It is a myth, hoax or misinformation. Urban means "city", and a legend is "a story coming down from the past." It's a story that goes from mouth to ear and becomes popular but cannot be verified, most people start to believe it's true because everyone knows the story. Such stories often become distorted or exaggerated with time. Nowadays, many urban legends circulate by email as well as by word of mouth.
One example of an Urban Legend is some kid ate the candy called Pop Rox and drank pop, and his throat exploded and he died. Even though this particular one is fake, many others haven't been verified yet.
If you want to learn more about it then go to sites like Snopes and Wikipedia.
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Urban legends are a type of modern folklore (although some of the stories have origins in much older stories). The stories are 99.999% false (OK - I made up that statistic, but the point being you shouldn't believe them). On rare occasions the stories are based on true events but even then they tend to be embellished to make them more impressive or transmogrified to put them in an environment more familiar to the teller or listener. Often they will be focused on weird or supernatural events. They tend to be enmeshed in local culture but with the homogenizing forces of fast modern communication, the lines are becoming more blurred with more shared world culture. Even when cultures do not overlap that much the same basic story often shows up in multiple areas with tweaks to make it fit the local culture better. While Urban Legends can be used for entertainment purposes, they are usually used as cautionary tales or to make the teller sound more "in-the-know" well as for semi-serious explanations for random events such as disappearances and strange objects.
People believe in urban legends because they often tap into fears, anxieties, and cultural themes that resonate with them. Additionally, storytelling and rumors can spread easily within communities, leading to the perpetuation of these legends. People may also find enjoyment in the thrill of sharing and hearing these mysterious and often spooky tales.
No, urban legends are stories that people believe are true, but are not. They are hoaxes that tend to have something in them that make the story believable.
Examples of Urban Legends:
Chewing gum takes 7 years to pass through your digestive system - it doesn't. IF it did, then almost every kid in North America would have a gummed up system.
Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair is circulating a petition to ban all religious broadcasts - not true for the simple reason she was murdered over 20 years ago. Also, while there was a petition to the FCC to ban religious broadcasts from educational frequencies, the petition was denied in 1975, and O'Hair had no involvement.
Many of these stories make the rounds in emails. Snopes.com tracks urban legends and tries to debunk them.
It's because urban legends are often strange and unique in nature, and since fact is often stranger than fiction, people take them as fact with no problem.
It's fun to believe in some oddball things that cannot be disproved, especially when the thing is a bit bizarre.
Some urban legends do have their roots in things that actually happened
An "Urban Legend" is something that is circulated as being true, but is in fact a load of nonsense.
An urban legend is a fake story. People tell urban legends, as though they are real, to scare people or humor them.
Urban legends are being retold because people either believe that they are real, or because they simply just want to scare someone so that they will either do something or stay away from it.
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Urban legends can come from any country.
They are not always called urban Legends. They can be called Urban Myths, Urban Tales or Urban Stories. And they are not necessarily from and 'Urban' origin.
Well if you believe in Urban Legends You'd probably believe the story of the Donkey Lady. She was burnt down in a fire and went insane. So if you get close to her home that was burnt down then she comes out of the woods where she hides and pounces on you and tears away your face. But i absolutely do NOT believe in most Urban Legends....so yeah.
The duration of Urban Legends - TV series - is 1800.0 seconds.
an urban legend is an entertaining story or piece of information of uncertain origin that is circulated as though true. This means that urban legends have been around a long time, and people don't know where they came from or if they are real or not.
The latest Urban legends can be found on the urbanlegends website and it hosts a variety of legends ranging from email rumours and internet hoaxes. Alternatively you may view the 25 hottest urban legends on the snopes website.
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Urban Legends - TV series - was created on 2007-06-18.