urban folklore

Describes urban legends involving animals, celebrities, food, government conspiracies, criminal acts, and gruesome events, discussing their origins and the reasons such myths proliferate.

Details an assortment of urban legends and horror stories and discusses how they originated. Includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Discusses urban legends, written with simple text and photographs, and includes an overview of various urban legends, and examines tales that include alligators in the sewer system, exploding Pop Rocks candy, and others.

Presents alphabetized summaries of urban legends, commenting on their origins and the extent of their proliferation; also includes articles on themes such as urban legend styles, the symbolic approach, and violence in urban legends.

Is it possible to shoot a cowboy hat off a person's head? Is it possible to break out of an Old West jail with simple horsepower? Discover the truth behind the urban legend of a car thief and a lethal side airbag.

In this episode the team tries to beat radar-powered speed cameras. Can a car actually go too fast to be caught on camera? Also, find out if a defibrillator and a nitro patch can cause an explosion.

Can you build an actual lead ballooon that floats? You will find out in this episode.

In this episode the team aims to find out if a truck full of birds weighs less when the birds are in flight and to see if it is possible to crash a boat and split it down the middle if the boat is only traveling at 25 mph.

Presents nearly fifty urban legends, arranged by themes such as food and nature, and discusses their sources and levels of truth.

After fifteen-year-old Kenny Maxwell's family moves into a crumbling Victorian house in 1977, Kenny discovers a mummified baby and a plea for help in the carriage house. When a girl named Luka introduces him to the backward glass, a mirror that allows time travel, Kenny begins using it to try to save the baby. The more he uses the glass, however, the more convinced he becomes that Prince Harming, a supposed urban legend that kidnaps and kills children, is hunting him, and his time is running out.