The kid knowledge is "authentic" because it was generated by rando kids or adults over time and was handed down kid to kid through the generations. The "tunnel" story is almost certainly a jumbled up version of what was more or less an adventure story from the War of 1812, which was coincident with the founding of Ohio and Geauga County. An early county official stashed documents in Rocky Cellar to keep them safe from the British and Indian mercenaries of the British. Eventually that turned into a "tunnel to the courthouse".
The melonhead story is just a monster story, maybe about kids with hydrocephalus who lived near Wisner Road in Chardon, Township. It got embellished over the years to become a fantastical tale of a "mad scientist" run amok who was then destroyed by his creation, which is just a jumble of horror movie tropes.
Kids are motivated to tell and listen to stories for entertainment purposes, so the stories are lean on facts and more about being "cool" or interesting exercises of imagination. They also draw upon well worn story tropes and archetypes. I am guessing there is very little "kid knowledge" left of that kind. Instead it's turned into memes and funny stories and images on the Internet.
I think the contemporary source of authentic folklore, or authentic human expression is the Internet, and specifically things like youtube videos made by actual randos, rather than astroturfed imitations of that generated by "ruling class" agents. Youtube is currently, far and away, the most watched entertainment medium.
The entire corporate entertainment industry is often a version of astroturf "folk lore" creation. The news is a version of that. PBS, NPR, etc... are just more versions of that. Essentially it's all a sales pitch from the "ruling class" about virtually every topic and is mainly meant to shape public opinion, or impose mind models that favor the ruling class or at the very least just impose their rando religious opinions on myriad topics.
Let's take the topic of "race relations" as an example. In the 70s and 80s, there was a constant drumbeat of government and "ruling class" propaganda about black and white race relations in the US, and a big effort to get white people to think "racism" was absolutely the worst sin and that anyone who had a racist opinion was absolute trash. I think that social engineering effort peaked in the 1990s with Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central, which was a huge hit and which treated the topic comedically and nonchalantly.
The main thrust of that propaganda isn't that "race relations" can be fixed or solved, it's actually that black people need the government to propagandize white people and "manage" the two groups, just like the blacks need the government for welfare, public housing, police at their beaches, their pools, and high school football games, etc... because they're dysfunctional basket cases.
In the early 2000s through today, though, lefty political people got extremely aggressive about the subject, so even the entertainment propaganda got extremely heavy handed and the concept of "DEI" started to show up all over the place. The concept shifted from the 70s/80s notion of "white and black people should learn to get along" to "white people are bad", which is also part of the management pitch. Blacks are such basket cases, they need to be "included" in the white culture through various programs, and white people will otherwise accidentally keep the blacks oppressed by being more functional as a group.
That propaganda ran headlong into the Internet and youtube, which casually crushed it for a large segment of the white audience. White lefty women and men are the only people who are still onboard with the ruling class propaganda from the 70s to the early 2000s about black people, and in many cases, those white shitlibs live in a world of total nonsense and severe cognitive dissonance. For example, they live in extremely white areas, but imagine that somehow a "diverse" neighborhood is preferable, until they drive through black Cleveland, Ohio, and lock their car doors and drive as fast as possible to get back to civilization.
Anyway, I think it's not possible to keep imposing folklore on people. Eventually they notice it's fake garbage, which would probably indicate that all respect for "the ruling class" and their opinions is being lost.
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