Cheetos as a Supernatural Explanation | Your Urban Legends 72
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What was that noise? Just the pipes, right? WRONG! We talk about cleaning up paranormal messes, clearing up a haunting by flushing a toilet, and of course, the supernatural explanation: Cheetos.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of colonization, body image, home invasion, divorce, and pregnancy.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | M. |
| 0:05.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:32.9 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:36.7 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:37.6 | And I'm Eric. And this episode 311, our hometown urban legends for November, baby. |
| 0:43.5 | It's so weird coming off a month of urban legends and then being like, all right, and now we're |
| 0:48.8 | back to urban legends. I love the urban legends episodes. So it's like a little treat after we've |
| 0:54.1 | had a big meal of treats. Me too. And it's like a little treat after we've had a big meal of treats. |
| 0:55.7 | Me too. And it's like leftovers, Julia, the day after a big feast. Maybe a day where, you know, |
| 1:02.0 | colonists oppressed native people and now we have turkey instead. But seriously, this is a time |
| 1:07.0 | of year where a lot of us are either going home or beginning to go home or making trips |
| 1:12.3 | to see family and friends. And I especially love doing these hometown episodes in liminal places |
| 1:19.4 | and times of year where it's, listen, it's dark early going home, got to deal with your parents, |
| 1:24.3 | food and body shit. That's just me. But it seems like a good time to tell some ghost stories about where we grew up. |
| 1:29.2 | Speaking of returning home and experiencing your childhood town usually through a different lens, |
| 1:35.8 | I have a email from Eva titled Yet Another Creepy Childhood Haunting. |
| 1:42.3 | Yay! |
| 1:43.4 | Yet another creepy childhood haunting has kind of become |
| 1:46.2 | the premise of hometown urban legends episodes I feel like. We got another one. Yeah. But guys, |
| 1:52.3 | it's so good. And may I say, too, if you are traveling to your childhood home this weekend, |
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