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Not Your Average Bucket List Season 2

Published Mar 15, 2024

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Marisa Roman

Local Lore & Legends

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We kicked off a second season of Not Your Average Bucket List, covering Local Lore & Legends throughout the United States. While we’re not trying to be the best urban legends podcast ever to exist, we want to tackle some of the best urban legend examples throughout various states and dive deep into what makes these stories so creepy. We’ll research some of the most popular and creepiest urban legends, abandoned buildings, scary stories, and beyond each week. Have you ever heard of the Jersey Devil? Do you know the history of Ohio State Reformatory? We cover all of this and more...

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