Urban legends are, in a basic sense, anecdotes that people share with one another, akin to jokes or tall tales. But although many urban legends are humorous in nature, they typically serve a ...

It was an innocent question posed by a student a few years ago that revealed to me the dirty laundry underneath our pristine white lab coats of authority — chemists have a set of urban legends ...

In his 2017 book Legendy Miejskie Warszawy (Warsaw’s Urban Legends) the writer and draughtsman Marek Dąbrowski says that the legend of the Black Volga is, by far, the ‘most popular’ Warsaw urban ...