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Today--
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Today, we get more specific.
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A baby-sitter receives
menacing phone calls.
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And upon investigating them...
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she realizes that
they are originating...
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from an upstairs bedroom...
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the very room...
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where she's left the children
under her care...
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to sleep.
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Now, who's heard this before?
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Well, that really happened
to a girl in my hometown.
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Oh, yes.
l'm sure it did.
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l'm sure most of you...
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grew up thinking
this did happen to girls...
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in all your hometowns...
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but it didn't.
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You see, the baby-sitter...
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and the man upstairs...
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is what we call an urban legend.
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Contemporary folklore...
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passed on as a true story.
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There are variations
of this one...
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going back to the 1960s...
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all of them containing
the same cultural admonition:
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Young women, mind your children...
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or harm will come your way.
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Excuse me?
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Something funny
you might care to share with us...
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Ms.?
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No, l was just saying, like...
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maybe the cultural admonition is:
Don't baby-sit.
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Why don't you come up here.-.
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and volunteer
for my little experiment, hmm?
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Yeah, that's a great idea.
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Now, young lady!
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- Coming.
- Yeah, baby.
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Don't worry.
You'll probably survive.