Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-05-05
Books mentioned on La Llorona is Older Than You Think
It's a common campfire tale -- a mysterious, ghostly entity roams the land, lamenting the loss of her children... and perhaps kidnapping living children to replace her own.
Ben Bowlin discussed The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker
Discussed“and we're quite fortunate in that the vanishing hitchhiker Legend was researched extensively by a folklore named John brunvand in the 1980s it led to his book The Vanishing hitchhiker American urban legends and their meanings”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Labyrinths
“um just for one example I was reading Borges on a public transit right and stopping in a train station and I turned to look there was another train across the platform going in a different direction I turned to look and there was this lady staring at me and I was by the window I was holding this book”