Episode 37…Haunted Children and Urban Legends

 

With Natalie Crist away, Christopher Balzano brings in another co-host for the week; his daughter Ella, one of the troopers at Tripping on Legends for Kids.

The two discuss what urban legends and ghost stories are popular with the kids these days and the difference between old school ideas and modern hauntings. They also focus on a some neighborhood legends involving a cursed statue and an ice cream truck.

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Listen to Episode 37…Haunted Children and Urban Legends

 

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Other Tripping with Kids episodes:

 

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Listen to Episode 29…Tripping with Kids at the Koreshan State Park

 

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Listen to Episode 14…Tripping with Kids at The Singing River

 

10 responses to “Episode 37…Haunted Children and Urban Legends”

  1. […] Last week’s Tripping on Legends episode say Christopher Balzano sit down with his daughter and discuss all things haunted children. […]

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  2. […] that, we dive into some of the recent discussions we have been having online with the role kids have in forming and spreading urban legends involving […]

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  3. […] stretch of road in the middle of nowhere, with the Ocala Forest looming nearby, there are reports of ghost children walking alone and into the woods. Are they just imagination, something darker like Black-Eyed […]

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  4. […] Ghost children have been seen on the road for at least the last 20 years.  Reports always have them travelling together, usually three together, and often holding hands.  People have tried to talk to them and they either disappear or move quickly off the road and can’t be seen anymore.  Others have said they have stopped only to have the children approach the car and disappear before they get there or to inspire such fear in the witness that they drive off before the children can get to them.  This almost always happens late at night or in the early morning, which has led many of the people try and see them and report seeing them at 3:00 am.  Backbackerverse has another type of sighting.  A man on his way to work in the early morning reported a family of five, describing the “adults” as being teenagers, all of which had deformed faces and black holes for eyes.  […]

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  5. […] but loud enough to make you stop and tilt your ears towards the headstone.  There is also a child hauntingly singing.  Make it to the first turn, and you’ll feel the tug at your ankles, as if someone from below is […]

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  6. […] spoken about it before, but it will be our chance to talk about ghost children and the morality of using games during a legend […]

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  7. […] haunted bridges in the state and across the country that have dubious histories that flow from urban legends, the horrific story of ‘Dead Woman’s Crossing’ is actually true and absolutely […]

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  8. […] and turned up a hundred years later at a local almshouse before disappearing again. Then we have urban legends like the tale of Rudolph Fentz, where a man turned up in the middle of Times Square, dressed in […]

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  9. […] she gets because she should not be at college in the first place.  They reflect people’s subconscious objections to the woman’s leaving the home and rejecting what has been her role for generations.  She should be in the home learning to […]

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