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also urban myth
as in hearsay
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What to know about the Louisville urban legend Where did the Pope Lick Monster come from?
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Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2024
John Hsu To avoid getting kicked out of the underworld, a ghost joins a small haunting talent agency and sets out to become the scariest urban legend of them all.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024
Advertisement These stories have all the earmarks of urban legends ....
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
Starring Virginia Madsen as a graduate student studying urban legend, this emotionally fraught ghost story uses the Cabrini-Green housing projects of Chicago to examine Black marginalization, the cycle of violence, and racial identity as portrayed through the lens of the white savior complex.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
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Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2024
John Hsu To avoid getting kicked out of the underworld, a ghost joins a small haunting talent agency and sets out to become the scariest urban legend of them all.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024
Advertisement These stories have all the earmarks of urban legends ....
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
Starring Virginia Madsen as a graduate student studying urban legend, this emotionally fraught ghost story uses the Cabrini-Green housing projects of Chicago to examine Black marginalization, the cycle of violence, and racial identity as portrayed through the lens of the white savior complex.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
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