What Are Urban Legends? Great story often retold “urban folklore” Funny, sad or horrifying Usually instructive Sounds too good to be true! Often happened.

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What Are Urban Legends? Great story often retold “urban folklore” Funny, sad or horrifying Usually instructive Sounds too good to be true! Often happened to a friend of a friend You are told that “this really happened”

Are Urban Legends True? Some true – some false Distorted truth If you hear same story retold with new variations – these usually never happened Some legends traced historically Tell-tale warning signs can occur (hoax) Spread by word-of-mouth, , internet (tall-tale) (cyberlore) Often retold via newspapers, radio, TV

Why do Legends spread? Great stories you want to share Sounds believable Most people assume true Most people want to help We have lots of people we can send to very quickly

Favorite Legends Man found dead (5 days) in office Cults hid AIDS-infected needles in vending machines Cell phones cause explosions at gas stations Hospital cleaner polishes off patients Microwave radiation “cooks” worker Alligators in sewer system in NYC

George Turklebaum, R.I.P.

Cell Phones Phone manufacturers and gasoline companies have issued warnings BUT no verifiable incident can be traced (beyond 2 newspaper reports which turned out to be false) … it hasn’t happened yet but …

Hospital Orderly Newspaper Title: Cleaner Polishes Off Patient Series of dead patients in ICU – same bed every Friday morning Search for cause – but no clues Finally – find out that every Friday morning cleaner/orderly would remove plug used for life support system, use socket to polish floor “Cape Times, 6/13/96”

Cape Times did report story – but not completely – 2 key points missed –Hospital official didn’t know story –Gov’t Representative said story was unconfirmed and were “investigating” Phrase “investigating” was sufficient to give story credibility-story was printed – though embellished from one death to several via re-tellings I’m Alive!!!

Websites on Urban Legends Alt.folklore.urban & Urban Legends Archives Urban Legends and Folklore urbanlegends.about.com urbanlegends.about.com Hoaxbusters hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBUrbanMyths.shtml hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBUrbanMyths.shtml Urban Legends Reference Pages  Darwin Awards – Fictional or worse