Legends 45: The Only Thing to Fear

Lore

Aaron Mahnke

True Crime, Ghost, Folklore, Legends, Supernatural, Paranormal, Lore, Monsters, Myth, History, Spooky

4.6 • 46.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The legends that fill our world often give us good reasons to be afraid. But there’s one thing most of us fear above all else, and when it succeeds in defeating us, the results can be terrifying.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and research by Cassandra de Alba.

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0:30.7	Welcome to lore legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper in the dark,
0:37.2	even if they can't always
0:39.2	be proven by the history books. So if you're ready, let's begin.
0:48.3	It was the greatest archaeological find in Chinese history.
0:56.4	In 1974, a group of farmers uncovered shards of terracotta pottery buried deep in the earth.
1:02.7	They didn't know it at the time, but they had just discovered the tomb of China's very first emperor.
1:08.8	Known for uniting the warring states and starting construction on the
1:12.7	great wall of China, Emperor Qin Cher Huang is a borderline mythological figure in Chinese history.
1:19.4	And in 210 BCE, once his long tenure had finally come to a close, the emperor was laid to rest
1:25.6	in a subterranean chamber built to mimic his palace,
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