Urban Legends are part of our American cultural heritage, everyone has heard at least one. They're essentially fictional oral stories that are told as if they were truth, in folklore Legend denotes fiction told as truth. Alligators in the sewers and escaped maniacs with hooks are scary propositions, but they are simply stories. The morals of Urban Legends are simple, don't be a teenage making out in the isolated woods, you'll have a stiff penalty (perhaps death by hook) The power in the Urban Legends is the 'this could happen to you' aspect. They are warnings, morality tales, and some are just silly stories. Like Urban Legends other kinds of stories and art are construed as truth. Photographs, film, stories, magazine articles, digital images, and just about everything else. These mediums can never depict reality as we experience it, they take imagery (stories) out of context. The perception of truth impacts the power of a work on the view/reader. The more someone believes in a story the more they are impacted by it. Writers and directors have long tried to get their audience to suspend their disbelief. I have presented these Urban Legends in a way that questions their truth as well as the truth in their presentation. By questioning the reality of the Urban Legends we are questioning the reality of the mediums representing them.