Halloween Double Feature | Your Urban Legends 113

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

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

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Since it’s the week of Halloween, we’re breaking out a DOUBLE FEATURE URBAN LEGENDS EPISODE. There’s hauntings. There’s watery footprints. There’s a mysterious pit. Plus, it ends up being a haunted smells-centered episode, much to Amanda’s delight/fear.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, racism, drowning, abusive relationships, insects, child endangerment/death, murder, gun violence, family member death, and animal endangerment.

Housekeeping

- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books

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- Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com

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Cast & Crew

- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin

- Editor: Bren Frederick

- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod

- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman

- Multitude: multitude.productions

About Us

Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The I'm going to be. Welcome to Spirits podcast to boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:36.1	I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia.
0:38.2	And Amanda, it is another hometown urban legends episode.
0:41.4	But this one is special, I want to say.
0:44.0	Why is it special, Julia?
0:44.9	What makes it different?
0:45.9	It's the spooky season one.
0:47.6	Yay!
0:48.8	We are so blessed when we have a five episode drop for October for spirits. Like it truly is when we have a five Wednesday
0:57.1	October, I feel really blessed personally. Yes. So because we already had a bonus urban legends this
1:02.9	month with Myana, who is a fantastic guest, I wanted to give us an even chunkier urban legends
1:10.0	episode because this is coming out the week of Halloween,
1:12.7	Amanda.
1:13.2	Exactly.
1:14.2	Everyone needs even more spooky stories to get them to the end of the week Friday,
1:20.6	where they can then really indulge themselves and all the spooky things for Halloween.
1:24.4	Julia, should we challenge the conspirators to listen to this episode
1:30.3	in the most sort of aesthetically pleasing way possible, like while trick-or-treating or making
1:36.8	mold cider or watching the leaves fall? I, yes, I think that you should listen to this episode in the spookiest setting you possibly can.
1:47.1	Maybe you're waiting online for a haunted house.
1:49.5	Maybe you are drinking mold cider next to a fireplace while you watch the leaves fall outside of your window.
1:57.2	Maybe you are watching trick-or-treaters go by and you're handing out candy and there's also
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