In 1974, Ronald Clark O’Bryan took out a $40,000 life insurance policy on his 8-year-old son Timothy before lacing the boys ...

Every Halloween, parents are warned to keep a close eye on their children's candy because of past incidents of candy being poisoned.

Urban legends are a barstool currency, traded among sports fans to inform and debate but mostly to entertain. Many of them are surreptitious in nature and border on the apocryphal, such as Michael ...

Glen Powell recently shared a shocking story about his sister’s friend who went on a date with a cannibal. The only problem with his story? It sounds like an urban legend that dates back to at least ...

LEWISBURG — Urban legends and local myths are less about historical truth and more about the meanings people find in them, according to Bucknell University Associate Professor of Anthropology Clare ...

In every state, urban legends have been scaring residents for years, and they can mean big business for local economies. Here ...