Urbane Legends

Zanzibar, Tanzania. There has just been an election and the incumbent is refusing to leave. Tensions are high in the towns and cities, the military are on the street to keep order but you dont know who they side with. You watch the news on your TV, riots in the capital and the ex-President is saying the elections are to be nullified. The rightful winner of the vote is being pleaded with to leave t...

Hot off the press, better late than never, here is this weeks episode. After Putins interview with haunted Frankfurter Tuckler Karlsson we look at a time when a country really did try and use genetics to create a super soldier, yep it was the artist formally known as the soviet union. Lots of other stuff, i'll be honest i haven't gathered my thoughts as im getting this out fast. Enjoy! Hosted on A...

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Can you be a snitch if you are snitching on the person who had murdered you from beyond the grave? I know what the streets would say, unequivocally yes. But is it wrong to snitch on someone who murdered you? The street, again, would say yes. But that's what Terresita Basa did to solve her own cold case murder presumably knowing what it would do to her street cred. Yes via the gift of 'Ghost Trance...

Today we look at a BEAST that TERRORISED the well to do people of Lytham for a period of time. What's a Lytham I hear you cry? Well its a town on the southern outskirts of the UK's answer to Las Vegas, Blackpool. Its very posh in comparison. For example instead of a finding a group of older gentlemen on a stag do for Geoff's third marriage throwing up on a donkey, you will find two golf courses. Y...

This week on the 8th best Urban Legends podcast on the internet as judged by the panel at Feedspot Podcasts (https:podcasts.feedspot.com/urban_legends_podcasts/) which isn't bad for a Podcast which is only vaguely about that; is the intriguing disappearance of super rich scion of the Rockerfeller family Michael in what is now part of Indonesia but back then called 'Dutch New Guinea'. I'm getting r...

Hey do you like the internet? You're right, it IS a mixed bad. This week we look at one of the aforementioned 'internet's most famous urban legends, or as 'on-liners' call it 'creepypasta' the tale of Smiledog.jpg. A fairly patient malevolent mind trespassing demonic dog who is desperately trying to go viral by any means possible, which as the co-creator of a small podcast I can understand. Differ...

This week we head to the other side of our increasingly connected world to perform a through investigation on the Bukit Timah Monkey Man. There have been several sightings, he may come from folklore (unverified) and there are a few pictures of this lad, one where he looks like he has been littering like a disaffected teenager who has been let down by the system and slipped through the cracks. But...

Morning, how did you sleep? Oh that's a shame, it might be time to go and see a doctor, anyway I recorded this podcast with Neil....yes that Neil, for you to listen to. Its about a mysterious cave in central Europe called the Moonshaft. What do you mean it sounds dull? It has Nazis, bat eating, naked greased up pot holing, geology, death and love. In many ways this story encapsulates the entire hu...

And we are back! When will we take the hint? Never! Yes back with series 6 and episode 1 is a look at the well known urban legend of Backmasking. Did notorious Satanists the Beatles use backmasking to get people into smoking pot? Has backmasking been used to subliminally control music fans minds for years? Well to be fair, i dont mind Ed Sheeran but 14 number ones? It is a bit fishy. We also talk...

Is there a war on Christmas? You will be unsurprised to hear, no there isn't, not even a hint of one. So why do people say it? To make people angry at other people to distract from the people they should be angry with of course. We have a look at the 'evidence' sited for this non-war. Its even worse than you thought. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Has Christmas become too commercial? Has it always been this way? Are people these days allowed to just make up a degree title? Lets find out.....the hard way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many people think that a lot of our modern Christmas traditions started with the Victorians. Is this true? Or have the ever powerful Victorian lobby been up to their own tricks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A lot of stuff are attributed to being part of Christmas but are they really? Lets have a little look Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Christmas a Christian festival? On the face of it, a ridiculous question but as we always say 'ABAQ', always be asking questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we polish off our look at the Christmas Nativity. A finer piece of critical thinking and through historical research there has never been. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Its the annual xmas mini-series! This year we look at some topics around Christmas and see if the well worn stories match up with our highly scientific evidence based podcast. And it includes a very special guest star. Today, what else but the Nativity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whats it all about? Christmas I mean? Seems to Mr Hot Take (tm) over here that its about consumerism theses days. But what if an advert, rather than making you want to buy something, haunted your dreams, caused nausea and mass hysteria? Well thats what we look at in the first half of the episode. And what else is Christmas about? Well to me, maybe because im working class, its about a sexy ghost t...

Here we are, washed up on the misty shores between series. Whats that in the distance? Could it be a lighthouse? You strain your eyes to see but the mists only allow the outline to penetrate. Getting up, and coughing the salty water from your mouth you start to walk towards the shape. Slowly at first but then as the promise of civilisation dawns on you faster, and faster until you are sprinting, y...

Well we did it kids, another series completed. We would like to thank our agents, respective entourages, the Arts council and the History 2 channel. For our final episode we take a look at one of Britain's top 10 Alien encounters. Could it be any bigger?! We see phots of a weird little lad 'mongst the heather, do some probe bants, wonder what was on the mystery second movie that the Aliens showed...

It here, the penultimate episode of series 5! So gather your chosen family around the pizza oven, stick on the wireless and melt your brains as we talk about the Metal Man of Falkville, the town that birthed Colombo. Its shinny, its fast, it has an antenna but is it flirty? We think maybe it is. A chief of police's life fell apart after this encounter or perhaps his life really began, it depends o...

What happens when the dead smash into modern technology? DEAD CALLS. This week we have a look at the surprisingly regular occurrence of people receiving phone calls from the recently dead. Thankfully they dont leave voice mails because that is the worst but nor do they just drop a text, so they are a bit of a pest. And dont get me started on voicenotes! Your time is more important that mine is it?...

In this weeks episode we travel metaphorically to the west African country of the Gamba to have a look at the Ninki Nanka, a hard to pin down dragon like lizard, originally called 'the Gambian Loch Ness Monster'. It can be many sizes, has many powers and has been looked for by cryptozoologists quite seriously. There is also some talk about the surprising behaviour of some European tourists from Ch...

If you go down to the shore today, beware of a sexy surprise? This week we look at internet sensation the Montauk Monster, whose picture caused an internet sensation in the not too distant past. But what was this alluring cryptid? Could it be a mutant created in the near-by secretive animal testing facility? Some kind of new unknown super animal that mother nature is thrusting upont us to blow our...

After all the excitement of Halloween this Thursday here is a nice relaxing pod about a Witch (woman) who wasn't burned at the steak and her witching was pretty tame by anyone's standards, though she could certainly make your bakery slightly less well regarded. Hear the pure terror in the hosts voices as they also discuss the desperate preparations they are making in the final hours before Storm C...