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ENGL& 102: Urban Legends, with Ryan DeMoss: Find an Urban Legend

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The Encylopedia of Urban Legends is a great starting point for your research.  Organized alphabetically, you will find hundreds of individual legends and their variations.  Themes associated with the legends are examined, along with scholarly analysis of the genre.

It is located in the Library Reference Collection.

Overview

Check out the articles below for definitions and brief overviews, along with explanations of the origins of a few of the more popular urban myths.

Lists of urban legends

Top Ten Scariest Urban Legends

List compiled by watchmojo.com. 
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