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Its’s beach weather! Let’s make a Mai Tai and talk about some spooky, sandy places

Popping in with an episode all about the breakfast queen of garnishments; The Bloody Mary, and some urban legends. Let’s kick off summer by getting some brunch and getting scared!

Today’s episode features a Staten Island cocktail and possibly a witch (aka an innocent woman)

This new season is coming in HOT with an award winning Tiki cocktail and stories of crimes of passion!❤️‍🔥

Also find out which Cryptids, I’d maybe have drinks with 🥃

Explore a darker side of holiday spirits this year. Today we talk about the Welsh tradition of Mari Lwyd and the French legend of Hans Trapp, The Christmas Scarecrow

Explore a darker side of holiday spirits this year. Today we’re talking about Icelandic folklore legends the Yule Lads and the Yule Cat

Explore a darker side of holiday spirits this year, starting with The Krampus from Germanic Folklore

A few weeks ago John Flores had reached out to me on TikTok and said he had some stories about a haunted sausage factory and a personal story about a haunted apartment in Chicago, and I was like “Yep! I absolutely want to know about those!”

He was kind enough to take time out of his evening to come on this episode and talk to me about them, and he didn’t disappoint! We also talked about some of our favorite value bourbons beforehand, so this episode is really the epitome of spirits and spirits!

Please give him a follow at:

TikTok: @The_Bourbon_Dad

Instagram: @JohnnyNormal

He’s also written a book that can be found on Amazon:

https://a.co/d/40w7IxC

Grave robbing, Insurance fraud, Horse theft, Mistresses, Murder, and even a botched execution…H.H. Holmes has done it all!

A very NOLA centric episode, we make a classic Vieux Carré Cocktail then get into the mysterious Axeman

This episode features a seasonally appropriate white wine spritzer, featuring Chardonnay- the favorite wine of the iconic Natalie Wood. Then we get into her mysterious death. Was it an accidental drowning, or was there foul play involved?

Veteran’s Day is Monday let’s talk a historic, but very easy cocktail to make cocktail and some haunted military bases! Also, a BIG Thank You to those who have served!!

What’s scarier than a U.S. Election? Haunted Washington DC, of course!

Jokes aside, please vote like you actually LIKE the women in your life

Terror Tuesdays is a limited 4 week series of original ghost stories for the month of October 2024; All written and read by me.

This episode originally aired in the summer of 2022, but in my opinion it’s one of the BEST American ghost stories and deserves to be told over and over. Happy Halloween week!

Terror Tuesdays is a limited 4 week series of original ghost stories for the month of October 2024; All written and read by me.

This episode originally aired in the summer of 2022, but aliens and UFOs always give me cold chills so I thought it’d be perfect to bring back for this spooky season!

Terror Tuesdays is a limited 4 week series of original ghost stories for the month of October 2024; All written and read by me.

Terror Tuesdays is a limited 4 week series of original ghost stories for the month of October 2024; All written and read by me.

Let’s kick off Halloween month by hearing some ghost stories from the land of maple syrup and pretty leaves

It’s 3rd Friday! Which means I explore the death of an Icon…Todays episode is really just my love letter to Tallulah Bankhead

Today we dive into the incredibly interesting history of the Brandy Alexander Cocktail , then talk about some spiritual/psychic camps. Wouldn’t “Brandy Alexander” be SUCH a good psychic name? After that we explore some psychic/spiritual camps!!

This episode is no way as in depth as I wanted it to be. I’m going to have break Kentucky into regions to fully appreciate and explore all the ghosts they have

For Louisville haunts, listen to this previous episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2etP9k6quOZyI2uXhfVWny?si=oGS3jrbCQA6uGf1NKXNLcQ

For ‘Old Louisvile haunts, check this one out: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4T5r4CAfsMKRjri4T8fOeU?si=ibwiGoaWQLOoJLskjXot0w

A fun cocktail and me reading nonsense 😂

Today we explore the origins of the New York Sour (Spoiler: It’s not New York!) Then we get into some of NYC’s most haunted places




Today’s episode features a cocktail called Helter Skelter (possibly named from the Beatle’s song, not Charles Manson) It features rye whiskey and crème de banana




Then we get into the budding career of Sharon Tate, and her untimely death in her Benedict Canyon home at the hands of Charles Manson’s cult members

Join me today with a cocktail celebrating the biggest pop star of the summer…then we get into a grisly 1980’s murder; In the midst of the Satanic Panic, a retired couple who just wanted to be left alone in their woodland retreat was brutally slain by a pair of homophobic assholes looking for a non-existent money stash

Trigger warning: The dogs die in this one

Iowa’s official state cocktail is surprising…but not more surprising than there not a being a conviction for the Villisca Ax murders. Today we dive into both

This week we dive into a pr-prohibition era cocktail that originated in a Philadelphia hotel, then we check out some of the City of Brotherly Love’s most haunted places

An iconic femme fatale with a bad picker for men. Did she really make her own daughter take the fall for the murder of her gangster boyfriend? Find out in today’s episode; all things Lana Turner!

Today we have a fun cocktail and a terrible tragedy, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was one of the worst industrial fires in history in regards to the number of lives lost. We get into it today!

This episode and the first state has bit of everything! The Orange Crush is Delaware’s *Official* State Cocktail, it has a legislative bill proclaiming it so. Delaware’s ghosts are just as fascinating- They have everything from a Scooby Doo Villain wannabe, to a wine drinking spirit, to a haunted quill pen. Also, could some kind doctor write me an RX for a summer house? I need one

It’s summer vacation season! Is haunted Charleston,SC on your to visit list? I share some spirit filled places today that you may just want to add to your itenerary! If you’re not traveling, stay home a party and make this delicious punch instead!

I really just love everything about her! This episode is just me fangirling over the life and times of the iconic Jayne Mansfield

Not the story I thought I was covering but we have a riff on the old fashioned and a cold case from the late 1930’s

A fun aperitif and a list of a few Italian haunts

A run down of one off America’s most famous gangsters and where his ghost may still haunt

Break out the vodka and cranberry we’re headed East to explore the abandoned Dudleytown, CT and creepy Centralia, PA

Check out my book; Drinking with the Stars; Cocktails for the Zodiac

It’s third Friday, of course we’re talking about old Hollywood, and today we have one the first iconic blonde bombshells; Jean Harlow who died way too soon, at only age 26.

Some inspiration for some spooky summer sightseeing. We’re talking about haunted lighthouses in the US

Back with a brand new episode featuring a very boozy punch and a very haunted state!

Check out my book; Drinking with the Stars; Cocktails for the Zodiac

A spooky Tiki cocktail from New Orleans plus haunted churches from all over the world, including the Devil’s footprint in Munich, Germany

Today we have a cocktail named after a sank battleship then we’re headed to the home of the greatest horror writer of all time, The Pine Tree State to find some ghosts

As Alicia Keys would sing “This girl is on fiyaaaaa” we’re starting today off with some old school flare bartending then getting into the phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion.

A belated St Paddy’s episode! Let’s have an Irish Whiskey cocktail then jump into some haunted Ireland locations

Welcome to the astrological new year! Check out my book; Drinking with the Stars; Cocktails for the Zodiac

Today we go back to the roaring 20’s with a cocktail named after silent screen Icon; Mary Pickford, and then we get into the unsolved murder of director, William Desmond Taylor

Beef… it’s what’s this podcast