This episode is about the legendary pigman of Denton, Texas. Kinda.

The thing is, I'd never heard of the pigman, so it's really an episode about how urban legends and folklore are spread, what makes one urban legend take off while another lingers in obscurity, and what our urban legends say about us.

Though I do also tell the story of the pigman somewhere in there.

Highlights include:

• the "Cowboy Mafia"
• the WPA Folklore Project

Content note: this episode contains a brief mention of sexual assault, stories about violent attacks that lead to disfigurement, quoted language that suggests that facial disfigurement is tied to someone's moral character, mentions of the war on drugs and corruption in the U.S. legal system.

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Not far from the famed Goatman's Bridge in Denton County, Texas, a courthouse square has its share of spirits.

I return once more to North Texas—a place of strange UFO and cryptid encounters, and also where I grew up. This time, I'm looking at Denton Square, a historic spot where urban legends, history, and hauntings intersect.

Content note: This episode contains mentions of violence against Black and indigenous people and suicide.

Highlights include:

• an opera house that became a used bookstore
• a digression about how urban legends spread and develop
• a ghost horse!!

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Continuing my deep dive into nostalgia and the paranormal! Does the way we feel about paranormal investigation tools change their efficacy? How do our emotions (especially nostalgia) interact with the paranormal?

Highlights include:

• My continuing fascination with whether the ghosts of living people can haunt us
• Looking at nostalgic paranormal investigation tools through the lens of Amanda D. Paulson's Paranormal Emotive Touchpoint theory

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Shownotes and written version of this episode at buriedsecretspodcast.com.