The Spooky Beginnings | Your Urban Legends 1
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
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4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
You sent them, we read them! In this episode of Spirits, we read out your creepy, vaguely horrifying, usually fascinating hometown urban legends and folklore. From Ouija board mishaps to creepy goat-legged ladies and grandpas who love scaring their grandkids, we had a blast sharing your stories with the world!
Julia recommends the gorgeous audio drama, The Far Meridian. Amanda recommends this week the work of Tana French! Find out more about this week’s myths: Donkey Lady, Bloody Bones, The Female Stranger, Devil’s Chair, The Jersey Devil, and Poinciana Woman.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, Episode 36, Your Urban Legends with Eric Schneider. |
| 0:05.2 | Guys, I'm so excited about this. It's going to be a lot of fun. You guys sent in some |
| 0:08.8 | real good stuff. So a few months ago, we asked you to send in your urban legends and hometown |
| 0:12.9 | folklore and y'all showed up. We showed up. We got dozens of emails with great stories, |
| 0:18.9 | so many that we had to share some of our favorites. Yeah, yeah, yeah. so many that we had to share some of our favorites yeah yeah yeah |
| 0:21.4 | we decided that we had to share the fun so we invited editor eric to read some with us and as always |
| 0:26.9 | happens when eric is on the show we got super super super silly so buckle up because you might hear |
| 0:31.8 | your hometown story read to you by our very sultry voices but first they're super sultry housekeeping |
| 0:37.4 | recommendation corner first amanda okay So what have you been listening |
| 0:41.8 | to slash watching slash reading this week? So I've been reading Tana French Mysteries. |
| 0:47.0 | She is like an Irish mystery novelist. I just today came back from vacation, which is great |
| 0:52.7 | to see you, Julia, but very sad to be back |
| 0:54.2 | from vacation. |
| 0:55.1 | It was very, very relaxing. |
| 0:56.2 | And there's nothing I love more than sitting by a pool reading a thriller or a mystery |
| 1:00.5 | novel. |
| 1:01.4 | And Tana is my favorite. |
| 1:02.8 | She is, like I said, Irish. |
| 1:04.4 | There's lots of, like, great Irish slang. |
| 1:05.9 | It's all like, it's called the Dublin Murder Squad, the series that I love. So it's just like lady detectives often in Ireland solving very, very good mysteries. |
| 1:15.0 | It's great writing. |
| 1:16.0 | It's sometimes a cult A.F. |
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