Please join me in welcoming and thanking new patrons Jerry Wang, Jacob Hunter, AJ Evans, Terry Burke Wallen, Nope, Nope, Toast, Maria Alvarado, and Jeff.

All patrons enjoy early commercial free access to all episodes.

Not to mention at the $7 and above level, you get immediate access to our entire bat catalog

of Patreon-only stories, which is, it's a lot. It's a lot. And if you're interested in

supporting the show a little bit more, there's also tiers that include logo merch. So if you'd

like to support the show and get rewarded for it, please check out the donation

tiers of patreon.com slash creepypod.

And speaking of merch, something I feel like I always forget to mention, we have a new merch

shop up and running with even more creepy logo merch, from stickers to shirts, the beer coosies,

the pillows and blankets, and more.

And if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just let me know.

And if it's an option, I'm happy to add it.

Just head over to creepypod.com slash store or creepypod.

Dotprintify.com to check out the selection.

No. No.

This is creepy.

A podcast dedicated to sharing the most famous chilling

and disturbing creepy pastas and urban legends in the world.

Whether these stories truly happened or are simply fabrications is for you to decide.

These stories may contain graphic depictions of violence and explicit language.

Listener discretion is advised.

For our first story this evening, when a small town's careless littering begins to result in strange changes to the local river,

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