Urban Legends and Email Hoaxes: Before You Forward that Email Make Sure It's True!
Before You Hit that Forward Button Check on One of These Sites to Find Out If It's a Hoax!
Snopes: Snopes is probably the most popular site to check urban legends. If you got an email that you think might be false info a quick search on Snopes should be all it takes to set the story straight. You probably don't need to go any further than Snopes but I'm still going to give you other sites to check out because some of the stuff on these sites is very fun and interesting to read!
Urban Legends Online: This is a very informative site for your typical urban legends but they go a bit beyond and cover superstitions too. They like the creepy stuff like hauntings, ghosts, deadly spiders. A fun site to visit if you like that sort of thing!
Truth or Fiction: This is yet another very informative site which also has a list of the Top 20 stories for the current hour right there on their homepage. You can keep up to date on the latest hoaxes before you even get the emails from your friends!
Break the Chain: This is just another site with a good collection of urban legends and hoaxes including virus warnings, sick and missing kids, health warnings, something for nothing scams and much more!
Hoax Slayer: This site really specializes in email hoaxes. I think I've personally received every single one on their site! Click on each category on their homepage and you'll see more email hoaxes than you could ever dream up. They really have an awesome collection of email hoaxes.
Darwin Awards: This site is just plain strange! You need a strong stomach to read some of the legends on this site. Bizarre dead. Mutilated animals. Horrible injuries. Not my kind of site. Might be your kind of site though!
American Folklore: This site is a really good one. It's not really a good source for email hoaxes but you will love reading all their stories about tall tales, myths and legends, ghost stories, heroes and villains, campfire stories and so much more! You will find stories you heard as a child. I'll never understand why people like to scare kids!
So please, before you forward that email to everyone on your friends list, be a really good friend and look the info up on one of these sites! It will only take you one minute to find out if your email contains a hoax. And your friends will be happy you didn't send them junk mail.
Sources:
Snopes website, http://www.snopes.com/
Urban legends Online website, http://www.urbanlegendsonline.com/
Truth or Fiction website, http://www.truthorfiction.com/
Break the Chain website, http://www.breakthechain.org/index.html
Hoax Slayer website, http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-hoax-archive.html
Darwin Awards website, http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/
American Folklore, http://www.americanfolklore.net/index.html
Link City, http://www.darlenemichaud.com/linkcity.urbanlegends.html
Published by Darlene Michaud
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Thanks ever. Yup--I'm always getting those dang forwards from friends and check them out first usually at Snopes...99 percent of the time they are hoaxes.
Excellent article - I have for some time had all of these sites bookmarked in my favoites - snoopes is my favorite, check that whenever a friend emails me a 'pass this on'