4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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We’re all over the place in this one, both in terms of content and geography. From Scandinavia to Alaska, we’re questioning your choices left and right when dealing with the supernatural. It’s a fiesty one, folks!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of possession, death, disturbed graves, science experimentation, zombies, violence against women, animal death/butchery, threat of animal attack, pandemic/Covid-19, feces, and curses.
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- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin. Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
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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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| 0:00.0 | 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. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 206, your urban legends, number 41. So many urban legends. Just, you know, we say that literally every episode. I feel kind of bad saying it, but it just blows me away that we have had the |
| 0:21.2 | opportunity to read so many excellent stories sent in by our listeners. Yeah, Julia, and as I |
| 0:27.7 | sometimes search the inbox for keywords, because I'm really feeling like doing theater |
| 0:30.8 | ghost, you know, our creepy child or whatever, seeing the fact that people have been sending |
| 0:34.0 | us these emails since 2017 is totally amazing. And conspirators, we are so |
| 0:38.8 | grateful that you take the time to write creepy-ass emails to us. It is absolutely wild. And we |
| 0:43.4 | appreciate every single one. We read everyone, even if we don't read them on the show. We absolutely |
| 0:48.5 | do. It's the best part of my week. I creep myself out sometimes. So I'd like to do it first thing |
| 0:52.3 | in the morning before I get to my work emails for the day, which is great. And do you know what else is great, Julia, to see |
| 0:58.0 | first thing in the morning? A new patron. A new patron notification email. Key, thank you so much for |
| 1:03.5 | joining us or Kai. It's a great name, whichever way you pronounce it. We really appreciate you |
| 1:07.8 | joining. And we appreciate our supporting producer level patrons alicia |
| 1:11.6 | Allison deborahanna jenn jessica kegan measles london liz megan linger megam moon phil fresh |
| 1:17.7 | polly riley sarah scyla and the campy vamp oh gosh all of these good good names it's just it's like |
| 1:24.1 | it's like a it's like seeing a bunch of friends on a zoom chat, just being like, oh, hey, you're all here. |
| 1:28.6 | Great. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank you for coming, everyone. |
| 1:30.7 | Absolutely. |
| 1:31.1 | And I just feel like like the ending, like this cadence is just, it's melodic, beautiful. |
| 1:36.3 | And thank you, too, our melod Jack Marie, Lada, Livy, Mark, Morgan, Necrofancy, Renegate, and B.M.E. |
| 1:45.1 | up Scotty. |
| 1:45.8 | Ah, it is like a song, a siren song, you know, making sure that we get to make our art the way we want to make it. |
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