Fight Off Ghosts, Stay Hydrated! | Your Urban Legends 103
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We can’t buy a minor league baseball team, but we could rebrand one into something spooky with your help! Also featuring your stories of recurring childhood nightmares, another haunted field trip, and the worst thing a kid could say at a sleepover.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of drowning, death, murder, suicide, divorce, extreme injuries, blood, spiders, gun violence, and animal death.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends a silly phone game like Watermelon Merge.
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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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast to boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:32.6 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.1 | And I'm Julia. And it is a new year and new hometown urban legends are coming hot and fast and quick to our inbox. |
| 0:45.3 | They sure are, including Julia, some with people's voices. |
| 0:50.0 | In Spooky Month, October, we rolled out a voicemail line where you two can call and leave us your urban legend voicemails. |
| 0:58.8 | And of course, that number is registered in Salem, Massachusetts. |
| 1:02.1 | It is 617420-2344. |
| 1:05.0 | Hell yeah. |
| 1:05.9 | And Julia, we have gotten our first voicemail. |
| 1:07.8 | Do you want to hear it? |
| 1:08.7 | Should we save it for the end, Amanda? |
| 1:11.0 | Have we considered? I love that. Okay. Let's do it. How about instead I start us off with |
| 1:18.4 | Sailor Spirits? My dad's spooky seaside story, which really made me nervous to be on a windy beach |
| 1:24.6 | as a kid. Let's go. This is an email from Ricky, she her, and she writes, |
| 1:30.3 | Ahoy, Spirits team. |
| 1:32.0 | Did you know that the Netherlands have islands? |
| 1:35.0 | Being both an avid listener of the Spirits podcast and join the party season three, |
| 1:39.1 | I thought you would be interested in this spooky seaside legend. |
| 1:42.7 | Now, that makes sense as a country very largely based on boats, but I guess not a thing |
| 1:48.7 | that I really thought about before. |
| 1:50.4 | Yeah, I also, I guess I didn't think too much about the Netherlands as a country and how |
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