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Spirits

Ghosts Don’t Weigh Anything! | Your Urban Legends 64

Spirits

Multitude

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

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Julia’s house might be haunted, but we’re not gonna dwell on that. Instead, we’re revisiting how haunted pasta is, yelling at you about using homemade ouija boards, and picture ourselves as extremely haunted dolls. 

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of family member death, health conditions, bugs, and ouija boards.


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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.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Spirits podcast to boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

0:10.9

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

0:14.0

I'm Amanda.

0:14.6

And I'm Julia.

0:15.5

And I'm Eric.

0:16.3

And this episode 288, yet another installment of your urban legends. Now, Amanda, before we get into the

0:23.5

urban legends that our listeners sent us, I have a tale. Oh, boy. Oh, is this a first person

0:30.1

perspective? It is. Now, you know the story because I posted about it in the slack, but recently

0:37.1

Jake and I purchased a home, yay, very excited. Required a lot of work about it in the slack, but recently Jake and I purchased a home,

0:38.6

yay, very excited. Required a lot of work because it was the same owners probably for the past 60

0:43.4

years. And we have been kind of cleaning things out. We have taken down the horrifying wallpaper

0:49.8

that was in our master bedroom with flamingo pink ceilings.

0:59.4

And it has just been like an interesting experience kind of going through someone else's home that they lived in for so long and trying to turn it into your home and kind of like

1:03.5

change the energy of it, you know?

1:05.4

Now, Julia, what was your impression of the energy when you first walked into the house?

1:09.4

I was like, wow, this is a disco house.

1:12.3

Because it was very 70s.

1:13.3

Disco house.

1:14.8

Disco house.

1:15.7

And like, you know, the energy was fine.

1:17.4

It was a little, like, confused, I think is a good word to describe it.

1:21.1

We've recently learned also that the house probably like fucks.

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