Listener Stories: Local Myths, Folklore, & Urban Legends

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this story we present a collection of local myths, folklore, and urban legends that have been sent in to us by our listeners around the world!
The origins of these stories range from Austria, England, Canada, and a few in the United States. This episode is a mixture of tales and urban legends including a sadistic murderer, a mythical suicide pool, the haunting of the water babies, the foul smelling Honey Island Swamp Monster, as well a number of other supernatural and paranormal events.
Thanks to our listeners Raphaela, Thomas, Cody, & Kate for sharing your local urban legends with us!
Also big thanks to fellow podcast hosts Jordan, Ryan, and Sam for sending in their own stories as well. Check out their podcasts and give them a listen when you have finished with this episode!
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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to the Strange Matters podcast.
0:25.0	Here at Strange Matters we discuss anything that is bizarre, mysterious, and unexplained.
0:31.0	I am your host Sean and for this episode we are presenting a collection of
0:35.9	local myths, folklore, and urban legends that we have been collecting from our
0:40.2	listeners.
0:42.8	In our previous listener-based episode, we were asking for our listeners to send in their
0:47.5	own personal, creepy, and paranormal encounters, and we got some pretty good stories. For this episode we got even more feedback
0:54.8	so big thanks to everyone who shared with us some of the interesting tales from
0:59.2	where they live from around the world. We even got some stories sent in to us from fellow podcast from our dark myths collective
1:06.8	which is pretty awesome. The Dark Myths collective is a group of like-minded
1:10.8	podcast with genres ranging from mysteries, paranormal, and history.
1:17.0	So if you were looking for some other podcasts to listen to, check out the whole lineup at
1:20.8	darkmouths.org
1:23.4	With all that said that's get started and present the first listener story of the
1:26.7	episode.
1:31.1	The first tale was sent into us from
1:32.9	Raphaela from Austria and she writes
1:36.7	It's not really an urban legend but a story that Austrians keep telling each other and that is believed to be true.
1:45.0	In the early 50s there was an Austrian couple owning a nice house in the countryside
1:50.0	caring well for their 16 year old daughter and their loyal dog a German Shepherd.
1:55.0	One day they told their daughter that they would go on vacation for the first time without her
2:01.0	happy about the freedom and independence she was looking forward to the time alone.
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