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As the calendar turns and a new year begins, some legends refuse to stay buried. In this episode, we step into the liminal space between endings and beginnings to explore two enduring mysteries of American folklore. First, we revisit Resurrection Mary, the vanished hitchhiker said to wander the roads outside Chicago—forever caught between life and death, and still searching for a way home.
Then we head south to Texas, where sightings of a massive winged creature—often called the Big Bird of Texas—have terrified witnesses for decades. Is it a misidentified animal, a cryptid, or something far stranger?
From ghostly apparitions to towering creatures in the night sky, this New Year’s episode asks one question: what old spirits and legends follow us into the year ahead? Lock your doors, keep your eyes on the road, and join us as we ring in the new year the spooky way.
Original Theme Music by Patrick Prouty
Sources for this episode:https://www.chicagohistory.org/resurrection-mary/
Wikipedia
The Texas-sized 'monster' bird that created a huge flap back in 1975
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