An urban myth, also known as an urban legend, is a fictional tale that circulates widely, is told and retold with differing details, and is supposedly true. Urban myths are present in all media, including oral, print, and electronic. There is no single...

An urban legend or urban myth is similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them. The term is often used to mean something akin to an "apocryphal story". Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but...

When Saddam Hussein sidekick Tariq Aziz was captured recently, a casual reader scanning the coverage could be forgiven for mistaking the English word "urbane" for the title of Aziz's Iraqi government job. Almost everywhere you saw Aziz's name, the word "urbane" was nearby....

BILL ERVOLINO, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-04-2001 URBAN LEGENDS -- RUMORS THRIVE IN THE SHADOW OF WAR By BILL ERVOLINO, Staff Writer Date: 11-04-2001, Sunday Section: LIFESTYLE Edition: All Editions -- Sunday In the tense days and weeks after...

It's a frosted Sunday night in downtown Detroit. Further along the block from a musical production of Sesame Street Live sits a 3,000 seater called the State Theatre. Here, hordes of chain-smoking trailer-park thugs, junior pimps, name-brand-sporting Arab princes-and the tube-top-wrapped young ladies who love...

An Air Force doctor who headed a controversial astronaut health study told Congress on Thursday that NASA is discouraging open communications by rebutting reports of drunken astronauts on launch day and deriding the claims as urban legends.The bigger issue, more than drinking, is NASA's apparent...