Urban Legend News

Even though everyone knows that the George Washington and the cherry tree story is simply an urban legend, most still serve something with cherries on President's Day.

There was an urban legend that went around in the 1960s that if you looked at the tree behind Bob Dylan on the cover of his album "John Wesley Harding," you could see the faces of the Beatles.

Those of us who were raised in the 1940s may remember hearing our parents say this, or something like it.

There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision.

We just heard an urban legend: "the US sewer system would overload if everyone watching the Super Bowl flushed their toilets during halftime". Approximately 119 million people in the US will be watching Super Bowl 2012, so that's a lot of digested nachos, wings, hot dogs, and beer making their way down our great nation's lavatories.

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This weekend brings one of the biggest days in sports, the Super Bowl, but it also brings up a myth about domestic violence.

I thought it was an urban legend, like a story that's passed to you when you start working in Toronto.

Astute reader Johnnyozone22 sent us a link today that officially confirms our suspicions that the gruesome photo of an alleged Rousimar Palhares leg break victim that made the rounds this week was a fake.

Indianapolis is bracing for war. It's Super Bowl week, after all. Time for the Annual Invasion of the Hookers, which promises to be as harrowing as the Ottoman Empire's advance on Crete in 1647, though with considerably more nudity.

The San Gabriel Mountains are steeped in natural beauty, but within the area's scenic pine forests, towering granite peaks and rich mining history lies a darker past, often filled with mystery and death.

Have you heard the story of the community association members who knew one of their board candidates was convicted of a felony related to fraud or embezzlement yet elected that person anyway? Did you hear the part about how that board member later ran off with a substantial amount of the association's funds? Maybe it's just an urban legend among ... (more)

The San Gabriel Mountains are steeped in natural beauty, but within the area's scenic pine forests, towering granite peaks and rich mining history lies a darker past, often filled with mystery and death.

Welcome to Boston. You've probably heard a lot about us, and we're here to inform you that it's all true.

Peyton White, 14, of ShelbyvilleA says he couldn't be more proud of his fellow classmates for standing together to help sick children.

There are no magic tricks in Searching for Sugar Man . No one has a wand and the stakes are certainly not life or death.

Those Baby Boomers who walked the halls of East Orange High School in the 1960s will remember searching for a swimming pool that, urban legend claimed, had been filled in after some mysterious student protest.

A Sunday New York Times column on politicians and wealth from Frank Bruni, who was a White House reporter during the administration of George W. Bush, treated as factual a likely urban legend about the first President Bush: " Running From Millions ." It came after criticizing Mitt Romney as a rich phony: And Republican or Democrat, they often go to ... (more)

No one's sure how they start, these urban legends. Someone tells you someone they "know" - say, the friend of a friend's sister - coughed up $250 for a cookie recipe.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a combination of adrenaline-fueled arcade action and an exaggerated pulp action-adventure story.