The Highly Spirited Podcast


 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