Baby on the Car Roof and 222 More Urban Legends

Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend...of a Friend...of a Friend

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By Thomas J. Craughwell

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Baby on the Car Roof brings together 222 totally new, funny, quirky, frightening, bizarre and always entertaining urban legends. Urban legends or myths are dramatic and often humorous stories that circulate under the guise of truth and usually as having happened to “a friend of a friend” even though often they are entirely made-up. Organized by genre, each tale runs one- to two-pages long. Story variations are included in each listing. The subjects range from famous people, sex, office foibles and travel nightmares to college pranks, biological abnormalities and ghost stories.

On Sale
Sep 15, 2000
Page Count
272 pages
ISBN-13
9781579121471

Thomas J. Craughwell

About the Author

Thomas J. Craughwell is an author and problem solver. He traced the evolution of Manhattan urban legends (Alligators in the Sewer); sorted out fact from fiction in old wives tales (Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?); identified the patron saints of bloggers, vegetarians and hangovers (This Saint Will Change Your Life); and resurrected a long-forgotten story from 1876, when a gang of hapless Irish immigrant counterfeiters tried to kidnap the body of Abraham Lincoln–and almost got away with it (Stealing Lincoln’s Body). Tom lives in Bethel, Connecticut.

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