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Listing 44 stories.

A curious woman attempts to get to the bottom of an urban legend in her town.

A man is forced to reconsider his suspicions of superstition when a racketeer decides the man is good luck.

Urban legends about a popular folk hero get passed on through the years as human beings colonize outer space.

A researcher delves into the story of a small town ravaged by unusual violence. When tigers massacred the townspeople and hoards of children disappeared into the woods — never to be seen again — the survivors of the event and the generations that came after seek answers and reflect on their history, as well as the prevalence of tigers in their culture and mythology.

A middle aged man becomes the talk of the town when he shares a crazy story regarding his missing friend and creatures that live beneath a water pump house.

A native Brooklynite helps a big man get to Boisenhoist, a section in Brooklyn. However, as the two converse, the native Brooklynite becomes more and more wary of the other man's antics.

After a couple is carjacked one evening in a Los Angeles neighborhood, the wife becomes increasingly paranoid and cannot return to normal daily life.

While conducting research in the remote country of Keteng, a Stanford grad student hears that another American has entered the country and is challenging the power structures in place.

When a kind, upstanding family man is misidentified as a rapist, he begins to wonder if his longtime community and friends will believe him or the accuser.

Short bursts of inexplicable silence envelope an unnamed city and its residents, inspiring self-reflection and—much to their surprise—contentment.