Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 202, the 50 scariest urban legends from each state. Julia, sometimes making this podcast with you is like I was searching the internet and just like scrolling my timeline, looking for like an article,

you know, or a listicle or like something that I would really enjoy that I would see and be like,

oh my God, did they write this for me? But you do it every week. And this is absolutely how this

episode felt. Oh, Amanda, thank you. It was such a fun thing to like explore all of the different

states and the different options there.

And getting to pick really was kind of difficult when it came down to,

okay, well, this state has five really good urban legends.

How do I figure out which one to tell?

But I feel like I chose ones that are both creepy, but also on brand for us.

Absolutely.

And if you know of a great urban legend from a state that we didn't cover here, write in. Tell it to us. We can use it in one of our upcoming Your Urban Legend episodes. I know. I love when people send in their urban legends, especially when it's like personal to them and they have experience with it. I think we made a call to action about one in particular from Chicago that I'm hoping someone will write about.

Absolutely. And I know, Julia, that Lucy, Rachel, Livy, Chris, Sabine, and Liz, our newest patrons would write in the moment they hear a great urban legend.

Oh, absolutely, because our patrons are the best. They are the best. We also want to thank our supporting producer level patrons, Philip, Alicia,, Alice, and Deborah, Hannah, Jen, Jessica Keegan, Nieselkins, Landon, Megan, Megan, Megan, Moon, Molly, Neil, Nikki, Phil Fresh, Polly, Riley, Sarah, and Skyla, as well as our legend-level patrons. Audra, Chelsea, Drew, Eden, Francis, Jack Marie, Lada, Mark, Morgan, Necrofancy, and BMEY up Scotty.

Every one of you, I hope, gets to experience an urban legend firsthand, if that is your wish.

Absolutely. Maybe you don't want to, but maybe you do.

I get that, you know, experiencing the creepy stuff is much different than hearing about the creepy stuff.

But I know there's some of our listeners out there who like to experience creepy things. So if that is your wish, I hope it happens to you.

Absolutely. Now, Amanda, what have you been watching, listening to reading? That also might be a

creepy recommendation for our listeners. This is more like in the way that the real world is often creepy, but in a way that is also fun and not demoralizing, which is a hard line to tow these days.

I would like to recommend the podcast Scam Goddess, which is a fantastic podcast all about scams and scammers. It's wonderful. The host has guests like Trixie Mattel and

various people you might know and love from like podcasting and also comedy. Recommended to me by Tracy

Clayton, who is the co-host of Multitude's newest show, My 90s playlist. We made it in partnership

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