Episode 32 // A Quartet of Urban Legends

A chain-mail letter warns of an organ-harvesting cabal. A supposed mountain gremlin appears in a video. A hitchhiker in an evening gown vanishes into thin air, and people appear to live under New York City. But is any of it true? You decide on this episode, where we’ll explore the ins and outs of four urban legends.

SOURCES:

• https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/slender-man-modern-urban-legend-40386

• https://www.livescience.com/7107-urban-legends-start-persist.html

• https://people.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm#pt4

• https://medium.com/omgfacts/the-organ-harvesting-urban-legend-is-actually-true-c39d47a26ad7

• https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/youve-got-to-be-kidneying/

• https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/05/world/foreigners-attacked-in-guatemala.html?searchResultPosition=3

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646

• https://ablazeimage.com/the-tag-along-info/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/cahlod/taiwanese_horror_stories_mountain_gremlins_and/

• https://jackosborneblogs.wordpress.com/2020/06/17/rise-of-adolf-hitler-and-nazi-germany/

• https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrified-cabbies-pick-up-ghost-7293766

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/tsunami-spirits

• https://narratively.com/the-truth-about-new-yorks-legendary-mole-people/

• https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/13/nyregion/in-tunnel-mole-people-fight-to-save-home.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20040411200759/

• https://www.straightdope.com/columns/040109.html

• https://narratively.com/the-truth-about-new-yorks-legendary-mole-people/

• https://abc7ny.com/traffic/mta-finds-increase-in-nyc-subway-homeless/5591962/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkoBCiHeE5o

TRANSCRIPT:

SAU Episode 32 Urban Legends.pdf

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