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Hi listeners, I'm Margot Seibert and I have a story I want to tell you.

A story about friends who discover why urban legends should remain legends.

So gather around and listen, close.

My great uncle John was the first person who told me about the subway stalker.

He'd been obsessed with it for as long as I can remember.

I mean, he was into all the cryptids.

You know, big foot, moth man, the jersey devil, stuff like that.

But I think the reason he was so obsessed with this one was because it was local.

I wasn't super close to him, but whenever he used to babysit my sister in me,

he would tell us about this thing that lived in the subway tunnels and lured people onto the tracks.

He said it would mimic the voice of someone you knew,

tricking you into coming closer and closer until boom, a train runs you down.

The creature, my uncle said, was like an amalgamation with several eyes, arms and heads and more claws than you can count.

Park human, park beast, all monster.

Looking back, I don't think he should have been sharing that stuff with kids

because afterwards I started having bad nightmares about a monster,

luring my family down there and eating them.

And though the person who got eaten would change,

like sometimes it was my sister, other times it was my mom or dad,

the one consistent part of the nightmare was that the monster would always have

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