Las Vegas can be a pretty scary place, and not just for the reasons — eerily hypnotic video poker machines, vanishing home values, those zombielike smut peddlers on the Strip — you’d imagine.
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Kanab is a town of fewer than 4,000 souls, but they live in spectacular surroundings. Within a 90-minute drive from Kanab, Utah, you can stand on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, hike the hoodoos at Bryce Canyon National Park, hit the trails at Zion National Park, squeeze into a slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument or shove off onto the waters of Lake Powell.
Call it the Vegas Added Plausibility Effect, the way any urban legend somehow seems more believable when it’s set in, or otherwise involves, Las Vegas. The phenomenon can be found all over the Internet on urban legend and modern folklore sites that tell stories about dead bodies found at Strip hotels and tales of absurdly lucky gamblers.