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Myths and Legends

294-West African Folklore: Spirited Away

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, Arts, History, Books

4.825.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The story of Moremi Ajasoro from modern-day Nigeria has love, loss, and, of course, evil forest monsters.

The creature is the Van Meter Visitor, a dinosaur that was apparently stinking up the Old West.

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The newspaper article for the creature and the disclaimer: https://myths.link/294

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you fascinated by unexplainable crimes, conspiracies, and fringe culture?

0:08.0

Well, step into the crawlspace.

0:10.1

From tales of survival and deepfakes to synchronicities and cryptosuology, crawlspace is a podcast

0:16.4

that brings you weekly stories of the mysterious, harrowing, and bizarre.

0:21.3

Search crawlspace wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:24.6

Crawlspace, where crime meets culture.

0:28.7

For a brief disclaimer, there's stronger than usual violence this week, as well as

0:32.6

a woman becoming the captive of a leterous, evil man.

0:36.8

With, unfortunately, everything that that implies, we don't get explicit at all, but I just

0:42.6

wanted to let you know that it's there.

0:44.1

Please follow the link in the show notes or check out the post on mythpodcast.com for more

0:48.2

information.

0:49.6

This week, on myths and legends, it's a story from West Africa about love, sacrifice,

0:55.1

and violent spirit monsters raiding your village.

0:58.3

The creature this week is a smelly tyrannodon, menacing turn of the 20th century America,

1:03.3

and why the Old West was a dangerous place for dinosaurs.

1:12.9

This is myths and legends, episode 294.

1:16.4

Spirit it away.

1:22.1

This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.

1:25.5

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins.

1:30.0

Others have stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening.

1:33.8

Today's story comes to us from the Eurobo people, and it's set in modern day Nigeria.

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