Legend Has It: A Halloween Special with "Killer Legends" Filmmaker Joshua Zeman

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True Crime, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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It’s spooky season, campers, and what’s a better way to celebrate than to dig into some urban legends? You know the ones we’re talking about—the razor blades in the Halloween candy, the call coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE, Bloody Mary in the mirror. That kinda stuff. We all have our favorites. But what happens when the legend comes true? Do some of these stories have roots in real crimes? Well, we’re gonna find out—and who better to help us than Joshua Zeman, award-winning director of our *favorite* true crime documentaries, "Killer Legends" and "Cropsey?" This is “Legend Has It,” a Halloween Special Event.Legend: Poisoned Halloween CandyTrue Case: The Man Who Ruined Halloween, Ronald O'BryanLegend: The Bunny ManTrue Case: The Murder of Doreen ErbertLegend: A Corpse in the Haunted HouseTrue Case: Outlaw Elmer McCurdySources:"Killer Legends," 2014 documentary film by Joshua Zeman for Chillerhttps://medium.com/@crimewaffles/william-michael-dennis-the-murderer-in-the-wolf-mask-4ec6ebeb8f59https://research.fairfaxcounty.gov/local-history/bunnymanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Manhttps://research.fairfaxcounty.gov/local-history/bunnymanhttps://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/books/where-s-elmer.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376097471/the-long-strange-60-year-trip-of-elmer-mccurdyhttps://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/elmer-mccurdy/https://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/04/11/the_corpse_of_elmer_mccurdy_and_how_it_ended_up_in_a_long_beach_fun_park.htmlJoshua Zeman: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0954722/Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfireFacebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://gramha.net/profile/truecrimecampfire/19093397079Twitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comMERCH! https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:22.3	It's spooky season campers and what's a better way to celebrate than to dig into some
0:26.4	urban legends.
0:27.9	We know the ones we're talking about, the razor blades and the Halloween candy, the
0:31.4	call coming from inside the house, Bloody Mary and the Mirror, that kind of stuff.
0:36.5	We all have our favorites, but what happens when the legend comes true?
0:40.5	Does some of these stories have roots in real crimes?
0:43.3	Well, we're going to find out.
0:45.3	And who better to help us than Joshua Zeman, award-winning director of our favorite true
0:49.9	crime documentary, Killer Legends?
0:52.7	This is Legend Has It, a Halloween special event.
1:10.6	So campers, today we have one heck of a special treat for you.
1:14.5	If you're a true crime obsessive like we are, the chances are you have seen and enjoyed
1:18.3	the documentary films Killer Legends or Crop Sea or the A&E series The Killing Season
1:23.9	about the Long Island serial killer or the Netflix series Sons of Sam about the crimes
1:27.9	of David Berkowitz, they're all fantastic and they're all the work of filmmaker Joshua
1:32.2	Zeman, who I met recently when we were both guests on the confessional talking about
1:36.5	satanic panic and who we have the privilege of hanging out with today, him and his dog,
1:41.2	which is a bonus.
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