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Hello and welcome back from our week-long break! Our lovely Discord members voted on today's theme, and so we're telling Urban Legends! Today Janey will terrify us with the spooky legend (and bizarre history) of the Jersey Devil, and Max is going to tell us about Detroit's own little red man! Enjoy!

Janey’s Sources - The Jersey Devil

• Wikipedia  
• Weird New Jersey article  
• New Jersey Haunted Houses article  
• Aspbury Park Press article by Jerry Carino  
• New Jersey history (elementary school lesson plan) 
• The story of Daniel and Titan Leeds, by Brian Regal for The Skeptical Inquirer  
• Rutger’s University exhibit “Running with the Jersey Devil”  

Max’s Sources - The Nain Rouge

• “Folktales and Legends of the Middle West” by Edward McClelland  
• “The World Treasury of Fairy Tales & Folklore: A Family Heirloom of Stories to Inspire & Entertain” by Rose Williamson, Joanna Gilar, and William Gray  
• “The Spirited Afterlife of Detroit’s Little Red Demon” by Jessica Leigh Hester for Atlas Obscura 
• “The legend of the legend of Detroit’s Nain Rouge: Raising Nain” by Le DeVito  
• “About the Nain Rouge,” from a pro-Nain scholar 

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