Ep. 103- Real Urban Legend: Cropsey and Willowbrook State School
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ash talks about wtf was going on in Staten Island in the 80's?! The legend of Cropsey was passed amongst all the area's children, he was an escaped mental patient from Willowbrook State school, a mad-mad with a hook for a hand that abducted and murdered children. But the legend began to feel a little bit less like a legend and more like truth when children actually started disappearing. She also talks about the infamous Willowbrook State School. A young Geraldo Rivera exposed the horrid conditions that these people who had been discarded by society, people with severe mental and physical disabilities, were living in.
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| 0:00.0 | Basically, the legend of Cropsey said that there was like a madman in Staten Island who kidnapped and murdered children. |
| 0:09.0 | And Andre Rand would do just that. |
| 0:13.0 | So in that way, he was the real life Cropsey. |
| 0:16.0 | That is so fucked up. |
| 0:19.0 | It's fucked up. So fucked up. It's fucked up. |
| 0:22.4 | So fucked up. It is just so damn fucked up. |
| 0:27.4 | That's fucked up. |
| 0:33.9 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:35.3 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:36.9 | This is That's So Fucked Up, a podcast about cults, murder, and other generally fucked up stuff. We're your hosts. I'm Ashley Richards. And I'm Michelle Mosier. Yeah, you are. What's up, girl? I've never loved saying who I am more in my whole life than I do when we do this podcast intro. |
| 0:55.0 | It's pretty exciting. I don't know if we've done any kind of intro for you, like who you are or |
| 1:01.9 | about you. I don't think I've ever done that. Have I ever done that about me either, though? |
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| 1:45.5 | looking for someone to do at least three of those four things with. And that could be one of |
| 1:50.1 | you lucky listeners. Um, she also loves selfies and emo music. God, that's so true. I know two things about you for a fact. |
| 2:05.1 | It's those. That's fair. I love a good selfie. And literally, if you look at all of the art in my |
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