Urban Legends

Gateway to the Unknown — S2 E9: Season 2 Wrap Party! 🎉

It's the Season 2 finale of Gateway to the Unknown, and we threw a LIVE wrap party at Peduti Studios! Norm and Dan raced through 20 of the creepiest, weirdest, most head-scratching local legends from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and beyond — with a live audience, a prize wheel, and stories that'll make you sleep with the lights on.

What's in this episode:

👻 **20 Local Legends, Counted Down Live:**
1. The Kecksburg UFO — Pennsylvania's Roswell and that mysterious acorn-shaped object
2. Pittsburgh's Vanishing Ghost Bomber — What was really in that 1956 crash?
3. Charlie No Face / The Green Man — The nicest guy you never want to meet on a dark road
4. The Blue Mist Road — A road that watches back, in Gibsonia
5. Thirteen Bends — Count them going. Count them coming. Try not to argue.
6. Snyder Cemetery's Red Eyes — Moraine State Park's family graveyard with a guardian
7. Evans City — Where zombies learned to walk (George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead)
8. Dead Man's Hollow — An 1874 mystery you can still hike today
9. The House the Devil Built — Pittsburgh's most haunted house... or a legend built on tragedy?
10. The Allegheny Arsenal — 78 lives lost, 54 unidentified, and a mass grave that still echoes
11. South Side / Butler Cemetery — Digital recorders, trail cams, and voices where no one should be talking
12. Mothman & The Chicora Gargoyle — 48 independent witnesses who don't know each other, all describing the same thing
13. The Flatwoods Monster — A blood-red face in the West Virginia hills, 1952
14. The Grafton Monster — Seven to nine feet tall, headless, and just... standing there
15. The Black Cross — A mass plague burial site in Worthington marked by railroad ties
16. Sheepsquatch — West Virginia's wooly, sulfur-scented nightmare
17. The White Thing of Marion County — A coal miner's walk home he'll never forget
18. The Loveland Frogman — Three frog-faced figures on an Ohio road in 1955
19. The Minerva Monster — Bigfoot threw rocks at a family's window every day for three months
20. The Jersey Devil — When a campfire story became a full public panic in 1909
21. The Bunny Man with a Hatchet — The perfect weird closer: a man in a white bunny suit, a hatchet, and a parked car

🎙️ **Plus, live audience stories:**
- A Gettysburg Civil War hospital visit that turned into car doors locking and unlocking on their own — with faces screaming in the photos later
- A ghostly Civil War officer who vanished mid-conversation on the battlefield
- A Navy veteran's psychic prediction about a friend's brother, a red Ford pickup, and a cancer diagnosis — all confirmed at the reunion

🎁 **Giveaways & Shenanigans:**
T-shirts, mugs, alien figurines, collector coins, a rigged wheel that may or may not be weighted toward green, and Dan's short stories that are definitely short.

🌍 Listened to in 38 countries and counting. Season 3 coming soon!

**📍 Recorded live at Peduti Studios.** Want to host your own live podcast or event? Reach out to Jeff Peduti — he hosts podcasts, comedy nights, magicians, and more.

**Links & Info:**
- All 20 story locations and addresses available — reach out and we'll send you the notes!
- Have your own paranormal story? We want to hear it. Text us or find us online.
- Wash your T-shirts inside out. Don't put the mug in the dishwasher. Don't whistle in the woods at night.

**Gateway to the Unknown** — Season 2, Episode 9 | Recorded July 5, 2026 | Runtime: ~66 minutes

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