Urban Legends - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/8/26
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4.1 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
George Noory and author Belle Zimet discuss paranormal urban legends, why ghost stories are so fascinating, and explore some of the most popular urban legends like the stories of Bloody Mary, the Vanishing Hitchhiker and Resurrection Mary in Chicago.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.3 | And welcome back, my friends. |
| 0:10.7 | The coast to coast. |
| 0:11.6 | George Norrie with you. |
| 0:13.0 | Bell Zimitt with us is the author of Urban Legend series of fictional anthology |
| 0:17.6 | using dual historical and modern day timelines to explore the origins of popular |
| 0:23.1 | campfire tales a ghost and history enthusiasts Halloween lover like us and overall spooky |
| 0:30.6 | maven she even seeks to absorb and spread more stranger things with knowledge. Belle, welcome to the program. |
| 0:39.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:39.9 | Good evening and morning. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm looking forward to this. |
| 0:42.7 | How did you get involved in these strange and unusual things? |
| 0:46.8 | I have loved urban legends since I was a child. |
| 0:50.8 | I just was very voracious in reading about them. |
| 0:54.3 | And when Alvin Schwartz's spooky, scary stories to tell them the dart came out, I was all over that. |
| 1:01.1 | All three volumes, taking it to school, regaling all the children with it. |
| 1:07.7 | And that love never died as I got older. |
| 1:09.7 | Good for you. |
| 1:10.7 | Now what exactly is an urban legend? |
| 1:14.5 | So it tends to be a widely circulated, often scary story, always with murky origins. |
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