"Let's just say, 'urban legend'," Abella told reporters, without elaborating.
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Taco Bell's secret menu is the stuff of urban legend.
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And that's an urban legend worth reading, at least a bit.
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Well, today, the Wall Street Journal has confirmed the urban legend.
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Keep scrolling to read the creepiest urban legend from your state.
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These are my people, and this was our favorite urban legend.
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A brand new urban legend grows seemingly overnight thanks to the internet.
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The urban legend of doctors performing it preemptively and prophylactically is unfounded.
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This might sound like the stuff of urban legend, but it's not.
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But is that really true or just a science-based urban legend?
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According to Gunter, this idea is nothing more than an urban legend.
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"There is no more diffuse urban legend than this one," he said.
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Ukraine-based server is something of an urban legend for the digital
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The original film is historic in part because of an urban legend.
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" His spokesman, Ernesto Abella, suggested earlier the story was an "urban legend.
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And what's a museum devoted to an urban legend without a gift shop?
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The love goes way back "It's not an urban legend," says Michael Krondl.
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Slender Man was an instant urban legend but one with a definitive origin.
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Urban legend says that you swallow a certain number of spiders in your sleep.
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But the urban legend persisted because, well, nothing had ever happened to disprove it.
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So, is that just another urban legend, or is there some truth to it?
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Years under the radar have turned the gang into the stuff of urban legend.
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" But according to Snopes — the urban-legend debunking site — the claim is "completely unsubstantiated.
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But the name stuck, giving rise to a new urban legend about its origins.
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It's why it's always been an urban legend in the paddock that Article 0.0.
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It sounds like one of those urban legend horror stories people tell for fun.
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That style of grassroots promotion is almost an urban legend in this hyper-digitalized world.
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Just last week, Trump tweeted out a widely discredited urban legend about US Army Gen.
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Mojitos come from Cuba, and an urban legend circulated that Ernest Hemingway reportedly loved them.
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The Bunnyman's legend starts with what every good urban legend starts with: an insane asylum.
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And so Slender Man went from an imaginary nightmare to a very real urban legend.
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I've heard it so many times, I was sure it was just an urban legend.
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But she is also the latest iteration of a very old class of story: the urban legend, and more specifically, the urban legend that warns parents of the dark forces that will swoop upon their children if they're left alone in a dangerous place.
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And what about suffering first-degree burns from a depilatory cream — isn't that just urban legend?
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As urban legend tells us, that's what happens when the tails of rats get knotted together.
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In today's Senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg addressed the urban legend yet again, issuing an absolute denial.
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This detail spawned the expression "don't take candy from strangers," or so goes the urban legend.
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To some, it is an urban legend, and to others, there is a science behind it.
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The Loch Ness Monster of Scotland is perhaps the most famous urban legend of all time.
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There's an urban legend about Sandy Koufax that has circulated for years in the Dodgers community.
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It turns out that thinking you can save money that way may be another urban legend.
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The code even made a cameo appearance in presidential politics and became lodged in urban legend.
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Let's go down the list: Max's teacher admonishes him for not believing in an (ostensible) urban legend.
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But multiple outlets have reported that the challenge appears to be an urban legend that keeps growing.
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The dreaded "permatrip": an urban legend sourced equally in Just Say No paranoia and teenage idiocy/credulousness.
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Every so often, an idea circulates enough times to turn it into the stuff of urban legend.
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ILLINOIS: Urban legend says it's a crime in Illinois to possess more than $600 worth of salamanders.
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Rather than laughing off Becca's story as an urban legend, Katie responds with a look of horror.
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Interestingly, the first MUL comic I did was of an actual urban legend involving some unnamed band.
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Marijuana-induced anxiety is weed culture's Bigfoot—an urban legend that's perpetuated by hearsay, rather than fact.
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Candle Cove has been lurking the internet for years as a creepypasta, or an online urban legend.
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A 2014 study, while disproving that urban legend, estimated the population stood at a sizable 2 million.
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But, additionally, the movie's also based on an urban legend so do with that what you will.
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Before I drove to the ski lift, I checked my back seat for the killer from Urban Legend.
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Neighbor Liz Travers told CNN it's been urban legend in the neighborhood that it was a Russian compound.
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Urban legend holds that infrasound can cause people to vomit, become disoriented, or lose control of their bowels.
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There's an urban legend about an erudite, well-mannered man that does the rounds on various internet forums.
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Her article was written in 1982, not 1935, the year a Harlem teenager set off the urban legend.
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Suddenly, everyone could afford a camcorder and try to make a documentary about their town's stupid urban legend.
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"Actually it's kind of an urban legend that Turks smoke so much," Gokhan Bicici, a local journalist, said.
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Momo-inspired deaths simply did not exist, and were nothing more than an urban legend for the internet age.
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The proposal even includes a frozen Walt Disney, presumably related to the urban legend that Disney was cryogenically frozen.
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But the argument that Medicaid is "broken" is not one of them; it is more urban legend than fact.
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Florida man hears urban legend about a guy who buried a million dollars-worth of cocaine in Puerto Rico.
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The challenge is the latest viral concern /social media fad/urban legend going around Facebook parenting groups and schools.
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Lightning Lord: Real name Beric Dondarrion, this servant of the Lord Of Light was considered to be an urban legend.
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We're also introduced to the customizable player character V, a hired gun on the rise to become an urban legend.
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Name-dropped by Kid Rock in 1993's "Back From The Dead," Wershe was an urban legend of epic proportions.
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According to urban legend, it's because Parisian tap water is so harsh, nobody wants to put it on their face.
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It's inspired by an old urban legend about hippie babysitters from the free love era doing LSD and eating babies.
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There's also the matter of that one high school urban legend about Simmons grafting a cow tongue onto his own.
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Then came this urban legend about a strange, grainy VHS tape that features a child crawling out of a well.
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It's not true, despite its longevity: According to Snopes, an urban legend investigation website, the rumor began when a Warner Bros.
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So ferocious, in fact, that he became an urban legend and the subject of a nursery rhyme — while he was alive.
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"That's an urban legend," said Nihat Ozdemir, chairman of Turkey's main association of food retailers, citing stiff competition in fresh produce.
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Mind you, for Allyson's generation, reared on reports of mass shootings, five deaths sounds like child's play, or an urban legend.
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Indeed, Michael Bloomberg's daughter became a recurrent character in what was now the beginning of Covid-19's urban legend phase.
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The INSIDER Summary: There's an urban legend that Stephen Fry, who narrated the "Harry Potter" audiobooks, is feuding with J.K. Rowling.
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The president has more than once spread the discredited urban legend about Muslims being shot with bullets dipped in pig's blood.
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You might also know that this is a famous or even infamous scientific myth — no more than a scientific urban legend.
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His breakthrough came in 1998 with his screenplay for the slasher film "Urban Legend," which starred Jared Leto and Alicia Witt.
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It's also, according to the careful work of historians, mostly if not entirely fictitious — an urban legend turned into a revanchist creed.
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In Bong's debut feature, "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (2000), the humanism is all but buried in a gruesome, urban-legend-inflected conceit.
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Glycerol is a sweet liquid that has been used in antifreeze, giving rise to the urban legend that e-cigarettes contain antifreeze.
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"Some say it's an urban legend," Fiennes explained to ET. "And our story says if it happened, maybe it happened like this."
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The whole time well thing started, for me, with that urban legend about how they found a spaceship, those Marines, or whoever.
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It shouldn't be too surprising that a viral urban legend (and likely hoax) targeting kids would be able to sweep the globe.
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CN: Of course, this is a very popular urban legend, and I guarantee that just by ... Explain it, explain what people think.
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His former New England Revolution teammate Taylor Twellman, now an ESPN analyst, talks about the "urban legend" of the tortured Clint Dempsey.
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Strawberries Australia is dealing with a real-life urban legend after more than 100 reported cases of needles found embedded in strawberries.
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Bundy lived here from 1974-1975 -- and urban legend has it, he might've even brought some of his victims back to the home.
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She is well-known for her countless roles in horror films like Halloween, Urban Legend and Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn.
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It's become something of an urban legend within LA's food community—to say that he has a cult following would be an understatement.
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It's somewhat of an urban legend that the reigning king of England in 2300 wanted a pair of shoes custom made for him.
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A picture of the artist's creation was posted on Instagram where it was later ripped from to create the modern day urban legend.
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Winning a spot in one of New York City's affordable housing lotteries might seem completely out of reach, the stuff of urban legend.
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As the urban legend goes, one of the towers appearing behind Ariel and Prince Eric looked slightly more anatomical than it maybe should have.
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Gizmodo reported on an urban legend about human ashes being scattered around Disneyland and the special code used among Disney's staff to manage cleanup.
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A variant of this urban legend finds its way into Netflix's new, polarizing horror movie The Perfection, albeit in a far more disturbing form.
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In a world of cyberenhanced street warriors, tech-savvy netrunners and corporate life-hackers, today is your first step to becoming an urban legend.
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That photograph I tweeted lives on in history now, creating this urban legend that she was sitting there lonely, with empty seats beside her.
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Skip forward to the twentieth century, and there's another story—well, more of an urban legend this time—busy making the rounds in America.
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This may be part of why the idea of car burglars using wireless scanners to find targets has become a sort of urban legend.
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NewsWhip also identified two articles about the so-called Momo challenge, a widely debunked urban legend, as top stories with more than 450,000 shares.
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Until we see proof of such establishments, we regard them as urban legend, like alligators in subways and rats the size of subway alligators.
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The precise number, names and whereabouts of his children — a subject around which rumor and urban legend have long coalesced — could not be confirmed.
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" Horta was also known for his work as a writer on the horror movie "Urban Legend" and TV series "The Chronicle" and "Jake 2.0.
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This misunderstanding blossomed into the extremely pervasive, indeed erroneous, silly urban legend that continuing antibiotics beyond resolution of symptoms somehow helps reduce antibiotic resistance.
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On Soi Watcharapol stands an entire abandoned village called the Piyaporn Gated Community that, as urban legend has it, was built over a cemetery.
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That is until 2007, when someone uploaded a grainy video of the man mid rat-chomp—confirming the urban legend on the world stage.
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I had heard that food with natural sugars made your cum taste better, but I was surprised to find any truth to the urban legend.
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"There is an urban legend that states that Kurds have no friends but the mountains," Steyerl says at one point in the presentation on Saturday.
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Mix that with online media, which facilitates its spread and that's how a new urban legend — and the resulting panic that it incites — is born.
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When PT — a playable teaser for Hideo Kojima's reboot of Silent Hill — left the PlayStation Store in 2015, it took on an urban legend status.
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Police and faculty believe they're just runaways, but gossip among the students suggests an urban legend, a death god / spirit called Boogiepop, might be involved.
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It's a big day for cycling: the sport has famously had its problems with cheating, and 'technological doping' has been an urban legend for years.
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Even for those who aren't familiar with the internet urban legend, the scene from the episode that aired Saturday, "SpongeBob in RandomLand," is nightmare fuel.
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Read more:What you need to know about the 'Slender Man' movie and the controversy surrounding itThe story of 'Slender Man' — the internet's creepiest urban legend
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It's not true, but what started as a prank in a California underground newspaper called the Berkeley Barb has become something of an urban legend.
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Johnny Manziel's wigged-out Las Vegas adventure is not just urban legend -- it's now a major windfall for the makers of some clever new Manziel gear.
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The answer lies in folklore and cultural expectations: many people are well aware of the urban legend about fried chicken that turns out to be rat.
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There's actually this crazy urban legend that he made a huge amount of his money from his soundtrack sales alone, since he has ownership of them.
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The success bolstered the movie's creators and stars into Hollywood, but the movie's urban legend marketing campaign plagued the actors, whom many believe died in 1999.
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Read moreHow Area 51 became the center of alien conspiracy theories35 of the most popular conspiracy theories in the USThe creepiest urban legend from every state
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McCarthy previously said in 2011 the alleged spike around the Super Bowl host cities was "urban legend" and "pure pulp fiction," according to The Village Voice.
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On the spot, I remember a scary story, possibly an urban legend, about a man with long nails scratching on the roof of a woman's car.
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Though New York City was, and still is, much to their liking, the urban legend that more rats than people live here has been mathematically disproved.
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It was something of an urban legend—a buried city where Chinese immigrants had lived away from the rest of the community, creating their own hidden culture.
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The case has already been the subject of an HBO true-crime documentary, Beware the Slenderman, but now the urban legend has inspired its own horror flick.
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It is an urban legend that wearing a suit or asking really nicely is the magic way to bag a seat at the front of the plane.
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"I asked him where this 'Estonian blockchain ID' myth came from since I find it absolutely baffling that this urban legend has obtained such traction," Birch wrote.
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How many times have you heard some urban legend, chain letter or misleading bit of news repeated and immediately found a thorough, fact-based debunking on Snopes?
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TEHRAN — At the Tehran party there was alcohol, of course, though it was a quiet affair, nothing like the wild, over-the-top events of urban legend.
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While this story is certainly something we've seen before in movies, the combination of Christmas, slasher, and urban legend isn't something that comes around a whole lot.
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It's the "boiling frog" effect, an urban legend about an experiment that involves putting a frog in a pot of boiling water, where it quickly jumps out.
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Contrary to urban legend that they flew here, he said, the parrots came via the pet trade and were subsequently introduced into the wild — largely by accident.
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What sounds like a bizarre urban legend has set off a federal investigation in Australia, where authorities are scrambling to figure out who's sticking needles inside strawberries.
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The actress, famous for her countless roles in horror films like Halloween, Urban Legend and Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn, became engaged to Gross in 2013.
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Halloween is only three weeks away, and if you've been seeking out every ghost story and urban legend you can slap your eyes on, you're in good company.
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That's why the urban legend has become a staple of the horror genre, from Hulu's new show Light as A Feather to classics like The Blair Witch Project.
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Once you've been the victim of a rumor or the unwilling subject of an urban legend, it can be difficult, if not flat-out impossible, to shake it.
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Since he emerged from a famous Something Awful thread in 2008, the Slender Man has become a bona fide urban legend, with millions of fans building his tale.
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Slenderman originated in 2009 in an online forum where a user inserted the gaunt, tall, faceless figure into photos and the doctored images evolved into an urban legend.
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As Momo Challenge hysteria sweeps the nation, YouTube has started to demonetize all videos about the creature, including newscasts, explainers, and educational videos debunking the online urban legend.
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Gayheart: Jawbreaker started off as a smaller movie than Scream and Urban Legend, so it had more of a community feel, like an indie-movie feel to it.
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The state party appears to be in full fire-breathing mode, latching onto an increasingly popular, anti-Semitic urban legend about George Soros being some nefarious liberal puppetmaster.
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There is perhaps no urban legend, myth, or conspiracy theory more famous than Nevada's Area 51, a mysterious government facility that is rumored to be associated with aliens.
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Kylie explains that there is an urban legend that when a man dates or gets involved with one of the Kardashian/Jenner ladies then the man becomes cursed.
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The next day, The New York Times published an account of the event, headlined "Alligator Found in Uptown Sewer," which helped fuel the urban legend, Mr. Miscione said.
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In other news, almost 20,000 Americans voted for Harambe This new urban legend spent most of election night flying across social media, and was frequently stated as fact.
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"There is no White Boy Rick, and any resemblance Rick may have had to that fictional character or urban legend three decades ago is long gone," Majkowski said.
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Cannabis lube sounds like an urban legend, but a quick Google search and survey of friends proved that it is a very real product with a massive cult following.
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The singer appeared on Chelsea Handler's TV show Chelsea to promote his role in the acclaimed new Christopher Nolan movie Dunkirk, when the urban legend was put to him.
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According to the urban legend, the soda lowers sperm count and thus works as pre-coital contraception because of the soda's dye, Yellow No. 5, also known as tartrazine.
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That, says Drolma, is an urban legend which has been amplified during the two decades in which she has been telling her incredible story to journalists around the world.
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The police force evolves into an overeager, hapless army pitting itself against Michael's eventual return, while the townspeople, believing he's finally gone, turn him into a proper urban legend.
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VICE has since disputed the story, but whether it is an urban legend or a real tragic event, it fits into the chilling narrative of Odessa's underground dead city.
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But according to one story -- maybe urban legend -- there was one unforgivable sin: If you forget to call it Trump's casino, as one employee apparently once did, you're gone.
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The father shook his head, while his impatient wife — a Nebraska native — had given up, deeming the treasure "an urban legend," Lake Michigan's version of the Loch Ness monster.
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It's really one tower and a nub of a building next to it, the urban legend being that the Army ran out of money before finishing the second vertical structure.
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For four centuries, the building was a hospice and hospital — urban legend depicts the museum as a haunted space where, at night, security guards run into the ghosts of nuns.
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The first, which has become a sort of urban legend, was when the Chicago Bears came to play the Titans, and visiting fans drained the entire downtown supply of beer.
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It's an urban legend we all know well: the maniac who takes advantage of trick or treaters by sliding razor blades into their apples and needles into their chocolate bars.
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Local media gamely covers the emerging urban legend, interviewing area residents about their encounters with teens and ghost hunters there to check out "that weird interdimensional thing" from the internet.
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As urban legend has it, when the black-and-white film was shown for the first time, audience members screamed and ran to the back of the theater in terror.
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Mary is just an urban legend—a case example of how people with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder can hyperfocus on a task for hours, losing all awareness of their surroundings.
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But we here at MUNCHIES, thanks to not one, but two experts, have largely debunked the urban legend of children being injured by razor blades, poison, or weed-infused candies.
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Julian Crouch's Skid Row set — in which sooty door stoops frame the dingy shop of the title — is an urban-legend rhapsody in grime, lighted to chill by Bradley King.
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It&aposs probably just one more military urban legend that just won&apost die — along with these other myths that have been hanging around since Elvis was in the Army.
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The recent legislation merely suggested that restaurateurs offer to-go containers to clients, but word had circulated, instantly becoming urban legend: doggy bags à l'américaine were now mandatory in France.
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Because of this, the species has sometimes been compared to the Australian "drop bear" urban legend starring a bloodthirsty koala cryptid that kills people by falling on them from above.
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Of course, because this is a TV show, Hal, apparently, just cut his hand off — and put an urban legend-like hook in its place — as a way to evade police.
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Much like the long-persisting urban legend that Instagram listens to your conversations to target your ads, he believed something sinister was going on — and he's not unreasonable to think that.
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The name has become something of an urban legend on the Bump, a pregnancy forum, with a number of moms claiming to have actually met children named Abcde in real life.
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Sure, incidents of intentionally tainted candies do arise on occasion, but, for the most part, razor-blade-stuffed Kit Kats are the stuff of urban legend among sugar-high American children.
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As far as I can tell, this is just an urban legend, although Evisu was sued by Levis in 2010 for an "homage" design that hewed too closely to its inspiration.
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If Warner, Mojo, Martin Gaus, and Sheeran's own Instagram don't offer any proof, I have no choice but to file this news as an urban legend in the name of music journalism.
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Urban legend says "American Girl" is about a suicide in Petty's hometown of Gainesville, but Petty wrote it hanging out of a window in Los Angeles, listening to the sounds of living.
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But this grabby new urban legend-style horror device still needs a story, and Dec came up with one that addresses more than the usual subtextual softball of What Technology Really Means.
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As truth-seeker Brian Dunning points out in his in-depth investigation into the origins of the urban legend, there actually was a lot of precedent for the conspiracy to take shape.
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We connected when your agent reached out to me after I tweeted about how surprised I was that the "Victorian doctors used vibrators to cure women's hysteria" story was an urban legend.
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For the past thirty-ish years, a well-worn urban legend has been recycled by your grandmother's favorite inspirational channel and websites that have words like 'salvation' and 'testimonies' in their URLs.
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So, first of all, despite both MARRY ME and TIED THE KNOT appearing in the grid, this is not one of those hidden proposal puzzles (or are those just an URBAN LEGEND?).
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For years now, Facebook has struggled to contain an urban legend that the company's ad targeting is so effective because the company listens to your conversations in real time through your phone's microphone.
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Read more:The creepiest urban legend from every stateThe biggest company in almost every US stateThe best hotels under $200 a night in each stateThese are the 10 most innovative states in the US
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I had heard of this happening as kind of a sex worker urban legend, but I had such a long run of it, I didn't think it was a possibility until it happened.
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Chubbuck spent her life battling depression and suicidal tendencies, but sadly one of the biggest takeaways from her death was a sort of "urban legend" that bloomed around footage of her final moments.
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A hawk hunting for house pets in the kempt lawns of suburbia sounds like the making of an urban legend, but the tale has, in recent decades, become a staple of local news.
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They are aware that tales of snakes concealed in computer hard drives, scythes in backpacks, bricks of weed festooned in Christmas wrapping, replica rifle umbrellas and sword canes are more than urban legend.
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It's a fairy tale origin story with, as the Times writes, "the whiff of an urban legend," and it becomes even more fairy tale–esque when you find out what the book is about.
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At the same time, some of the most influential intellectuals in the 20th century, including Daniel Dennett and Noam Chomsky, dismiss the idea of singularity as an urban legend or even as science fiction.
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"It's all good fun, and a nice new urban legend, but based on what I've seen, cuffing season isn't biological," Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University, told Splinter.
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Director Ryan White tells PEOPLE Radakovic was little more than an "urban legend" for his team as they worked on the documentary, as no one had been able to confirm Cesnik had any siblings.
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The original film and its subsequent sequels were about an urban legend; a murderous ghost with a hook for a hand who would appear if you said his name in the mirror five times.
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"Candyman" (Friday) stars Virginia Madsen as a researcher whose investigation of an urban legend takes her to a since-demolished section of the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago, where the movie was shot.
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Of course, this being an urban legend, there are those who still believe that Charlie No-Face stalks Western Pennsylvania, though you're probably not going to have much luck finding him at that tunnel.
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And there has long been an urban legend that spicy food will help get your baby out, but a simple Google Search will tell you that it appears to be little more than legend.
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I like Mr. Arbesfeld's debuting of SCIENCE FAIR, PSYCHED OUT and URBAN MYTH, although my brain really wanted it to be "urban legend," which prevented me from thinking of MYTH until I solved the crossings.
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The most popular Halloween candy in every stateI went to the largest Halloween theme park event in Southern California and I found myself in an after-dark horror festThe creepiest urban legend from every state
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Read more:The creepiest urban legend from every state10 haunted forests around the world that will give you the chillsThe wildest legends and conspiracies a surprising number of Americans believe inTrump tweeted about the Mothman Festival.
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Despite reports from news agencies and police departments from the United States to South Africa and the U.K., there does not appear to be any evidence of the viral urban legend occurring in real life.
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The film is loosely based on the urban legend about a phone call from a killer coming from "inside the house" — the same tale that would go on to inspire 1979's When A Stranger Calls.
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Local churches and their worshippers have embraced the tradition with urban legend saying that the hot lava that flowed from the volcano was actually the local Christian Saint Jeronimo fighting the devil with balls of fire.
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The leader of Project Stardust, Jon Larsen, also assisted as co-author on this study, which confirmed that "urban meteorites" are not just an urban legend—they're literally as close to home as you can get.
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But even once you get past the movie's ridiculous-sounding premise (it's based off a Vanity Fair story turned urban legend), the decision to cast Fiennes, a white man, as Jackson, a black man, is puzzling.
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Five seconds on the floor Urban legend says that if you pick up dropped food from the floor within five seconds, it's safe to eat, because it is not enough time for contamination to take place.
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There's also an urban legend that, whether or not it's true, is certainly symbolic: a layer of MetroCards has allegedly formed at the bottom of the creek, built up from people discarding theirs through sewer grates.
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A few weeks later, the commander-in-chief exhorted the nation to "study" an urban legend about General Pershing committing war crimes against Muslims—not as a cautionary tale but as a model for the future.
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"The roots of 4/20, it's such a great urban legend," he said, referencing the often repeated lore that the misattributed police code for marijuana gained popularity in the parking lot of a Grateful Dead concert.
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The annual festival that Trump endorsed in his retweet celebrates a West Virginia urban legend about a winged, humanoid cryptid with glowing red eyes that terrorized residents in the Point Pleasant area in 1966 and 1967.
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F.Y.I. Q. We all know the urban legend about baby alligators being flushed down the toilet, and the all-too real issue with wet wipes, but what other weird things end up in the sewer system?
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Famed anthropologist Wade Davis inadvertently created an academic urban legend with his account of an elderly Inuit man in the 1950s who fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces and vanished into the Arctic.
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Though we all suspect it's there, it's not easy to assess how much urine there is in a particular swimming pool (the existence of a chemical that changes color when you pee is an urban legend).
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The storyline is based on a vignette from Taylor's life featured in a June 21990 Vanity Fair story, and it admittedly errs on the side of an urban legend because no one can quite confirm it.
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The social media group's page manager Cody told the Kyle and Jackie O show that the backpacker who captured the picture was "unaware" he had possibly just closed the case on a long-running Aussie urban legend.
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David NicholsProfessor Emeritus, Pharmacology, Purdue University, and the founding president of the Heffter Research Institute, which promotes research with classic hallucinogens and psychedelicsI've never heard of anything like that before—I think it's mostly an urban legend.
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"It&aposs all good fun, and a nice new urban legend, but based on what I&aposve seen, cuffing season isn&apost biological," Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University, told Splinter.
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The press coverage of the story — in 21 the website Thrillist named the "Watcher House" the creepiest urban legend in New Jersey — has made much of the incongruity between the terrifying letters and the seemingly perfect suburban town.
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WATCH: The Disturbing Truth Behind the 'Spitman' Urban Legend A whistleblower website set up last year revealed some damning practices, including health and safety violations, illegal working hours, and pay disputes, despite only receiving a handful of entries.
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Or maybe Post just liked the noise of 500 Japanese men stomping their feet on a wooden floor… which I promise is not some urban legend, but a legitimate part of what makes up the 'dun dun' noise.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2018 He would assure people that, urban legend to the contrary, the limestone lining the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal will not expose you to harmful excess radiation.
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The hardiest urban legend of the US overdose crisis — the idea that deadly amounts of fentanyl are tainting the illicit marijuana market — is being spread by officials at the White House and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
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It was like being clued in on the location of an underground poker club, only you also spent a ton of time trying to convince other poker players that the club actually existed and wasn't just an urban legend.
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That's not some coked-out urban legend, but the result of extensive research at the heart of a documentary called Pisco Punch: A Cocktail Comeback Story, looking at the birth and re-birth of the drink within American culture.
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But behind the hysteria linked to the so-called "Momo challenge" is an issue far more revealing: This urban legend is likely little more than a hoax fueled by media reports and parents' fears about their kids' online activity.
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It drags for a couple hundred pages too long and is rife with errors: bad grammar, confusing sentences, typos, and factual inaccuracies (the completely unsubstantiated urban legend is that Tartt's editors were too scared of her to edit her).
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Though historians don't know exactly where that urban legend came from, it has obviously stuck with us — every year, you'll see people decked out in the color of the Emerald Isle ordering green beers in bars and guzzling minty Shamrock Shakes.
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"The internet allows urban legends to spread instantaneously," said Trevor Blank, an assistant professor at SUNY Potsdam and author of Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet, a book about another popular internet-made urban legend.
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The AV Club even wrote up a list of 10 horror directors who just so happen to be women — including Blum's former assistant, Chelsea Stardust, who once made an incredibly disturbing short film out of my favorite sleepover urban legend.
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Sickhouse – which stars a handful of digital influencers – follows a group of friends as they embark on a journey to visit a seemingly abandoned house in the woods, dubbed Sickhouse, after an urban legend about the location intrigues the group.
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What in the World It's the stuff of urban legend, filtered through a 21st-century nightmare: A shadowy organization surreptitiously turns on the camera and microphone of your smartphone, changing an essential and trusted device into an insidious surveillance tool.
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"When we talk about the urban legend of 'don't look in the mirror,' essentially your ego is suspended and it opens up a level of vulnerability," said Ronan Levy, a co-founder of Field Trip, a psychedelic research and therapy group.
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The Catman of Greenock is probably the only urban legend to have his very own Facebook fan page, where a small group of devotees post sightings, rumors, and custom-made Halloween costumes in tribute of the strangest resident in their town.
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But because the clown is such a singularly horrifying trope in popular culture and urban legend, these 100 sightings led to thousands of viral news posts, the brief benching of Ronald McDonald, some misguided college campus vigilante groups, and at least one Batman.
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Blank points out that, in many ways, the Momo Challenge is reminiscent of a two-year-old online urban legend that also offered up an online list of tasks that eventually led to daring its victims to commit suicide, the Blue Whale Challenge.
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Desperate for money, and with only her cat for company, Lee's on the verge of becoming the urban legend all New Yorkers fear: the person who dies alone in their apartment, and remains undiscovered until the smell becomes too strong to ignore.
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Churrascaria de Rua, or street grill: Sometimes called "cat grills" (churrascaria de gato) because of an urban legend that said they roasted cats, they remain a local favorite offering your basic beef, chicken and sometimes vegetables on a stick roasted over coals.
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Having a run-in with Andy Dick is something of a rite-of-passage for any Angeleno worth their salt, so much so that he has ascended to urban legend status in the city, like the chupacabra or the ghost of Marilyn Monroe.
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The 'let them eat chips' suggestion is reminiscent of one often - and probably wrongly - attributed to Marie-Antoinette, beheaded wife of King Louis XVI, who in urban legend is reported to have said of bread shortages for the poor: "Let them eat cake".
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Read more:The creepiest urban legend from every state5 eerie things that actually happened on Halloween The terrifying true stories that your favorite horror movies are based on13 people reveal ghost stories so chilling they will make you sleep with the lights on
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He was so otherwise quiet and unassuming that there is an urban legend about Rickey Henderson running into him in New York Mets camp and telling him he also played with a guy who wore a helmet back with the Blue Jays.
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The recording was made in 1995, but never existed in digital form until now; rather, it was a sort of urban legend, the kind of thing a friend of a friend might have heard on cassette once and then raved about forever.
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However, unlike other psychedelic urban legends, such as the man who accidentally drank an entire bottle of liquid LSD, gazing upon your reflection can yield profoundly helpful insights—even if the experience is as terrifying as the urban legend would have you believe.
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One urban legend holds that when El Chapo wanted to go to a restaurant for dinner, he'd send his men in first to confiscate everyone's weapons and cellphones; after eating, the patrons' belongings would be given back, and El Chapo would pick up everyone's tab.
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Originally thought to be a urban legend, the story was confirmed when a man was caught selling these oversized ferrets, also knows as "Brazilian rats," as toy poodles at a market, charging $150 for each pet, reports the Latin Times in a 2013 article.
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But if as a conspiracy theory, the story took on more weight than it could handle, over time, it also managed to lean more comfortably into the role of a more traditional urban legend, told with a wink and a flashlight under the chin.
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But from there, it explores meme culture — meme expert Richard Dawkins briefly appears to explain how viral myths like Slendy spread — and considers Slender Man's history as an internet urban legend, as well as the story's use of classic folklore tropes like the Pied Piper.
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In one scene, director Neil Marshall (The Descent, the upcoming Hellboy reboot) likens the shock of Leigh's violent bathtime murder to the urban legend regarding the audience for an early Lumière brothers film terrified by the approach of a celluloid train, believing it was real.
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Da Silveira seems to set up four choices for young women in her fictional town: they can be invisible; they can be aestheticized in death as martyred virgins; they can be beautiful, delicate survivors; or they can be imaginary, described only as fantasy or urban legend.
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The director, Charlie Kessler, says he pitched the Duffers in 2014 about a sci-fi series on the urban legend of the Montauk Project, based on his 2012 short film, Montauk, which was on Vimeo but has since been taken down after news of the lawsuit broke.
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When I'm asked what it's like to work on the show, I share the IT urban legend about an angry customer demanding that a technology vendor send its 10 best engineers to help the customer design a fix for a problem introduced by the vendor's hardware.
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Read more:These illustrations show what 9 classic fairy tales would look like in the modern world — and the predictions are genius The creepiest urban legend from every state You probably had no idea that there are secret images hidden in these 14 famous works of art
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I also loved how clean the grid was, as well as the entries SEE NO EVIL, ON THE DOT, FAMILY TREE, URBAN LEGEND, VOICE OVERS, AVANT GARDE, SIMON SAYS and MARRY ME. 10A: I had IRIS first for "Part of the eye," but the answer was UVEA.
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I was on my way to becoming some grotesque urban legend: the Murderous Missouri Single-Dip Mall Man, who was jilted at the altar and spent his remaining days killing young shoppers on their way to get their ears pierced at Claire's Fashion Jewelry and Accessories.
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One urban legend holds that whenever El Chapo wanted to go to a restaurant for dinner, he'd send in his men first to confiscate everyone's weapons and cellphones; after eating, his fellow patrons would get their belongings back, and El Chapo would pick up everyone's tab.
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The third-party sites Facebook is now using to assess articles shared on the platform are all part of Poynter's fact-checking network, and include the urban legend-debunking–turned–fact-checking site Snopes as well as news organizations like ABC News and the Associated Press.
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Urban legend has it that in 1895, when the Lumière brothers' "L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat" — one of the first motion pictures ever — was shown to an audience in Paris, some people ran away from the screen in panic, thinking the train will run them over.
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It instantly became both a cautionary tale and an urban legend; spawning the term "Genovese Syndrome" (also known as "the Bystander Effect"), which quickly entered the popular imagination as a defining quality of atomised urban life, and a moral indictment of anyone who stands by as an indifferent witness.
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Chekov was based on member of the Monkees … maybe There's a persistent urban legend that states Roddenberry created the character of Ensign Chekov after an editorial in a Russian newspaper criticized the lack of Russians aboard the Enterprise – after all, Yuri Gregarin was the first man in space.
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It is an urban legend that only exists in the realm of live performance these days, when one will invite the other on stage for four to six minutes of fruitless grinding, like two people trapped in a miserable marriage where they're still having sex but nobody cums.
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As a kid, you could sit cross-legged on someone's floor in total darkness, point a torch nicked from the kitchen up at the ceiling from under your chin and make it your mission to scare the shit out of your friends with a slow-building urban legend.
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Bryan: Cleganebowl has become the Game of Thrones equivalent of an urban legend: a fervent fan theory that eventually Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane (aka Cersei's gigantic zombie bodyguard) and Sandor "The Hound" Clegane (the burned warrior with the driest sense of humor in Westeros) will battle each other to the death.
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If you want to study the life cycle of a meme from a random internet post to a fully realized, culturally known concept — like watching an urban legend that might once have spread through generations of word of mouth, now punched into hyperdrive — you can't get much better than Slender Man.
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What happened next became international news and launched a piece of internet lore into real-world conversation: Geyser and Weier stabbed Leutner 12 times, then left her to die, in hopes that her death would make them worthy of becoming servants to a dark urban legend known as the Slender Man.
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A couple years ago, a young doctoral candidate at Columbia calculated there were 2 million, but the Department of Health didn't put much stock in his paper; all we know for sure is that that old line about there being as many rats as people in the five boroughs is an urban legend. Probably.
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Or how in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (1979), Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's retelling of a bloody Victorian urban legend, an exiled barber's love for the family he lost is transformed into a blind pursuit of revenge, with music in which gentle motifs of tenderness are devoured by thundering chords of rage.
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But while most of those questionable practices, from "arson science" to blood spatter and bite mark analysis, have put innocent people behind bars, experts say the shortcomings in the analysis of date rape drugs have likely let some suspects walk free — and have raised questions in the public's mind about whether date rape drugs aren't just an urban legend.
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These are the facts: The British-based Sky Arts cable channel is scheduled to broadcast a road movie speculating on what might have happened if, as urban legend has it, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando and Michael Jackson, who were all in New York when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred, drove together back to Los Angeles.
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Thanks to a poorly sourced news story, the power of Twitter to make something go viral, and the erotic allure of online outrage, an urban legend was born on Tuesday morning: that the $300,2000 Gal Gadot was paid for her starring role in Wonder Woman was pennies compared with Henry Cavill's alleged payment of $2150 million for 2000's Man of Steel.
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In this movie, the only young women who are "seen" (as in, noticed or noted by other characters, rather than just the camera) are the ones who are aestheticized after their deaths as bone-white virgins set amid a field of daisies, the beautiful survivors whose eyes remind boys of the eyes of the dead girls, and the imaginary ones who are described only as fantasy or urban legend.
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The pervasiveness of the Mountain Dew urban legend, and its resulting impact on teens' sexual behavior, could speak to a lack in access to birth control or accurate information on sexual health and human biology in the American education system: In 2008, lawmakers in Florida pushed for a more comprehensive approach for sex education following a survey that indicated teens believed drinking a shot of Mountain Dew would prevent pregnancy.
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Meanwhile, Dragon Quest Heroes, its sequel, and DQ X and XI are coming to the Nintendo Switch (though none have been confirmed for outside of Japan yet) — in fact, Square Enix was one of the first developers to support the platform, announcing DQ XI when Switch was still known by the codename NX. It's unlikely Dragon Quest will ever be as popular in the US as it is in Japan, where an urban legend persists that new entries are released on Sundays so that kids won't skip school to buy them.
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Whose take will hold more appeal depends on the reader's interests: In "Buzz," Hallie Lieberman offers a broader view, taking us back some 30,000 years, when our ancestors carved penises out of siltstone; moving on to the ancient Greeks' creative use of olive oil; the buzzy medical devices of the 19th century (disappointingly, doctors' notorious in-office use of vibrators as treatment for female "hysteria" is urban legend); and the impact of early-20th-century obscenity laws — incredibly, sex toys remain illegal in Alabama — before digging deeply into more contemporary influences.
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