Jan Harold Brunvand

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Jan Harold Brunvand is a retired American folklorist, researcher, writer, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah. He is best known for popularizing the concept of the urban legend through books such as The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings (1981) and Too Good To Be True (1999). His books became so popular that he was dubbed 'Mr Urban Legend'.

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Books by Jan Harold Brunvand

Real Ghost Encounters

Terrifying Tales of the Supernatural

By Rob Gandy

Introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand

A chilling paranormal collection of real-world mysteries and unexplained phenomena.

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