Urban_Legends

Urban Legends Urban Legends In this paper I will explain exactly what an urban legend is, and give some examples of very popular ones that have been passed by word of mouth for decades across the United States. 1 " An urban legend is a story that is so bizarre, horrifying, or unexplainable, that it makes something inside of us want to believe it." Urban Legends can have traced origins from other countries, universities, states, or people, that just decided to made up as incredible story and pass it on to their friends and family members. Many of these legends were started in the sixties and seventies, and still continue to be passed on to this day. A good example, is the horrifying Pop Rocks death. 2"In the seventies ,school kids passed on the rumor that if Pop Rocks candy was eaten with any kind of soda, the person's insides would explode". A legend that eventually forced the candy company to prove as untrue. Most urban legends are began with "friend of a friend", which is a urban, legends, story, legend, found, dorothy, passed, one, good, witch, scene, lyric, just, heard, girl, very, men, words, woman, versions, untrue, until, told, thing, second, popular, people, out, made, horrifying, home, hitch, hiker, fence, end