This is episode 96 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast. We are going to talk about urban legends. What are the chances any of these are true...
- After his death, Walt Disney’s body (or just his head) was placed in a cryostasis chamber located somewhere beneath Disney World or Epcot.
- The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of South Jersey. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, a goat-like head, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, and a forked tail. It has been reported to move quickly and is often described as emitting a high-pitched "blood-curdling scream".
- The Utah monolith is a metal monolith found in San Juan County, Utah and was found by a group of USU biologists in November 2020. Similar monoliths have been found worldwide. Some believe that the monoliths placed around the world are connected to extraterrestrials.
- A young woman is bitten on the cheek by a spider. The bite swells into a large boil and bursts open to reveal hundreds of tiny spiders escaping from her cheek.
- Slender Man is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face and wearing a black suit. The Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or traumatize people, particularly children.
- The Skunk ape is an ape-like creature that is purported to inhabit the forests and swamps of some southeastern United States, most notably in Florida.
- Skin-walkers are Native American medicine men who have become evil and are able to shapeshift into animals and other people.
- Alligator sightings in the sewers of New York City.
- A group of mystics and Princeton scientists that developed interdimensional travel technology in the abandoned town of Ong's Hat, in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
- The Roswell incident was a UFO and its extraterrestrial crew that crash-landed in the New Mexico desert near Roswell on July 2, 1947.
- Malevolent strangers hiding poisons or sharp objects such as razor blades, needles, or broken glass in candy and distributing the candy in order to harm random children, especially during Halloween trick-or-treating.
- Giant mutant killer hornets created by exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster have killed several people.
- Men in Black are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses or victims of alleged alien abductions to keep them quiet about what they have seen.
- Horta are ugly creatures seen by miners in caves, composed of a material similar to fibrous asbestos. They feed on rock with the aid of an extremely corrosive acid.
- James Dean died in a high-speed car crash. People who picked up and took home parts of the vehicle as souvenirs, also died in car crashes.
