Urban Legends

About Urban Legends

An urban legend is a story a place keeps telling on itself. We follow each one back through its variants to the earliest version we can find in print or on record.

Expect the tale as it is told locally, the versions told elsewhere, and a plain accounting of what is documented and what is folklore.

Sourcing: legends are reported as folklore. We cite the earliest printed or recorded version we can locate and flag claims that no record supports.