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If You Should Go at Midnight

Legends and Legend Tripping in AmericaBy Jeffrey S. Debies-CarlNarrated by Louis White

If You Should Go at Midnight

Length11h 20m

About this audiobook

Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound paranormal experience and may seem to achieve just that. They are part of the growing cultural phenomenon called legend tripping. In If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America, author Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl guides readers through an exploration of legend tripping, drawing on years of scholarship, documentary accounts, and his own extensive fieldwork. Poring over old reports and legends, sleeping in haunted inns, and trekking through wilderness full of cannibal mutants and strange beasts, Debies-Carl provides an in-depth analysis of this practice that has long fascinated scholars yet remains a mystery to many observers. This analysis is brought to audio through brand-new AI narrative technology. Debies-Carl argues that legend trips are important social practices. Unlike traditional rites of passage, they reflect the modern world, revealing both its problems and its virtues. In society as well as in legend tripping, there is ambiguity, conflict, crisis of meaning, and the substitution of debate for social consensus. Conversely, both emphasize individual agency and values, even in spiritual matters. While people still need meaningful and transformative experiences, authoritative, traditional institutions are less capable of providing them. Instead, legend trippers voluntarily search for individually meaningful experiences and actively participate in shaping and interpreting those experiences for themselves.

Audiobook details

GenrePsychology, Spirituality and Religion

Length11 hrs 20 mins

Narrated byLouis White

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateJun 29, 2023

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credits

7Chapter 5: Close Encounters of the Supernatural Kind

2Introduction: Of Legends and Legend Trips

8Chapter 6: The Return

3Chapter 1: The Varieties of Ostensive Experience

9Chapter 7: Telling the Tale

4Chapter 2: Legend Telling

10Chapter 8: The Past and Future of Legend Tripping

5Chapter 3: Preparations and an Uncanny Journey

11Acknowledgements

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6Chapter 4: Rites and Rituals

12Closing Credits

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