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Folklore, Fear, and What Lurks After Dark, Part One | The Grave Talks

Real Ghost Stories Online

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Natural Sciences, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Every town has a story everyone knows.

A ghost that appears along a lonely road. A figure seen standing just beyond the tree line. Something that lives in the woods, the swamp, or the space people avoid after dark. We hear these stories growing up, pass them around like warnings or dares—but rarely stop to ask where they came from… or why they refuse to disappear.

In this episode, we explore the uneasy space between folklore and fear with Micah Campbell, author of Urban Legends, Ghost Stories and Folklore. Together, we dig into the origins of the stories that shape our collective nightmares—urban legends, cryptid encounters, and ghost tales that feel too specific to be coincidence. Are they cautionary tales? Misidentified encounters? Or fragments of truth buried beneath generations of retelling?

From vanishing hitchhikers to monsters lurking just out of sight, this conversation asks a simple question with uncomfortable implications: what if some of these legends started because something actually happened?

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0:00.0

Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation about urban legends, ghost stories, and folklore, a new book by Micah Campbell.

0:10.3

We've all heard those stories that seem to be passed down. Maybe it's a haunted hitchhiker, a ghost everyone knows about that haunts a cemetery.

0:19.8

Maybe it's something more nefarious like a monster

0:22.2

that people have reportedly seen in a nearby forest or swamp. We've all shared those stories

0:28.4

and we've all heard those stories. But do we really know the truth? Do we really know what

0:35.1

goes bump in the night? Do we really want to?

0:39.1

What is the truth behind those spooky legends?

0:42.8

I'm Carol Hughes, and on this episode of The Grave Talks, we'll explore urban legends,

0:48.4

ghost stories, and folklore, a new book from author Micah Campbell.

0:53.6

Micah, thank you so much for being on the show today.

0:56.3

Look forward to talking to you about this book because I've had fun reading it.

1:01.3

Well, thank you so much for having me, Carol.

1:03.0

I am really looking forward to diving into it.

1:06.7

I like talking about myself, but I also like talking about ghost stories.

1:10.6

So I think it should be a blast.

1:13.1

That's right.

1:14.3

So I like to know people's background.

1:17.6

And with you writing a book like this, when did the interest in the paranormal supernatural, when did that enter your life?

1:27.3

When you were a kid, is it something that you just

1:29.6

got curious about later in life? Well, you know, that is a really good question. I get asked,

1:35.2

I get asked that a lot. And I kind of have to rethink it every time to try to figure out when

1:41.9

it started. I have to say, and this has been my answer before, but I have to figure out when it started.

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