🌞 Happy Summer Solstice and Strawberry Full Moon! 🍓 Summerween is in full swing, and your favorite podcasting besties are back with two new spooky, stoney stories for your listening horror.

🧙🏻 Liz takes us to the eerie Swedish island of Blå Jungfrun, where witches were alleged to lure dozens of children for Satanic rituals, but things are not what they seem... The records reveal that these cases were more mistrial than witch trial. Were innocent women sentenced to death? Are their spirits haunting the island that inspired the lies that ended their lives? Let's discuss.

🗿 Peyton then delves into the mystery of Ley Lines, and the history of our recent re-discovery of the worldwide phenomenon. Ancient knowledge is waiting to be found, but will modern scientists finally take Ley Lines seriously, or will they continue to dismiss them as a paranormal? As humans, it seems we may have forgotten more than we currently know! We cannot comprehend what we may discover if we continue to explore and study these seemingly magical Ley Lines.

You might want to listen to this episode with the lights on... Or at least with a lighter on you, so you can hit-the-bong and smoke-a-long with your frighteningly fabulous hosts, Elizabeth Ann Poinsette and Peyton McCormick! Stay spooky, stoners. 👻

📲 Check out @YouRowKelsey on Instagram!

📚 Please buy We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (@chimamanda_adichie on Instagram).

SOURCES:

www.medium.com The Truth About Ley Lines by Ian Vince

www.visitsmaland.se

The Travelers Guide, Cursed and Creepy Destinations

www.folklife.si.edu and Jennie Tiderman-Österberg

🎃 We are halfway to Halloween, and here with yet another spooky podcast episode to get you through this Scorpio Full Moon! 🌝

Peyton kicks off this episode with a classic ghost story published in 1904, The Phantom Hag from Twenty-Five Ghost Stories, compiled and edited by W. Bob Holland. Our slang and ways of dressing may change over time, but the horror vibes remain! This ghost story is just as scary as a modern day horror movie. Will the Phantom Hag pay YOU a visit? Is she real, or a hallucination? You'll want to keep the lights on for this one! 🧙🏻

Liz then drags our sexy corpses to Flagstaff, Arizona for the Hotel Monte Vista, which stuns visitors with it's art deco charm and a reputation as one of the most haunted locations in the entire United States. Ghost stories galore! 🏨

📲 Check out @zar.the.star on Instagram!

📚 Look for True Irish Ghost Stories compiled by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, D.I.R.I.C. wherever books are sold!

Stay spooky, stoners! 👻

SOURCES:

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories compiled and edited by W. Bob Holland, Copyright 1904 by the J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company

You sexy witches are in for a THC infused treat with this episode! Recorded on April Fools' Day and edited on 420, this episode has the goofy, geeked-out vibes baked in.

🇮🇹 Liz takes us to one of the Mediterranean's spookiest destinations, Poveglia Island, where history is intertwined with horror. Forbidden to tourists, this podcast may be the closest you'll get to exploring this notoriously haunted island in the Venetian Lagoon of Northern Italy.

🔮 Peyton then drags us into the gutter to discuss the self-proclaimed psychic medium Sylvia Browne, who exploited grieving families on daytime television in a sick quest for fame and fortune. Should her pop-culture icon status be revoked? Let's chat it out. It's time to get high... Highly Haunted!

📲 Check out @blairimani on Instagram!

🧙🏽‍♀️ Look for Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman wherever books are sold!

Stay spooky, stoners! 👻

SOURCES:

www.walksofitaly.com, www.hithishistory.com, www.atlasobscura.com, www.cnn.com

www.allthatsinteresting.com/sylviabrowne

🌚 HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR! 🌝 Liz and Peyton return to haunt your wildest nightmares with two terrifying tales that will give you goosebumps.

💎 First, Liz covers the many misfortunes associated with a cursed amethyst gemstone that was passed from one unlucky owner to the next, wreaking havoc on their lives while looking drop-dead gorgeous.

💻 Peyton then dives into the Dodleston Messages, a series of computer messages from the 1980's that defy time and logic. Was it a paranormal wrinkle in time, or an elaborate hoax?

Let's get into it! Don't be too scared. We've got the best legal cannabis in the world to take the edge off. We're here to get silly and scary! Hit the bong and smoke-a-long. It's time to get high... Highly Haunted. Stay spooky, stoners! 👻

📲 Follow @catielaffoon on Instagram to empower yourself through knowledge and social justice! Thank you, Catie, for being a true American hero. 🇺🇸

📚 Look for "Do I Know You?" by Sadie Dingfelder anywhere books are sold! ✨

🎃 Trick or treat! 🍬 It's the first episode of 2026, and your spooky podcasting besties are back with two stories to start your New Year off scary. Peyton discusses the Philip Experiment, which begged the question: Are ghosts real, or a figment or our imagination? These 70's scientists were determined to solve the unsolvable... but did they? Liz follows with the story behind our favorite Halloween decoration, the Jack-O-Lantern! This tale involves the Devil, a drunkard, and a whole lot of shenanigans. You'll never see your Halloween pumpkin the same way again! Hit the bong and smoke-a-long. Peyton and Liz are about to get high... Highly Haunted! Stay spooky, stoners! 👻

A very special thank you to Kikoko for the sponsoring the heavenly cannabis infused teas and edibles! Please follow @kikoko_hq on Instagram and check out their website www.kikoko.com to find out where you can buy their high quality, super effective products. We love you, Kikoko! Thank you very much! 💚

Another special thank you to Spritz for sponsoring the delightful infused Green Apple blunt! Please follow @spritzflowerbrand on Instagram and check out their website www.spritzflower.com for prices and locations where you can buy their flavorful cannabis products. Thank you! Much love. 🍏

ADDITIONAL SOURCES:

www.usghostadvenures.com

• https://books.google.com/books?id=aScDwsCUQmkC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false

• https://books.google.com/books?id=nM9OvfDa3soC&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false

• https://cwesleyclough.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/the-philip-experiment-a-benchmark-in-paranormal-research/

📚 Check out Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (www.carriefisher.com and www.simonandschuster.com)! ✨

🪧 The Highly Haunted team thanks those who are risking their lives to stand up to ICE. Thank you. We appreciate you. We love you. 🖤

✨ HAPPY HARVEST MOON! 🌝 Liz and Peyton are back again with a new episode just in time to celebrate SpOoKy SeAsOn, and they have brought two ghost-filled, totally true stories to kick off our favorite time of the year. Liz tells us a historically horrifying story about the ghosts of Himeji Castle in Japan, known for its resilience since the 1300's, and Peyton brings us to work with her in Los Angeles, where she had a paranormal encounter in a locker room, of all places! Locker room talk just got a lot more interesting. Let's get into it, boos! It's almost Halloween!!! 🎃 Get more lit than a jack-o-lantern with your favorite new podcasting besties. Like we always say, hit the bong and smoke-a-long! It's time to get high... Highly Haunted! Stay spooky, stoners. 👻

It’s the full moon tonight, specifically the Buck Moon, so we figured it was the perfect evening to do some gardening and drop a new episode of Highly Haunted! Peyton gets into some salacious celebrity ghost stories involving, you guessed it, GHOST SEX. Are these celebs trippin’, or were they really getting it on with a ghoul? Liz then takes us to a graveyard in Barbados where caskets keep switching places in their tomb, defying all explanation. Are the spirits playing tricks, or is the staff getting blitzed? Listener discretion and a high tolerance is advised. Hit the bong and smoke-a-along! It’s time to get high… Highly Haunted. Stay spooky, stoners! 👻

Follow @april.sakaluk on Instagram, and ask for Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond anywhere books are sold.

Keep fighting, Angelenos! Thank you for bravely protesting in DTLA. We love you. 🇺🇸✊🏽🇲🇽

Welcome back, boo’s! Liz and Peyton are back again with two new topics that will make you wonder, but never worry, because we’ve got the world’s best legal cannabis to keep things silly. But, seriously! Liz takes us to the opulent Greystone Manor (formerly known as the Doheny Mansion) to discuss tales of disembodied voices, reports of phantom smells, and ghosts that have no plans of leaving their swanky home in Beverly Hills, California. Peyton then discusses the idea of aliens in our oceans, specifically around Catalina Island. Are UFO’s diving in and out of our oceans? Are there underwater alien bases? Is the military in on it? Does it go all the way to the top!?! Let’s talk about it, and let’s get a lil’ stoned while we do so. Hit the bong and smoke-a-long! It’s time to get high… Highly Haunted! Stay spooky, stoners! 👻

Follow @marjanesatrapi on Instagram, and for more info on Las Mariposas, check out @natgeo.

Much love. Stay strong, ladies!

It's a new moon, so why not release a new episode? Welcome to Season 2, spooky stoners! Peyton and Liz return with two stories as dark as the sky will be tonight... The origin story of the Bloody Mary game, which has been terrifying generations of children at sleepovers, and the centuries old Houska Castle, said to be guarding a literal pit to Hell. This episode has everything! Evil queens, haunted castles, cryptids, misogyny, annnnnnd demons. You'd better get the strong stuff for this one. Hit the bong and smoke-a-long with your favorite scary story telling, podcasting besties. It's time to get high... Highly Haunted! Stay spooky, stoners!

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Continue to celebrate Black History ALL YEAR LONG!

Happy New Year, stoners! Spooky queens Liz and Peyton are back and funnier than ever in this lucky *13th* episode. Did a curse start WWII? Do superstitions have an effect on reality? Liz kicks off the first episode of 2025 with a brief history of curses that will leave you vexed! Have you ever been hexed? Let's learn the deep, dark, witchy history of CURSES! Peyton then takes us down to Georgia... lookin' for a soul to -- educate? Appropriately named for the pod, the Sorrel Weed House is a popular ghost hunting destination in one of America's most haunted Southern cities. The horrors of past injustices hang thick in the air, noticeable to visitors as ghostly apparitions and paranormal phenomena. Hit the bong and smoke-a-long. It's time to get high... Highly Haunted! Stay spooky, stoners!

Follow @shedidntcomehome and @them on Instagram.

This episode was recorded shortly after the 2024 election results were revealed, and shortly before the wildfires occured in LA in January of 2025. Please send your love to the women and LGBTQIA community in our country, and to the Pacific Palisades and Alta Dena communities in Los Angeles.