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Aired: 2020-12-11
Duration: 01:15


=== Truth Behind Urban Legends (01:15) ===

[00:00:00]  You ever wonder about the truth behind popular urban legends?
[00:00:03]  Or how about the craziest conspiracy theories you hear about online?
[00:00:07]  Chemtrails, the flat earth, the hollow earth.
[00:00:10]  Is there anything to them at all?
[00:00:12]  Famous mysteries like what happened to Amelia Earhart?
[00:00:15]  What's up with the Bermuda Triangle?
[00:00:17]  Who was Jack the Ripper?
[00:00:19]  What about famous ghost stories like the Amityville Horror or The Warrens?
[00:00:24]  What was really going on with that?
[00:00:25]  Or this stuff they show on television, ancient aliens, hunting Hitler, the curse of Oak Island.
[00:00:32]  You know that junk isn't true, but how do you find out what is?
[00:00:36]  If you've always taken stories like these with a grain of salt, Skeptoid is the show for you.
[00:00:42]  Each week we take one famous urban legend that a lot of people believe, talk about how it got started, how and why people believe it, and what's the real science, the real history behind what's going on.
[00:00:54]  It's like a short 15-minute podcast version of Mythbusters, but exhaustively researched and referenced.
[00:01:01]  If you're ready to be skeptical and ready to solve the deepest mysteries you always wondered about, listen to Skeptoid, a 501c3 educational nonprofit.
[00:01:11]  I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.