I'm a lot of I'm a Mour I'm going to be. Welcome at the 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 I'm Julia and

Amanda. It is hometown, Urban Legends Time. Let's buckle in. Let's lock it in. I am excited. I am

stoked. I find that summertime is when I want to be telling scary stories. Like even, we all know

that I'm getting ready for spooky season. Like,

I'm already locked in for spooky season, right? Oh, yeah. But I think summertime and telling

ghost stories over a campfire and everything like that is the appetizer to spooky season. It is

the amuse bush to spooky season. It is the prologue to spooky season. It is the orchestral opening to a musical of

spooky season. Call in Queen. Damn, you woke up on the lyrical side of the bed this morning.

I truly was just trying to remember what it's called when the orchestra plays before a Broadway

musical and I kept coming up with other things. And I was like, come on, go on Overature, that's it. That's it. Nailed it. Nailed it. I love it. And as usual, you create something beautiful in the quest to do something you've already done before. Julia, do you have an urban legend to start us off with today. I do. I have a couple of, for Amanda's in the crowd and also for us, this episode is coming out right after we did our wholesome Urban Legends episode last week.

And I did have a couple that I had chosen where I'm like, well, the spookiness on these is very light.

And then I didn't realize how scared Ronald was going to be by even the simplest of things.

So these ones kind of made it to next week. Love it. So here we go. We have the wholesome entree,

or shot, if you will, and the spooky chaser. That's how we like to do it here on spirits.

Exactly. So I have an email here from Maddie, she, her, titled Finding Great Grandma's Wedding Ring.

Okay. Can't be that bad. Can't be that bad. She starts with, hey, creepy cool folks, your call for emails has finally motivated me to write in with some family stories.

Myself and a few of my family members have had some paranormal experiences with which I

have never been able to dismiss. First, my own experiences. I've had some chilling low-stakes

visits from my grandfather and my dad each about a week after their passing. Both times I swore I heard my name being called,

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