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A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone. Please be advised. Sewers have long been the subject of urban myths.

The dark uncertainty of what is under

the surface has been fodder for many scary stories and nightmares.

Tales of mutant monsters that lived in the sewers have persisted. nightmares. terrorizing a city by stealing food from the merchants there.

In New York, it was rumored that pet alligators

that had grown too big for their owners

were flushed down the toilet to dwell in the waterways and

tunnels of the sewer. There they turned white from lack of sunshine and fed on

the multitude of rats growing into giant beasts.

In the UK, their version of the sewer monster, called the Black Swine of Hampstead originated during the Victorian era.

Legend told of a pregnant pig who wandered into a sewer and gave birth

feeding her babies from the trash that flowed into the sewer

tunnels. The numbers of pigs began to grow and because of the inbreeding each

generation was more deformed and monstrous than the last.

They fed on plague-infested rats and grew more ferocious and violent until one day they turned on each other

and began to cannibalize the weaker pigs. As the plague raged on, more and more human corpses found their way into the sewer system.

And the pigs developed a taste for human flesh. The only thing keeping the pigs from coming up from the

sewers was a waterway and rumor was that it would not last for long with the pigs growing stronger every day.

Of course, nowadays we can all laugh at the fantastical aspect of these urban legends.

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