Things You'll Need:
- The desire to research urban legends for fun or to verify accuracy.
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Step 1
One of the first sites you're likely going to come across is Snopes.com. Urban legends are arranged by topic and popularity level. There is also a color coded quick reference that indicates based on the sites findings whether the legend is true, false, or undetermined. This is a fun site to browse randomly.
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Step 2
The Museum of Hoaxes website covers a lot of hoaxes involving altered photos that are often circulated in e-mails. It also traces back how some hoaxes have reached urban legend status.
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Step 3
TruthOrFiction.com has an updated list of recent urban legends along with an archive.
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Step 4
For printed books that have been scanned for viewing online, I found a site called Questia.com that was very impressive if you're doing an academic project. I'm including a link for it as well.
Comments
Meri said
on 8/17/2008 Good points; I love snopes.com
MidniteWriter said
on 8/12/2008 snopes.com also works well for the Internet.
LAURA7088 said
on 8/12/2008 Cool! I think urban ledgends are so interesting. I didn't even know some of those resources existed. I'll be sure to check that out. 5*s