415: Your Urban Legends 101 - I’m Looking For an Apparition

Spirits

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

I’m looking for an apparition. 5’5”. Brown hair. Spooky vibes. Also, a visit from Ma Winchester AND Mother Goose? We are blessed AND scared, the best of both worlds.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of sexual content, abusive relationships, death, urination, enslavement, illness, and dementia.

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0:00.0	I'm a
0:02.0	M.
0:03.0	M.
0:04.0	I'm
0:05.0	Bhop
0:06.0	Bhop
0:07.0	B
0:08.0	Bhop Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.
0:33.3	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:37.0	I'm Amanda.
0:38.6	And I'm Julia.
0:44.1	Amanda, there's something about the November hometown urban legends that really does it for me.
0:48.7	I think it's just remembering that our original hometown urban legends was our own hometown urban legends and the fact that we told all Long Island ones the first time.
0:53.2	It is very meaningful and special to me,
0:56.8	I think, is when the November one rolls around. It is. And Julia, for completely unrelated reasons,
1:01.9	as we record this on November 8th, 2024, I am incredibly excited to reach for mythos that we create and control and tell each other and look to my
1:15.0	community, my town, my zip code, my block. I spent Halloween at a haunted history lecture
1:22.5	night at a local bar. Cool. All about some of the haunted histories of my specific neighborhood of Greenpoint.
1:30.0	That is what's feeling really tangible and knowable to me right now, is how can I feed and learn from
1:37.7	and spend time with the people who I see every day? And part of that, I mean, not to float her own boat, not the tune
1:45.4	own horn. It's the hometown urban legends. It's, you know, returning to where you're from,
1:50.0	looking at the good and the bad, and figuring out why we tell each other the stories we tell
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