E32 • The Book of the Dead

A new four-part miniseries from Solved Murders: This is the story of a legendary figure of the Wild West… The man widely believed to have inspired the Lone Ranger… Who was born into slavery — and beca...

22 Feb 20231min

What do invisible astral jellyfish and egg-laying lemurs with eyes in the back of their heads have in common? They each appear in “The Secret Doctrine,” the masterwork of a famed occultist known for c...

20 Feb 202348min

Sure, he was the genius who discovered the laws of motion and gravity, but his methods were highly criticized and far from traditional (he once stuck a needle in his eye socket to determine what light...

13 Feb 202352min

Before the internet… Before podcasts… Violet Mary Firth brought magic to the masses by way of auras, chakras, and astral visions (oh my!). Born in Glastonbury in 1890, it was believed by her parents t...

6 Feb 202352min

You might know his work as a writer and poet during the Beat Movement. Less well-known is that his first published piece was at age 15 on mind control methods (whaaaaat?!). Come for the story of how h...

30 Jan 202349min

You've heard about them on Charmed, Buffy, and in the Harry Potter series. Now get the history of Grimoires from Christine and Em as they rifle through these legendary books containing spells, rituals...

23 Jan 202347min

Let’s take a walk on the lighter (or… should we say Blighter?) side of witchcraft! Today, Christine and Em are pivoting from persecution stories to talk about the magic of pellars, aka “good” witches ...

16 Jan 202344min

Today Christine and Em are taking a hike — a history hike — into the dawn of civilization, sussing out the occult rituals of humanity’s OG innovators. Did they create agriculture? Sure. Math? Mmhm. Th...

9 Jan 202347min