This week on the pod… as a follow up to Urban Legends and a final hoorah for Halloween, Jacob and Reese travel beyooond the graveee to bring you a very special halloween day episode all about ghost stories. The pair discuss the trend of shortest scary stories, butt stabbings, horror tropes, ghost hunting, and the spooky-ooky feeling of being all alone.
In this episode, we started by looking back at the phenomenon of Pokémon Go, but quickly found ourselves discussing clowns and how if you’re going to act like the Joker, you should commit to it fully.
Urban legends became the core of our chat. We tackled the bizarre myths, fanfiction, and reminisced about shows like MythBusters. We also dug into the strange tale of Alexandria’s Genesis, which stemmed from Daria fanfiction.
From there, we touched on various urban legends, such as the Bunnyman Bridge, killer dolls, and the Bell Witch. The discussion flowed easily from one topic to another, each one spurring thoughts and ideas for future videos.
The conversation had a bit of everything: humor, intrigue, and that unique spark that comes from diving into the unknown. I’m already looking forward to our next talk.
For a final halloween treat, for the first time on the podcast today’s episode features a very special guest to tell us a ghost story of her very own… our friend Vivian!
*hear ye, hear ye* NEXT WEEK! We watch 1982’s The Thing. We’d love for you to join us.
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| 00:00,000 | 00:04,720 | Hi there, Jacob here. Stick around to the end of the episode for a little preview of |
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| 00:12,400 | 00:13,400 | Oh my goodness. What a horrible start. |
| 00:13,400 | 00:14,400 | Okay, try again. We’ll try again. |
| 00:14,400 | 00:15,400 | Okay, so I’m going to start with a little bit of a preview of our latest video on YouTube, |
| 00:15,400 | 00:16,400 | A Killing Jar. Okay, no more self-advertising. Let’s get to it. |
| 00:16,400 | 00:17,400 | Hi! |
| 00:17,400 | 00:18,400 | Hi! |
| 00:18,400 | 00:19,400 | Oh my goodness. What a horrible start. |
| 00:19,400 | 00:20,400 | Okay, try again. We’ll try again. |
| 00:20,400 | 00:21,400 | Okay, so I’m going to start with a little bit of a preview of our latest video on YouTube, |
| 00:21,400 | 00:22,400 | A Killing Jar. Okay, no more self-advertising. Let’s get to it. |
| 00:22,400 | 00:23,400 | Hi! |
| 00:23,400 | 00:24,400 | Hi! |
| 00:24,400 | 00:33,880 | horrible start. Okay, try again. What’s your favorite urban legend? Mothman. That makes |
| 00:33,880 | 00:43,300 | sense. Why? Because you talk about Mothman a lot and you like moths and men. I do. My |
| 00:43,300 | 00:51,700 | point exactly. For those not watching video, Rhys has slowly stripped away his exterior |
| 00:51,700 | 00:54,780 | to reveal his moth-like insides. |
| 00:54,780 | 00:56,980 | – I have a moth tattoo. |
| 00:56,980 | 00:59,220 | What about you? |
| 00:59,220 | 01:00,620 | What’s your favorite? |
| 01:00,620 | 01:01,460 | – I don’t know. |
| 01:01,460 | 01:06,460 | I think I was a big fan of the “Beyond Belief” show |
| 01:06,460 | 01:11,300 | when I was a child. |
| 01:11,300 | 01:12,700 | It was the one where they would give you |
| 01:12,700 | 01:15,500 | a fact or fiction narratives. |
| 01:15,500 | 01:17,780 | They would give you three or four an episode |
| 01:17,780 | 01:20,820 | and you would have to guess, is this true or false? |
| 01:20,820 | 01:25,820 | And I always loved just being like, no, that’s fake. |
| 01:25,820 | 01:27,540 | Or like, no, that’s true. |
| 01:27,540 | 01:28,700 | Oh my God, that’s so real. |
| 01:28,700 | 01:30,860 | And then of course, looking back on it now, |
| 01:30,860 | 01:32,460 | like I was watching some of them |
| 01:32,460 | 01:36,500 | and I was just like, yeah, these are all pretty bad. |
| 01:36,500 | 01:40,380 | – But it’s fun when you’re young. |
| 01:40,380 | 01:42,460 | – Exactly, I’m like, you know, it’s fine. |
| 01:42,460 | 01:44,780 | And apparently like the first season |
| 01:44,780 | 01:48,220 | was hosted by Josh Berlin’s dad, |
| 01:48,220 | 01:52,780 | which is like very random thing. |
| 01:52,780 | 01:54,780 | Do you say who’s Josh Brolin? |
| 01:54,780 | 01:56,100 | – Hey, Thanos. – Thanos? |
| 01:56,100 | 02:00,300 | – Oh, whoa. – Fucking Thanos. |
| 02:00,300 | 02:01,620 | How dare you? |
| 02:01,620 | 02:03,180 | – His dad? |
| 02:03,180 | 02:05,940 | – Yeah, his name is apparently James. |
| 02:05,940 | 02:07,700 | I just find the concept of people |
| 02:07,700 | 02:12,300 | like believing random things like really interesting, |
| 02:12,300 | 02:14,980 | especially when it’s like very clearly false. |
| 02:14,980 | 02:18,180 | But you know, in the 90s and early 2000s, |
| 02:18,180 | 02:19,740 | that was like cute. |
| 02:19,740 | 02:23,300 | And now it’s like going to be the end of our country |
| 02:23,300 | 02:24,860 | and possibly planet. |
| 02:24,860 | 02:25,700 | – It was cute back then. |
| 02:25,700 | 02:28,700 | – It’s like our whole world is an urban legend. |
| 02:28,700 | 02:31,420 | – But did you see, |
| 02:31,420 | 02:35,460 | ’cause it makes me think of ghost stuff and ghost hunters. |
| 02:35,460 | 02:40,460 | Did you see that new Netflix show, “The 28 Days” thing? |
| 02:40,460 | 02:43,820 | It’s like, and this has always been my thing. |
| 02:43,820 | 02:47,780 | So these, it’s not a ghost episode, |
| 02:47,780 | 02:49,380 | I’m about to make it a ghost episode. |
| 02:49,380 | 02:51,280 | So, you know, you know, these ghost hunters, |
| 02:51,280 | 02:55,420 | they go and they’re only there for like a night or two |
| 02:55,420 | 02:58,280 | and they don’t see anything. |
| 02:58,280 | 02:59,940 | And it’s like, well, yeah, you won’t |
| 02:59,940 | 03:02,340 | because you were just there for one night. |
| 03:02,340 | 03:05,680 | So these people stay in these haunted places for 20 days. |
| 03:05,680 | 03:08,180 | – Ah. |
| 03:08,180 | 03:09,740 | – I think that’s a very good concept. |
| 03:09,740 | 03:12,020 | And that could be applied to anywhere |
| 03:12,020 | 03:14,100 | where you think something isn’t real. |
| 03:14,100 | 03:16,260 | You just probably aren’t there long enough. |
| 03:17,340 | 03:19,300 | That’s a very good point. |
| 03:19,300 | 03:20,940 | Like maybe people would find Bigfoot |
| 03:20,940 | 03:23,620 | if you just like spent more time in the woods. |
| 03:23,620 | 03:27,980 | – Yeah, if you, you know, just got to know him. |
| 03:27,980 | 03:28,820 | – You know what? |
| 03:28,820 | 03:30,060 | I don’t wanna go outside either. |
| 03:30,060 | 03:32,220 | I don’t want people taking photos of me. |
| 03:32,220 | 03:33,060 | I get it. |
| 03:33,060 | 03:35,260 | – I mean, and if he’s all big, |
| 03:35,260 | 03:37,060 | then it’s not just his feet that are big. |
| 03:37,060 | 03:38,300 | So that’s kind of rude. |
| 03:38,300 | 03:43,300 | – I think Bunnyman is interesting being so local to our area, |
| 03:43,300 | 03:45,260 | just like the whole concept and everything. |
| 03:45,260 | 03:51,740 | And like, going through the research, just learning how ridiculously like shoddy its |
| 03:51,740 | 03:53,540 | background information is. |
| 03:53,540 | 03:58,820 | It’s like one man wears a suit and now we have like, an entire mythos. |
| 03:58,820 | 03:59,820 | I know that. |
| 03:59,820 | 04:03,380 | That’s funny, because the more I was like kind of doing research on it, the more I was |
| 04:03,380 | 04:07,860 | like, I just want to stick with the legend I knew. |
| 04:07,860 | 04:11,060 | And there’s probably a lot of people feel that way, too, because they’re just like, |
| 04:11,060 | 04:14,260 | “Okay, well, let’s continue to just lie.” |
| 04:14,260 | 04:18,980 | Like, it’s a man, and it was, you know, |
| 04:18,980 | 04:21,660 | going to Lorton Prison, and it crashed, |
| 04:21,660 | 04:24,220 | and all these things, and he kills all the bunnies. |
| 04:24,220 | 04:28,300 | And it’s like, “Well, actually, |
| 04:28,300 | 04:33,300 | there was an insane asylum in Lorton, Virginia, so.” |
| 04:33,300 | 04:35,660 | – So actually. |
| 04:35,660 | 04:38,020 | – So actually, I’m just gonna well actually |
| 04:38,020 | 04:44,660 | my own local. Well, what was you said you wanted to stick to like what you knew? What |
| 04:44,660 | 04:52,700 | was the version that you grew up with? Just that it was I remember, it was a guy who escaped |
| 04:52,700 | 05:02,540 | from an insane asylum, and had went into the woods and killed bunnies and made like a coat |
| 05:02,540 | 05:04,220 | or a suit of the bunnies. |
| 05:04,220 | 05:06,660 | That’s why I thought he was called Bunny Man. |
| 05:06,660 | 05:08,340 | – Oh, jeez. – I thought he did that. |
| 05:08,340 | 05:12,100 | And I heard that he lived at the Bunny Man Drill. |
| 05:12,100 | 05:13,220 | – Was this something you were told |
| 05:13,220 | 05:14,980 | or something that you heard the name |
| 05:14,980 | 05:17,580 | and were like, “Oh yeah, it’s a suit of bunnies.” |
| 05:17,580 | 05:19,340 | – No, it was what me and my friends, |
| 05:19,340 | 05:21,020 | like it’s what they were. – Interesting. |
| 05:21,020 | 05:23,200 | – Well, we told each other in, |
| 05:23,200 | 05:27,740 | I was in middle school, high school. |
| 05:27,740 | 05:30,140 | – Well, it’s kind of funny because you |
| 05:30,140 | 05:33,300 | were obviously much more closer to Lorton |
| 05:33,300 | 05:35,460 | from your undisclosed location as a child. |
| 05:35,460 | 05:39,220 | And I was much closer to Clifton |
| 05:39,220 | 05:41,620 | from my undisclosed location as a child, |
| 05:41,620 | 05:44,100 | but I didn’t learn about Bunnymen Bridge |
| 05:44,100 | 05:45,920 | until I was an adult already. |
| 05:45,920 | 05:48,980 | Like it was not something I knew about as a teenager |
| 05:48,980 | 05:50,300 | because I didn’t talk to anybody. |
| 05:50,300 | 05:52,860 | So like who was gonna tell me about it? |
| 05:52,860 | 05:55,300 | But I lived like 15 minutes from it. |
| 05:55,300 | 05:59,680 | – And bridge, I remember in my head before we went there, |
| 05:59,680 | 06:02,600 | Am I skipping ahead to the legend tripping on accident? |
| 06:02,600 | 06:03,440 | – That’s fine, that’s fine. |
| 06:03,440 | 06:04,920 | – Is that okay? |
| 06:04,920 | 06:06,340 | Legend tripping. |
| 06:06,340 | 06:10,600 | – We need little bumpers, little audio bumpers |
| 06:10,600 | 06:11,940 | at the beginning of new segments. |
| 06:11,940 | 06:13,580 | We’re just like, legend tripping. |
| 06:13,580 | 06:22,000 | – I had like an idea in my head |
| 06:22,000 | 06:24,600 | of what the bridge was gonna look like when we went. |
| 06:24,600 | 06:27,280 | I know we went at night |
| 06:27,280 | 06:33,520 | And your friend like took a lot of pictures so I was able to kind of see some stuff like in the bridge |
| 06:33,520 | 06:35,520 | uh |
| 06:35,520 | 06:37,520 | but |
| 06:37,520 | 06:39,840 | I |
| 06:39,840 | 06:43,920 | You know and there was other stuff going on. So I don’t remember actually being that scared |
| 06:43,920 | 06:47,280 | I was definitely nervous just from the point of view of like |
| 06:47,280 | 06:53,360 | We’re out here thinking that there’s like a person that kills people |
| 06:53,360 | 06:56,320 | And we’re trying to find it |
| 06:56,720 | 06:59,280 | Yeah. A whole bunch of kids. |
| 06:59,280 | 07:04,000 | Was that the same time, or the same day we went to Clifton and we were trying to go to |
| 07:04,000 | 07:08,000 | the top of that area and you were like freaking out? |
| 07:08,000 | 07:13,720 | Yeah, because it’s like, and then we ended up like in Woodbridge. |
| 07:13,720 | 07:21,600 | Yeah, so Clifton terrifies me for far more reasons than Bunnyman. Like Bunnyman is the |
| 07:21,600 | 07:23,360 | least of my concerns. |
| 07:23,360 | 07:30,360 | Well, in freaking Clifton, we, uh, didn’t we like, either I heard about it or it happens, |
| 07:30,360 | 07:34,600 | but like, there’s like a crossroad or whatever you get stuck on. |
| 07:34,600 | 07:37,880 | Like that sounds believable. |
| 07:37,880 | 07:43,480 | I know that whenever I’m in Clifton, I can be going down a very clear like road and somehow |
| 07:43,480 | 07:44,480 | I’m on another road. |
| 07:44,480 | 07:45,480 | And I’m like, what the fuck did I do? |
| 07:45,480 | 07:50,520 | Yeah, no, I was, I was freaking out because we were like, it was very off road and we |
| 07:50,520 | 07:56,440 | We kept on going up and we went through this crazy ass way and somehow we ended up in Woodbridge, |
| 07:56,440 | 07:57,440 | Potomac. |
| 07:57,440 | 08:00,320 | Yeah, it’s just a weird area in general. |
| 08:00,320 | 08:02,960 | Let’s talk about some other urban legends. |
| 08:02,960 | 08:06,920 | I’ve got a little list here from good old Wikipedia. |
| 08:06,920 | 08:08,400 | We’re stealing content. |
| 08:08,400 | 08:09,960 | Wiki Wiki. |
| 08:09,960 | 08:11,880 | Oh, this is actually a really good one. |
| 08:11,880 | 08:14,400 | I’m sure you’ve probably heard of this one. |
| 08:14,400 | 08:16,080 | Have you heard of the 27 Club? |
| 08:16,080 | 08:17,080 | No. |
| 08:17,080 | 08:18,080 | What’s that? |
| 08:18,080 | 08:19,080 | Oh my God. |
| 08:19,080 | 08:26,080 | It’s actually very up our alley as alternative lifestyle peoples. |
| 08:26,080 | 08:32,000 | So it’s an urban legend that says popular musicians and other celebrated artists die |
| 08:32,000 | 08:33,000 | at age 27. |
| 08:33,000 | 08:34,000 | Oh, that’s what that’s called. |
| 08:34,000 | 08:43,920 | Yes, with a statistical anomalous frequency, a whole bunch of people dying at 27, famous |
| 08:43,920 | 08:44,920 | celebrities. |
| 08:44,920 | 08:50,200 | So these are people like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse. |
| 08:50,200 | 08:57,680 | I mean, it kind of makes sense to like, I could believe it because like, even if the |
| 08:57,680 | 09:04,600 | spike isn’t real, these are all people who are living like non straight edge fantasies, |
| 09:04,600 | 09:05,600 | right? |
| 09:05,600 | 09:09,840 | So eventually, like a lifestyle is going to catch up with you. |
| 09:09,840 | 09:21,160 | So you either make it to 27 and go on to live a life full of ruckus behavior or you don’t |
| 09:21,160 | 09:22,160 | make it. |
| 09:22,160 | 09:23,160 | You doubt. |
| 09:23,160 | 09:25,200 | And I mean, you know what? |
| 09:25,200 | 09:28,440 | Being 27 is kind of hard. |
| 09:28,440 | 09:30,840 | Honestly, 27 is hard enough. |
| 09:30,840 | 09:37,400 | And then you throw in touring and drugs and everything they do. |
| 09:37,400 | 09:39,720 | Yeah, I could believe it. |
| 09:39,720 | 09:43,000 | This next one I think is pretty stupid. |
| 09:43,000 | 09:44,680 | But I’m gonna, you know what, no. |
| 09:44,680 | 09:47,120 | I’m gonna let people make their own decisions. |
| 09:47,120 | 09:52,680 | The 999 phone charging myth is an urban legend which claims that calling the police and fire |
| 09:52,680 | 09:56,120 | services then hanging up charges mobile phone batteries. |
| 09:56,120 | 09:59,120 | 999 I think is UK, I think? |
| 09:59,120 | 10:01,240 | I don’t know, actually. |
| 10:01,240 | 10:02,240 | But I’m pretty sure it is. |
| 10:02,240 | 10:03,240 | But this just- |
| 10:03,240 | 10:06,240 | You call them, you hang up, and you charge your phone. |
| 10:06,240 | 10:08,000 | It just doesn’t make any sense. |
| 10:08,000 | 10:09,440 | How would that improve your battery? |
| 10:09,440 | 10:14,640 | people don’t be thinking. I’ve never heard of that. |
| 10:14,640 | 10:20,160 | Oh, the 1962 Halloween Massacre was an urban legend about a terrifying photo at |
| 10:20,160 | 10:25,120 | a costume party in which seven people were killed on Halloween night in 1962. |
| 10:25,120 | 10:30,240 | I had not heard about this one. So I’m gonna go ahead and take a look. Is that on Halloween? |
| 10:30,240 | 10:37,760 | I guess so. Oh, that’s spooky. Here, I’ve got the link. Let me see. |
| 10:37,760 | 10:43,680 | All right, so we’ve got here a Snopes article about the 1962 Halloween massacre |
| 10:43,680 | 10:52,560 | that is rated it false. Spoilers. But if I were to describe the image, it definitely looks very old. |
| 10:52,560 | 11:00,080 | It’s got a lot of those like old costumes that I really like that are like head coverings and masks |
| 11:00,080 | 11:09,360 | and hats. And they’re very creepy. It looks a lot of like clown masks kind of vibe. |
| 11:09,360 | 11:12,000 | Have you heard of this? |
| 11:12,000 | 11:21,680 | Upside down face man. There’s that. Have you ever heard of the man with the upside down face? |
| 11:21,680 | 11:22,720 | No. |
| 11:22,720 | 11:25,440 | Are you gonna send me a link? |
| 11:25,440 | 11:26,640 | Yeah. |
| 11:26,640 | 11:27,760 | Okay. |
| 11:27,760 | 11:28,600 | Okay. |
| 11:28,600 | 11:34,760 | – ‘Cause that just reminded me, |
| 11:34,760 | 11:41,120 | I follow this guy on Twitter |
| 11:41,120 | 11:43,040 | and he’s like a horror artist, |
| 11:43,040 | 11:45,920 | but it had like the same vibe of like, |
| 11:45,920 | 11:49,720 | there’ll be these olden day pictures |
| 11:49,720 | 11:54,720 | and it’ll be like pictures taken at like tragedies and stuff |
| 11:56,600 | 11:59,400 | If you look really hard, you see like a man with an upside down face. |
| 11:59,400 | 12:01,800 | Oh, I don’t like it. |
| 12:01,800 | 12:04,200 | I know it’s so great, right? |
| 12:04,200 | 12:08,440 | This this definitely gives me like a lot of like the A.R.G. |
| 12:08,440 | 12:10,940 | by some like creepypastas. |
| 12:10,940 | 12:15,140 | Yeah, I really like that one where the that there’s that car accident. |
| 12:15,140 | 12:19,440 | The very first related link is who is Jeff the killer? |
| 12:19,440 | 12:20,900 | Creepypasta is evil villain. |
| 12:20,900 | 12:23,000 | Creepypasta should be a whole separate thing. |
| 12:23,000 | 12:25,400 | We definitely should have one about that. |
| 12:26,040 | 12:31,720 | Yes, um, I have I have some favorite kibbe pastas remember we used to uh |
| 12:31,720 | 12:36,680 | We used to listen to that one guy read the kibbe pastas. Oh, yeah |
| 12:36,680 | 12:40,360 | It’s funny because like I mean it’s kind of like pre-podcast |
| 12:40,360 | 12:45,480 | Oh, I guess we were listening to podcasts then too, but it’s like before the big podcast boom when it was like a lot smaller |
| 12:45,480 | 12:47,080 | um |
| 12:47,080 | 12:49,080 | We just wanted to creep ourselves out |
| 12:49,080 | 12:53,720 | Well, and there’s still a lot of like youtubers that do that |
| 12:53,720 | 12:55,640 | um |
| 12:55,640 | 12:56,640 | And I just feel like… |
| 12:56,640 | 12:57,640 | Do you read scary stories? |
| 12:57,640 | 13:00,160 | Yeah, and I’m all for it. |
| 13:00,160 | 13:02,360 | You know, do your creative thing. |
| 13:02,360 | 13:04,160 | You’ve got the voice for it, go for it. |
| 13:04,160 | 13:05,160 | Yeah. |
| 13:05,160 | 13:09,720 | But it is kind of lazy to just like throw an image on the screen, read someone else’s |
| 13:09,720 | 13:13,000 | work and then get a million views for it. |
| 13:13,000 | 13:16,320 | But hey, what, you know, I’m not going to complain. |
| 13:16,320 | 13:18,480 | I mean, if you got the voice for it. |
| 13:18,480 | 13:19,480 | 2016 clown sightings. |
| 13:19,480 | 13:22,440 | I mean, I wouldn’t consider that an urban legend. |
| 13:22,440 | 13:24,040 | That was definitely actually happening. |
| 13:24,040 | 13:25,520 | That was a real thing. |
| 13:25,520 | 13:27,160 | I was in Tennessee at the time. |
| 13:27,160 | 13:28,940 | I’m so sorry. |
| 13:28,940 | 13:31,200 | Of all places to be, that is not one. |
| 13:31,200 | 13:31,920 | I know. |
| 13:31,920 | 13:35,680 | I was scared of the cows in my backyard. |
| 13:35,680 | 13:39,720 | Would have definitely been scared of clowns. |
| 13:39,720 | 13:43,800 | And that was the height of Pokemon Go. |
| 13:43,800 | 13:45,920 | Everyone was outside doing things. |
| 13:45,920 | 13:48,040 | Pokemon Go to the polls this November. |
| 13:48,040 | 13:49,600 | Don’t forget everyone. |
| 13:49,600 | 13:51,000 | Yay! |
| 13:51,000 | 13:53,200 | All right, Hillary. |
| 13:53,200 | 13:55,200 | [laughter] |
| 13:55,200 | 14:04,000 | Could you imagine if you like looked out your back door and you just saw a clown tipping over a cow? |
| 14:04,000 | 14:06,000 | Oh. [laughter] |
| 14:06,000 | 14:08,000 | Those poor cows. I’m like, “No!” |
| 14:08,000 | 14:15,000 | I, you know, I mean, it makes me think of, I mean, I talked about like the ring footage cameras last episode, but |
| 14:15,000 | 14:21,000 | um, a lot of clowns end up on those videos and I’m just like, “Y’all need to chill.” |
| 14:21,000 | 14:26,800 | Like you’re not really about that life and I know a lot of those little security footage |
| 14:26,800 | 14:30,720 | ones, the moment they think they see someone, they like scurry off like a little bitch. |
| 14:30,720 | 14:33,720 | If you’re going to be about that life, you’re going to try to be the Joker. |
| 14:33,720 | 14:36,080 | The Joker doesn’t run away and hide, okay? |
| 14:36,080 | 14:38,800 | He slaughters you and he laughs about it. |
| 14:38,800 | 14:39,800 | That’s it. |
| 14:39,800 | 14:42,800 | Why are you giving pep talks to me? |
| 14:42,800 | 14:50,120 | I’m just saying, if you’re really going to be about that life, be about it. |
| 14:50,120 | 14:57,120 | about why you have the mask on. What are you hiding? Who are you hiding? |
| 14:57,120 | 15:00,120 | Hello? Who’s in there? |
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| 15:16,120 | 15:21,120 | but not before they catch the aerial water bomber picking up scuba diver. |
| 15:21,120 | 15:23,120 | I don’t know what this means. |
| 15:23,120 | 15:25,120 | What are the words you said? |
| 15:25,120 | 15:27,120 | Yeah. |
| 15:27,120 | 15:29,120 | Aerial water bomber. |
| 15:29,120 | 15:34,120 | I guess I could read the info text that immediately follows the title. |
| 15:34,120 | 15:36,120 | What? I need you to explain to me. |
| 15:36,120 | 15:41,120 | It’s an urban legend about a water bomber or a helicopter with a dangling water bucket |
| 15:41,120 | 15:44,880 | bucket, scooping up a scuba diver and dumping them on a |
| 15:44,880 | 15:52,200 | wildfire. Legend was used as a plot device in the film Barney’s |
| 15:52,200 | 15:55,400 | version. I don’t know what that means. The urban legend |
| 15:55,400 | 15:58,880 | debunking site Snopes reports there are no proven cases of |
| 15:58,880 | 16:02,720 | this happening in reality. While the Discovery Channel show |
| 16:02,720 | 16:07,200 | Mythbusters also to prove disproved the myth. Mythbusters |
| 16:07,400 | 16:09,640 | is another TV show I used to love as a child |
| 16:09,640 | 16:13,600 | that was related to like this like urban legend thing. |
| 16:13,600 | 16:15,920 | I used to love watching that show. |
| 16:15,920 | 16:17,520 | – What happened? |
| 16:17,520 | 16:19,040 | – It stopped airing. |
| 16:19,040 | 16:19,880 | – It did? |
| 16:19,880 | 16:20,700 | – I think. |
| 16:20,700 | 16:21,960 | – I always thought there was sexual tension |
| 16:21,960 | 16:23,160 | between those two guys. |
| 16:23,160 | 16:24,000 | – It’s hot. |
| 16:24,000 | 16:24,820 | Good for them. |
| 16:24,820 | 16:27,280 | – I mean, you can say it’s hot, but you know, it’s fine. |
| 16:27,280 | 16:28,800 | – Yeah, it’s for them, you know, |
| 16:28,800 | 16:31,280 | like I make really about like people like personality, |
| 16:31,280 | 16:33,040 | you know, like I don’t judge people by their looks. |
| 16:33,040 | 16:34,760 | Like I’m not that kind of person. |
| 16:34,760 | 16:36,880 | – The walrus man and his lover. |
| 16:36,880 | 16:38,760 | Oh, I heard about this one on the internet. |
| 16:38,760 | 16:42,400 | Did you hear about Alexandria’s Genesis during your time on Tumblr? |
| 16:42,400 | 16:50,480 | Wait, wait, you guys send me these things. I don’t, |
| 16:50,480 | 16:51,560 | I need to see. |
| 16:51,560 | 16:53,760 | That’s going to be a no, you don’t know it by the name. |
| 16:53,760 | 16:55,760 | So I don’t have a link here. |
| 16:55,760 | 16:56,840 | Tell me it again. |
| 16:56,840 | 17:00,120 | So it’s called Alexandria’s Genesis. |
| 17:00,120 | 17:04,600 | It’s a purported genetic mutation that gives its carrier purple eyes, |
| 17:04,600 | 17:06,000 | shimmering pale skin. |
| 17:06,000 | 17:12,240 | Okay, there we go. A lack of body hair and a lack of menstruation while still remaining |
| 17:12,240 | 17:18,920 | fertile. That’s impossible. I what do you just have one egg sitting in there? Just waiting, |
| 17:18,920 | 17:25,840 | just waiting to make this. I remember like when you that was such a weird thing that |
| 17:25,840 | 17:33,280 | I that I would see around. I never thought that was really it’s like when you have like, |
| 17:33,280 | 17:37,360 | You know, you have to check the gun to make sure there’s not like a bullet in the chamber. |
| 17:37,360 | 17:39,000 | There’s just an egg waiting. |
| 17:39,000 | 17:41,440 | It’s just like going back and forth, rolling. |
| 17:41,440 | 17:46,720 | People want to be freaking weeaboos. |
| 17:46,720 | 17:51,680 | So apparently it was originated in a Daria fanfiction in 1998. |
| 17:51,680 | 17:52,680 | Daria? |
| 17:52,680 | 17:53,680 | Like… |
| 17:53,680 | 17:56,840 | Yeah, like my queen Daria. |
| 17:56,840 | 17:57,840 | What does she have to do? |
| 17:57,840 | 17:59,760 | Was there an Alexandria on that show? |
| 17:59,760 | 18:02,080 | It’s been a little while. |
| 18:02,080 | 18:10,200 | Is it like an original character or like a type of what’s that really famous Harry Potter |
| 18:10,200 | 18:11,200 | one? |
| 18:11,200 | 18:13,680 | Oh, the really bad one? |
| 18:13,680 | 18:16,360 | Yeah, Raven something here. |
| 18:16,360 | 18:17,360 | Urban Legend. |
| 18:17,360 | 18:21,120 | That’s how bad it was. |
| 18:21,120 | 18:22,120 | My immortal. |
| 18:22,120 | 18:23,120 | That’s what it was. |
| 18:23,120 | 18:24,120 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 18:24,120 | 18:25,120 | Ebony darkness, dementia, Raven way. |
| 18:25,120 | 18:26,120 | What a name. |
| 18:26,120 | 18:31,600 | Oh, we’re gonna have to have a fanfic episode. |
| 18:31,600 | 18:38,540 | The podcast is basically like the thought experiment of like, if I were to make a video |
| 18:38,540 | 18:43,900 | on this topic, what are the rabbit holes I would go down? |
| 18:43,900 | 18:47,620 | Speaking of rabbit holes, check out our latest video on the YouTube channel. |
| 18:47,620 | 18:48,620 | Bunnyman. |
| 18:48,620 | 18:49,620 | About the Bunnyman Bridge. |
| 18:49,620 | 18:50,620 | Bunnyman. |
| 18:50,620 | 18:55,740 | I just started talking about Annabelle was one of the next ones. |
| 18:55,740 | 18:59,540 | And I definitely want to talk just killer dolls in general at some point. |
| 18:59,540 | 19:00,540 | Yes. |
| 19:00,540 | 19:06,420 | That’s pretty well known. We’ve talked about that on our well, we’ve mentioned it already before and to clarify where it was |
| 19:06,420 | 19:14,220 | The bandage man is an urban legend that describes a logger who died in a grizzly sawmill accident |
| 19:14,220 | 19:18,060 | Who attacks cars and terrorizes teenagers? |
| 19:18,060 | 19:27,180 | This goes with my theory that a lot of like like the mid-century urban legends are all flashers, which is very interesting |
| 19:27,940 | 19:32,940 | – Or like industrial based deaths type of thing like that. |
| 19:32,940 | 19:36,620 | – And they’re always attacking people in cars, |
| 19:36,620 | 19:40,180 | in like bridges, lovers lanes. |
| 19:40,180 | 19:41,940 | Ooh, the Bell Witch. |
| 19:41,940 | 19:44,220 | – Oh, okay, I know the Bell Witch. |
| 19:44,220 | 19:48,020 | – What do you know about the Bell Witch? |
| 19:48,020 | 19:48,860 | – Okay. |
| 19:48,860 | 19:55,860 | Oh, I was thinking about the witch’s own. |
| 19:55,860 | 19:59,300 | – No, but the bell witch, the cave is in Tennessee. |
| 19:59,300 | 20:00,500 | – Yes, it is in Tennessee. |
| 20:00,500 | 20:04,580 | – I used to pass it all the time on my way into Nashville, |
| 20:04,580 | 20:09,580 | but it was like a cave near a house, |
| 20:09,580 | 20:13,700 | and this house was like, they got cursed |
| 20:13,700 | 20:18,700 | because of something they did to this witch or something. |
| 20:18,700 | 20:19,740 | – Fair. |
| 20:19,740 | 20:20,580 | – I know. |
| 20:20,580 | 20:21,400 | – That sounds fair to me. |
| 20:21,400 | 20:22,240 | – Okay, tell me. |
| 20:22,240 | 20:25,540 | – Oh, I don’t know anything about it. |
| 20:25,540 | 20:26,940 | I’m just reading off a list. |
| 20:26,940 | 20:28,440 | – Oh. |
| 20:28,440 | 20:29,820 | – Well, not a fundamental element |
| 20:29,820 | 20:31,340 | of the original recorded legend, |
| 20:31,340 | 20:33,100 | the Bellweth Cave in the 20th century |
| 20:33,100 | 20:34,980 | became a source of continuing interest, |
| 20:34,980 | 20:36,580 | belief and generation of lore. |
| 20:36,580 | 20:37,400 | Interesting. |
| 20:37,400 | 20:39,180 | And that’s interesting that that was like |
| 20:39,180 | 20:40,780 | the thing that stood out to you. |
| 20:40,780 | 20:41,620 | – What? |
| 20:41,620 | 20:45,500 | – The cave, that it wasn’t an original part of the story, |
| 20:45,500 | 20:49,420 | but it kind of became part of the fundamental part of it. |
| 20:49,420 | 20:51,700 | – I think when I passed it, |
| 20:51,700 | 20:53,860 | the sign would say Bellweth Cave. |
| 20:54,820 | 20:56,820 | I think that’s what I remember. |
| 20:56,820 | 20:59,660 | So I was always like, I’m gonna go there. |
| 20:59,660 | 21:02,140 | – I would love to do like a two minute video on this. |
| 21:02,140 | 21:04,260 | This is, I’m gonna go ahead and pin this. |
| 21:04,260 | 21:05,980 | – Yeah, go with it. – Put a pin in it. |
| 21:05,980 | 21:10,180 | I think, yeah, so right now I’m working on a little project |
| 21:10,180 | 21:11,660 | that’s gonna take a while, |
| 21:11,660 | 21:14,720 | but I do want to kind of incorporate |
| 21:14,720 | 21:17,660 | a lot of these urban legends into more videos. |
| 21:17,660 | 21:19,500 | I think they’re really interesting. |
| 21:19,500 | 21:22,980 | – I like anything spooky, anything creepy. |
| 21:22,980 | 21:25,420 | – I like monsters. |
| 21:25,420 | 21:27,500 | I watched “Hellraiser” this weekend. |
| 21:27,500 | 21:30,840 | I wanna do something about that. |
| 21:30,840 | 21:33,740 | When you said the village cave, |
| 21:33,740 | 21:36,980 | I was thinking about there’s this unsolved case |
| 21:36,980 | 21:40,680 | of who put Bella in the witch’s elm. |
| 21:40,680 | 21:44,060 | – I don’t know what that means. |
| 21:44,060 | 21:48,740 | – There was a skeleton found in, |
| 21:48,740 | 21:53,740 | a woman skeleton found in a tree by these two kids. |
| 21:53,740 | 21:59,000 | And they’re trying to figure out for the longest time, |
| 21:59,000 | 22:00,240 | like, who is she? |
| 22:00,240 | 22:02,200 | How she got in this tree? |
| 22:02,200 | 22:04,060 | How she died? |
| 22:04,060 | 22:07,380 | Some people think that she was a, |
| 22:07,380 | 22:09,480 | like some type of spy or something. |
| 22:09,480 | 22:12,840 | And she like, unfortunately parachuted |
| 22:12,840 | 22:14,340 | into the middle of a tree. |
| 22:14,340 | 22:16,840 | – Parachute? |
| 22:16,840 | 22:18,840 | Yeah, because there was like |
| 22:18,840 | 22:21,720 | Did she have a parachute on her? |
| 22:21,720 | 22:25,400 | Well, she did been she’d been in there for so long that she like |
| 22:25,400 | 22:28,960 | Decomposed so there’s like not a lot. There wasn’t a lot of stuff |
| 22:28,960 | 22:35,040 | they could use to tell like who was but she had like some clothes and |
| 22:35,040 | 22:39,520 | What is the material of a parachute they found that |
| 22:40,520 | 22:44,120 | Okay, was it Amelia Earhart? Did they finally find her? |
| 22:44,120 | 22:46,120 | Her and her crab buddies. |
| 22:46,120 | 22:48,120 | Just parachuting into a tree. |
| 22:48,120 | 22:50,120 | I don’t know what that means. Crab buddies? |
| 22:50,120 | 22:53,520 | Yeah, Amelia Earhart got eaten by coconut crabs. |
| 22:53,520 | 22:54,520 | What? |
| 22:54,520 | 22:55,520 | Myth! |
| 22:55,520 | 22:57,520 | [laughter] |
| 22:57,520 | 22:59,520 | You never heard that? |
| 22:59,520 | 23:00,520 | No. |
| 23:00,520 | 23:02,520 | She got eaten by coconut crabs. |
| 23:02,520 | 23:04,520 | [laughter] |
| 23:04,520 | 23:08,520 | Anyway, yeah, Amelia Earhart got eaten by crabs. |
| 23:08,520 | 23:20,160 | I’m just so shocked by that story. I’ve never heard of this crab theory. No, I started typing |
| 23:20,160 | 23:21,160 | crab theory. |
| 23:21,160 | 23:25,160 | No crab theory. Amelia Earhart coconut crabs. They’re huge. |
| 23:25,160 | 23:32,760 | Okay, well, I just control F’d on her Wikipedia article and there’s nothing about crab. So |
| 23:32,760 | 23:35,680 | this is a deep cut urban legend. So thank you for |
| 23:35,680 | 23:37,680 | No |
| 23:37,680 | 23:46,400 | That’s wild I’ve never heard of that before my life crabs crab theory |
| 23:46,400 | 23:50,160 | Not crab theory |
| 23:50,160 | 23:52,160 | That’s like the worst |
| 23:52,160 | 23:57,440 | On a fractured skeleton on an island that has been torn apart limb from him many believe |
| 23:57,440 | 24:03,080 | It is found the body of American aviation pioneer million air heart that should be torn apart by coconut crap |
| 24:03,080 | 24:04,080 | Good for them. |
| 24:04,080 | 24:05,080 | Good for the crabs? |
| 24:05,080 | 24:10,120 | Honestly, yes, this is the way they finally take revenge for the way we treat them. |
| 24:10,120 | 24:11,120 | Good for them. |
| 24:11,120 | 24:12,480 | How do we treat them? |
| 24:12,480 | 24:14,380 | Everything becomes crab. |
| 24:14,380 | 24:15,960 | We will all become crab. |
| 24:15,960 | 24:16,960 | Crab is life. |
| 24:16,960 | 24:17,960 | Life is crab. |
| 24:17,960 | 24:18,960 | We will all become a crab. |
| 24:18,960 | 24:19,960 | Love that for us. |
| 24:19,960 | 24:20,960 | Thank you. |
| 24:20,960 | 24:21,960 | All right, that was my… |
| 24:21,960 | 24:22,960 | End scene. |
| 24:22,960 | 24:23,960 | Okay, what’s another one? |
| 24:23,960 | 24:24,960 | Ankle slicing car thief. |
| 24:24,960 | 24:25,960 | I feel like that’s happened at least once. |
| 24:25,960 | 24:26,960 | There’s been at least one. |
| 24:26,960 | 24:30,560 | What’s another one ankle slicing car thief? I feel like that’s happened |
| 24:30,560 | 24:35,440 | At least once there’s been at least one person who hit under a car. The problem is |
| 24:35,440 | 24:38,240 | And this is something that a lot of movies get wrong |
| 24:38,240 | 24:42,720 | There’s not actually enough room under most cars for somebody to hide under |
| 24:42,720 | 24:46,880 | No, not unless you’re like a child. Yes children |
| 24:46,880 | 24:49,440 | Or if you have like really high |
| 24:49,440 | 24:56,080 | Wheels because you’re in like like a super large truck or something, which you know like under they kind of deserve it anyway |
| 24:56,080 | 25:04,840 | Wait, Annabelle was a Raggedy Ann doll? |
| 25:04,840 | 25:05,840 | Yeah. |
| 25:05,840 | 25:06,840 | I didn’t know that. |
| 25:06,840 | 25:08,280 | I only know the movie. |
| 25:08,280 | 25:12,680 | She was a, the real Annabelle is like that little redhead doll. |
| 25:12,680 | 25:14,480 | Yeah, I had no idea. |
| 25:14,480 | 25:15,480 | You think she really looks like that? |
| 25:15,480 | 25:16,480 | Do you think that inspired Chucky? |
| 25:16,480 | 25:19,280 | I just figured she was just a doll. |
| 25:19,280 | 25:21,720 | I didn’t know that she was specifically a Raggedy Ann doll. |
| 25:21,720 | 25:22,720 | Oh my god, Annabelle. |
| 25:22,720 | 25:25,120 | Wait, who was first, Annabelle or Chucky? |
| 25:25,120 | 25:26,480 | – Annabelle was definitely first. |
| 25:26,480 | 25:27,320 | – Okay. |
| 25:27,320 | 25:28,960 | – ‘Cause that was in like the 70s, right? |
| 25:28,960 | 25:30,520 | – Oh yeah. |
| 25:30,520 | 25:35,080 | With Elizabeth and Dude Warren. |
| 25:35,080 | 25:35,920 | – Yeah. |
| 25:35,920 | 25:36,760 | – I forgot his name. |
| 25:36,760 | 25:37,600 | (laughing) |
| 25:37,600 | 25:38,440 | – Dude Warren, yeah. |
| 25:38,440 | 25:40,960 | (laughing) |
| 25:40,960 | 25:41,800 | That’s his name. |
| 25:41,800 | 25:42,720 | – His name. |
| 25:42,720 | 25:46,880 | The guy. |
| 25:46,880 | 25:48,440 | – Dude Warren, that’s his name. |
| 25:48,440 | 25:50,700 | (laughing) |
| 25:50,700 | 25:52,800 | – Wait. |
| 25:52,800 | 25:53,640 | – I don’t understand. |
| 25:53,640 | 25:55,000 | – It’s like Elizabeth. |
| 25:55,000 | 26:06,000 | And I was just gonna go with it. |
| 26:06,000 | 26:22,760 | I’ve run out of steam on this topic. |
| 26:22,760 | 26:23,920 | That was great. |
| 26:23,920 | 26:28,400 | Now we’re talking about scary video games. |
| 26:28,400 | 26:31,480 | Every episode just ends in a video game corner. |
| 26:31,480 | 26:37,840 | Yeah, we were talking about it the other day and I really like talking about it and nobody |
| 26:37,840 | 26:41,040 | else knows what I’m talking about. |
| 26:41,040 | 26:42,040 | That’s fair. |
| 26:42,040 | 26:48,520 | That’s why you need to become our residential scary video game expert and get us all those |
| 26:48,520 | 26:51,320 | sweet sweet video gamer views. |
| 26:51,320 | 26:53,320 | I need to play them too. |
| 26:53,320 | 26:54,760 | Can we stream? |
| 26:54,760 | 26:55,880 | – Yes. |
| 26:55,880 | 26:56,720 | – Okay. |
| 26:56,720 | 26:58,520 | – That’s all I’ve got, just yes. |
| 26:58,520 | 26:59,360 | – Okay. |
| 26:59,360 | 27:00,320 | – We gotta figure out how to set it up. |
| 27:00,320 | 27:02,600 | We gotta take a weekend to set that up. |
| 27:02,600 | 27:04,080 | – Yeah. |
| 27:04,080 | 27:05,960 | – And then once we know how to do it, |
| 27:05,960 | 27:08,040 | it’ll be like, oh, we’ll just do it. |
| 27:08,040 | 27:11,080 | It’s the concept of setting. |
| 27:11,080 | 27:12,260 | And that’s the same thing with all of this. |
| 27:12,260 | 27:15,440 | The podcast was that way, the videos are like that. |
| 27:15,440 | 27:18,700 | The idea of never having done it is more daunting |
| 27:18,700 | 27:20,360 | than once you know how to do it. |
| 27:20,360 | 27:21,200 | – Yeah. |
| 27:21,200 | 27:22,280 | – Once you know how to do it, you’re like, |
| 27:22,280 | 27:25,840 | gotta get it done. Like just, just start. But when you don’t know how to do it, |
| 27:25,840 | 27:26,640 | you’re like, Oh my God, |
| 27:26,640 | 27:29,400 | I’m never going to start that because that’s so scary and intimidating. |
| 27:29,400 | 27:33,560 | But once we, once we, once we do it the first time, we’re going to be like, |
| 27:33,560 | 27:36,280 | we can just set a schedule and be like every whatever. |
| 27:36,280 | 27:40,680 | I’d really like to get back into playing more video games. |
| 27:40,680 | 27:45,720 | And I’d feel very brave if I played video games |
| 27:45,720 | 27:47,720 | with you or Vivian around me. |
| 27:47,720 | 27:50,840 | I think we could definitely set up some kind of like a, |
| 27:51,000 | 27:56,120 | We gotta figure out how to set up like a streaming thing where we can just both like, you know, |
| 27:56,120 | 28:00,960 | be on it and just play games on like a figure out a schedule, you know, whatever day we |
| 28:00,960 | 28:01,960 | want to do it and just start it. |
| 28:01,960 | 28:04,320 | That’s definitely something that I think would be fun to do. |
| 28:04,320 | 28:05,320 | Sweet. |
| 28:05,320 | 28:06,320 | Yeah. |
| 28:06,320 | 28:07,320 | We did it. |
| 28:07,320 | 28:08,320 | Yes, yes, yes, yes. |
| 28:08,320 | 28:09,320 | All right. |
| 28:09,320 | 28:10,320 | Thank you. |
| 28:10,320 | 28:11,320 | Hi there. |
| 28:11,320 | 28:13,400 | It’s Jacob from the future, Editor Jacob, if you will. |
| 28:13,400 | 28:15,560 | Thank you so much for listening to this point. |
| 28:15,560 | 28:22,240 | This was a chaotic episode, but I really enjoyed talking urban legend with my friend and all |
| 28:22,240 | 28:23,500 | of you. |
| 28:23,500 | 28:25,240 | So stick around. |
| 28:25,240 | 28:29,260 | I’ve got a little preview of the Bunnyman video coming up. |
| 28:29,260 | 28:34,740 | Please go follow us on YouTube, A Killing Jar, watch the Bunnyman video, keep an eye |
| 28:34,740 | 28:37,580 | out all the fun stuff we’ve got coming up. |
| 28:37,580 | 28:43,180 | I am so excited to just be making things and sharing all of these cool things with you. |
| 28:43,180 | 28:47,860 | It’s a constant source of joy for me, and I hope it gives you a little something too. |
| 28:47,860 | 28:55,620 | If you liked this kind of rundown of urban legends, we kept very to the front of the |
| 28:55,620 | 28:56,620 | list. |
| 28:56,620 | 28:58,860 | We were very numbers and letter A’s. |
| 28:58,860 | 29:05,060 | So let us know on Instagram or YouTube or killingjar@gmail.com. |
| 29:05,060 | 29:09,320 | Let us know somewhere if you liked this kind of rundown of urban legends. |
| 29:09,320 | 29:10,580 | Maybe we’ll do some more. |
| 29:10,580 | 29:14,740 | got some other ideas coming up but who knows we can always work in some more urban legends |
| 29:14,740 | 29:20,580 | if this is something you think is worth it. Alright stick around for that bunnyman preview |
| 29:20,580 | 29:24,980 | and I will catch you guys in the next one. Alright bye. |
| 29:24,980 | 29:39,060 | A famous urban legend exists in the sprawling suburbs outside of Washington DC. |
| 29:39,060 | 29:42,180 | The infamous Halloween tale of the Bunnyman Bridge. |
| 29:42,180 | 29:47,300 | According to the legend, if you visit the bridge at midnight on Halloween, |
| 29:47,300 | 29:50,820 | you’ll be murdered by an axe-wielding man in a white bunny suit. |
| 29:50,820 | 29:56,900 | Those who tell it say there was an asylum in the northern Virginia area that had closed down |
| 29:56,900 | 30:01,780 | due to the growing suburban development and the patients were being transferred to a local prison. |
| 30:01,780 | 30:07,380 | Along the way, there was an accident and all of the prisoners died except for one, |
| 30:08,020 | 30:13,540 | who fled into the woods and was never found again. Near a bridge in Clifton, Virginia, |
| 30:13,540 | 30:19,940 | many rabbit corpses were soon discovered hanging from the overpass, and the Bunnyman legend was |
| 30:19,940 | 30:28,660 | born. |