INTRODUCTION

My reasearch project is at the core about urban legends. Urban legends are basically myths, or anything passed down by word of mouth whose origin is unclear, and validity is uncertain. These type of tales range from ghosts, to monsters, to ouija boards, to just everyday precautions that should be taken "just in case". Every person on earth has both heard and told an urban legend; maybe without realizing it. Any form of gossip you pass around, or the reason for a mysterious death. Truth be told, we as human beings love them. But why? That is the question that I intended to answer when starting this project. However, the answer may not surprise most of you: Life can be utterly BORING! We all need something interesting to talk about. We literally feed off of stories like leeches. All of us like to think that there is something else out there besides ourselves, and thats the type of thing that urban legends lead us to question. Mystery is prime in piquing interest in all of us, keeping life a little more interesting than it originally would have been.