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Alien Abduction: Some people claim to have been kidnapped or visited by extraterrestrial beings.

Or perhaps the original storyteller wasn't being very honest in the first place.

Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Oftentimes, false rumors and phony stories are distantly based on some real events that were heavily distorted after many different people orally recounted them.

Stock Unsolved Mysteries: For every unexplained diappearance, there will be about five legends claiming aliens, monsters, magic, the government, etc.

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There may not be a Hook Handed Serial Killer at Make-Out Point, but indulging in too much Auto Erotica carries penalties of its own. Scare 'Em Straight: It's easy to see certain legends as a coded warning against more mundane dangers.Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: A setting for a story in which all sorts of conspiracy theories and urban legends are real.Conspiracy Theories: Most conspiracy theories are basically (political) urban legends, which allege that mainstream knowledge about various historical or current events are actually fabrications created by the (governmental) authorities, in order to cover up the "true" secret versions of the events from the general public.Based on a Great Big Lie: When someone intentionally spins a fictitious story and passes it off as " the truth" to other people.

Yet even factual details are no guarantee of a true account: any Snopes article will show that the names, dates and locations frequently get changed to protect the non-existent.

Newspapers also pick up urban legends as filler articles you can recognize them as stories that sound too weird to be true and surprisingly vague in the details (no names given for the people involved, for example).

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There are a small but increasing number of shows dedicated to proving/disproving their basis in reality the most popular of these is MythBusters, followed closely by the cable series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. They show up most often as the Case of the Week on television Police Procedurals, though dramas or even sitcoms have been known to borrow a legend and make it come true for one of the main characters. Urban legends are sensational by definition, which makes them attractive to audiences and enticing to the media. Some, like folklorist Jan Brunvand or, collect these critters and try to evaluate their claims. Even though the story is supposedly merely secondhand, it has usually been passed along through several sources and altered in the telling (to make it more 'local,' plausible, or what have you). Happened to a friend of a friend of mine.Īn Urban Legend is a story which imparts information or An Aesop (explicit or implicit) and which purports to be the account of a true event which happened locally, fairly recently, and to someone the teller knows (often a "friend of a friend").