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The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world, as we've been doing for almost

10 years, Julia. It's our first episode of 2026. We started the show in 2016, also famously,

a terrible year. So I am just going to hype us up every episode this freaking year because we've

been doing this almost 10 years. Yes, we have. You know, it's been 10 years. And like, sometimes I feel the

lag and then sometimes I discover an episode that I'm like, holy shit, I can't wait to tell

Amanda about it. Part of that is I really love digging into local history, right? Especially how it

pertains to stuff that I personally find really interesting.

Honestly, if you think about it, that's how our Urban Legends episodes got started.

I wrote up about some local urban legends and ghost stories from Long Island, and then people

started telling us their own urban legends and ghost stories.

So I am really grateful every time I get to

dig into a Long Island legend or some folklore or something like that. But every once in a while,

Amanda, I tend to go down a little bit of a rabbit hole just to see if there's anything new

or spooky or interesting that I can dig out of Long Island.

Who else doing weird shit in Long Island this year? Huh?

There's definitely people doing weird shit in Long Island, but maybe not for the best, you know?

So something I came across in my research recently was from the Three Village Historical Society on Long Island,

which makes up the general area of like

Satakit, Stony Brook, Oldfield, and Piquot.

Why is it four villages called Three Village?

I don't know.

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