Julia's Haunted Painting | Your Urban Legends 85 w/ Jeffrey Cranor
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes you buy a haunted painting and have to tell your friends. And sometimes you have to tell your guest a bunch of haunted theatre stories once they get back from tour. Thankfully we have writer and podcaster Jeffrey Cranor on to discuss all of those things!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of traffic accidents, death, child death, vomiting, fire, mannequins, sex, surgery, and teeth.
Guest
Jeffrey Cranor is the co-creator and co-writer of Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires. He also co-creates theater and dance pieces with choreographer/wife Jillian Sweeney. They live in New York.
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- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editor: Bren Frederick
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman
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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 Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.3 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.5 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.5 | And we are joined by one of our favorite spookiest friends. |
| 0:41.4 | Jeffrey Kraner, welcome to an Urban Legends episode of Spirits, which you've never joined us for before. |
| 0:46.9 | I have not. |
| 0:47.9 | Thank you all for having me. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:49.9 | It is our pleasure. |
| 0:50.6 | It feels like you are sort of an expert in like weird hometown happenings nowadays. |
| 0:56.0 | So it makes sense to have you here for a hometown urban legends episode. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm excited to, I'm excited to talk about weird things in hometowns. It's very good. |
| 1:04.5 | Jeffrey, I don't know if we've asked you this on the show before, but is there a particular like urban legend urban legend or story that you think was, like, |
| 1:12.4 | unique to your hometown that you grew up with or you just remember, like, hearing through |
| 1:16.8 | the grapevine? In my head, I think this story exists beyond just my hometown, but when I've |
| 1:22.4 | told it to people, nobody recognizes it. So if your listeners recognize this story as something from their hometown, I would be very |
| 1:30.3 | curious to see if other people had heard it. |
| 1:31.9 | But my stepbrother had told this to me when I was younger, and he had said that there |
| 1:36.8 | was kind of out in like Terrell, Texas, like East Texas, there was train tracks out there. |
| 1:43.0 | And if you took your car up to the train tracks and you put it in |
| 1:47.7 | neutral right on the train tracks, it would start to roll off of the train tracks. And the trick was right |
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