urban legends

One of the simple truths of social media and internet culture is that someone is always trying to raise the bar.…

Eerie entertainment frequently takes inspiration from urban legends, with good reason—nothing’s scarier than a…

If you were looking forward to poisoning your loved ones and playing it off as a holiday accident, don’t look to the…

This story is completely true. It happened right here on the internet, on a night just like this.

On July 4, 1979 little Teresa Salcedo was the first baby born in Disneyland at California. But contrary to urban…

Today, we remember Francis Bacon mostly for his political and scientific contributions, but the people of Highgate…

Teens have settled upon a New Dank Meme, and it’s an alliterative, culturally inaccurate demon-summoning ritual.…

The myth of the ‘base tan’ needs to die. Like Bonnaroo and flip-flops, the concept of the base tan reappears every…

Did you ever hear about that time Charles Manson auditioned for the Monkees? Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?…

It's one of those urban legends that just won't die. Was Walt Disney actually cryogenically frozen after he died so…

Well, maybe it's better to say The Blob was based on a "true" story. No one got sucked into a garbage disposal like…

In 1983, the failing Atari video game company allegedly dumped millions of unsold E.T. the Extra Terrestrial…

There is a legend in the mathematics community that centers around Henri Poincaré, the famous mathematician, meting…

Today medical journals rarely intentionally publish jokes. How pleasant that in the 1800s they took a more…

Did you hear the legend that blonds will die out in just a couple hundred years? I did. It turns out that everyone…

We know that red mercury makes the manufacturing of nuclear bombs much, much easier. We don't exactly know how it…

Many people have heard the old metaphor about the frog; if you put one in boiling water it will hop out, but if you…

2013 was a good year for drinkin'. We investigated boozy superstition, we traveled the earth to see how your…

While Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, and the Mothman might get most of the attention on land, there are plenty of…

Mutant alligators slithering through the New York sewers are one of the colorful legends of the city. What got the…