show jokingly asked the comedic troupe if 'they were scared of Kamunting', a discreet reference to the detention ...

There's an old urban legend that when you run with shady strangers, you may wake up in a cheap motel bathtub full of ice with your kidneys cut out.

"What is more welcome on a routine day than a new and intriguing true story or rumor told in the first person?..." ...

Could this be the next spilled-coffee case, one where the facts are conveniently ignored in furtherance of a great urban legend? Eric Turkewitz wonders about this at his New York Personal Injury Law Blog , as ...

This week seemed an apt time to ponder our nation's political ghosts. We all know Abraham Lincoln haunts the White House along with Andrew Jackson and a host of first ladies, Woodrow Wilson is seen in a rocking ...

So the first reported sightings of El Chupacabra, the legendary goat-sucker, apparently occurred in Puerto Rico.

Last week, I received an e-mail warning me not to eat or give out Chinese milk chocolate coins - the kind wrapped in gold foil.

And away we go, hopping down a bunny tale sent in by my buddy, "Pegger Ted Arichteff: "Laurie. I have a humorous but very true tale if you wish to use it.

‘The Bradley effect” is a reference to the 1982 California governor’s race, which Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American, lost to state Attorney General George Deukmejian even though a popular election-eve poll showed Bradley ahead by a solid seven points. If Obama should lose today’s election, there are those who will maintain it was the Bradley effect at work. Even in faraway Kenya, the Los Angeles Times found a Nairobi choreographer to quote: “There’s this thing called ‘the Bradley effect’ that we are all very afraid of.”

Lush with primary and secondary virgin jungle, Malaysians have long held a respect for the forests.

Every Halloween, warnings fly about poisoned candy, tooth decay, abductors and the like.

Mary Poppins once said, "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." But should law enforcement officials believe crsytal methamphetamine dealers would use the same tactics to market their product to ...

Scary stories rise from the dead during Halloween. San Antonio's number one urban legend rests at Shane Road and Villamain on the city's Southside: the ghost railroad tracks.

Fear is the one true universal emotion, according to Carpathian, a local spirit and storyteller, who specializes in the spooky and otherworldly.

Are they fact, fiction, or a little in between? Kaitlyn McConnell and Logan Hoffman Issue date: 10/29/08 Section: Life Many people have heard an urban legend or two at some point in their lives.

[Rec'd this one in my email today. Since it is going around, I thought I'd post it here. -ed.]

The email starts out: "Share with your sisters, daughters, nieces, mothers, and female friends. This Incident has been confirmed.

A man came over and offered his services as a painter to a female putting petrol in her car and left his card. She said no ,but accepted his card out of kindness and got in the car. The man then got into a car driven by another gentleman. As the lady left the service station, she saw the men following her..."

Unfortunately, giving out real fruit for Halloween is not an option. We all heard the horror stories when we were kids. Some crazy ex-school teacher down the block pushed razor blades or needles into apples, and gave them out to unsuspecting kids. Soon after this urban legend took hold, hospital emergency rooms were flooded with grubby little ghosts and goblins bringing in Halloween apples to be x-rayed. I’m not sure if this ever really happened to anyone, but it sure put us off apples for a while. Some of us got a little more mileage out of this story than others: “Brussels sprouts for dinner? Mom, how do I know you didn’t put razor blades in them? I’ll pass!”...