Welcome to the Urban Legends Hotline, where we investigate the mysterious tales of your hometowns

and the cryptic stories that passed through the lockered halls of your schools

to get to the haunted heart of the urban legends you grew up hearing and maybe even telling.

Today we are covering the hippie babysitter Baby Roast.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber-Smith.

And from one friend of a friend to another,

this is American hysteria.

So when I was a teenager in the 90s, my entire economy was built through babysitting.

So I babysat for families at church, my teachers, everyone.

It's the way I earned money to buy a car. And an urban legend that I heard was that once in a few

towns over, there was a girl who was babysitting for a family she regularly babysat for, but she

let her boyfriend come over, I guess, and hang out.

And he brought drugs.

I don't know what drugs, but, you know, drugs.

And they did the drugs.

And then they went about their business babysitting.

So the girl put the chicken in the oven that the mom asked her to do for dinner,

and she put the baby to bed, and she got her boyfriend out the door so she could normalize

herself before the mom returned. And legend has it that when the mom got home, she asked how

everything went and the babysitter replied, it went great. And the mom said good. She checked

on the baby. And in the bassinet, there was a raw chicken wrapped up in blankets.

And so the mom rushed downstairs and discovered the babysitter, put the baby in the oven.

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