Topics include death, sex, horror, crime, contamination, beating the system, new technology, ethnic stereotypes, and celebrity rumors. Urban Legends are told by groups of people to make a point about another group. They reflect the fears and concerns of the group that tells them. Farmers and city dwellers tell Urban Legends about each other, as do doctors and patients, whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, women and men, kids and adults, motorcyclists and non-cyclists every group has its own collection of Urban Legends. It came from unspecified sources.
Real incidents have real names, dates, and places that can be verified.