Bigfoot's Big Adventure with Author John O'Connor
John O'Connor is the author of The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster, a cross-country adventure and investigation into the lore around Bigfoot as well as the personali...
18 Mar 202453min
GANG INITIATIONS (part two)
For the second part of this Urban Legends Hotline episode, we are continuing to explore various tall tales of ruthless gang initiations from the 1990s onward, as well as looking at the sweeping anti-g...
4 Mar 202454min
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 Feb 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 Feb 202437min
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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 20241h 13min
