The 10 Best Just A Story: Urban Legend Podcast Episodes
1) Ep 86: We're All Mad Here: Asylums Part 1
The Lunatic Asylum has loomed large in the public imagination since its very establishment as an institution. We have never been sure what to do with the mad, to use the vernacular of a bygone era. De...Show More
2) Ep 81: Grave Concerns: Ancient Indian Burial Grounds
Do you know why that house, school, building, fairground, place, etc. is haunted? It's because it was built atop an ancient Indian burial ground. Or at least that is what popular culture would have yo...Show More
3) Ep 3: Satanic Panic
In the 1980s a fear of all things occult and demonic swept America. Everything from role playing games to preschool was degraded and threatened by this phenomena. Where did these fears come from?
4) Ep 5: Meat Is Murder
Food is a basic human need, but how can we be sure that the hand that feeds us is trustworthy? From a real life murder trial in 19th century Chicago to the recent peanut butter fatalities, we have goo...Show More
5) Ep 61: Birth of a Notion: Needle Men, Night Doctors, and the KKK
Imagine realizing you are worth more dead than you are alive; that there was a market for your corpse; that you might never be allowed to rest in peace, even after death. These are the ideas that driv...Show More
Ep 61: Birth of a Notion: Needle Men, Night Doctors, and the KKK
3:18:00 | Jan 14th, 2017
1 recommendation
6) Ep 76: Taily Po' White Trash
The folk story Taily Po lurks in Appalachia righting what has been put wrong. He is a vengeful beast, but he might be more than just a monster. He may be a symbol of America's tradition of 'forgotten ...Show More
7) Ep 69: Splendid Little Wars: False Flags
War, what is it good for? Apparently, 'absolutely nothing,' may have been a bit of an understatement. Teddy Roosevelt felt every generation of Americans needed its war to build its character. M...Show More
8) Ep 87: It Was A Brilliant Cure, But We Lost The Patient: Asylums Part 2
You may have noticed the irony that can be attached to the phrase, 'what do we have to lose?' So often things can go horribly wrong just after someone asks that fateful, seemingly rhetorical question....Show More
Ep 87: It Was A Brilliant Cure, But We Lost The Patient: Asylums Part 2
2:15:00 | Jul 16th, 2017
1 recommendation
9) Ep 74: Look Upon My Works, And Despair! Curse of the Pharaohs!
In the gilded age, the lore and lure of the mystical power of Egypt was a pervasive component of popular culture. Foremost in the imaginations of the public were the various curses associated with tom...Show More
Ep 74: Look Upon My Works, And Despair! Curse of the Pharaohs!
3:05:00 | Apr 16th, 2017
1 recommendation
10) Ep 83: Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair
In WWI an urban legend was born that has persisted for a century. Its parents? British intelligence officers. They spread a nasty story about the Germans turning their own war dead into soap. And it s...Show More