Jan Harold Brunvand is an American retired folklorist, researcher, writer, public speaker, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah.
Jan Harold Brunvand
Benjamin Radford and Jan Brunvand at the 2014 American Folklore Society conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jan Harold Brunvand trying on a pair of ski goggles on his 75th birthday
Urban legends is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual or humorous event that many people believe to be true but largely are not.
Colchester Overpass, the site of the 1970s urban legend of the "Bunny Man", said to be a man or ghost in a rabbit costume who attacked people in the area
The purported "haunted cemetery" of Bachelor's Grove, located in the suburban Chicago area, here photographed in infra-red