Maybe Ukrainians Are Just Creating An Urban Legend?
There are those who seem ready to disbelieve all reports of organ robbery, and who thus would likely consider the above story of organ robbery, perhaps preceded by murder as well, as an “urban legend,” as at
- The Folklorist thefolklorist.com/horror/organtheft_turkey.htm
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes
However, acknowledging that some organ-robbery stories are likely to be urban legends nevertheless leaves open several possibilities:
- quite simply, that other organ-robbery stories are true;
- that anyone interested in discrediting the true stories might do so by broadly disseminating false ones;
- that one way of creating an urban legend is to label a true story an “urban legend.”
I touch below on several reasons for thinking that the above story of a Jewish organ robbery of a Ukrainian may be true.
