368: Your Urban Legends LXXXVI (with The Reading Party Podcast)

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

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

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

From haunted doors to haunted castles, this urban legends episode is sure to have SOMETHING that would scare a child version of yourself (or an adult version, who are we to judge!). Also ghost sharks, dub-step hating ghosts, and spooky text message alerts.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, vomiting, violence, creepy dolls, accidental death, and sharks.

Guests

Megan Lewis and Lexie Henning are the hosts of The Reading Party Podcast, where they read, watch, snack & chat their way through books and films set in the ancient world.

Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

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

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, Welcome to Spirit's
0:29.4	Spirit's Podcast, a Boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.
0:32.8	Every week we pour, drink, and learn about a new story
0:35.2	from around the world.
0:36.3	I'm Amanda.
0:37.3	And I'm Julia.
0:38.3	And we are so pleased to have our new friends Lexi and Megan on the show.
0:42.0	Lexi, Megan, welcome,. Lexi Megan welcome tell all the
0:43.6	conspirators who you are and what podcast you make. Thank you so much for
0:47.4	having us. I am Megan I am an Assyriologist so I specialize in the
0:52.2	cultures, languages languages literature of ancient
0:54.3	Mesopotamia I run a YouTube channel and I host the Reading Party podcast
0:59.0	with Lexi which is an ancient media inspired podcast review kind of thing.
1:05.4	We get together and we talk about books, films, TV shows inspired by the ancient world.
1:10.9	Season 2 is coming out on starting 16th of January and we will be looking at ancient Egypt which is neither of our speciality so we've bugged a whole bunch of our friends into coming and helping us record that. But my other projects I run the
1:26.3	Digital Hamrabi YouTube channel which is Mesopotamia focused and I also
1:30.2	host a New Testament podcast called Misquoting Jesus.
1:35.4	So I spend a lot of time reading a lot of ancient stuff.
1:39.0	It's the best life I could have.
1:40.8	That honestly, sounds like the dream. We love it and I am Lexi I am the other half of the
1:46.8	reading party podcast which was a really fun thing that we decided to start
1:50.8	because we'd complain that we didn't you know do enough with the ancient
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