Urbane Legends

In this week's episode we discuss the awful case of the Sodder Children. What could have happened? Just how incompetent are the emergency services in this town? Wasn't Mussolini a trend the neighbours should have been well over by 1945? Discover what we mean by "Supper with Cave, breakfast with Wilders". Email us at chrisandneil@urbanelegends.com to let us know if you'd like...

Join us for the latest episode of Urbane Legends. A podcast entirely dedicated to Neil examining wheeled vehicles for sale and trying to interest the 14th Duke of Burgundy in a purchase. This week Raleigh Chopper. Will Chris (aka 14th DoB) buy? How shiny is that chrome looking? Pristine Bell?! Also might mention the Beast of Bray Road I guess. Email chrisandneil@urbanelegends.com to make offers on...

This week we dive into the mysterious forest of Hoia Baciu. Is this Romania's most haunted forest? UFOs, Ghosts and portals to another dimension all in the same place? Was Neil cursed by a seemingly friendly coworker? How did we manage to get through nearly the whole Pod without mentioning Dracula? Join us to explore these mysteries and email us on chrisandneil@urbanelegends.com with your sugg...

We return to Arkansas for this week’s episode: the terrifying case of the Gowrow. Chris isn’t going to let Neil forget his mispronunciations. We learn about Ozark’s hospitality and sarcasm, discuss the golden era of TV and love of dried apples. Email us on chrisandneil@urbanelegends.com to suggest an episode, say hello,  or recommend better podcasts we can learn from. Hosted on Acast. See aca...

This week’s episode is the mysterious case of the Max Headroom Prank. Late one night a sports programme and an episode of Doctor Who get interrupted by a mysterious pirate broadcast. WE discuss our theories, hazy memories of Max Headroom, protestors past and present. Email us on chrisandneil@urbanelegends.com to suggest an episode, say hello, or share uncomfortable personal stories with us. Hosted...

Dig in folks for this week’s extra-long episode. Come for legends that sprung up around the mysterious death; stay for Chris's Chandler from Friends impression, our dumb takes on modern tech, terrible Australian accents, curiously lax police investigations, proof that Neil apparently hasn’t gotten over Lost and Chris’s reviews of the hottest new PS1 games for you to play. Email us on chrisandneil@...

Welcome back everyone. After our extended hiatus we return with this week's podcast on Gef the Talking Mongoose. We discuss what to do on the Isle of Man, appreciation for nature, try and puzzle out whether this is a Ghost a talking animal or both at once. For the new series we have a new (easier to remember) email address if you want to get in touch with feedback, suggestions, or death threats: c...

Short bonus episode this week ahead of the new series starting in September - hear the origins of the Exorcist in the spooky tale of the Caldwell Hall Exorcist Room - Thanks to listener Dave R for the suggestion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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200TH (STANDARD) EPISODE!!! As a podcast we like to do things a little differently. Yes a lot would make a big deal about a landmark episode but we on Urbane Legends are celebrating it with a low energy episode about something no one has ever heard of. But dont worry, there is still one more surprise episode of the series to come. This episode is about when cryptids teamed up with the Royal Navy t...

This week join us as we explore the terrifying and smelly world of the Swap Slobs. Also featuring cheeky cheery Carnies, Jaded cops too old for this and a slew of Randys we are back to the 70s where we belong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The hottest podcast in the world returns after a brief hiatus and we explain our strategy for the Pod. Chris raises his concerns with the proposed digital ID but Neil is too dead inside to care. Meanwhile we dive into the mind-blowing 23 Enigma. Confirmation Bias or something more sinister? Listen on to find out... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AKA the Ballad of Holt-o. This week we look at the disappearance of Australian Prime minister Holt-o. A man who's political career was built on a plane crash, the catching and eating of spears, swimming, womanising and.....spy craft? Well we look through all the evidence with the finest of toothed combs, like a flea comb or something to get to the bottom of this indelible mystery. Hosted on Acast....

In this episode of the podcast that is called 'Urbane Legends' apparently, these two tits from England talk about some legend or something, i think they must be stupid, about some kind of monster or snake of something in Africa or Asia, cant remember, and some idiots who went to look for it in the forest and some of them were doing it because of the Bible or whatever and loads of the locals seemed...

In this week's episode we explore the history of the Beatles conspiracy theory around Paul MaCartney dying and being replaced by MI5 when they had less important stuff to do. Featuring terrible scouse accents, our favuotite beatles songs, cheese Toastie recipes, Trumps emerging socialist empire, Our childhood music heros, remembering Newsround and Robbie Williams makes an apperance twice for some...

UPDATED WITH FULL AUDIO!! Sorry about that. Want to know about the first recorded poltergeist in the US of A? Well you are in luck. Like to hear about muscular Catholicism? Look no further. Want to hear a Arctic Monkeys first album style song about the city of Chichester? I'm your man. Interested in Japanese horror films? We got you. Want me to stop doing this question and then answering it myself...

Have you seen whats going on at the Hot Wells Hotel? Some glass blower is having a party with some artists, ghosts and skateboarders! Dont worry, it will burn down in a minuet. Yes its a haunted hotel in San Antonio, Texas. Originally from the times of the wild wild west and still going now its had a storied history, a strange history and a mainly being on fire history. However the tickets are pre...

A hole, a phenomenon, an army and a podcast. All these come together this week as we hop on the megabus to Eastern Europe to check out the legendary Tsarichina Hole. Or holes. Yes there are two separate things going on. One is a mysterious timeless folk tale and one is the Engineering Core of the Bulgarian Army. And what do the locals know? They aren't saying or weren't told. This may feel like se...

All that is new has gone before. In this depressing episode of the podcast we look at a panic that swept London in the 19th century. Are their any parallels to today that can be drawn? Surely not, we are much more sophisticated now right? Ugh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When is a man and egg? When is an egg a dream? When is a dream a lie? And when is a lie a kindness? Thats right, its this weeks episode of Urbane Legends, the stonewashed jean review podcast where this week we look at a mysterious silver ball found in Florida. Is it alien? Is it industrial? So many questions are both answered and ignored in your favourite weekly hit of Billy Joel Trivia on this, t...

This week we catch up to discuss the reasonably heartwarming Pig faced ladies legend. We try and avoid falling into the manosphere likie the soyboy cucks we are while discussing witchcraft, regency golddiggers, getting cucked by God and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's double bill episode all sorts to discuss: Elephants swimming habits, Cocktail tips, Smash robots, Vague reportage and seemingly everything but the Goggle-eyed sea monster and UFO sightings that make up this ep. Sometimes less is more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this late breaking episode we look at the radical new hottest new banging new hot new topic the Serbian Dancing Lady. Party person gone the the world of daft on the splif pills? Mentally spicey escapee, ghost thing? Lets delve deeeep Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Love them or loath them Mimics are a fact of life. From the helpful Doppelganger who goes into work for you when you've had a skin full the night before to the much more troubling Jim Carey doing a Mick Jagger impression on a British tallent show in the late 80's they fill our lives in good and bad way. We all have learned to accept this as part of our reality. But have you ever stood back and tho...