Mass Lore

Nick the Rat Radio · Oct 14, 2026 · 2h 25m · transcript

Episode 561

Nick the Rat Radio is back from the sewer with a Halloween-season deep dive into urban legends, myths, and the strange stories we all swear happened to a cousin’s coworker. Nick breaks down the classics, from Bloody Mary and the vanishing hitchhiker to spider egg boils, razor blades in apples, and George Washington’s “wooden” teeth, and asks whether any of them were ever real. He also pitches his own theory: today’s urban legends aren’t campfire stories anymore, they’re the news cycle, and he calls this new wave “mass lore.”.

Along the way you get a rundown of this week’s…