urban legends

I recently noticed that SNL has made a sketch on Momo. How did SNL get to this point? Why is there a sketch on Momo but none on Slenderman? I didn't find the sketch very funny.

Okay, I see rightwingers (usually the most over-the-top of them,, referring to a mallevolent political entity they call "Journolist." I never heard of it. I make no referrence to it in my posts. I see that no other lefty does. Does it exist? What is it? Or is this another "Ewige Jude?"

When I read accounts of people doing miraculous things, I keep coming across the story of a person (usually a mother) lifting a car to save a trapped infant (usually their child). Has this ever really happened? Can Adrenaline (Epinephrine) supply the necessary strength to do it, and wouldn't...

In a discussion at work, the point came up about higher suicide rates in Scandinavian countries during winter. I've heard this premise before, but it i've always heard it without any real verification, and it kinda smacks to me of being a potential urban legend (at least until i can actually...

My friend I work with whose abusive husband was killed by a truck was talking about her church and I somehow brought up the subject of atheism. She told me there was a study done on 100 people who claimed to be atheists. They hooked them up to a polygraph machine to see if they honestly believed...

So I was sifting through some comments on a Youtube video of Andrew Meyer's tazing, and one of his fanbois brought up the following quote: "“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306."" Skeptical, I...

NPR's The World had a segment on a popular South Korean urban legend tonight,"Fan Death". This is the notion that if you go to sleep in a closed room with a fan (or perhaps even an air conditioner) on, you'll die. The reasons given for your untimely demise are rather vague; the reporter did...

Often when I speak outside my level of expertise I'm informed that my statement is not true. Many times I've made a statement concerning science or other discipline and I've had to be straightened out. Anyone else in here have the same problem? Much of what I quote I learned in school.

For those of you who don't know Richard Roeper is "the other guy" on Ebert and Roeper as well as a humor columnist for the Chicago Suntimes and an author of several books on movies and urban legends. Here's his latest column, for your consideration...

Today I received another Urban Legend email from one of my friends. This one was about hotel keycards as a way for people to steal your identity. It sounded fishy to me immediately, so off I went to Snopes and within 30 seconds I had confirmed that it was indeed an UL and quite, quite false. I...

Hey I saw a link to a website and lost it (it was on this forum) Fobles.com? Something like that...debunks urban myths. Could someone please provide the link??? As I'm getting that dioxide cancer e-mail and want to send back to them proof it's a hoax.

I got this in my mailbox today: A lot of these seem like urban legends, but so far, I've only been able to confirm that one of these is actually is: Snopes.com - Brass Monkeyshine: So, skeptics, how about the rest of these? Urban legends as well?

Read this elsewhere. Wondering if anyone else has seen it or can vouch for it. Not sure I believe it. Sounds a bit contrived to me. At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt. Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-contra hearings during the Reagan Administration...