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Text Urban myths or Urban legends? 1L ondon has the most work of underground tunnels in the world. But for some inhabitants, the tunnels are more than just convenient – they live in them. The London Subterraneans are a race of people who live beneath the streets. They're human, but they don't speak English, and they have their own customs. Occasionally, a few of e to the surface. They only appear at night through the drains in a dark backstreet , and if they hear footsteps , they hide in a dark alleyway and e out when it's quiet again. And before sunrise, they go back under ground. Very few Londoners have seen them, but the friend of a friend has seen them several times . Text 2 True story? Probably not. It's a classic example of what's called in many languages an urban myth. An urban myth is a story you hear by word of mouth . It usually describes something which might have happened, an apocryphal, second-hand story told as if it were true, just about plausible enough to be credible, about some event which has supposedly happened to a real person . Factual or not, it's likely to rely on expert storytelling and on a trustworthy source, such as "It happened to my brother's friend's mother". Text 3 However, some academics claim that urban myths are not really myths. According to them, a myth is a story which held some religious or spiritual significance for those who told it or listened in the past to it, and which contributed to the expression of shared beliefs and values . However improbable a myth might be, it's always true for those who belong to that culture from which the es. Text 4 So should we use the term urban myths? Let's look at one of the most durable of urban myths, The Vanishing Hitchhiker . The basic story is that of a driver alone at night on a dark, country road, who sees a young woman hitchhiking . The driver stops and offers her a lift. Soon the driver drops
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