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10/10/2008
Mount Misery Road named a 'Street of Fear' (Newsday)
Mount Misery Road in Huntington, a pretty place in the daylight but linked to spooky urban legends, has been named one of the "Streets of Fear" by FearNet , a network for horror fans.
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10/07/2008
Vilma Santos Urban Legends Part 3: More Urban Legends Debunked (PEP)
German Moreno—still harboring ill-feelings towards a "son" who did him wrong—said in his speech at SOP 's celebration of his birthday last Sunday, that today's stars should work on durability in the business rather than getting the faster, bigger bucks.
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10/12/2008
First Person (Bureau County Republican)
Dave Mead of Princeton has enjoyed a good ghost story since he was a kid. Now, as an adult, he’s spent the last five years working on Nightmare on Fairgrounds Road, the Halloween haunted house extravaganza sponsored by the Bureau County Fair Board.
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10/09/2008
Allentown to hold guided walking tour (Examiner)
The Friends of the Allentown Library will host a guided walking tour of historic Allentown beginning 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24. Storytellers will share the urban legends and spirit stories of houses on Main Street. Tours will take place rain or "moonshine.
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10/12/2008
Local ghost specialist shares lifetime of investigating the paranormal (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Cher Wright had an experience when she was a child that "kind of" scared her.
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10/11/2008
Walsh's philosophy on Marbury shows he's in charge (New York Daily News)
Lawrence: The Knicks still seem to be in better hands these days with Donnie Walsh in charge. And there is no doubt that Walsh is running the show and not Mike D'Antoni, just by noting how Stephon Marbury went through two-a-days with the team.
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10/11/2008
First Tracks kicks off the season with 'Knock On Wood' premiere (Tahoe Daily Tribune)
First Tracks Productions might not need any lucky charms to ensure that "Knock On Wood" enjoys a big premiere at the MontBleu Casino Resort & Spa.
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10/10/2008
The fright stuff (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
It's time. It's time for the grim grinning ghosts, the ghouls, the vampires and any other up-to-no-good creature you can think of to come out of hiding and join the land of the living.
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10/09/2008
'Mooi Street moves' comes to town (Helderberg)
PAUL SLABOLEPSZY'S Mooi Street Moves is on at Theatre on the Bay until October 18. The show is directed by Moira Blumenthal and stars Rantebeng Makapan and Hannes Brummer.
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10/06/2008
Can Coke work as a contraceptive? (Otago Daily Times)
Deborah Anderson had heard urban legends about the contraceptive effectiveness of Coca-Cola products for years. So she and her colleagues decided to put the soft drink to the test - in the lab, that is.
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| About.com: Urban Legends and Folklore - Articles, links, and an archive of urban and internet folklore.BellaOnline: Urban Legends - Weekly updates on the newest urban legends, plus articles on all of the classics.Calypso's Urban Legends - Small collection of famous urban legends.The Cat in Urban Mythology - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.Christian Urban Legends - Documents known urban legends and pious frauds.Christians United For The Truth - Aims to debunk internet and email hoaxes as well as myths; membership includes monthly newsletter and forum digest.Common E-mail Hoaxes - A list of some of the more popular internet hoaxes, urban legends, rumors, and junk, circulated through your email.Darwin Awards Urban Legends - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.Don't Spread That Hoax! - Debunking hoaxes as well as urban legends that spread on the internet.Don't Talk To Them - Local legends lists details of the village-idiots, nutters, weirdos and deviants we all know and love.Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand - Official site of the folklorist who wrote several books on urban legends beginning with Envasion: Making Paranoia Fun Again - E-zine dedicated to urban legends, paranoia, and conspiracy theories.Hoaxbusters - Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the internet.Hoax-Slayer - Information about email hoaxes; includes weekly newsletter, archives and list of the latest email hoaxes.The Horse and the Maiden: An Urban Legend in Ancient Athens - Article by Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University.HowStuffWorks: How Urban Legends Work - What they are, where they come from, and why they spread so quickly.Is the Hotel California in the Eagles' song located in Todos Santos, Mexico? - Dispels the myth that this Eagles song was written about an hotel in Todos Santos, Mexico.Jan Harold Brunvand - Transcript of an interview with folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, author of LIEmails: The Truth About E-mail Lies - E-mail hoaxes debunked, from a Christian point of view.Matt's Urban Legends - A collection of urban legends and superstitions.The Museum of Hoaxes - A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.NetScrap.com: Urban Folklore - Urban legends and beliefs gathered from across the net.Radek's Urban Legend Central - Small collection of urban legends and other stories.Snopes.com Urban Legends Reference Pages - Attempts to give accurate information about rumors and urban legends on a variety of topics, including war, business, events, toxins, science, military, popular culture.theFolklorist.com - Devoted to American folklore and urban legends.Too Good to Be True - Review of Jan Harold Brunvand's book on urban legends, with excerpt.Tourist Of Death - A site maintaining the history of the WTC Rooftop Tourist picture hoax, and all copycat pictures resulting from the original picture.The Urban Legend Combat Kit - Collection of prepared responses to refute oft cited internet myths and urban legends.Urban Legends & Modern Myths - Collection of urban legends, modern myths and American folklore.Urban Legends & Superstitions Online - The most popular urban legends and superstitions including local legends based in New Jersey.Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.Urban Myths & Legends - Submitted stories and other fantastic messages.Weird USA - Gazette of urban legends and beliefs, as well as ghost sightings and hauntings.New Urban Legends - Recent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.com. [RSS]
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