Episode 195: Sorry about the whistling.

Left of Skeptic

Content warning: Kala’s story this week includes some discussion of suicide. If you wish to skip this topic, jump to Brittany’s story at 42:08. Happy Spooky Wednesday and HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! It is our final week of Urban Legends October, and we’ve got two stories to get you into the holiday mood. First, Kala talks about Lavender Town Syndrome. According to urban legend, this level in the first two Pokémon GameBoy games led over 200 people to commit suicide. Was it the music or the sad content? Is it a conspiracy that Nintendo is trying to cover up? Or is the whole thing made up? And Brittany tells us about the legend of The Whistler. In this creepy story a person heard whistling as a child, and then the exact same whistling again 10 years later in a completely different place. That’s not too creepy, right? It gets weirder. As an adult, the user hears the exact same whistling again, on a canoe with his girlfriend, causing them to look further into what this could be… Once he had an idea of what might be going on, that’s when the creepiness really begins.