421: The MAD GASSER and more URBAN LEGENDS

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Comedy, Tv & Film, Arts

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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It takes a brave podcast to cover some of the most frightening URBAN LEGENDS of all time! The Lincoln Imp! UNSETTLING similarities between the JFK and Abraham Lincoln assassinations! The Mackenzie Poltergeist! The MAD GASSER OF MATTOON! ...Household names, I know. We're not afraid. [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Version⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources & links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] Pick up Will's new audio drama ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WAR OF THE UNDEAD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Audible⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TellEmSteveDave.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and watch ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠THE TROUBLE WITH TESSA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Screambox⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Get this episode AD-FREE on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For more, cruise through our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Imp https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=af8668c601a579bd&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIetBXe9Do9DAuamxeB-puw_bMnselTPfftQDHnnTEt3AZWvq8M65iG9VMlKidVO46wZAgiurSJSzh6nVQp8N35QgpdTqjX2KAToqH2c3YfkuVFwebqliyBaA-OT3r8eF5fIXbvlJPjQkQ5Ds1Mg7DBhqBb6IWljt52bIYamD_4LaOoQZJUQ&q=lincoln+city+football+club+poacher+the+imp&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV8O_gsq6RAxVIhYkEHeAcJNsQtKgLegQIFhAB&biw=1920&bih=919&dpr=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Red_Imps_F.C. https://wildinart.co.uk/events/lincoln-imp-trail/ https://www.lincolnmuseum.com/about-us/history-of-the-usher-gallery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Kennedy_coincidences_urban_legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Repeats_Itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheb_Wooley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_legends#M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mackenzie_of_Rosehaugh https://curiousedinburgh.org/2024/10/10/greyfriars-kirkyard-and-the-mackenzie-mausoleum/#:~:text=He%20presided%20over%20numerous%20trials,were%20not%20such%20a%20threat.&text=As%20well%20as%20his%20legal,Wikipedia:%20George%20Mackenzie%20of%20Rosehaugh https://www.timberbush-tours.co.uk/news-offers/the-mackenzie-poltergeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon#cite_note-Bartholomew1-1

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0:00.0	You could be bitten by a ghost under your clothes?
0:04.3	That sucks.
0:10.0	Hello, welcome to Guide to the Unknown.
0:12.2	I'm Kristen.
0:13.0	And I'm her little brother William.
0:15.1	And we are back in the Wikipedia page for Urban Legends, crawling through those ABCss and we've made our way all the way
0:23.2	down to the L's and M's this time. That means we're almost about halfway. I know.
0:27.5	Theoretically, at least halfway through the alphabet.
0:29.9	Crazy stuff. So if you don't know the deal, here's the deal. We love talking about urban
0:34.4	legends. Urban legends have a particular definition. However,
0:38.7	Wikipedia can be edited by anybody. So there's this massive list of so-called urban
0:42.9	legends. We thought it would be fun to go through them all. And so we have been doing just that.
0:48.1	Most recently, we talked about urban legends in episode 410. Yep. We even have a page specifically for all of our urban legend conversations.
0:57.3	It's scary fun.
0:58.4	Dot fun slash urban legends.
1:01.1	Yep.
1:01.3	So if you go there, you'll be able to see a list of every single episode we've done previously.
1:05.5	Click on those and just zoom right to them and listen to all of them.
1:08.5	So much fun.
1:09.3	So much spooky stuff, weird stuff, sometimes topics that we wouldn't traditionally cover or even know about. Oh, absolutely. It's been great. Yes. My stuff in particular, I mean, it's bafflingly. Like, we would never, ever stumble across these things. Yeah. Yeah. Without this resource. I guess mine, it's not impossible that we could. Okay. But I wouldn't see us covering them otherwise. Yeah. Yeah. This is... So it's been wonderful to use this kind of as a tool to cover weird things. It's fun. It makes us somewhat blameless if the topics in a given episode are particularly weird or stupid.
1:46.1	It's out of our hands.
1:47.2	It's out of our hands.
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