
GANG INITIATIONS (part one)
For this Urban Legends Hotline episode, we are answering a listener message about a story of street gangs initiating wannabes with frightening rituals including driving around with their headlights of...
26 Helmi 20241h 1min

Context Clues: Ganging Up
'Gang Initiations' is the topic of our upcoming series, and this episode will provide extra context using excerpts from three previous episodes—Urban Legends, Drugs, and Dangerous Teens. Become a Pat...
19 Helmi 202437min
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Alligators in the Sewer with 'You're Wrong About' [Live at SketchFest]
Live at SF Sketchfest, Sarah Marshall tells me about the urban-legendary alligators in the sewers of New York City. But of course, that's only one of the many manholes we open. Make sure you listen t...
12 Helmi 20241h 14min

The Paranormal Entertainment Industry with Sapphire Sandalo and Jim Perry
Today I'm joined by paranormal corespondent Jim Perry of the podcast Euphomet and Sapphire Sandalo of the podcast Stories With Sapphire as well as the TV shows Ghost Town Terror, Paranormal Caught On ...
22 Tammi 202456min

The Indiana Cyclone: America's First Munchausen Case with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
In this episode I tell podcaster Sarah Marshall a truly wild story I uncovered about the first recognized case of Munchausen Syndrome (Factitious Disorder) in the United States. An alleged professiona...
15 Tammi 20241h 15min

We Are All Pro Wrestlers with Entertainment Journalist BJ Colangelo
Pop culture correspondent and major Pro Wrestling fan BJ Colangelo and I discuss the quirky history of this manly soap opera, its changing landscape in terms of gender and sexuality, as well as the co...
8 Tammi 20241h 13min

Talking Crap with Historian Wendy Woloson
Author of the book Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, historian Wendy Woloson joins me to discuss the long-time American obsession with pointless, poorly-made products and novelty items like S...
27 Joulu 20231h 11min

SEA MONKEYS
The novelty pets known as Sea Monkeys have delighted and disappointed millions of American children since they were first marketed in the early 1960s, with the nostalgia-fueled craze returning decade ...
18 Joulu 202359min






















