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Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Ghost Kid Adoption | Your Urban Legends 33

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Society & Culture, Comedy, Learning, Drunkhistory, History, Alcohol, Urbanlegends, Gods, Educational, Folklore, Mythology, Legends, Myths

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We’re asking a lot of questions during this Urban Legends episode. Would you adopt a ghost kid? Which is scarier, corporeal or incorporeal? And can you predict the weather with PopTarts? Tune in to hear those age old questions and more!

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of train crashes, robbery, potential child endangerment, and hurricanes/blizzards/storms. 


Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott! Buy a copy and see our new lists of previous recommendations, guest books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books

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If you like Spirits, help us grow by spreading the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. You can support us on Patreon to unlock bonus Your Urban Legends episodes, director’s commentaries, custom recipe cards, and so much more. We also have lists of our book recommendations and previous guests’ books at spiritspodcast.com/books.

Transcripts are available at spiritspodcast.com/episodes. To buy merch, hear us on other podcasts, contact us, find our mailing address, or download our press kit, head on over to SpiritsPodcast.com.


About Us

Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sphere with the podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

0:03.9

Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

0:07.5

I'm Amanda.

0:08.2

And I'm Julia.

0:09.2

And this is episode 175, your Urban Legends number 33.

0:13.7

33.

0:14.5

Every time we say the number, I'm just blown away that we've done this many episodes of Urban Legends, but I love them so much.

0:20.6

I'm blown away that we are approaching episode 200. Yeah, that too. Wow. Okay.

0:26.4

We just did some content planning for the next few months. We're very excited about what we're going to

0:30.6

bring you. But I also think that we have to really do something special for episode 200,

0:35.0

don't you think? Yeah, I got to think about what I want to do

0:39.3

and what our listeners would like the most. If you have suggestions, this is the one time I'm going

0:44.4

to ask if you guys have suggestions, please tell me them if there's something special that you

0:48.9

want us to cover for episode 200. Oh, lovely. Oh, I can't wait. Oh, my gosh. And also, listen,

0:54.0

new patrons, you are just in time. Evan, Noel, Mickey, and Stephen. You are joining us when we love and need you all the most. And you're joining the ranks of such distinguished fellow patrons as our supporting producers, Landon, Nikki, Tyree, Megan, Deborah, Molly, Skyless, Samantha, Sammy, Neil, Jessica, and Phil Frisch.

1:11.7

Yes, and, of course, our legend-level patrons, the WWE champions of our heart.

1:17.3

Melena, Frances, Clara, Lacey, Brittany, Josie, Kylie, Morgan, BMEUPSCoddy, Audra, Chris, Mark,

1:24.2

Mr. Folk, Sarah, and Jack Marie.

1:26.4

You know, Julia, I'm a proud paying subscriber of Dropout, College Humor's streaming service,

1:31.1

and there was a question on, um, actually, which is like Jeopardy, but for nerds.

1:35.0

And I asked a question about WWE, and I knew it, and I felt so proud of myself.

1:39.2

What was the question? Now I need to know.

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