Your state might be spookier than you thought. For Halloween, we’re rounding up the scariest urban legends from all 50 states! Listen to find out what state is haunted by a horse, which is haunted by a pickup truck, and which is most likely the plot of a Scooby Doo episode.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of infancide/child death, abduction, starvation, death, drowning, tuberculosis, anxiety and mental illness, shipwrecks, imprisonment, mind control, colonization, cave-ins, suffocation, beheading, car accidents, striking pedestrians, poisoning, animal death, violence against women, suicide, scientific experimentation, government conspiracy, hurricanes/natural disasters, bullying, teeth, and omens of death.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends the podcast, Scam Goddess. Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
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About Us
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.
297: Magical Babies
296: Your Urban Legends LXVI - Plumber, Electrician, and Psychic
295: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Myth Movie Night)
294: Advice from Folklore IX (with Dr. Moiya McTier)
293: Baseball and Romance as American Legend (with KD Casey)
292: Dionysus
See Spirits Live July 15th in NYC or via Livestream
291: Your Urban Legends LXV - Wine, Not Blood
290: Māori Science Fiction and Being Joyously Weird (with Sascha Stronach)
289: Hestia
288: Your Urban Legends LXIV - Ghosts Don’t Weigh Anything!
287: Long Island Urban Legends
286: Hingepoints and Speculative Fiction (with B.L. Blanchard)
285: Hera
284: Your Urban Legends LXIII - Handwritten Hometowns!
283: Ever After & Cinderella (Myth Movie Night with Jane Solomon)
282: Mexican Gothic (with Isabel Cañas)
281: Hephaestus
280: Your Urban Legends LXII - Haunted Houses Shouldn’t Be In Haunted Houses
279: Advice from Folklore VIII (with Dr. Moiya McTier)
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