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Big Easy Spirits
By Big Easy SpiritsTrue Crime
Big Easy Spirits episodes
- Episode 30: When the Zodiac Killer and New Orleans Combine, Part 2Part 1 was a wild ride, but this episode we finish up the store and decide if Baton Rouge businessman Gary Stewart’s biological father is the Zodiac Killer ... spoiler alert: he’s not.1 hr 42 min
- Episode 29: When the Zodiac Killer and New Orleans Combine, Part 1Gary Stewart is a Baton Rouge business man born in New Orleans. During the search for his birth parents and an episode of “Cold Case Files,” Gary decides his birth father is the Zodiac Killer ... and Kelly’s life was forever changed. Listen to Part 1 of our conversation about “The Most Dangerous Animal of All!”1 hr 21 min
- Episode 28: Jayne Mansfield’s Head - band name or part of a horrible death?In this episode, Ashley tells the story of the life and death of Jayne Mansfield - who died in a crash right outside of New Orleans - while Kelly tries to manifest being Mariska Hargitay’s best friend and mourns the loss of the story’s best character, a chihuahua.53 min
- Episode 27: Hamilton, Hazel and Unsolved MysteriesAfter the new “Unsolved Mysteries” premiere on Netflix, we take a look at a Louisiana unsolved mystery of Hazel Leota Head and the death of Charles Barker.49 min
- Episode 26: Morbid MomentsIn this episode, Ashley shakes Kelly to the core with the stories of three unusual New Orleans funerals.49 min
- Episode 25: The Gruesome Death of Addie HallThe evening of Oct. 17, 2006, Zack Bowen’s body was found on the roof of the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel parking garage. In his back pocket, a confession to the murder of his girlfriend Addie Hall. WARNING: the story contains graphic, gross details!52 min
- Episode 24: The Rougarou and that B**ch Lori VallowIn this week’s episode, Kelly goes off on a rant about Lori Vallow and Ashley shares the stores of the rougarou...with a little bit of Harry Potter and Elizabeth I sprinkled in.1 hr
- Episode 23: Podcast Blackout
As we are all - or should be - aware, we are in the middle of a pivotal moment in our history. Following the deaths of Brionna Taylor - a 27 yr old frontline worker who was innocently gun downed by law enforcement in her own home - and George Floyd, who was questioned about using a fraudulent bill, detained and crushed under the weight of an officer for over 8 minutes and died from his injuries, peaceful protests, demonstrations and social media movements calling for police reform and racial justice have now taken place for the past week in all 50 states.
Changing the format of our small New Orleans podcast is not going to change laws or the systematic racism that plagues our country, but (name) and I couldn’t find it in us to deliver a humorous story to our followers this week. We’re not in a jovial mood and our world is not in a jovial spirit.
Black Lives Matter.
A change needs to be made and it needs to be made now. We do not have the answers, but we know our friends in the black community have struggled with injustices that we as white women will never understand.
For our small part, we want to promote black-owned businesses in New Orleans and ways that you can donate and help make a change!
Support Social Justice Organizations:
Black Lives Matter
The Loveland Foundation
Campaign Zero
The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Community Bail Funds
ACLU
Color of Change
Pods and Reads:
WWOZ
WBOK 1230 am
Yamiche Alcindor’s podcast with PBS News Hour
NPR’s Code Switch
Pod Save the People
Books:
Beloved by Toni Morrison (also the Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
Click here for a full link of black-owned New Orleans businesses from New Orleans & Co. / NewOrleans.com
25 min - Episode 22: Ghost House For SaleIn this week’s episode, Kelly shares an update about her family’s cemetery tombs and we head to Youngsville as a woman gives away a haunted house for free through Facebook!1 hr 2 min
- Episode 21: The City of the Dead and Nicholas CageThis week, Ashley tells us about the City of the Dead, shares what Nicholas Cage and Marie Laveau have in come and ruins pizza stones forever.43 min
About Big Easy Spirits
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Big Easy Spirits is a New Orleans-based true crime and haunted history weekly podcast.