Whether you dismiss urban legends as children's lore or believe they're based on fact, these 50 tales will send a shiver up ...

No one’s quite sure where it started, but one of Northern Virginia’s most famous urban legends centers around an overpass in ...

Urban legends and local myths are less about historical truth and more about the meanings people find in them, according to Bucknell University Associate Professor of Anthropology Clare Sammells.

Urban legends are rumors that have been built up and spread over time, so much so that people begin to believe they are true. Randy Smith, a historian at the Howard County Historical Society, said ...

What kid doesn’t love a good ghost story, especially when the Halloween season rolls around? Two years ago, I had this question on my mind when I developed a two-day curriculum for an extracurricular ...

Despite being one of the newer states in the union, Utah has a wild and weird history with far too many urban legends than anyone could ever hope to cover in a single list. With that in mind, ...