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Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fascinating, creepy, frightening, disgusting, and hilarious collection of some of the world's most popular and enduring tall tales.
With themes that run the gamut from funny to sick, risqué to informative, and frightening to disgusting, Urban Legends features fantastic yarns that are remarkable for their uncanny ability to travel the world by word of mouth. We've all heard the one about the alligators that roam New York...
With themes that run the gamut from funny to sick, risqué to informative, and frightening to disgusting, Urban Legends features fantastic yarns that are remarkable for their uncanny ability to travel the world by word of mouth. We've all heard the one about the alligators that roam New York...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the conspiracy theory, quotes some of the true believers, and then tears the theory apart with his bare hands. Nine-Eleven was an inside job. Lady Di and JFK Jr. were murdered. Heathens are winning the war on Christmas. American Idol is rigged. Barack Obama...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real - and she could prove it. That belief got Becca killed. It's been nearly thirty years, but Heather...
Publisher
Grand Central Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Hearsey: Artists Reveal Urban Legends explores these stories through vivid visual representations by 37 contemporary artists and imaginative essays by critics and curators, with an Introduction by noted urban legend expert Jan Harold Brunvand. More than 50 color illustrations accompany the artists' personal revelations about the tales that inspired their works." -- inside back cover of book.
11) Urban legends
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Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Describes common urban legends, including how they can form, why they are popular, and how modern technology allows urban legends to spread around the world.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The hosts of the hit television series MythBusters go behind the scenes to provide the real story of thirty of our most baffling urban legends, explaining how they use modern-day scientific principles and methods to document what is fact and what is fiction, in a volume that includes illustrations, photographs, blueprints, and interviews to document the process. Leave no urban myth untested. Could you kill someone by dropping a penny from a skyscraper?...
Publisher
Discovery Communications Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Join Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman on their quest to separate fact from fiction as they challenge commonly held beliefs. Throughout this popular series from the Discovery Channel, they debunk urban legends using modern-day science mixed with good-natured fun to separate the real ... from the really out there.
Publisher
Focus World
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
For decades, mysterious messages in the form of colorful 'tiles' have appeared, pasted on the streets of major cities up and down the western hemisphere. Containing the same bizarre, unsettling message, which seems to concern resurrecting the world's dead, most people walk over them without a thought, until now. Justin Duerr, long obsessed with the tiles, has begun a quest to unearth both their origins and meaning.
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Join Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman on their quest to separate fact from fiction as they challenge commonly held beliefs. Throughout this popular series from the Discovery Channel, they debunk urban legends using modern-day science mixed with good-natured fun to separate the real ... from the really out there.
