A humorous or horrific story or piece of information circulated as though true, especially one purporting to involve someone vaguely related or known to the teller.
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This story is bogus, and part of an urban myth that has been spreading around for quite a while now.
Starting with a friend's e-mail claiming a renowned urban legend as a true story about a mate, Manford reveals the truth about countless childhood horror stories.
The Darwin Awards are not jokes or urban legends; they are true examples of human stupidity at full throttle.
Submitted for your consideration are some of the stories that have become Internet legends and urban myths.
Don't you love urban legends, those outrageous stories everyone believes?
It's a pretty horrible story, mainly because it's depressingly plausible, like an urban myth that's come true.
I'm hoping that's an urban myth, like most of these other stories.
But many urban legends are true - or at least ‘based on a true story,’ as they say in Hollywood.
This is either a true story or a big urban legend - I have my own opinions on that.
Irish riders went to shows in England and came back with this story, until it assumed the status of an urban myth.
I am writing to enquire about a piece of information that sounds to me like an urban legend.
You can talk about great novels, short stories, movies, or urban legends about the subject.
These stories have already become urban legends.
This is one of those urban myths that happens to be true.
If we hear a weird story often enough, we recognize it as an urban legend.
The story certainly has all the elements of an urban legend, so it seemed worthwhile to dig a bit deeper on this one.
These and other such stories, known as urban legends, are the focus of the book written by Whatley and Henken.
A more obvious type of myth is that of urban legends, improbable stories of events happening to unknown people on an unspecified date.
Faithful to the tradition of urban myths, everyone swears their story is absolutely true.
We are not talking about armour here, we are talking about email chains that get circulated, some of which become urban myths and some becomes information and news to others.