Hometown Urban Legends
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
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4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Your hometown defines you - the stories you hear end up being the stories that you tell through the rest of your life. This week, in honor of heading home for Thanksgiving, we bring you the urban legends we grew up with! From haunted asylums, to spooky roads, to demonic possessions, hear the stories that got us into the creepy & cool early on.
Hear our take on Sweet Hollow Road, Kings Park Psychiatric Center, and the Amityville Horror, classic stories from our childhood home of Long Island, New York. For more creepiness check out these haunting and beautiful photos of Chernobyl.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast Episode 22, hometown urban legends. Oh, man, I'm so excited, actually. |
| 0:05.8 | We haven't really shared any personal stories yet. So I'm super stoked about this. And we're from a |
| 0:09.3 | weird-ass place. Yeah, we are. On the island is like, on the one hand, totally vapid of culture. |
| 0:14.2 | And on the other hand, like in the, in the middle of so many, like New England, New Jersey, you know, immigrant stories, New York City lore. |
| 0:22.6 | It's a pretty cool place. |
| 0:23.7 | I think everyone's got sort of their own, their own hometown urban legends and |
| 0:29.8 | folklore and stuff. |
| 0:30.6 | And I just guess you don't hear about them until you really dive into it. |
| 0:35.6 | Exactly. |
| 0:36.2 | And something that you think is really normal to you and your friend |
| 0:38.8 | group, you suddenly, you know, in college or in the workplace, bring up to someone, they're like, |
| 0:42.8 | what are you talking about midnight, you know? And yeah, I mean, this is a week of homecoming for a lot of |
| 0:49.3 | our U.S. listeners. Not everyone, you know, goes home for Thanksgiving. Not everyone likes it. |
| 0:53.2 | It's not always an easy holiday. Not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving. Exactly. But one thing that we all |
| 0:58.4 | do have in common is that we all have hometowns. And we thought it would be very cool to share |
| 1:02.2 | with you some tales from ours. Yeah. So if you are going home for Thanksgiving and you have a |
| 1:09.2 | hometown story that you want to share with us or if you're not going home for Thanksgiving, you want a hometown story that you want to share with us. |
| 1:11.3 | Or if you're not going home for Thanksgiving, you want to share a little slice of your home |
| 1:15.1 | with us. |
| 1:15.6 | We just like hearing from you. |
| 1:16.5 | Please help. |
| 1:17.0 | We need. |
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