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The Highly Spirited Podcast
by Stephanie McNew
The Boozy and Boos-y biweekly podcast filled with cocktail histories and spooky stories
Episodes
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The Mai Tai and Haunted Beaches
Its’s beach weather! Let’s make a Mai Tai and talk about some spooky, sandy places
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Bloody Mary & Urban Legends
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!
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The Richmond Gimlet & Polly Bodine
Today’s episode features a Staten Island cocktail and possibly a witch (aka an innocent woman)
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The Saturn Cocktail & Crimes of Passion
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 🥃
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Creepsmas 2024: Mari Lwyd & The Christmas Scarecrow
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
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Creepsmas 2024: The Yule Lads & Yule Cat
Explore a darker side of holiday spirits this year. Today we’re talking about Icelandic folklore legends the Yule Lads and the Yule Cat
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Creepsmas 2024: The Krampus
Explore a darker side of holiday spirits this year, starting with The Krampus from Germanic Folklore
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Interview: Talkin’ Bourbon and Chicago Ghosts with John Flores
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…
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The Chicago Handshake & H.H. Holmes
Grave robbing, Insurance fraud, Horse theft, Mistresses, Murder, and even a botched execution…H.H. Holmes has done it all!
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The Vieux Carré and The Axeman of New Orleans
A very NOLA centric episode, we make a classic Vieux Carré Cocktail then get into the mysterious Axeman
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3rd Friday: Old Hollywood! The Noel Spritzer & Natalie Wood
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?
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The Stone Fence Cocktail and Haunted Military Bases
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!!
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The Rickey and Haunted DC
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
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Terror Tuesdays: The Bride
Terror Tuesdays is a limited 4 week series of original ghost stories for the month of October 2024; All written and read by me.
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Re-airing of The Corpse Reviver and The Greenbrier Ghost
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!
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Terror Tuesdays: Summer Camp
Terror Tuesdays is a limited 4 week series of original ghost stories for the month of October 2024; All written and read by me.
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Re-airing of The Paper Plane and Aliens
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!
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Terror Tuesdays; The Blue Chair
Terror Tuesdays is a limited 4 week series of original ghost stories for the month of October 2024; All written and read by me.
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Terror Tuesdays: The Hitchhiker
Terror Tuesdays is a limited 4 week series of original ghost stories for the month of October 2024; All written and read by me.
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The Old Vermont Cocktail and Haunted Vermont
Let’s kick off Halloween month by hearing some ghost stories from the land of maple syrup and pretty leaves
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3rd Fridays! Old Hollywood; Tallulah Bankhead
It’s 3rd Friday! Which means I explore the death of an Icon…Todays episode is really just my love letter to Tallulah Bankhead
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The Brandy Alexander and Psychic Camps
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!!
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The Kentucky Mule and Haunted Kentucky
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...
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The Foolish Mortal Cocktail an bad reviews of haunted attractions
A fun cocktail and me reading nonsense 😂
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The New York Sour and Haunted NYC
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
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3rd Friday; Old Hollywood! Sharon Tate
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...
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The Pink Pony Club Cocktail and Corpsewood Manor
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...
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The ‘official’ Iowa State Cocktail & The Villisca Ax Murder House
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
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The Clover Club & Haunted Philadelphia
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
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3rd Fridays! Old Hollywood: Lana Turner
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!
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The New York Cocktail and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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!
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The Orange Crush and Haunted Delaware
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...
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Planter’s Punch and Haunted Charleston, SC
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!
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3rd Friday! Jayne Mansfield
I really just love everything about her! This episode is just me fangirling over the life and times of the iconic Jayne Mansfield
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The Sawtooth Cocktail and Sawmill Murder
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
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The Biclicetta and Some Italy haunts
A fun aperitif and a list of a few Italian haunts
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Al Capone’s Cocktail and Ghost
A run down of one off America’s most famous gangsters and where his ghost may still haunt
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The Cape Codder and East Coast Ghost Towns
Break out the vodka and cranberry we’re headed East to explore the abandoned Dudleytown, CT and creepy Centralia, PA
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Gemini Season!
Check out my book; Drinking with the Stars; Cocktails for the Zodiac
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The Jean Harlow Cocktail & The Life and Death of Jean Harlow
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.
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The Lighthouse Shot and Haunted Lighthouses
Some inspiration for some spooky summer sightseeing. We’re talking about haunted lighthouses in the US
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Mississippi Punch and Haunted Mississippi
Back with a brand new episode featuring a very boozy punch and a very haunted state!
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Taurus Season
Check out my book; Drinking with the Stars; Cocktails for the Zodiac
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The Holy Water Cocktail & Haunted Churches
A spooky Tiki cocktail from New Orleans plus haunted churches from all over the world, including the Devil’s footprint in Munich, Germany
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Remember the Maine Cocktail & Haunted Maine
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
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The Blue Blazer Cocktail and Spontaneous Human Combustion
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.
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The Irish Maid & Haunted Ireland
A belated St Paddy’s episode! Let’s have an Irish Whiskey cocktail then jump into some haunted Ireland locations
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Aries Season !
Welcome to the astrological new year! Check out my book; Drinking with the Stars; Cocktails for the Zodiac
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3rd Friday; Old Hollywood! The Mary Pickford Cocktail & The Murder of William Desmond Taylor
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
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The Moogarita and the Kentucky Meat Shower
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The Boozy and Boos-y biweekly podcast filled with cocktail histories and spooky stories
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The Highly Spirited Podcast is created and hosted by Stephanie McNew.
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