Snopes/Funny
- An untentional example appears on the Horrors page. On the website, various icons represent the topics being discussed, such as the Grim Reaper for the "Murdering Madmen" section and the skull and crossbones for "Poisoning" legends. What's the icon that represents "Parental Nightmares"? Elmo!
- In one article about Dear Abby getting pranked by a letter based on the plot to an episode of The Simpsons, Barbara admits that she once pranked Ann Landers (Abby's sister) with a letter based on an urban legend, and she fell for it.
- Many of the "phallus on an innocent label/poster/drawing" myths are usually this
- "Children, especially small ones, don't easily grasp small differences — to them, a news story about illicit drugs having been discovered inside a Barney doll during a police raid is likely to be understood as drugs having been found inside Barney the television star himself. Given that to a small child, everything they see of Barney happens to him on camera, the story would quickly flesh out to the dinosaur's having been arrested while the cameras were rolling, the police appearing on set to pull the drugs from his tail and haul him off in dino-cuffs."