Urban legends are stories which are passed by word of mouth (and more recently email and fax). The stories are untrue, although some have a kernel of truth to them or seem like they could be true. Each legend generally has myriad variations, and is told as having happened to a distant-but-not-too-distant acquaintance, the apocryphal "friend of a friend." Here we will take a look at some of the more famous ghostly urban legends.
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This page (http://www.ghosts.org/faq/ulintro.html) last updated April 13, 2005.