The Spookiest Story We’ve Ever Told | Your Urban Legends 56
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This is it. This is the one. Potentially the spookiest story we’ve ever told on this show. In fact it is the ONLY story of this episode. That’s how good it is. Trust us, you won’t be disappointed. Presenting: The Shuddering of Creekside Mushrooms.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of corrupt law enforcement, racism, dangerous working conditions, disappearances, scientific experimentation, Alzheimer’s, sharks, insects, migraines, mining and mining accidents, animals in peril, dissociation, memory loss, politics, human sacrifice, and pandemic.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:05.3 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. |
| 0:09.3 | And I'm Julia. In this episode 256, your urban legends, number 56, oh, look at that. |
| 0:14.1 | Guys, it's the spooky story we've ever told. And normally we don't like open up with a content |
| 0:19.2 | warning. I'm going to tell you right now, if you are |
| 0:21.3 | walking alone in a German forest, if you are walking alone on like the wind-swept planes or like home |
| 0:27.4 | from the bus stop and if you were to like narrate your story back to us in an email and if we would |
| 0:32.2 | yell at you, don't do something spooky right now. Don't listen to this episode right now. It's very spooky, guys. It's very spooky. It's very good. It's also all one story. That's how good the story is, |
| 0:41.9 | is that this entire episode is a single story. A single story. It's that good. Listen, I feel like |
| 0:47.3 | we should leave it there because I don't need to overhype it. Just like come on this journey with us, hug a step to animal, hug a pet, you know, hug a friend, |
| 0:54.5 | and we're here for you. I'm almost apologetic that this came out after Halloween, but you're |
| 0:59.3 | welcome that it exists in your life now. I know. It came hot into the inbox and we had to do it, |
| 1:04.4 | frankly. Truly. Well, it's spooky season all year round for us. And you know why, Julia? Because I didn't even stop to let you guess, |
| 1:14.3 | because we know, we've been excited about this for months. The Spirits Tarot deck is here. |
| 1:17.9 | I just have to say it. I have to say it. It's here. It's here. Oh, God. It's so good. |
| 1:28.8 | Zoe Palanda Ryder illustrated the 22 major arcana cards for us. They are full illustrated. There is a prominent mothmans, but the three of us are the fool. Guys, if you know anything about tarot, you are going to love this. And I'm sorry to say it, |
| 1:33.9 | but it's true. They are in limited quantities. Okay, we had it. We did like a, it's a limited printing. |
| 1:37.6 | If we can reprint them again one day and they sell out, we will try to, but things in the world are taking a long time right now, as you may have read. So if you feel like, oh my God, it's a spirits tarot deck, I need to have it. You got to check it out. Spiritspodcast.com slash merch. Pick it up. Seriously, Zoe, did such an incredible job. And I am super proud that we were finally able to make this. Thanks to, in part, our incredible patrons. Thanks to our patrons, it was a goal for a number of patrons |
| 2:01.6 | that we got over on the Patreon, and they made it happen, and then we made it happen. So thank you |
| 2:06.0 | to every single one of you who is a patron, particularly our newest patrons, Almighty Neptune, |
| 2:11.2 | Bailey, Kristen, ooh-l-la, and Alice. You join the ranks of our supporting producer-level patrons. Alicia, Brian, Deborah, Hannah, Jack Marie, Jane, Jessica Stewart, Nieselkins, Megan Moon, |
| 2:20.6 | Phil Fresh, Captain Jonathan, Malachi, Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, Theo, and Zazi, and the legend-level patrons. |
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