Urban Legend News

The story passed around the Internet about love and a tablecloth looks like an urban legend, but it is probably grounded in truth.

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"If my album leaks, I'm not putting it out. Let a b***h make some money." Most of the evening has been one Earthy, emotive and cerebral experience, but Erykah Badu is clear.

Urban legend has it that men are not going for post-secondary studies as much as in the past.

Police are urging people receiving an email about supposed 'car-jackings' to delete it rather than forwarding it to friends and family as the email is an urban myth.

Browse> Home / Ask FactCheck / What Happened on Flight 297? What Happened on Flight 297? December 14, 2009 Q: Did Muslim terrorists stage a "dry run" on AirTran flight 297? A: The airline and an eyewitness say this e-mailed claim is "an urban legend" spread by persons who "live in a fantasy world." FULL QUESTION Did the Nov.

A chemistry student from the northern Ukrainian city of Konotop was killed when a stick of chewing gum exploded in his mouth, Ukrainian media reported on Tuesday.

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is a Dr. Seuss story that most people have read.

When can we finally retire the urban legend repeated in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today? Namely this : The debate puts the first-term senator in an uncomfortable place.

I have heard tonight a rumor of a great lebanese restaurant and store or deli somewhere in South Broward County.

There's an urban legend involving an ice fisherman who decides to use dynamite to blast a hole in a frozen lake.

Everyone has at least one friend or co-worker who loves to forward the latest email warning about gang initiation rites, political alert about government corruption or plea from a dying child who wants to collect business cards.

Yesterday on TMZ TV , our lawyer Jason told a story about how Dikembe Mutombo once walked into a party at Georgetown University and stated, "Who wants to have sex with Dikembe?!?" After the piece ran, several people wrote in, alleging that Jason's story is purely an urban legend.

In the story making the rounds here in Mexico's drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor.

Sarah Palin haters will stoop to just about anything to malign the woman they most fear - including lying.

When Michelle Foster heard about Noah Biorkman's wish for Christmas cards, she immediately thought about a movie about a British lad named Craig Shergold.

My sister is far from an alarmist, so her e-mail about "exploding Pyrex" took my full attention.

A study in the British Journal of Criminology makes the point that drink-spiking date-raping is basically an urban legend: Abstract .

There's an urban legend about an unfaithful husband who strikes up an online relationship with a woman.

More stories by this author... It's laughable what mainstream media folks relish as fodder for boring their readers, viewers and listeners in these days of plummeting circulation, fragmented audiences and declining ad revenues.