A new contender for giggliest episode enters the ring! In this episode, we’re talking internet urban legends, from the O.G. “Ted the Caver” to the “Not Deer” craze on Appalachian TikTok. Our guest this episode is the delightful Tyson Kemp! Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Pandora, or iHeartRadio.
You can find Tyson telling wonderful, well-researched spooky and skeptical stories @tysonunkempt on TikTok and Instagram!
Here are links to the TikToks we watched during this episode:
- The Rake: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRPfVaYw/
- “Not Deer”: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRPfU8D2/
- Rules of Appalachia: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRPf5dQJ/
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Here are our sources for this episode:
- https://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/internet-folklore.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepypasta
- https://thegeekanthropologist.com/2014/10/03/contemporary-folklore-in-the-digital-age/
- https://www.dictionary.com/e/fictional-characters/the-rake/
- https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2019/04/09/slender-man/
- https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rake
- https://www.ranker.com/list/rake-creepypasta/megan-summers
- https://esiculture.com/blog/2018/8/27
- https://www.polygon.com/videos/2018/7/12/17562402/fiendzone-negative-nostalgia-petscop-creepypasta
- https://ihorror.com/ted-caver-horror-hoax/
- https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html