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Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

353: Your Urban Legends LXXXII - Most Haunted House Competition

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

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

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got goosebumps, which is the perfect way to start off the spooky season! We’ve got haunted libraries, a really scary visitor to a house, and a competition for whose house is most haunted.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of home invasion, demonic possession, death, explosions, illness, and murder.

Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends community gardens, especially McCarren Demo Garden!

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

- Call to Action: Check out Tell Me About It!

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Find Us Online

- Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com

- Patreon: patreon.com/spiritspodcast

- Merch: spiritspodcast.com/merch

- Instagram: instagram.com/spiritspodcast

- Twitter: twitter.com/spiritspodcast

- Tumblr: spiritspodcast.tumblr.com

- Goodreads: goodreads.com/group/show/205387

Cast & Crew

- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod

- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman

- Multitude: multitude.productions

About Us

Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Baaa! Baaa! Baa! Baa!

0:30.0

Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy diamond to mythology, legends and folklore.

0:33.8

Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a news story from around the world.

0:37.4

I'm Amanda.

0:38.4

And I'm Julia.

0:39.4

And Julia, I'm coming in with some late-breaking news.

0:42.0

I have not spoken to you about this, that I get your true reaction here on the show.

0:47.4

You may know that I moved apartments last month, and the new one is almost set up.

0:52.7

And something I've discovered about this new place is that there is an all-black cat

0:56.8

that sits on the fire escape and just watches what's going on.

1:01.0

Now, I've seen them on the neighbor's fire escape, not yet on mine.

1:05.9

But I do, is it bad that I want it?

1:09.0

Is it bad that I want him or them or her to come sit and guard me?

1:14.2

No, I love that.

1:15.2

That's someone's familiar and the sooner that you get more familiar with that, the better.

1:22.5

I hope so.

1:23.8

I hope that she eats well.

1:25.5

There are some other fire escapes with gardens on them.

1:28.0

There are a lot of doves and pigeons flying around.

1:33.2

Now, Amanda, recently we were talking about how you have a fire escape outside your window,

1:39.3

which is like kind of like Juliet Balconi-esque, I would call it.

1:42.7

And we were talking about whether or not you were going to put some plants on that fire escape.

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