The occult history of the U.S. Transportation System leads us into the story of Route 66 and its connection to Freemasons, as well as the Masonic foundations of Somerset, Kentucky. Are roads both literally and mythically paths to initiation and magic?  Special guests featured in this episode are Kiki Dombrowski, Matthew Byrd, Cory Daniel, Marco Visconti and Dan Dutton. Penny Royal is produced and written by its host, Nathan Paul Isaac. Associate producers are Darian West and Kyle Kadel. Edited by Boone Williams. Soundtrack by Phillip Claunch. Sponsored by Jarfly Brewing Company and the International Paranormal Museum and Research Center. The closing track for this episode is “Jungle Spice,” by Zeb Swerske. If you'd like to support Penny Royal and join the mystery, become a member of the Liminal Lodge at www.patreon.com/pennyroyal. For more information, please visit our contact page at www.pennyroyalpodcast.com.

"They said that this creature undulated in the sky over them. And when it was directly overhead, they saw that it was actually transparent. If they looked hard enough, they could see the stars through it."

"It's got two names, right? Even the state has two names... one, the dark and bloody ground, but also the happy hunting ground, both of which would designate them as belonging to Pan, who is the master of the hunters, and the master of bloodshed too... the ritual shedding of blood."

“I was overcome by curiosity at this point... this was all getting curiouser and curiouser seeming to me. Like it didn't seem quite real. I was real keen to see how far that was going to go. And in fact, the man behind the desk had one eye and one arm...”

“The irony is not lost on me that we were afraid we were going to meet people that we had rumors were in these caverns worshipping the devil... at the end of the day, we ended up being the people in the caves summoning, for all intents and purposes, the devil...”

“He flies to LA, drives out to Roswell, kidnaps a baby, and then takes it back to the Philippines...”

“They were having drug parties in the tunnels... they were doing seances, there's pentagrams on the floor, they're taking the meds from the residents and divvying them up... and it all started when the kid was found dead...”

“Magic exist outside of space and time, so when you do magic, really what you do is project your consciousness outside of space and time, and from that vantage point you see a tapestry of everything that has happened...”