201: 50 Scariest Urban Legends from Each State
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Your state might be spookier than you thought. For Halloween, we’re rounding up the scariest urban legends from all 50 states! Listen to find out what state is haunted by a horse, which is haunted by a pickup truck, and which is most likely the plot of a Scooby Doo episode.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of infancide/child death, abduction, starvation, death, drowning, tuberculosis, anxiety and mental illness, shipwrecks, imprisonment, mind control, colonization, cave-ins, suffocation, beheading, car accidents, striking pedestrians, poisoning, animal death, violence against women, suicide, scientific experimentation, government conspiracy, hurricanes/natural disasters, bullying, teeth, and omens of death.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.7 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:10.1 | And this is episode 202, the 50 scariest urban legends from each state. |
| 0:14.4 | Julia, sometimes making this podcast with you is like I was searching the internet |
| 0:17.9 | and just like scrolling my timeline, looking for like an article, you know, or a listical or like something that I would |
| 0:23.9 | really enjoy that I would see and be like oh my god did they write this for me but |
| 0:27.2 | you do it every week and this is absolutely how this episode felt. |
| 0:30.5 | Oh manna thank you it was such a fun thing to like explore all of the different |
| 0:35.9 | states and the different options there and getting to pick really was kind of |
| 0:39.6 | difficult when it came down to okay well this state has five really good urban legends. |
| 0:44.3 | How do I figure out which one to tell? |
| 0:45.7 | But I feel like I chose ones that are both creepy but also on brand for us. |
| 0:50.0 | Absolutely, and if you know of a great urban legend from a state that we didn't cover here right in and tell it to us we can use it in one of our upcoming your urban legend episodes. |
| 0:59.6 | I know I love when people send in their urban legends, especially when it's like personal to them and they have experience with it. |
| 1:06.4 | I think we made a call to action about one in particular from Chicago that I'm hoping someone will write about. |
| 1:11.5 | Absolutely, and I know, Julia, that Lucy, Rachel, Livy, Chris, Sabine, and Liz, |
| 1:17.3 | our newest patrons would write in the moment they hear a great urban legend. |
| 1:21.5 | Oh, absolutely, because our patrons are the best. |
| 1:23.6 | They are the best. |
| 1:24.6 | We also want to thank our supporting producer-level patrons Philip, Alicia, |
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