New Internet Urban Legends Episode: The Mystery of Blank Room Soup

Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy
Published in
3 min readMay 6, 2021

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It’s not often that “soup” filters into the zeitgeist of popular culture. We had a sighting in the 90s when the Seinfeld TV sitcom made “The Soup Nazi” a cultural phenomenon. Last year, soup showed up in the news as people cleaned out grocery shelves to hoard soup during the COVID lockdowns.

Now, beauty gurus and internet sleuths Loey Lane and Eleanor Snitchery, hosts of Internet Urban Legends has soup trending again.

Internet Urban Legends podcast

In a brand-new episode of Internet Urban Legends the intrepid investigators try to solve the mystery of the “blank room soup.”

Blankroomsoup.avi is a viral video that has existed online for a long time, in many different forms, but there is still a ton of mystery surrounding it. A crying man eats soup while two masked figures comfort him, sparking online theories of (wait for it…) cannibalism and torture. What does it mean, and who’s really behind it?

The hosts dig into the backstory of one of the most infamous and unsettling videos to ever hit the web, and come to their own haunting conclusions.

Listen to the new episode NOW on Spotify: HERE

Each episode, Loey and Eleanor take a deep dive into one big story, investigating clues and conspiracy theories that surround each paranormal tale to…

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Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy

I am a South Jersey-based writer who manages Podcast Reports on Blogger and have a book available on Amazon about podcasts and podcasting called “Ear Worthy.”