345: Your Hometown Urban Legends LXXX - Crocs on Rocks (with Niki Grayson)

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Crocs on rocks! We’re joined by Niki Grayson to explore your urban legends: a shapeshifting, Crocs loving tanuki, and the fae teaching a baby Calculus.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of animal death, murder, mental illness, animal injury, nudity, death, child death, and car accidents.

Guest

Niki Grayson is a brand manager, community builder, and content creator. They are one of the hosts of If You’re Driving, Close Your Eyes.

Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends Traitors Australia!

- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books

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About Us

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	I'll see you in the next video.
0:30.0	Thank you so much for having me. I'm so amused to be here.
0:50.0	We are so pleased and you're going to be joining us for an Urban Legends episodes, which is personally one of my favorites because I love reading other people's creepy experiences.
1:01.0	I would prefer not to experience creepy things, but for people who have experienced them. Always good time.
1:07.0	Do you have any particularly creepy stories that have happened to you at all growing up, Nikki?
1:14.0	I know you're in California now. Did you grow up there as well?
1:17.0	I did grow up here, born and raised in Los Angeles. My creepiest, it's just kind of a scary story to tell in the dark if the dark is camping.
1:29.0	One time I was in cabin on like an outdoor edge camping trip with my middle school. I was in like, maybe I was in like the ninth grade somewhere in there like eighth ninth grade.
1:41.0	I was in the cabin and it was just like all of the boys were in the single cabin. I had a top bunk at the wall.
1:51.0	I just heard a bunch of skittering in the wall, which was like, no good.
1:56.0	An absolute fundamental to me. That's not, you can't do that. You're just not actually allowed to make noises inside of the wall.
2:05.0	So I was like, at first, for the first like 15 minutes, I was like, maybe I'm like, maybe maybe like because because nobody else.
2:14.0	Because nobody else could hear it. Strong opener.
2:18.0	Yeah, I started there. I was like, there's the only hand, the only options are I might be dying because nobody else could hear it.
2:26.0	And then I had to convince someone to get in the like, I got out of the bed. I convinced somebody to get in the bed.
2:31.0	And I just like stood there in the dark looking up and being like, do you hear anything? And he was like, no, I don't hear.
2:38.0	And then he heard the skitter again. He was like, oh, yeah, that sucks.
2:41.0	Oh, yeah, that blows me on later.
2:44.0	Yeah, it sucks. Yeah. And then he left and was like, you figure it out. So I slept on the floor that night.
2:50.0	The next morning, we found a bunch of dead bats.
2:54.0	Like had like, there was some sort of conflict between a bat and some sort of animal that occurred inside of the wall.
3:02.0	And the aftermath was just outside of it outside of the wall when we came out of the cab in the following morning.
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