De-smystification

In the Ear Hustle podcast “The Tunnel,” one of the key points is the necessity to de-mystify local myths concerning the deaths of black prison workers; this can be translated to any given myth in which people actually died violently and sometimes out of their control.  The question I pose would be: which would be better; to have people’s stories more coloquially known through myth or to tell the real story and potentially not be as well known?  Or would the possibility of it not being widespread even be a risk?