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The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia.

And this is Janet Varney.

Janet, you're a podcaster, actor, comedian extraordinaire.

And you're here to think and talk about some spooky stories.

Thank you for joining us.

I'm so into it.

I can't wait.

Thanks for having me.

And I can't wait to find out what we're going to get up to this episode.

It is our pleasure and delight to have you here. I always like to ask when we have guests on for the

Urban Legends episodes. Did you have a hometown urban legend in your town growing up?

That's a great question. I, you know, the main one that was was very key for me as a young person was

my fourth through sixth grade school was a magnet school. It was a bilingual school and it was in

the beautiful Tucson, Arizona, Barrio. And there were a lot of rumors about, you know, what the school used to be. Like, people would say that it had used to be a hospital without ever getting into like any more detail. Like there was never more, you know, it wasn't like, you know, a mental health hospital. It wasn't like a, you know, young mother's hospital. It was just a sort of general,

like, it was a hospital. And they used to say that you could hear people crying when you flush

at the toilets in a certain girls room. Hold on. Amanda has a story related to that. Go on.

Uh-huh. So in the bathroom at our office right now, it's not every flush, but it's maybe every five to ten flushes. Because if it were consistent, I could get used to it and rationalize it away. But no, no. It is a unpredictable number of times. There is what sounds simply like a person screaming every time you flush a toilet. So maybe the

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