I’m Looking For an Apparition | Your Urban Legends 101
Spirits
Multitude
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.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid.
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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, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.4 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.8 | And I'm Julia. Amanda, there's something about the November hometown urban legends that really |
| 0:43.5 | does it for me. I think it's just remembering that our original hometown urban legends was |
| 0:47.8 | 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 night |
| 1:23.0 | 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 |
| 1:37.8 | 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 her own horn, |
| 1:46.4 | it's the hometown urban legends. It's, you know, returning to where you're from, looking at the good |
| 1:50.7 | and the bad, and figuring out why we tell each other the stories we tell each other. Yeah, there's |
| 1:56.0 | something very striking to me right now about taking part in your community and how urban legends are |
| 2:03.7 | a part of that, whether it is, we're talking about like building community through outreach and |
| 2:08.7 | through volunteering and stuff like that, all the way to the story that the teens tell each other |
| 2:14.4 | in the parking law of the high school. Yeah, I don't know if it helps resist fascism by telling ghost stories, but it sure makes me feel in community among queer |
| 2:22.9 | weirdos, and I need that more than ever right now. Depends on the theme of the ghost story, |
| 2:27.3 | I think. That's true. Well, Julia, would you like to hear? I actually, I have to drop the facade, Julia. Normally, you don't know what |
| 2:37.4 | legends I'm bringing and vice versa to a given episode. True. But this one, when I saw it hit |
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