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 key in realizing that what you are going to hear is probably untrue.

When I was in second grade, a famous legend was passed to

me, the story of the ''well to Hell''. Re

much debate among the Christian community, and was repeating

of the vanishing hitch hiker. Most versions of the story are told of a

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