America's foremost folk-detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant. In "The Baby Train", Jan Harold Brunvand tracks the most fabulous tales making today's dinner party circuit, showing why those stories that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true. Revealed here are the mysteries behind some of the goriest ("Accidental Cannibal", "The Body in the Bed"), funniest ("The Failed Suicide", "The Hairdresser's Error"), bawdiest, ("The Shocking Videotape", "Superhero Hijinx"), most pyrotechnic ("The Exploding Bra") urban legends yet.
- ISBN10 0393034380
- ISBN13 9780393034387
- Publish Date 17 April 1993
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 7 December 1994
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English