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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:348:[[BlatantLies You can't make this stuff up.]]]] |
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| 4 | ->''"I have a friend of a friend who brought home a dog from Mexico, then he shaved it. It turns out someone had stolen its kidney and replaced it with a Polaroid picture of my toothbrush up Creator/RichardGere's ass. Go figure!"'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Creator/LewisBlack''' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ''This is a true story. Happened to a friend of a friend of mine...'' |
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| 9 | An Urban Legend is a story which imparts information or AnAesop (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 [[Website/{{Snopes}} Snopes.com]], collect these critters and try to evaluate their claims. |
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| 11 | 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 Procedural}}s, 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 ''Series/MythBusters'', followed closely by the cable series ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit''. 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 ''{{WebSite/Snopes}}'' article will show that the names, dates and locations frequently get changed to protect the non-existent. |
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| 13 | The moral of an urban legend often employs a bit of ScareEmStraight, to drive the lesson home or merely for the sake of humor (The Toys/CabbagePatchKids 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 Creator/DrewBarrymore. 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...) |
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| 15 | 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 Aesop}}s, {{Fantastic Aesop}}s, and all sorts of ValuesDissonance; not to mention GossipEvolution. |
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| 17 | See also OralTradition. If you were looking for the film by this name, [[Film/UrbanLegend look right here]]. For InUniverse urban legends about a specific person, see ShroudedInMyth. |
| 18 | ---- |
| 19 | !!Tropes associated with urban legends: |
| 20 | [[index]] |
| 21 | [floatboxright: |
| 22 | '''Also see:''' |
| 23 | * TheIndexIsWatchingYou |
| 24 | ] |
| 25 | [[AC:General tropes]] |
| 26 | * BasedOnAGreatBigLie: When someone ''intentionally'' spins a fictitious story and passes it off as "[[BasedOnATrueStory the truth]]" to other people. |
| 27 | ** ConspiracyKitchenSink: A setting for a story in which [[AllMythsAreTrue all sorts of conspiracy theories and urban legends are real]]. |
| 28 | * {{Glurge}}: An overly emotional story meant to teach an inspirational lesson. |
| 29 | * ScareEmStraight: It's easy to see certain legends as a coded warning against more mundane dangers. There may not be a {{Hook Hand}}ed SerialKiller at MakeOutPoint, but indulging in too much AutoErotica carries penalties of its own. |
| 30 | * StockUnsolvedMysteries: For every unexplained diappearance, there will be about five legends claiming aliens, monsters, magic, the government, etc. were involved. |
| 31 | * VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Oftentimes, false rumors and phony stories are distantly based on some real events that were heavily distorted after many different people orally recounted them. Or perhaps the original storyteller [[UnreliableNarrator wasn't being very honest in the first place]]. |
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| 33 | [[AC:Aliens, cryptids, and [=UFOs=]]] |
| 34 | * AlienAbduction: Some people claim to have been kidnapped or visited by extraterrestrial beings. |
| 35 | ** AliensStealCattle: This trope is derived from tales of aliens allegedly abducting, killing, and mutilating cows or other domestic animals. |
| 36 | * AncientAstronauts: A pseudohistorical conspiracy theory which claims that alien visitors came down to Earth during prehistoric/ancient times and influenced the development of early human civilizations. |
| 37 | * Area51: A real-life US Air Force base located in UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}}. Due to its highly classified status, it's been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories which claim that it's being used by the US government to store captured alien spacecraft and reverse-engineer them into experimental military aircraft. |
| 38 | ** RoswellThatEndsWell: A notorious UFO sighting that was reported near Roswell, UsefulNotes/NewMexico in 1947. Although the US military officially stated that the object was merely a weather balloon that fell out of the sky, popular conspiracy theories emerged which claimed that it was actually an alien spaceship that crash-landed and was then secretly transported to a military base (like Area 51). |
| 39 | *** AlienAutopsy: This trope is based on an infamous short film that was aired on the {{Creator/Fox}} network in 1995, which allegedly contained footage of an alien corpse from the Roswell incident being dissected by the military, but is widely considered to be just a hoax. |
| 40 | * CropCircles: Strange, elaborate patterns that are formed by flattening a field of crops on farmland. While this can easily be explained as being caused by human vandalism, some people instead blame it on alien spaceships flying over the fields. |
| 41 | * FlyingSaucer: This is perhaps the most common (or at least the most stereotypical) variant of a UFO (unidentified flying object); a strange, mysterious, unknown object that is seen floating around in the sky, and believed by some people to be extraterrestrial spacecraft piloted by alien visitors. |
| 42 | * TheMenInBlack: 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. |
| 43 | * OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Various legendary beings and mythical creatures, some of which are alleged to actually exist among pseudoscientific circles. |
| 44 | ** BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Various big, tall, hairy ape-like cryptids; such as the Bigfoot/Sasquatch of North America, or the Yeti (Abominable Snowman) of the Himalayas. |
| 45 | ** {{Chupacabra}}: A strange beast of wildly varying descriptions that is said to prey on livestock (especially goats) and suck their blood. |
| 46 | ** TheFlatwoodsMonster: A red-faced, spade-headed alien creature that was allegedly sighted near the town of Flatwoods, West Virginia in 1952. |
| 47 | ** TheJerseyDevil: A demonic creature that is said to live in the wilderness of New Jersey. |
| 48 | ** TheMothman: A strange WingedHumanoid creature that was allegedly sighted near the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1967, and was even supposedly connected to the collapse of the local Silver Bridge which killed 46 people. |
| 49 | ** SpringHeeledJack: A strange humanoid being from 19th century British folktales, who is capable of jumping great heights. |
| 50 | ** StockNessMonster: An aquatic creature that is said to live in Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland. |
| 51 | ** YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy: Assorted Aussie cryptids which are said to come from the LandDownUnder. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[AC:Deaths and disappearances]] |
| 54 | * TheBermudaTriangle: A loosely-defined region of the Atlantic Ocean (somewhere between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico), where numerous ships and planes were alleged to have mysteriously disappeared. The explanations range from bad weather to supernatural phenomena. |
| 55 | * ConstructiveBodyDisposal: A famous building or structure has bodies buried in it, either due to NoOSHACompliance, a BadBoss or it was used to cover up a murder. |
| 56 | * DidAnastasiaSurvive: After the [[RulingFamilyMassacre massacre of the Romanov imperial dynasty]] during the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], rumors had soon emerged about [[UsefulNotes/AnastasiaNikolaevnaRomanova Grand Duchess Anastasia]] (Tsar Nicholas II's youngest daughter) somehow escaping alive from the carnage. Such claims about the princess' alleged survival were proven false in 2007 through DNA testing of a corpse found near the scene of the massacre. |
| 57 | * ElvisLives: Some people believe that Music/ElvisPresley didn't actually die in 1977, claiming that the King of Rock and Roll actually faked his death and is just hiding out somewhere! |
| 58 | * TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower: The two young sons of UsefulNotes/EdwardIV went missing in 1483, and writers have been theorizing ever since. |
| 59 | * SpontaneousHumanCombustion: There have been tales of people suddenly [[KillItWithFire bursting into flames and being fatally incinerated]], without any known cause. However there's usually a rational explanation behind these strange fiery deaths upon closer investigation. |
| 60 | * WhoShotJFK: The assassination of US President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy in 1963 has inspired numerous conspiracy theories and speculation about who was responsible, how it happened, and why it happened. What all of these various theories have in common is a shared belief that Lee Harvey Oswald, the man officially charged with Kennedy's murder, didn't act alone. Said conspiracies also hold that Oswald was a pawn of some sort of convoluted GovernmentConspiracy, serving the secretive political goals of an unknown shadowy organization by killing Kennedy. |
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| 62 | [[AC:Magic, occultism, and the supernatural]] |
| 63 | * {{Curse}}s: Some people attribute bad things happening in real life to supernatural causation rather than random coincidence. |
| 64 | ** CurseOfThePharaoh: This trope probably originates from sensationalized rumors surrounding the discovery of Pharaoh {{UsefulNotes/Tutankhamun}}'s tomb in 1922, in which multiple members of the archaeological crew who were present died from various unusual circumstances not too long afterwards. However, this alleged "curse" did not seem to (immediately) kill or affect everyone who was involved in the tomb excavation. |
| 65 | ** TheProductionCurse: Legends about catastrophes involved in the making of a film or television show. While some describe a genuinely TroubledProduction but blame it on, say, a vengeful ghost, other legends are either made up or arise from misinterpretation (e.g. a large bird in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' being mistaken for the body of a Munchkin actor hanging himself). |
| 66 | * GhostStory: This is perhaps the oldest and most popular type of spooky folktale that is still being shared today. Many old (usually {{abandoned|Area}}) buildings and other remote, secluded places around the world are alleged to be {{haunted|Headquarters}} by ghosts, demons, spirits, and other supernatural entities, often scaring the crap out of people who claim to have witnessed such things. |
| 67 | ** BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts: A fairly common ghost story in which a motorist picks up a hitchhiker off the road and takes them along for the ride, only for the driver to later find that their mysterious passenger has suddenly vanished... |
| 68 | ** HauntedHouse: A residence (often rather old or even abandoned) which is allegedly inhabited by ghosts, demons, or other spirits. Oftentimes, these ghosts are said to be the house's deceased former occupants who stuck around long past shuffling off the mortal coil. |
| 69 | ** SleepParalysisCreature: Sleep paralysis is a disorder which causes people to enter a half-conscious state while sleeping, in which they are physically immobilized and experience (often nightmarish) hallucinations. Sufferers commonly report seeing [[LivingShadow shadowy specters]], ghosts, demons, aliens, or other monsters. This phenomenon is a very likely explanation for a lot of supernatural folktales. |
| 70 | ** SpeakOfTheDevil: Some legends (such as the one about "Bloody Mary") claim that ghosts or spirits can be summoned by chanting their name, typically in front of a mirror. |
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| 72 | [[AC:Spooky campfire tales]] |
| 73 | * TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: At least one legend evaluates the story of a babysitter who receives menacing phone calls from an upstairs extension. |
| 74 | * {{Creepypasta}}: Works of horror fiction posted on the Internet, which are often deliberately written in the style of some spooky urban legend. |
| 75 | ** TheMostDangerousVideoGame: This creepypasta trope is most likely inspired by the urban legend of ''{{Myth/Polybius}}'', a fictitious 1980s arcade game which supposedly [[BrownNote caused negative effects to the players' mental and physical health]]. |
| 76 | * DangerTakesABackseat: There are tales of criminals hiding in the back of someone else's car, waiting to ambush the driver. |
| 77 | * HookHand: One of the most famous urban legends features a SerialKiller with a hook for a hand who stalks couples at MakeOutPoint. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | [[AC:Other urban legends]] |
| 80 | * MoonLandingHoax: A conspiracy theory which claims that {{UsefulNotes/NASA}}'s famous Apollo 11 Moon landing mission never actually happened, alleging that the US government decided to just stage a fake Moon landing at a film studio instead. |
| 81 | * MustStateIfYoureACop: Real-life undercover police are under no legal obligation whatsoever to identify themselves if asked. That said, they're not exactly in a hurry to dispel this myth, either. |
| 82 | * PopCultureUrbanLegends: Myths and rumors that are attached to works of fiction and other media. |
| 83 | ** UrbanLegendOfZelda: Myths and rumors about "hidden" content in video games. |
| 84 | * PyramidPower: Claims about the remarkable properties of pyramids often come up; both contemporary structures built with modern materials and the pyramids of antiquity. |
| 85 | * RazorApples: Apocryphal tales about razor blades and poison being maliciously placed in {{UsefulNotes/Halloween}} candy and given to unsuspecting trick-or-treaters, which inspired paranoid adults to warn children about watching out for tampered candy. |
| 86 | * SecretSquatter: People living unknown in someone else's house is a hallmark of both older urban legends and modern ones. |
| 87 | * SewerGator: Alleged sightings of alligators dwelling in unlikely locations, such as the [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer sewers beneath]] [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. |
| 88 | * ToadLicking: Hippies and teenagers were alleged to have been licking specific species of toads which secrete psychoactive compounds through their skin that can cause hallucinations. |
| 89 | [[/index]] |
| 90 | ---- |
| 91 | !!Examples in fiction: |
| 92 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 95 | %%* ''Manga/{{Ibitsu}}'' is about an [[StalkerWithoutACrush urban legend]]. |
| 96 | * In the anime ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', the [[TheMafia Mafia]] assassin Vino takes on the persona of the Rail Tracer, an urban legend about a monster that stalks trains. Even better, FridgeLogic makes one realize that he is the one who started his own urban legend. Awesome. |
| 97 | * In the manga ''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. |
| 98 | * Urban legends are a major theme of ''Anime/DenNohCoil'', 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. |
| 99 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' is in large part about these. |
| 100 | * The 90's OVA ''Gakkou No Yuurei'' (School Ghosts): Each episode consists of several spooky [[AnimatedAnthology vignettes]], which are allegedly based on real experiences. |
| 101 | * The manga ''Manga/HanakoAndTheTerrorOfAllegory'' deals with these. |
| 102 | * ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' features Reimi, whose backstory is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Licked_Hand the Licked Hand]] urban legend, with [[spoiler:Kira Yoshikage as the killer.]] |
| 103 | * ''Anime/{{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 [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: the Green Clan attempts to give the whole world superpowers]]. |
| 104 | * ''Anime/{{Kagewani}}'' has Professor Banba investigating cryptid attacks throughout Japan in order to determine if they are actual events or not. |
| 105 | * ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'' concerns urban legends that are created and become increasingly real. |
| 106 | * In ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' it seems that Internet memes start leaking into reality, resulting in alien sightings, and suchlike. Also things like ghosts and TheMenInBlack seem to actually exist, though in manner slightly different than the legends would indicate. |
| 107 | * Episode 4 of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' 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. |
| 108 | ** 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. |
| 109 | * ''Gakkou no Kaidan'' (perhaps better known from the ''Anime/GhostStories'' GagDub) 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. |
| 110 | * The manga ''Manga/ToshiDensetsu'' is an anthology in which various characters encounter various urban legends, some of which only exist in-universe. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 114 | * ''The Big Book Of Urban Legends'' was a graphic novel anthology published in 1994, collecting 200 tales of "folklore for our times". |
| 115 | * Sometimes Franchise/{{Batman}} is [[MysteriousProtector 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 ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational is real. |
| 116 | [[/folder]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 119 | * In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' 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. |
| 120 | * ''Fanfic/GoneBattySefiru'': The existence of Dying Will Flames are little more than a rumour among the Yakuza, as due to the {{Masquerade}}, the only people who are told about them are the ones that already have them. Majima says that he has always heard rumours about magic powers but dismissed them as tall tales, and even some of the highest-ranking members of the Tojo clan have no idea they exist. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 124 | * In film, the movies ''Film/UrbanLegend'' and ''Film/UrbanLegendsFinalCut'' deal with killers who take inspiration from these. |
| 125 | ** The third film, ''Film/UrbanLegendsBloodyMary'', has the actual urban legend committing the murders. |
| 126 | * ''Film/TheBridgeCurse'': 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. [[spoiler: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. |
| 127 | * The ''Film/{{Candyman}}'' series of movies, whose villain is based on the "Bloody Mary" legend. |
| 128 | * The movie ''Film/DeadManOnCampus'' has a plot dealing with the urban legend that you get straight A's in your college classes if your roommate commits suicide... |
| 129 | ** ...as did a lesser known film titled ''The Curve'' starring Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, and Keri Russell. |
| 130 | * While many of the stories (especially the Cousin Walter stories) told by characters in Creator/KevinSmith's movies may seem like urban legends, the only one that actually ''is'' based on one; Cousin Walter keeps getting cats stuck up his ass, in an attempt to get a gerbil out of there. |
| 131 | * In ''Film/SuicideKings'', one of the yuppie kidnappers tells one about the RetiredMonster they're holding hostage, to stave off LimaSyndrome. It turns out to be true, except not as gruesome as the reality. |
| 132 | * Creator/PaulThomasAnderson's ''Film/{{Magnolia}}'' starts off by presenting three urban legends as fact. |
| 133 | * The film ''Film/GrownUps'' includes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uqN43qX8-M a scene]] based on the [[http://www.snopes.com/science/poolpiss.asp urine-detecting dye myth]]. |
| 134 | * ''Film/{{Urbania}}'' references many of these and is partially told as one. |
| 135 | * At the very beginning of the first ''Film/SawI'' 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. |
| 136 | * ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' 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. |
| 137 | * ''Film/TheTerminal'' 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. |
| 138 | * ''Film/GoreOrphanage'' is based off of the urban legend of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Orphanage titular orphanage]] (which never actually existed). |
| 139 | * The central plot device of ''Film/TheRing'', Sadako/[[ForeignRemake Samara's]] killer videotape, is an urban legend InUniverse. |
| 140 | * ''Film/LemonTreePassage'' 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. |
| 141 | * ''Film/HellHouseLLC'': |
| 142 | ** The locals have a lot of stories about what has happened in the Abaddon Hotel ranging from [[InnOfNoReturn people checking in and never checking out]] to [[BlackMagic sinister occult practices]]. [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 143 | ** The events of the first film guaranteed [[Film/HellHouseLLCIITheAbaddonHotel in the sequel]] that the Abaddon Hotel's reputation has grown from being an eerie abandoned building to a notorious local landmark. |
| 144 | * ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': "E" follows an old urban legend of spiders being able to lay eggs inside people's bodies. |
| 145 | * In ''Film/CannibalGirls'', 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. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 149 | * There is also a book called ''The Beheaded Freshman and Other Gruesome Tales''. The lead tale (from the title) is about a freshman wanting to get into an elite club but the people blindfold him and kneel him down, saying they are going to behead him. They describe one raising the axe high over his head (the freshman thinks it is a prank) and then drop a cool washcloth on his neck. The freshman screams the moment the cool touches his neck (thinking it is cold steel) and collapses. Scared, the others call an ambulance; Seems the freshman had a heart problem that the others did not know and the fright caused a heart attack. Whoops! |
| 150 | * Parodied in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Witches Abroad'', which claims that, thanks to the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality, 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. |
| 151 | * Jan Harold Brunvand has written a series of books detailing urban legends, including ''The Vanishing Hitchhiker'', ''The Choking Doberman'' and others. |
| 152 | %%* [[Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise The city of Chicago.]] |
| 153 | * British writer Jeffery Archer often uses urban legends as the basis of a story (although he seems to believe they are true). His short story collection ''A Twist Of a Tale'' contains several, most notably a story based on [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/backseat.asp "the killer in the back seat"]]. (Otto of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' actually told Bart and Lisa a more convincing version.) |
| 154 | * Alvin Schwartz's ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'' series moshes together urban legends with other bits of folklore for a pretty gruesome mix. |
| 155 | * Much of Literature/BarneysVersion, 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-UnreliableNarrator (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 [[spoiler: 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!]] |
| 156 | * Swedish writer Bengt af Klintberg wrote a book about common Swedish urban legends called ''Råttan i pizzan'' (the rat in the pizza). The book became so popular that ''Klintbergare'' is now an accepted synonym for an urban legend in Sweden. |
| 157 | * A quite humorous example is a book by Art Linkletter, ''Oops!, or, Life's Awful Moments''. Art regales us with tales of people's supposedly true-life embarrassing moments. A read-through of the book, however, reveals that a great many of these stories are in fact urban legends. |
| 158 | * Author Daniel Cohen has penned a few books detailing urban legends: ''Southern Fried Rat and Other Stories'', ''Monsters You Never Heard Of'' and ''The Encyclopedia of Monsters'', to name just a few. |
| 159 | * ''There Are Alligators In Our Sewers...'' is a collection of urban legends. But they get some of them wrong; for example, claiming that green M&Ms are poisonous when ''everybody'' knows that the reds are poison; greens are aphrodisiacs. |
| 160 | * Michael Palmer's ''The Fifth Vial'' is a suspense novel based upon the kidney-stealing urban legend. After the main characters have some strange experiences, they discover that [[spoiler: there is a secret society of wealthy people who are stealing human organs for transplants to the highest bidder]]. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 164 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had several: |
| 165 | ** The [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/dress.htm dress from a corpse]] manages to kill a bride on her wedding day. |
| 166 | ** A college student kills his roommate so he can get an automatic 4.0 for the semester. |
| 167 | ** A corpse is found buried in the end zone of Giants stadium, in imitation of an Urban Legend about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. |
| 168 | ** A man is killed by a chunk of "blue ice" falling from an airplane. |
| 169 | ** 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. |
| 170 | * In the original ''Series/{{CSI}}'': |
| 171 | ** The crew finds a [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.asp scuba diver in a tree after a forest fire.]] Although in this case [[spoiler: [[ScoobyDooHoax 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]]]]. |
| 172 | ** 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 ''Film/PulpFiction''. |
| 173 | * To complete the CSI trifecta, ''Series/CSIMiami'' has a man [[http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp 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. |
| 174 | * The whole premise of ''Series/MythBusters'' was taking various popular urban legends and testing wherther they were true, even possible, and ultimately, what would it take to replicate the outcome. |
| 175 | %%* ''WeirdUS'' and the travel-log books it's based on. |
| 176 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' bases many of its episodes on urban legends. |
| 177 | ** 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) [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the creature's powers and weaknesses changed too]]. |
| 178 | ** Another episode of note is "Tall Tales", where one college campus starts experiencing a number of urban legends coming true at the same time. [[spoiler: Turns out the janitor is a Trickster god.]] |
| 179 | ** The fifth season episode "I Believe the Children Are Our Future" also features urban legend-based deaths. The culprit in this episode is [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:that he is actually TheAntiChrist, though he doesn't really want to be.]] |
| 180 | ** 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, [[spoiler:but in actuality it was witchcraft and good timing for the themed effect.]] |
| 181 | * An ''SCTV'' fake commercial features Eugene Levy as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEfBd8UTP-A a fast-talking used car dealer showing off the specials on his lot,]] all subjects of urban legends - "a Cadillac! Great shape...the damn thing's full of cement!...maybe you're handy with a cold chisel? $500 as is - you pay the towing!"...or a Mustang found parked in Lovers Lane with the driver hanging over the roof - "there's scuff marks on the roof - a little rubbing compound, it's all behind ya! $700!" At the commercial's end he does a comical DoubleTake at a prosthetic hook hanging off a door handle. |
| 182 | * The show ''Series/TruthOrScare'' on Discovery Kids existed entirely of promoting this trope. Because we all know the Tower of London is haunted, right? RIGHT? |
| 183 | * Creator/AnimalPlanet's ''Series/LostTapes'' does this with cryptozoology. |
| 184 | * An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' ("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. |
| 185 | * In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' ("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. |
| 186 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' has [[HumanResources 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. |
| 187 | * The "toothbrushes up their bums" UL was the basis of the joke at the end of one episode of ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''. |
| 188 | * The Spike TV "docu-fiction" series ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' 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. |
| 189 | * ''Urban Legends'' tells three of these in each episode, loosely tied together with the episode's theme, as well as two random 'mini-myths' before the commercial breaks. The viewer is asked to guess which legends are real and which aren't. At the end of the episode (and after the commercial breaks for the mini-myths) it is revealed who was telling the truth. |
| 190 | ** ''Series/BeyondBeliefFactOrFiction'' 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. |
| 191 | ** Another show with a very similar format was TLC's ''Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed'', hosted by Natasha Henstridge. The full series is currently available [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFtpZ659RpvF42PE6uKm6mQjuz8uDq2jp here]], via [=FilmRise=]'s Youtube. |
| 192 | * In an episode of the ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' TV series, one of Wayne's inventions brings an urban legends book to life via HardLight holograms. |
| 193 | * ''Food Network Challenge'' has done an UrbanLegends Cake-making episode for Halloween. |
| 194 | * Britta tells the ever-popular "hookman" story in the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS3E05HorrorFictionInSevenSpookySteps 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 BuffySpeak: |
| 195 | -->'''Radio''': In the news tonight, top story, an escaped convict from the asylum has escaped and he's mental and he's on the loose and stuff.\ |
| 196 | '''Britta as the girlfriend''': Oh my god, that sounds dangerous!\ |
| 197 | '''Jeff as the boyfriend''': I'm sure it's no biggie. But I am a horny man, so I'm only half present.\ |
| 198 | '''Radio''': He was last seen in the woods and has a thingy for a hand, a hook-thing where his hand should be, you know what I mean. |
| 199 | * ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': |
| 200 | ** ''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. |
| 201 | ** ''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. |
| 202 | * ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' 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. |
| 203 | * On ''Series/{{Justified}}'' Raylan comes across an OrganTheft 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. |
| 204 | ** The one time they do the 'cut out kidney in a motel room and leave the victim in the bathtub' routine [[spoiler: 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]] |
| 205 | * The ''Series/{{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. [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 206 | * In ''Series/AScareAtBedtime'', most of the stories Podge tells his brother are adaptations (usually set in Ireland, of course) of famous and well-known legends, usually frightening. |
| 207 | %%* Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack : The chicken is an in-universe example. Out of universe: the dog and the peanut butter. |
| 208 | * The Series/{{Dollhouse}} has become this InUniverse. One episode even has vox populi interviews about the subject. |
| 209 | * Likewise [[PersonWithTheClothing The Man In The Suit]] vigilante in ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. |
| 210 | -->'''[[IntrepidReporter Maxine]]:''' No one's seen his face, nobody knows his name. I'm not even sure he exists. But he's like something out of a comic book. [[WeHelpTheHelpless When people are in trouble]] he comes out of nowhere. He always seems to be there [[BigDamnHeroes just in time]]. Whoever he is, he saves a lot of lives. And he [[RunningGag shoots a lot of kneecaps]]. |
| 211 | -->'''Reese:''' [[ButHeSoundsHandsome Sounds like a great guy]]. And an urban legend. |
| 212 | * The ''Franchise/KamenRider'' 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 ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'' and ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', 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. |
| 213 | * ''Series/InLivingColor'' [[ThrowItIn 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, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the showrunners complied.]] |
| 214 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': |
| 215 | ** 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 [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-killer-in-the-backseat/ common urban legend]]. |
| 216 | ** 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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Opus well-known urban legend]] originally made up as fiction by an American forensic scientist. |
| 217 | * On ''Series/YoungHercules'', "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. |
| 218 | * In the halloween episode of ''Series/FreakAndGeeks'', the parents of trick-or-treating kids refuse to take the cookies the Weir family have baked out of fear of candy tampering. Other halloween candy myths are repeated by The Geeks as they make rounds, with a mention of a rich couple allegedly dipping turns in chocolate and resealing them in wrappers. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 222 | * Music/{{Ludo}}'s "Lake Pontchartrain" features a young man telling the story of his two friends getting swallowed up in a very predatory context. |
| 223 | * Music/{{Eminem}} has a song called "Stan", about the title character discussing the above urban legend about Music/PhilCollins' song "In the Air Tonight" (which Stan mistakingly calls "[[BeamMeUpScotty In the Air of the Night]]") and the misinterpretation of the song's lyrics about drowning and not lending a hand. |
| 224 | ** Eminem also reiterated the UL about Lauryn Hill that she once said she'd rather have her children starve than for white people to buy her album (and/or she can't stand white people). This comes up twice on The Slim Shady LP. |
| 225 | * Music/LemonDemon has a song called "Eighth Wonder," which is based on the urban legend of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef 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. |
| 226 | ** From the same album, "Sweet Bod" is about the recreation of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man mellified man]]. |
| 227 | ** [[WordOfGod According]] to [[https://twitter.com/neilcic/status/713391210883231744 Cicierega]], the song "Cabinet Man" is inspired by the Urban Legend of ''Myth/{{Polybius}}''. |
| 228 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbmbr7ZCDrE The Little Girl]]" by CountryMusic legend John Michael Montgomery is a song based on [[http://www.snopes.com/glurge/girl.htm an urban legend]] of a girl whose atheist alcoholic parents kill each other in a murder-suicide before she herself is sent to a home raised by Christian foster parents who teach her to attend church, and one day she says that the man on the cross (Jesus) is the one who came to help her during the night of the murder-suicide. |
| 229 | * ''Music/TheLegendOfTheDogman'': The titular creature is a WolfMan roaming the woods of Michigan and appearing every ten years from 1897 to 1987. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 233 | * ''American Hysteria'' does deep dives on the history behind various urban legends, both on what real events inspired them, and how the legends spread and mutate over time. |
| 234 | * On ''Podcast/GilbertGottfriedsAmazingColossalPodcast'', Creator/GilbertGottfried likes to bring up celebrity urban legends, usually lurid details about weird celebrity sex fetishes. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 238 | * In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', there's a conspiracy about the government experimenting on children in order to give them superpowers and groom them into ChildSoldiers. An author implements this idea into his novel, which catches the attention of the main characters after they're put through a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent and given superpowers of their own. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 242 | * In addition to an ''Urban Legends'' sourcebook that provides stats for Bloody Mary, dopplegangers, and [[SewerGator sewer alligators]], the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness has Legends, a subset of [[SerialKiller slashers]]. They typically start off as [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Avengers]], but then their hunt either spirals outward from a specific group to everyone resembling said group, or the rules of their hunt become so complex it turns into a myth. In the process, the Slasher becomes something akin to [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] or Film/{{Candyman}}. They have the power to gain strength by [[InvokedTrope keeping close to the particulars of their myth]], but find it hard to break their own rules. |
| 243 | ** The Scarecrow Ministry of ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' 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. |
| 244 | * ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'': 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 ''[[http://www.sjgames.com/transhuman/toxicmemes/ Toxic Memes]]'' supplement describes some widespread or interesting examples. |
| 245 | [[/folder]] |
| 246 | |
| 247 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 248 | * Series 17 of the Toys/LivingDeadDolls is based on urban legends, and includes [[HookHand The Hook]], the [[OrganTheft Unwilling Donor]], [[MirrorMonster Bloody Mary]], [[SpidersAreScary Spider Bite]], and the [[BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts Vanishing Hitchhiker]]. Series 29 also takes on the tone of urban legends, with none of the characters having proper names, and referred to as real stories that still appear in our world. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 252 | * The ''Campfire Legends'' games are loosely based on several fairly popular legends. The series consists of ''Campfire Legends: The Hookman'', ''Campfire Legends: [[TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse The Babysitter]]'' and ''Campfire Legends: The Last Act''. |
| 253 | * ''VideoGame/FearTheMoon'': While gathered around the campfire, Jack and James bring up the local urban legend of the Wolfman; the man who used to own the property the campground sits on – including a nearby house used as an animal sanctuary – mysteriously vanished many years back. According to the legend, he turned into a Wolfman and still lurks in the woods, preying on animals and occasionally people unfortunate enough to cross his path. There have been a few sightings of a large furry creature with glowing eyes and some missing person cases attributed to the Wolfman, though Jack is the only one who takes the legend seriously. The friends soon learn the hard way there's some truth in the story. |
| 254 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 255 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona2'', 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''. In addition, several special demons are based on real-life Japanese urban legends. |
| 256 | ** The plot of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' 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, [[MentalWorld there's a bit more than that]]. |
| 257 | * ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' has traditionally included demons from various ancient mythologies, but ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' introduces the Chemtrail demon, based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory a conspiracy theory]] about the trails left by jet airplanes containing chemical or biological weapons. |
| 258 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' plays around with both the GodNeedsPrayerBadly and ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve tropes quite a bit and, as a result, urban legends have lately begun popping up all over Gensoukyou. This culminated with the ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' incident, during which various characters intentionally spread rumors and urban legends in order to make use of their powers. Notable urban legends that appeared in Gensoukyou during these turbulent times were [[StockNessMonster Nessie]], [[TheSevenMysteries The Seven Mysteries of the School]], TheMenInBlack, [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Okiku]], [[GlasgowGrin Kuchisake-Onna]], [[{{Creepypasta}} Hasshaku-sama]] and [[TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse Mary-san]] as well as the wish-granting [[Literature/TheMonkeysPaw Monkey Paw]], SpontaneousHumanCombustion and seven magical balls capable of granting whoever gathers all of them a single wish. This all eventually leads to a major OhCrap moment in ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' when the oldest and most common urban legend of all time starts circulating: TheEndIsNigh. |
| 259 | * ''VideoGame/{{Wick}}'' features an in-universe urban legend about dead children who haunt a forest. |
| 260 | * The plot of ''VideoGame/YuuyamiDooriTankentai'' involves a trio of kids investing local urban legends in Hirumi City. |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 264 | * The focus of the mystery in ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClubTheGirlWhoStandsBehind'' is about the titular ghost that haunts Ushimitsu High School. The investigation into the ghost story leads to a series of dark secrets that the school is hiding uncovered, as well as the possibility that the ghost story itself might be more truth than legend. |
| 265 | * D-Man from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' 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 [[http://urbanfolkores.blogspot.com/2017/04/urban-legends-turbo-bachan.html Turbo Granny]]. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 269 | * WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn makes use of the "missing kidney" legend in the first video. |
| 270 | * ''Franchise/HomestarRunner'': |
| 271 | ** In issue 13 of ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'', 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 ScareEmStraight regarding drug abuse is, sadly, fairly common in RealLife. |
| 272 | ** In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "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"[[/note]] 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. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 276 | * Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity: features a storyline in which game master Frank is being stalked by the Slenderman. [[spoiler: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. ]] |
| 277 | -->'''Lewis''': So '' that's'' why you had me play a character based on Shawn. He's "dead" too now, so he's safe. .\ |
| 278 | '''Nelson''': Right and he played a version of me. \ |
| 279 | '''Lewis''': I see. Then screw the ''both'' of you.\ |
| 280 | |
| 281 | * ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'''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. |
| 282 | ** TruthInTelevision for [[http://www.news24.com/Archives/Witness/Reserve-to-dehorn-two-of-its-rhinos-20150430 some rhinos]]. |
| 283 | * ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}},'' on the other hand, ''inverts'' the urban legend [[http://xkcd.com/914/ here.]] |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 287 | * In ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1448 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. |
| 288 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/parawatch-hub Parawatch ("LegendTripping")]] is a forum that brings together people interested in urban legends and the anomalous and unusual, in general. |
| 289 | * In ''Blog/CrossingKevinsCrossing'', 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. |
| 290 | [[/folder]] |
| 291 | |
| 292 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 293 | * WebVideo/BedtimeStories is a Website/YouTube channel which discusses numerous paranormal/supernatural urban legends which have been recounted by real-life people. |
| 294 | * Website/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. |
| 295 | * ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': Some of the "TRUE Scary Stories" use Urban Legends for set-up. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 299 | * ''WesternAnimation/FreakyStories'' 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." |
| 300 | * Gerald in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' 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. |
| 301 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' 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. |
| 302 | * In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', 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. |
| 303 | ** Later in the same episode, he is nearly killed by a chupacabra. Brock explains: "Chupacabras. Mexico's full of 'em." This is also a BrickJoke, as earlier in the episode he taught a class exclaiming through scientific theory that a chupacabra couldn't possibly exist. |
| 304 | -->'''Rusty Venture:''' Now if you take the same math and apply it to the Catholic church, something interesting happens... |
| 305 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "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. |
| 306 | ** Bart creates his own legend about a man at the school who one day snapped and [[IAmAHumanitarian made a soup from the children's heads]]. The story included an ArtShift and was very effectively creepy. At the end, it turns out "Dark Stanly" was real... |
| 307 | ** 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 "SeeYouInHell, candy boys!" He then turns and does [[OutrunTheFireball a slow-motion dive]] as [[MadeOfExplodium the whole building explodes behind him]]. |
| 308 | * The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' 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 Creator/RichardGere [[http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp for no good reason]]. |
| 309 | [[/folder]] |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 312 | * TruthInTelevision? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan Ronald Clark O'Bryan]] [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink killed his son with poisoned Pixy Stix]] on Halloween 1974 -- and slipped some of the poisoned candy into the bags of the boy's fellow trick-or-treaters to give the impression it was a [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp Random Halloween Poisoner.]] |
| 313 | * ''[[Website/{{Snopes}} 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 [[http://www.snopes.com/medical/asylum/fbipizza.asp 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." |
| 314 | * Website/{{Cracked}} has an ongoing series about [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19503_7-creepy-urban-legends-that-happen-to-be-true-part-521.html urban legends that are true.]] |
| 315 | * 9/11, being a huge event, naturally has some associated with it. One of the most enduring ones is that numerous Muslim-Americans were seen cheering as the towers fell. The numbers have varied a lot between tellings, anything between "a restaurant full of people" to "thousands of people in the streets". While it is, of course, impossible to prove there wasn't some restaurant somewhere in America with Muslims cheering about the news, the idea of thousands of them cheering in the streets is false for reasons that ''should'' be obvious (to name just one, are we supposed to believe out of all the people who supposedly witnessed something this outrageous, not a ''single'' person [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight took any photos or filmed any of it]]?). |
| 316 | * There's a widespread misbelief that there used to be an emoji of a hiker with trekking poles and a helmet. Not only does no such emoji exist, theres no evidence to suggest it ever did. Despite this, there are hundreds if not more people who clearly remember it. |
| 317 | * OlderThanTelevision: In New Jersey in the GayNineties, some people believed in the spook rabbit, [[KillerRabbit a rabbit that attacked dogs and left their bellies bloodied and covered in small cuts]] and was ImmuneToBullets. The legend is now believed to have come about from dogs being cut by thorns and other undergrowth. |
| 318 | * The words "Under God" weren't in the original Pledge Of Allegiance but were added in 1954. This led to the urban legend they were added to catch secret Communist infiltrators who wouldn't be able to say the "under God" part. The problem with this ''should'' be obvious: just because someone doesn't believe in God doesn't make them unable to say his name, any more than Christians not believing in Zeus renders them unable to say his name. The real reason it was added was likely more to make a political statement (i.e we believe in God, unlike our Communist enemies.) |
| 319 | * A long-running German [[MemeticMutation Internet meme]] holds that the city of Bielefeld is a hoax. |
| 320 | ** There's also the version that the hoax is a hoax. Sadly that one isn't quite as funny or well-known. |
| 321 | ** Its Italian equivalent is the statement that the region of Molise doesn't exist. |
| 322 | ** The American equivalent- the state of Wyoming does not exist. |
| 323 | ** The Brazilian equivalent is the state of Acre. |
| 324 | * The cause of UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg fire is still unknown today. As such, it is positively drenched in Urban Legends, in varying degrees of ridiculousness. One of the most common is that ''Hindenburg'' was [[MadeOfExplodium painted in "Rocket Fuel" or "Thermite",]] which is [[BlatantLies completely false]], but a surprisingly pervasive myth. It may have such wide acceptance because the fabric of the airship ''was'' in fact combustible, albeit very weakly. Furthermore, some go as far as to say that ''Hindenburg's'' hydrogen had nothing to do with the fire ''[[InsaneTrollLogic at all,]]'' which is absolutely untrue. They usually cite the fact that pure hydrogen burns a pale red color, but they neglect to mention that the 250 tons of airship and diesel fuel is what colored the flames bright orange. A less popular, but still widely believed myth is that ''Hindenburg'' was deliberately sabotaged, and that bits of a gun or a bomb were found in the wreck. The Nazis themselves liked to propagate this myth because they didn't want to admit their safety failure. |
| 325 | * You know characters like Bloody Mary and Slenderman? You do?! Avoid thinking on them immediately! [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve If you DO think of fictional beings, they WILL become real eventually]]! Of course, this means that non-believers are safe to an extent, as they don't have enough "Mind Power" to keep these beings around them. But believers? They are likely to see, hear and feel them. |
| 326 | ** They won’t disappear if we don’t believe them though, because according to Franchise/TouhouProject, doing so only transports them to [[FantasticNatureReserve Gensokyo.]] |
| 327 | * Creator/WaltDisney is a magnet for sordid stories without much basis in reality. |
| 328 | ** Common Disney lore is that Walt was [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] after he died, and his body is suspended in a secret chamber somewhere in Disneyland. In the most popular versions of the story, only Walt's head was supposedly frozen after being severed from his body after his death. Nope, he was cremated and his ashes are kept in a plot at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California. The source of the rumor isn't certain. One theory is that Disney animator Creator/WardKimball circulated the story as a joke. One cryogenics advocate claimed in a 1972 interview that representatives from Disney contacted him with questions about the process shortly before Walt's death, but there doesn't seem to be much other evidence to back up the notion that Walt was interested in being frozen. |
| 329 | ** Disney allegedly being a virulent racist and anti-Semite, as mentioned in places like ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. 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 UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist era, some of which were openly bigoted (and Disney distanced himself from them once that came to light). |
| 330 | * There was one of these surrounding Music/{{Beyonce}}’s pregnancy with her oldest child, Blue, that lasted about five years. The legend was that she and Music/JayZ had used a surrogate to have Blue and that she just wore a fake bump whenever she was out in public. It started after a [[http://images.gawker.com/ylzwrtsuslk4ujpqxolg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg picture]] taken at an odd angle of her sitting down made it look like her belly collapsed. She put these rumors to rest in the Creator/{{HBO}} special that accompanied her 2016 album, ''Music/{{Lemonade}}'', by having videos of her unmistakably very pregnant. There was no such urban legend with her twins who were born in 2017 as she had to have a C-section and has the scar to prove it. |
| 331 | * UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, being one of the most infamous men in history, has several legends surrounding him, naturally, most of which surround his death in Berlin 1945, as the Soviet army was practically pounding on his door. Most prominently, the legends say the Soviets NeverFoundTheBody and that he may have faked his death, either fleeing to [[ArgentinaIsNaziland South America]] or [[MysteriousAntarctica Antarctica]] to continue running the remnants of the Nazi regime in secret, in hopes of one day returning to launch a "FourthReich" against the world. |
| 332 | ** The first part of this that is bunk is that Hitler's body ''was'' found; it was just so badly burned by a botched cremation that he was not immediately recognizable. Stalin actually ordered the body confiscated by SMERSH (the predecessor to the KGB), who managed to confirm his identity using captured German dental records and testimonies of his interned subordinates. After that, his body was unceremoniously buried somewhere in East Germany, where they stayed for a few months before being exhumed and buried somewhere ''else'' in East Germany, before eventually being exhumed again in 1970, crushed up thoroughly to leave no trace, then dumped into the Biederitz River. |
| 333 | ** As for the second part, there is some truth, as several high-profile Nazi officers fled to South America (specifically, to countries that were neutral towards Germany during the war) to escape punishment during the Nuremberg Trials. The idea of a secret "Fourth Reich" came about through the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf "Werwolf"]] unit organized by Goebbels as a way to harass Allied forces in occupied Germany, but such a unit was more a propaganda piece than a real threat, as any Nazi resistance force had nowhere ''near'' the numbers or resources to support even a small resurgence anywhere. As for Antarctica, it is likely that many assumed such an isolated and sparsely-populated continent would be perfect for hiding a secret Nazi army, but this completely discounts the fact that Antarctica is sparsely-populated for a ''reason'', namely that it is so cold and devoid of any sort of resources to speak of that having any sort of large population there would be downright impossible without specialized cold-weather equipment that puts the idea of Antarctica being the new Nazi Germany squarely into StupidJetpackHitler territory. |
| 334 | * Creator/KevinSmith was too large to fit into one seat on one infamous South West flight. It was in actuality, it was most likely a poor assumption on the flight crew's part; he had originally booked two seats (he stated he merely like having the extra room and he has the money to do such a thing), and when his flight got changed, they only had one seat available. A member of the crew most likely saw he had two seats on his original flight, looked at his size and assumed he needed two seats and had him ejected. He tweeted a photo of himself fitting comfortably in one seat when he finally did fly out (he live tweeted the entire experience), but it didn't stop the story spreading that he was simply Too Fat To Fly. |
| 335 | * The UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade has been rife with rumors about balloons/floats/etc. that are set to be "featured" in forthcoming editions. |
| 336 | ** Case in point: in the earliest days of January 2015, the parade's Wiki made a page announcing that a new ComicStrip/{{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.[[/note]] 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.[[/note]] |
| 337 | ** Another article, surprisingly from an [[http://nestfullofnew.com/guide-2015-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/ established site,]] reported that, among other things, there would be balloons based on VideoGame/AngryBirds, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], and [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2]], plus floats themed around [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]'s [[MilestoneCelebration 60th Anniversary]] and ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'', in the 2015 parade. Of all of these, only the Angry Birds balloon was confirmed, as the other balloons were debunked via a [[https://d13yacurqjgara.cloudfront.net/users/215543/screenshots/2239465/ed-31_final_little_1x.jpg leaked promo picture.]] |
| 338 | * One time, a Wikipedia user edited Creator/HalleBerry's page with a quote saying something like "this new album will show people I can do more than act". This caused many news sites to erroneously report that Berry was to record a pop album, which forced Berry herself (who has no plans to become a singer) to {{joss|ed}} these rumors. |
| 339 | * Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' 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. |
| 340 | * [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood 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 [[TattooedCrook full tattoo sleeves]] that graphically depicted his "best" kills. This is bunk as he wasn't even in the military. |
| 341 | * Even [[TheKiddieRide kiddie rides]] get myths every once in a while. Usually this pertains to [[LicensedGame licensed rides]] that simply do not exist, but someone's friend's cousin's sister twice removed claims to have seen. Some of them are probably unlicensed grey-market rides made by less scrupulous companies in the Far East. |
| 342 | * Many people "remember" having seen a portrait of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII eating a turkey leg or drumstick, to the point that there are [[DeadUnicornTrope numerous parodies of said portrait]]. The problem? No such portrait exists. Most likely people are misremembering [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Henry_VIII this picture]], which depicts him holding some brown leather gloves which could easily be mistaken for a turkey leg at first glace (his reputation as a BigEater certainly doesn't help.) Older generations might've also spread this rumor from memories of ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfHenryVIII'', which ''does'' feature a very lavish banquet where Henry (portrayed by Creator/CharlesLaughton) pigs out on drumsticks. |
| 343 | * A persistent rumor holds that Ronnie Van Zant, the lead singer of Music/LynyrdSkynyrd, was killed in the band's infamous plane crash because he hated seatbelts and was sitting in the middle of the plane's aisle. However, while Van Zant had been napping in the aisle earlier[[note]]not, as some believe, because of any particular distaste for seats or seatbelts, but rather because he was suffering back pain and that was the only place he could fully lie down[[/note]], at least three witnesses place Van Zant in a seat at the time of impact (including one who was actually ''sitting next to him'' during the crash), and at least one of these is certain he was wearing a seatbelt (though this is disputed by another survivor). What's more, a reckless act is certainly not needed to explain Van Zant's death, given that three other passengers, who were undisputedly buckled into their seats, were also killed; one survivor later stated that the seatbelts simply ended up being largely ineffective because most of the seats themselves broke loose in the impact[[note]]incidentally, this same survivor, bodyguard Gene Odum, survived despite (by his own admission) not having his seatbelt on, further lending credence to the idea that seatbelt use was not a determining factor in death or survival[[/note]]. All four passengers killed in the crash were sitting in the same section of the plane, which took the worst of the damage. |
| 344 | * Long-rumored since the 90s that military boot camps are handing "stress cards" out to recruits to use when they are feeling stressed out, and when raised above their heads, the DrillSergeantNasty has to stop being mean to them. This stems from cards being given to recruits with various numbers of chaplains and the like to contact FOR things like stress management and counseling (there's a "stress level" thumb print on the back as well). Despite having been subject to these rumors themselves when they were fresh out of boot camp/basic, members of the military still spread the rumor to the newer generation of "soft" soldiers/sailors/etc. |
| 345 | * A rumor stretching back to the 19th century is that boot camps put saltpeter[[note]]potassium nitrate; the name actually derives from the Greek word for "rock", but the similarity to a slang term for men's genitals probably helped the association[[/note]] (or some other chemical; in the Russian army, the legendary antisex treatment is bromide salts) in the food to control recruits' sexual desires (and also why the food tastes bad/is a funny color). One, it doesn't actually work, and two, the stress of boot camp is the actual reason sexual desire is so muted during that time. |
| 346 | * A military member looking for a separation on a psyche discharge (Section 8) dribbled an invisible basketball/rode an imaginary motorcycle/what have you. When they received the discharge, at the gate of base/brow of the ship, they got off the bike/dunked the basketball and stated "I don't need that anymore" or something to that effect. |
| 347 | * Starting in the 2010s, it became popular to claim that national food chains like UsefulNotes/McDonalds and Starbucks maintained "secret menus" of unadvertised items. This idea resulted in many headaches, since employees aren't trained to make these nonexistent "secret" items. Thus, if you tried to order one of these secret items by name, you'd have to either explain what's in it yourself or hope that one of the employees there had learned on their own how to make one (and considering that recipes for "secret" items vary from site to site, this gets even ''more'' complex). In terms of fast food, In & Out Burger is possibly the only one that actually has such a menu, however, it's primarily made up of variations of existing items and is an open secret to regulars. Occasionally, an item might get popular enough to be featured as an ''actual'' item, like when [=McDonald=]'s featured the [=McGangbang=] sandwich in several advertisements. In some cases, the "secret" item might just be completely impossible to make. For example, in early 2022, a hoax started to spread around [=TikTok=] detailing a Starbucks secret item called the "Under the Sea Refresher" (which was shown as a blue drink with a gummy worm in it). While this was clearly fake to those who knew their Starbucks drinks (Starbucks doesn't have any blue drinks, nor do they have gummy worms), many people didn't realize it was fake, leading to upset customers and [[https://www.newsweek.com/starbucks-customers-duped-ordering-made-under-sea-refresher-1679385 many]] [[https://www.distractify.com/p/is-the-under-the-sea-refresher-at-starbucks-real articles]] [[https://www.popsugar.com/food/starbucks-under-the-sea-refresher-tiktok-not-real-48666747 stating]] that it was fake.[[note]]If you ''really'' want to know what it is, it's just light blue Gatorade (the "Glacier Freeze" flavor), gummy worms, and water.[[/note]] |
| 348 | * Molly-Mae Hague, who was in British series ''Series/LoveIsland'' in 2019 is ''not'' related to politician William Hague, despite some claims on celebrity sites/blogs; it's a mistaken case of SameSurnameMeansRelated. William Hague is from a Yorkshire family, whereas Molly-Mae is from Hitchin, a town in Hertfordshire, England. This borders on misinformation too. |
| 349 | * Certain circles of the internet got it in their heads that UsefulNotes/NaziGermany issued [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons its troops]] chocolate which contained meth in order to increase their energy and decrease their empathy. While it's no secret that meth use was rampant within the Nazi war machine (though it wasn't exclusive to them either), meth was issued in the form of Pervitin tablets, which were colloquially known as "Panzerschokolade".[[labelnote:*]]Literally, "Tank Chocolate" or "Armor Chocolate", which can at least partially explain the misconception[[/labelnote]] The supposed bar of the stuff is an edit of a chocolate bar from Zotter, which was founded in Austria in ''1999''. Germany did, however, issue [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scho-Ka-Kola caffeinated chocolate]]. |
| 350 | * It's sometimes claimed that there's no Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics because Alfred Nobel's daughter supposedly eloped with a mathematician. The truth is a lot less dramatic: Nobel created the prizes to commemorate people who made advances in fields he considered for the betterment of humanity, and he didn't think mathematics achievements qualified. |
| 351 | * For a long time, the voice actor who voiced [[Advertising/AppleAndCinnaMon CinnaMon]] in the Kellogg's Apple Jacks commercials was unknown, leading to rumors that his identity was kept secret because he was a white man acting like a black Jamaican and the company wanted to avoid any accusations of racism. The voice actor was later identified as [[https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0027599/ Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter]] (Creator/JonathanAdams in the Cinnamon Jacks commercial), who is indeed Jamaican. |
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