The Unquiet Dead
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week, we discuss The Unquiet Dead - Slavic spirits who cannot rest peacefully in death. Amanda proposes spring is the most haunted season. Julia yells about how you can’t control birds (or bird husbands!). Long leg, long neck, head cat...can’t lose?
This week, Julia recommends My Hero Academia.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about suicide, drowning, child death, sexual harrassment, sexual intercourse, blood, beheading, and some body horror.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.0 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.4 | And this is episode 142, The Unquiet Dead. |
| 0:11.1 | Yeah, just that title is going to get you all excited. |
| 0:13.4 | Oh, so good. |
| 0:14.7 | So creepy. |
| 0:15.8 | Like, we're not in October yet, but I'm ready for it. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm stoked. It's more sad than creepy, I feel like, but you'll see what I mean. |
| 0:22.5 | Well, this is one of the rare episodes where we record the intro before recording the episode. So, |
| 0:25.9 | listeners, you and I will find out together. That's always a plus. Do you know who I would choose to find |
| 0:30.7 | out really anything together with me, Julia, because they're so good and supportive? It's our new patrons. Our new patrons. Allie and Richard, you join the likes |
| 0:37.9 | of our wonderful patrons, including our supporting producer level folks, Philip, Eeyore, |
| 0:43.1 | Skyla, Mercedes, Samantha, Marissa, Sammy, Josie, Neil, Jessica, and Phil Fresh. Y'all just, |
| 0:48.9 | I want to have a prohibition cocktail with you. Uh, delicious. And I would absolutely pour |
| 0:53.4 | a cocktail for our legend level patrons. |
| 0:55.7 | Mark, Ayla, Cody, Mr. Fulk, James, Jess, Sarah, Sandra, Audra, and Jack Marie. I would even break out |
| 1:01.4 | the egg whites for y'all. Speaking of which, Julia, let me know, please, what beautiful |
| 1:04.7 | cocktails in front of me. Oh, well, obviously, Amanda, you have a lovely cocktail here. I didn't bring out the egg weights for this one, but it is a corpse survivor number two. I don't know what happens to number one, but number two is so good that I don't really need it. I'll tell you a little bit more about it once we get into the episode. I'm excited. Good. And would you please let me know something that you're reading, watching, listening to this week? Well, currently Jake is having me watch The Sopranos from Star |
| 1:28.0 | to Thanksgiving. I've never done before. Oh, it's the most Jake thing in the world. But that's not |
| 1:31.2 | my recommendation for this week. I'm going to recommend My Hero Academia, which a real good anime. |
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