431: Melonheads & More Urban Legends

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Comedy, Tv & Film, Arts

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Could these urban legends stories possibly be true? The Legend of Mae Nak, a (frankly nice) ghost La Mala Hora, the succubus of New Mexico Oh and the MELONHEADS! ...It's kinda a whole thing. OH! And ⁠get tickets for THE DEVIL & DAISY DIRT ⁠coming to the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center THIS WEEKEND! [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Version⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources & links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] [More URBAN LEGENDS] 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/List_of_urban_legends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Nak_Phra_Khanong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0z3Lfmtw8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGNiW-Mp8Qc https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/mexican-monstresses-la-mala-hora/ https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/la_mala_hora.html https://www.americanfolklore.net/la-mala-hora/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_(Spanish_singer)#2005%E2%80%932008:_Urban_legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_heads https://www.clickondetroit.com/features/2017/01/18/the-legend-of-the-michigan-melon-heads/ https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/Danbury_Frog_People https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/haunted-connecticut-ghostly-tales-and-eerie-legends/amp/

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0:00.0	We love to other people.
0:01.4	Yes.
0:01.8	We love it.
0:02.4	Yes.
0:07.5	Hello, welcome to Guides the Unknown.
0:09.5	I'm Kristen.
0:10.2	And I'm her little brother William.
0:12.2	And once again, we are diving into the Wikipedia page of Urban Legends to see what the M's have in store for us.
0:19.3	It is happening again.
0:37.7	It is happening again. It is in our house now. That's right. William, how did you find your legends this time? I ended up going, I'm a globe traveler now. Really? I don't know if you could tell by looking at me, but I'm well traveled. You do look different. You look tan. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for noticing.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:38.2	Yeah. No, these urban legends took me pretty much all around the globe. Nice. And I'm just going to go ahead and get ahead of it right this moment. Uh-huh. I have tried to look up the pronunciation of many of the words I will be saying for the remainder of the episode. And quite frankly, I heard many different people pronounce these words a variety of ways.
0:57.1	Look, then what can you do? of the words I will be saying for the remainder of the episode. And quite frankly, I heard many different people pronounce these words a variety of ways.
0:57.2	Look, then what can you do?
0:58.7	All you can do is like pick one and stick with it.
1:01.1	All I can do is once again wear the cone of shame and admit that I am a fool.
1:07.7	And I'm just doing my best.
1:09.4	But boy, the scary stories that I've got today are very, very fun, very fun. Oh, excellent. How about you? So I ended up being very surprised by what I'm bringing to the table. You were reading and he went, oh, oh, oh, I'm surprised. Oh, I'm surprised here. You know, we usually end up covering a few different subjects. Sure. A few different bullet points on the Wikipedia Urban Legends page. I end up sticking with just the one because there was a lot going on there. Really? Yeah, I wasn't expecting that whatsoever. Well, that's unusual. Very, very much so. And it's a topic that I think just a couple of people over the years have said to us, oh, hey, why don't you cover this? And I was like, it seems like kind of like a bummer. And it's, it is in a way. That's okay. But there was a lot there. It's the melon heads. Oh, okay. All right. Well, we watched that Bradley Whitford video. Oh my God.
2:01.2	Wow.
2:02.5	Wow, you're right. He did become a melonhead.
2:04.1	There was this, this Halloween.
2:06.1	Yeah.
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