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This is a true story. Happened to a friend of a friend of mine... An 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"). 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). Some, like folklorist Jan Brunvand or Snopes.com, collect these critters and try to evaluate their claims. Urban legends are sensational by definition, which makes them attractive to audiences and enticing to the media. 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. 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!. 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). 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. The moral of an urban legend often employs a bit of Scare 'Em Straight, to drive the lesson home or merely for the sake of humor (The Cabbage Patch Kids one, for example, was a joke). After all, these legends won't get passed along if no one wants to retell them. This is not to say that urban legends are all pure fiction. The most convincing of them contain a grain of truth (i.e. a less interesting but factual story) which becomes sensationalized or completely distorted to bring the message a bit closer to home. Instead of some unknown Alice suffering bizarre consequences after a cocaine overdose, it was Drew Barrymore. Instead of the gruesome murder occurring in a far away country, it coincidentally happened right here, not far from where you live, and the Bad Guys who did it are people who aren't like us (foreigners, people of different races or cultures, junkies, celebrities, criminals...) Needless to say, urban legends make just as free with the message at the heart of the tale as they do with the facts of the story, so expect Broken Aesops, Fantastic Aesops, and all sorts of Values Dissonance; not to mention Gossip Evolution. See also Oral Tradition. If you were looking for the film by this name, look right here. For In-Universe urban legends about a specific person, see Shrouded in Myth. |
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The Bridge Curse: The central urban legend in the movie focuses on "The Female Ghost Bridge" at Tung Hu University. Supposedly, a woman commited suicide there at midnight on Leap Day when her boyfriend didn't show up. Though the apparent actual story is that she was gang-raped there by five guys who then killed her and dumped her body in the lake. Ever since, on the anniversary of her death, a mysterious 14th step appears on the bridge's stairs, and University Students have put themselves through bravery tests on it ever since. | |
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The Megas XLR episode "TV Dinner" has Coop and Jamie discussing the Pop Rocks/soda legend. Coop dismisses it, but it turns out to be true at the end of the episode. | |
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The events of the first film guaranteed in the sequel that the Abaddon Hotel's reputation has grown from being an eerie abandoned building to a notorious local landmark. | |
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Fred Rogers was a sniper in the military and has a large kill count, and that the reason he always wore sweaters was to hide the fact that both his arms had full tattoo sleeves that graphically depicted his "best" kills. This is bunk as he wasn't even in the military. | |
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The manga Toshi Densetsu is an anthology in which various characters encounter various urban legends, some of which only exist in-universe. | |
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Charlie the Unicorn makes use of the "missing kidney" legend in the first video. | |
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K's Clans and Kings are regarded as this by people not involved with them. Some of this is scene in the first season, when a news channel interviews random people on the street about the Silver King's blimp crash and apparent death. A side story (K: All Characters - Sakura Asama) shows how this has exploded after the events of season 2, when the Green Clan attempts to give the whole world superpowers. | |
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Kagewani has Professor Banba investigating cryptid attacks throughout Japan in order to determine if they are actual events or not. | |
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CSI: NY had several: The dress from a corpse manages to kill a bride on her wedding day. A college student kills his roommate so he can get an automatic 4.0 for the semester. A corpse is found buried in the end zone of Giants stadium, in imitation of an Urban Legend about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. A man is killed by a chunk of "blue ice" falling from an airplane. They created one of their own when a buzzard drops an eyeball into Stella's coffee cup at the beginning of "No Good Deed." The episode ends with an acquaintance of Mac's asking him if he's heard about it. |
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The Psych episode "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" featured a fictional urban legend about a woman who committed suicide at an asylum on Halloween night and continues to haunt the place. It turns out that Shawn and Gus were actually the ones who started the legend when they were kids. They were with Shawn's dad Henry when he was called to the asylum and saw the woman on the ledge, but didn't see the part where Henry pulled the woman back inside to safety. They were overheard talking about the "suicide" at school, and things snowballed from there. | |
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The "toothbrushes up their bums" UL was the basis of the joke at the end of one episode of The Vicar of Dibley. | |
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In an episode of The Simpsons, "Special Edna", Bart nominates Ms. Krabappel for the Teacher of the Year Award, and tells in the video submitted to the judges that she deserves the award for surviving teaching him. The judges believed the mere existence of Bart was an urban legend, so they accept the nomination. Bart creates his own legend about a man at the school who one day snapped and made a soup from the children's heads. The story included an Art Shift and was very effectively creepy. At the end, it turns out "Dark Stanly" was real... The "Pop Rocks and Soda" myth was Enforced in an episode where an angry mob was chasing Homer out of a candy convention. He takes a can of Buzz Cola, pours in a package of "Pop Rox", shakes them together and tosses them at the mob, yelling "See You in Hell, candy boys!" He then turns and does a slow-motion dive as the whole building explodes behind him. |
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Kevin & Kell's equivalent to the 'missing kidney' urban legend is a rhino waking up in a bathtub to find that his horn (believed to be an aphrodisiac) is missing. Truth in Television for some rhinos. |
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Unwanted Houseguest: Some of the "TRUE Scary Stories" use Urban Legends for set-up. | |
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In Serial Experiments Lain it seems that Internet memes start leaking into reality, resulting in alien sightings, and suchlike. Also things like ghosts and The Men in Black seem to actually exist, though in manner slightly different than the legends would indicate. | |
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Snopes.com reports a number of urban legends as true (though they're still in a noticeable minority), including some rather unbelievable ones such as this seemingly farcical account, on which they comment: "The above-quoted tale about FBI agents trying to order pizza delivery to a psychiatric hospital is one of those pieces that serves to remind us that no matter how bizarre, far-fetched, or incredible a story may seem at first glance, it should never be entirely discounted without at least some effort being made to verify it." | |
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Shin Megami Tensei has traditionally included demons from various ancient mythologies, but Shin Megami Tensei IV introduces the Chemtrail demon, based on a conspiracy theory about the trails left by jet airplanes containing chemical or biological weapons. | |
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Britta tells the ever-popular "hookman" story in the Community episode "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps", featuring Jeff as the boyfriend and herself as the girlfriend. The story is played onscreen exactly the way she tells it, so it contains a substantial amount of Buffy Speak: | |
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Paranoia Agent concerns urban legends that are created and become increasingly real. | |
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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction followed a similar format. The only catch was that some of the supposedly true stories were so unbelievable that one couldn't help but wonder just how thoroughly they had researched them. | |
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Full Frontal Nerdity: features a storyline in which game master Frank is being stalked by the Slenderman. Turns out he's mistaken all the NPC s slaughtered by the group in their sessions for real people. They get Frank out of it by making up a character based on Frank and killing him off in Frank's place. To be on the safe side each player also plays a character based on each other...except Lewis. | |
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Cracked has an ongoing series about urban legends that are true. | |
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In SCP Foundation, SCP-1448 ("LegendTripping") is an incorporeal entity that travels all over the world looking for remote places to inhabit. After SCP-1448 arrives in an area, it somehow starts spreading rumors among the local youth population that performing a specific magical ritual in its location will be effective, thus effectively creating a new urban legend. Parawatch ("LegendTripping") is a forum that brings together people interested in urban legends and the anomalous and unusual, in general. |
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Supernatural bases many of its episodes on urban legends. In fact one episode had a monster that was literally created by the urban legend regarding him. As the urban legend changed (as manipulated by two ghost hunters' website) the creature's powers and weaknesses changed too. Another episode of note is "Tall Tales", where one college campus starts experiencing a number of urban legends coming true at the same time. Turns out the janitor is a Trickster god. The fifth season episode "I Believe the Children Are Our Future" also features urban legend-based deaths. The culprit in this episode is a little kid named Jesse, who believes these urban legends are true, and somehow makes them true. The Winchesters discover that the reason he can alter reality on a whim is because that he is actually The Antichrist, though he doesn't really want to be. There was also an episode where a man died when he "ingested" dozens of razorblades "hidden" in the Halloween candy he'd been sneaking at night, but in actuality it was witchcraft and good timing for the themed effect. |
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Homicide: Life on the Street: A scene in the episode "Thrill of the Kill", has a suspect arrested after a gas station attendant sees him hiding in the back of a customer's car, which dramatises a common urban legend. One of the plots of "Shaggy Dog, City Goat" has Dr. Cox narrating the investigation of a particularly bizarre and complicated death, which is based on a well-known urban legend originally made up as fiction by an American forensic scientist. |
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Case in point: in the earliest days of January 2015, the parade's Wiki made a page announcing that a new Garfield balloon would debut in the 2015 parade... just barely over a month after the last parade had happened, at a time when only the marching bands that would perform were known.note They're always selected a year in advance. Information about new franchises to be represented in the parade generally starts to bubble during the summer, and gradually increases over the year until Thanksgiving month, when all of the elements come together. It's unlikely that Garfield will return to the parade.note However, this didn't stop Macy's from resurrecting their Sinclair Dinosaur balloon for the 2015 parade after a 39-year absence. | |
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Parodied in the Discworld novel Witches Abroad, which claims that, thanks to the Theory of Narrative Causality, not only do urban myths really happen, but they happen repeatedly. It also applies to fairy tale plots, which Nanny Ogg calls "rural myths" at one point. | |
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In Crossing Kevin's Crossing, Officer Eric tells the narrator a local legend about "about tunnels beneath the ground and weird people that live there". These legends supposedly go all the way back to the natives that lived in the area. | |
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The plot of Yuuyami Doori Tankentai involves a trio of kids investing local urban legends in Hirumi City. | |
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Gore Orphanage is based off of the urban legend of the titular orphanage (which never actually existed). | |
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The Candyman series of movies, whose villain is based on the "Bloody Mary" legend. | |
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Persona 2, both parts, are about urban legends that start to mysteriously come true. Innocent Sin has this more as a central theme, although it is not absent from Eternal Punishment. | |
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The plot of Persona 4 is kicked off because of a urban legend of the Midnight Channel, where you see your soulmate if you look into an empty TV at midnight on a rainy day. Turns out, there's a bit more than that. | |
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Episode 4 of A Certain Scientific Railgun features two Urban Legends. One of them is the undressing woman and the other one is a guy who can nullify anything. You get to see the first one, and the second one is obviously the hero of the whole series itself: Touma. Urban Legends tie into the plot of Railgun (not so much Index) a lot, as the girls seem to enjoy following Urban Legends as a hobby. Often, the legends have some grain of truth in them, and investigating the legend is what leads to the arc's conflict with some dark aspect of Academy City. |
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xkcd, on the other hand, inverts the urban legend here. | |
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Steve Burns of Blue's Clues was kicked off the show for drug usage. Another rumor is that he died not soon after he left the show. It's gotten to the point where even he has mentioned the rumors. Neither are true. He left the show (willingly) because he was getting older and starting to bald. | |
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In an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent ("Art"), the killer of the week took advantage of an urban legend by killing her roommate and making it look like a suicide, thus entitling her to passing grades (not straight A's) in her final semester of art school. | |
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The 90's OVA Gakkou No Yuurei (School Ghosts): Each episode consists of several spooky vignettes, which are allegedly based on real experiences. | |
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D-Man from Spirit Hunter: NG is an (admittedly self-proclaimed) legend amongst occult fans, his true identity a secret. Some of the spirits that he tells the protagonist about are also tied to real-life urban legends, like the Mach Princess being related to Turbo Granny. | |
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The show Truth Or Scare on Discovery Kids existed entirely of promoting this trope. Because we all know the Tower of London is haunted, right? RIGHT? | |
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The Men in Black: A common feature of various political conspiracy theories (especially ones about UFOs and aliens); in which the government sends out well-dressed secret agents to intimidate people who witnessed strange or suspicious events into keeping silent about everything they've seen. | |
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In the first episode of The Venture Brothers, Doctor Venture wakes up in Tijuana with a missing kidney. He then realizes he's already missing a kidney from a similar incident. "Not again!" He then turns HELPeR into a dialysis machine for the rest of the episode. Later in the same episode, he is nearly killed by a chupacabra. Brock explains: "Chupacabras. Mexico's full of 'em." This is also a Brick Joke, as earlier in the episode he taught a class exclaiming through scientific theory that a chupacabra couldn't possibly exist. |
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In issue 13 of Teen Girl Squad, So and So scolds What's Her Face for drinking a "diet brown" soda while babysitting, hysterically shouting "Don't you remember health class?! You'll microwave the baby!" while holding up a book titled "(strike)urban legends(/strike) i mean health class". An unamused What's Her Face retorts, "This is Diet Brown, not PCP." Health classes using stories of questionable veracity like this in an attempt to Scare 'Em Straight regarding drug abuse is, sadly, fairly common in Real Life. | |
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On Young Hercules, "Amazon Grace" opens with Jason wrapping up the Ancient Greek equivalent of the Hookman story. A knave and maiden keep hearing a strange scratching noise, race off, and (once safely back home) find a monster's hook stuck in the side of their chariot. Hercules remarks this story starred a farmer and a peasant girl the last time he heard it. | |
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The Terminal is based on the urban legend of a foreign national who's forced to live in an airport due to a bureaucratic screw-up. Notably, this is one of a few urban legends that's true. | |
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In Suicide Kings, one of the yuppie kidnappers tells one about the Retired Monster they're holding hostage, to stave off Lima Syndrome. It turns out to be true, except not as gruesome as the reality. | |
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In another episode, a couple of idiots kill a young woman who'd suffered a drug overdose by transfusing some of their own (incompatible) blood into her. They were imitating an urban legend about drugged-out rock stars "getting their blood replaced" as a remedy. Cue references to Pulp Fiction. | |
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The film Grown Ups includes a scene based on the urine-detecting dye myth. | |
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In A Scare at Bedtime, most of the stories Podge tells his brother are adaptations (usually set in Ireland, of course) of famous and well-known legends, usually frightening. | |
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Sometimes Batman is treated as an urban legend among Gotham criminals, at least early in his career. Gets kind of silly considering all the other superheroes running around publicly, or when criminals don't believe a guy who runs around with the very public Justice League International is real. | |
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The Kamen Rider franchise, particularly in the Heisei era (2000 onwards), claims that the Kamen Riders themselves are regarded as an urban legend by the world at large. This comes up primarily in Kamen Rider Blade and Kamen Rider Fourze, each of which has a member of the supporting cast who believes in the urban legend and ends up befriending the main character; in the former case, he even writes a book about it. | |
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Homestar Runner: In issue 13 of Teen Girl Squad, So and So scolds What's Her Face for drinking a "diet brown" soda while babysitting, hysterically shouting "Don't you remember health class?! You'll microwave the baby!" while holding up a book titled "(strike)urban legends(/strike) i mean health class". An unamused What's Her Face retorts, "This is Diet Brown, not PCP." Health classes using stories of questionable veracity like this in an attempt to Scare 'Em Straight regarding drug abuse is, sadly, fairly common in Real Life. In the Strong Bad Email "winter pool", Coach Z relates how he had two students named "Redan-Jello" and "Grape Flavored Jell-O With Fruit Floatin' In It"note This is based on the popular urban legend of a black woman who named her children "Oranjello" and "Lemonjello" and also that if you flash your high-beams at a car with its headlights off, it's a ploy by gangsters to shoot you. |
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An episode of Law & Order ("Sonata for Solo Organ") started out with a man waking up on a park bench, and discovering he's missing a kidney. Which some urban legend experts claim actually helped popularize the legend itself, which had been fairly obscure until then. | |
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The third film, Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, has the actual urban legend committing the murders. | |
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Persona: Persona 2, both parts, are about urban legends that start to mysteriously come true. Innocent Sin has this more as a central theme, although it is not absent from Eternal Punishment. The plot of Persona 4 is kicked off because of a urban legend of the Midnight Channel, where you see your soulmate if you look into an empty TV at midnight on a rainy day. Turns out, there's a bit more than that. |
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The Spike TV "docu-fiction" series 1000 Ways to Die features bizarre causes of death, most of them stemming from urban legends. These range from a vaginal embolism caused by a carrot dildo puncturing the vaginal wall and exploding breast implants to death by drinking acid instead of vodka. | |
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CollegeHumor made a video with an "Urban Legend ER", including patients who got hit by pennies dropped from skyscrapers, had their kidneys stolen, ate pop rocks and diet coke, and urinated in the pool. | |
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The Dollhouse has become this In-Universe. One episode even has vox populi interviews about the subject. | |
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The Drew Carey Show had an episode where Drew and Kate got "fake married" as part of an old dare. The night's celebrations get called off early when Kate develops a rash and gets short of breath. Turns out the wedding dress she bought from a secondhand store had formaldehyde in it. | |
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Transhuman Space: The game assumes that urban legends not only endure in its 2100 AD setting, but in a world of high-speed, all-pervasive computer networks with occasional prankster "memetic engineers" on the loose, the phenomenon can be even stronger than in the present day. The Toxic Memes supplement describes some widespread or interesting examples. | |
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To complete the CSI trifecta, CSI: Miami has a man killed by his cell phone sparking an explosion of gas fumes. It was fumes in his lungs from gas siphoning, rather than a gas station, but the mechanics are the same. | |
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In an episode of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids TV series, one of Wayne's inventions brings an urban legends book to life via Hard Light holograms. | |
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They won’t disappear if we don’t believe them though, because according to Touhou Project, doing so only transports them to Gensokyo. | |
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In the manga Chobits, there is an urban legend that there are special Persocoms (humanoid computers) called "Chobits" that have real emotions and free will instead of just having emotions programmed into them. | |
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Urban legends are a major theme of Den-noh Coil, particularly how everyone tends to interpret them differently. Questions such as "Just what are kirabugs/Illegals/Michiko, really?" are asked and answered many, many times over the course of the series, and everyone seems to have a different version. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable features Reimi, whose backstory is based on the Licked Hand urban legend, with Kira Yoshikage as the killer. | |
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At the very beginning of the first Saw film, one of the first things Adam does after waking up in a bathtub is to ask Dr. Gordon if he's got any surgical scars, convinced that someone has stolen his kidney. Dr. Gordon informs him that it's an Urban Legend; if someone had really taken Adam's kidney, he'd either be in excruciating pain right now, or dead. | |
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In film, the movies Urban Legend and Urban Legends: Final Cut deal with killers who take inspiration from these. The third film, Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, has the actual urban legend committing the murders. |
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Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series moshes together urban legends with other bits of folklore for a pretty gruesome mix. | |
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Freaky Stories is entirely built around this. "It happened to a friend of a friend of mine" was their Catchphrase, sometimes adding an extra "of a friend." | |
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In Living Color! ad libbed a joke about Richard Gere and the gerbil during a live Men on Football segment done for the halftime show of Super Bowl XXVI. Gere was not amused, and demanded that the joke be cut from all re-airings of the skit. Sadly, the showrunners complied. | |
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Molly-Mae Hague, who was in British series Love Island in 2019 is not related to politician William Hague, despite some claims on celebrity sites/blogs; it's a mistaken case of Same Surname Means Related. William Hague is from a Yorkshire family, whereas Molly-Mae is from Hitchin, a town in Hertfordshire, England. This borders on misinformation too. | |
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The Scarecrow Ministry of Changeling: The Lost deliberately encourages the spread of urban legends, and sometimes makes them real. It's for a good cause (the original function of the legends, keeping Muggles safe from dangerous things both mundane and magical), but they can slip over the edge too, sometimes. | |
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Lemon Demon has a song called "Eighth Wonder," which is based on the urban legend of Gef the Talking Mongoose. The lyrics of the song are all the things Gef supposedly said, along with claims that he is the eighth wonder of the world. From the same album, "Sweet Bod" is about the recreation of the mellified man. According to Cicierega, the song "Cabinet Man" is inspired by the Urban Legend of Polybius. |
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In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "The Legend Of The Wild Smurf", the Smurfs treat Wild Smurf's presence in the forest as this until their first official encounter with him when he rescued them from the evil wizard Severus. | |
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In the original CSI: The crew finds a scuba diver in a tree after a forest fire. Although in this case the killer simply put the corpse in a diving suit, dumped it in a forest and started a fire to try and make it look like the legend had happened and hide his crime. The body wound up in the tree because his tank turned him into a human rocket. In another episode, a couple of idiots kill a young woman who'd suffered a drug overdose by transfusing some of their own (incompatible) blood into her. They were imitating an urban legend about drugged-out rock stars "getting their blood replaced" as a remedy. Cue references to Pulp Fiction. |
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In the anime Baccano!, the Mafia assassin Vino takes on the persona of the Rail Tracer, an urban legend about a monster that stalks trains. Even better, Fridge Logic makes one realize that he is the one who started his own urban legend. Awesome. | |
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The ABCs of Death: "E" follows an old urban legend of spiders being able to lay eggs inside people's bodies. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School: An urban legend occurs at Hardscrabble Farms, that a deranged and maniac farmer with long, sharp claws, known as Silas Scratch, roams the farms and will kill anyone who goes near his shed. It is revealed that it was a hoax created by Frank, so he could use the high-quality maintenance shed he found as a child. Greg decides to keep the legend going, since he wants to use the maintenance shed himself when he grows up. The Meltdown: The Goat Man is brought up. Greg thinks it's the top half of a goat and the bottom half of a man, but Rowley thinks it's split down the middle. |
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Lemon Tree Passage starts with Oscar and Jordan telling the American tourists the (actual) urban legend about Lemon Tree passage Road: that a motorcyclist was killed there by a car driven by speeding teenagers, and now a ghost headlight chases any car that speeds along that stretch of road at night. They later decide to see if the legend is true. | |
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The South Park episode "The Death Camp of Tolerance" has a subplot in reference to the mythical gay sexual fetish for anal insertion of gerbils, a legend associated with Richard Gere for no good reason. | |
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Wick features an in-universe urban legend about dead children who haunt a forest. | |
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Hell House LLC: The locals have a lot of stories about what has happened in the Abaddon Hotel ranging from people checking in and never checking out to sinister occult practices. It is strongly implied the Hell House crew was completely unaware of this when they set up shop in the hotel, the first they hear of any of them is from a local actress hired for the haunted house and the head of Hell House, Alex, dismisses them as rumors. The events of the first film guaranteed in the sequel that the Abaddon Hotel's reputation has grown from being an eerie abandoned building to a notorious local landmark. |
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Gerald in Hey Arnold! was hailed as the "Keeper of Urban Lore" which were basically urban legends. Justified in the fact that many, if not all, of them turned out to be either true or having an explanation. | |
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In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, there's a conspiracy about the government experimenting on children in order to give them superpowers and groom them into Child Soldiers. An author implements this idea into his novel, which catches the attention of the main characters after they're put through a Mass Super-Empowering Event and given superpowers of their own. | |
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Disney allegedly being a virulent racist and anti-Semite, as mentioned in places like Family Guy. People who worked with him say it's not true. A lot of it stems from his associations with anti-Communist groups during the era of The Hollywood Blacklist era, some of which were openly bigoted (and Disney distanced himself from them once that came to light). | |
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In Cannibal Girls, the tale of the titular women is initially treated as bit of local folklore. Unfortunately, it turns out to be more than just a legend for Cliff and Gloria. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "winter pool", Coach Z relates how he had two students named "Redan-Jello" and "Grape Flavored Jell-O With Fruit Floatin' In It"note This is based on the popular urban legend of a black woman who named her children "Oranjello" and "Lemonjello" and also that if you flash your high-beams at a car with its headlights off, it's a ploy by gangsters to shoot you. | |
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Durarara!! is in large part about these. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager has organ-stealing recurring villains the Vidiians, who steal the body parts of other humanoid races to help them to survive an incurable pandemic disease that afflicts them. In at least one episode, they were explicitly compared to "organ theft" urban legends. | |
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Much of Barney's Version, a novel narrated by a man who slowly develops Alzheimer's as the book progresses, builds up the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Barney's best friend Boogie Moscovitch, with whose murder Barney is eventually charged. Throughout the book, Barney's status as a semi-Unreliable Narrator (both intentionally and unintentionally as the disease consumes his memories) keeps the events surrounding the incident shrouded in confusion. The final chapter, narrated by Barney's son Michael, reveals that Barney was, in fact, innocent - turns out poor Boogie fell victim to the classic dead-diver-in-the-forest legend when he went for that swim! | |
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Creepypasta: Works of horror fiction posted on the Internet, which are often deliberately written in the style of some spooky urban legend. The Most Dangerous Video Game: This creepypasta trope is most likely inspired by the urban legend of Polybius, a fictitious 1980s arcade game which supposedly caused negative effects to the players' mental and physical health. |
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Gakkou no Kaidan (perhaps better known from the Ghost Stories Gag Dub) is a kid's Novel / Anime series about, you guessed it, traditional Japanese ghost stories set in an elementary school. Some of the legends are specifically about school ghosts (something the Japanese seem to have in abundance, given the important role school plays in their culture) and some are more generic, but all of them are explained in the DVD extras. | |
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The manga Hanako and the Terror of Allegory deals with these. | |
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The Cannonball Run has a scene very similar to a certain urban legend. It's the scene in which the Subaru team applies a little stealth at night by using a quieted engine and infrared goggles to drive and confusing a pair of police officers. The legend has this as a drug runner doing the same. It's unknown if the legend inspired the scene, the scene inspired the legend, or they developed independently. | |
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On Justified Raylan comes across an Organ Theft ring and gets mocked for believing in an urban legend when he asks a nurse about. The criminals avoided most of the usual elements of the legend and stole kidneys from the corpses of recently deceased prison inmates. They had the prisoners' medical records so they knew which kidneys were healthy and one of them had professional training in transplant procedures. The one time they do the 'cut out kidney in a motel room and leave the victim in the bathtub' routine it is a ruse perpetuated so they can blackmail the victim by pretending to hold his kidneys hostage. They just made a couple incisions and sutured them back up |
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On Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, Gilbert Gottfried likes to bring up celebrity urban legends, usually lurid details about weird celebrity sex fetishes. | |
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The movie Dead Man on Campus has a plot dealing with the urban legend that you get straight A's in your college classes if your roommate commits suicide... ...as did a lesser known film titled The Curve starring Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, and Keri Russell. |
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