4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Something a story is short, sweet, and more importantly, spooky! So we’ve got a variety of those quicker stories this episode - from graves, to elementary school ghost hunting clubs, to the worst story a grandma has ever told, these are short, quick, and terrifying!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of colonialism, violence, death, child endangerment, warfare, and xenophobia.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends sending in more urban legends!
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Cast & Crew
- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editor: Bren Frederick
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman
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About Us
Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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0:00.0 | Hello conspirators, Amanda here. I want to take a quick minute before the episode to tell you that |
0:05.9 | we were nominated for an award, the Signal Award in fact, which rewards excellence in |
0:11.2 | podcasting, and we need your help to win the |
0:14.6 | paranormal and horror category. So between now and October 17th, please help us out |
0:20.9 | by going to vote. Signal Award.com and put in multitude to help spirits, |
0:27.7 | but also join the party and pale blue pod |
0:30.0 | when our categories. |
0:31.7 | Thank you. |
0:32.4 | And now enjoy the episode. Oh, Welcome to the spirits podcasts Podcast, a Boozy dive into mythology, legends, and |
1:06.1 | folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from |
1:09.3 | around the world. I'm Amanda and I'm Julia and this is a special episode of hometown urban legends |
1:16.5 | this is our short and spooky episode |
1:20.8 | Julia I'm so excited about this because we sort of came up with an idea inspired in our last episode and are kind of getting right into it. |
1:31.0 | And I love that here on spirits working for ourselves making a |
1:35.2 | podcast that we love we can just be like you know what that sounds fun let's do |
1:38.2 | it that does sound fun let's just do it and I think this was kind of inspired by the fact that we had someone ask us, oh, when you're looking for urban |
1:46.6 | legends episodes, what are you looking for in terms of length? And I realized a lot of times we are looking for longer stories because it really gets you into |
1:56.4 | the atmosphere of it all and it really like allows us to kind of have a lot to bounce off of. |
2:02.3 | And so there are a lot of I would say |
2:05.0 | under-appreciated short and |
2:08.0 | spooky stories that we get submitted to our inbox |
2:12.0 | that haven't made it onto episodes only because they were |
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