Hey Time Travelers, we’re diving back in time with the help of author Sacha Coward to talk about the intertwined history of queerness, monsters, and mythology!    Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of homophobia/queerphobia, death, the AIDs epidemic, religious persecution, sex, misgendering, pregnancy, and murder.    Guest Sacha Coward has worked in museums and heritage for over 10 years. For the past three years, he has been freelancing as an historian, public speaker, and researcher. He has run LGBTQ+ focused tours for museums, cemeteri ..read more

We’re back from our tour, and even though none of the theatres we visited were haunted, we decided to do a dive into the most haunted theatres around the world!    Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, suicide, fire, child endangerment, child death, poisoning, warfare, stabbing, illness, murder, and government corruption.    Housekeeping - Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends the new content in Stardew Valley! - Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at https://spiritspodcast.com/books ..read more

The antidote we all need to April Fool’s Day is here: a roundup of wholesome stories from your lives about the ways you and your parents make your days more magical.   Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of genitalia, illness, insects, spiders, injury, child endangerment, divorce, and death.    Housekeeping - Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV  - Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at https://spiritspodcast.com/books - Call to Action: Check out Pale Blu ..read more

Let’s play a game of Never Have I Ever with the gods. We’re talking about Ma’at, the balance of the universe, and how we all play a role in upholding order from chaos.    Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of light cannibalism, death, sex, classism, and power imbalance.    Housekeeping - TOUR: Get the VOD for our Rolling Bones Tour!  - Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at https://spiritspodcast.com/books - Call to Action: Check out Exolore today!   Sponsors - Soul CBD offers hemp-derived ..read more

Have you ever been haunted by an abandoned place? We are joined by multidisciplinary artist Blake Pfeil to talk about his experiences exploring abandoned places, how abandoned places are inherently queer, and why they haunt us the way they do. Mutual aid recommendations for Gaza include buying eSims, urging U.S. representatives to call for ceasefire, and donating directly to calls for aid.    Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of religious trauma, religious persecution, child abuse, imprisonment, Nazis, homophobia, imperialism/colonialism, and Gaza ..read more

You asked from around the globe, so we answered: we will have AUDIO + VIDEO RECORDINGS for every stop on the Rolling Bones tour!!!    Buy a ticket to the show of your choosing today, and a high-quality VOD will be emailed to you after the show. That means you can enjoy the Rolling Bones tour remotely no matter where you are.   PLUS, anyone who has bought a ticket or will buy a ticket will get digital bonuses as a thank-you: digital tarot pack of the Spirits Major Arcana + Cups Booster tarot decks AND a $10 off coupon for new upcoming JTP dice (???).   We’ve been working har ..read more

The family that listens to Spirits together, stays together. Or that’s what we’re guessing after this follow up email we got! Also, are you up to the task of cleaning haunted hospitals at night?    Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of violence against women, death, pregnancy, miscarriage, illness, drowning, child death, infidelity, and animal death.    Housekeeping - TOUR: Get tickets for our Rolling Bones Tour!  - Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends A GRAVE ROBBERY by Deanna Raybourn - Books: Check out our previous book re ..read more

Get your tickets NOW at https://spiritspodcast.com/live !!    Don’t miss out: come see Spirits and Join the Party LIVE in Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, and Washington DC later this month.   Not in these seven cities? Tell your friends who are! And stay tuned for a brand new episode next week <3 ..read more

Have you ever woken up from a nightmare and wondered: What’s that all about? You’re not alone! We dive in deep to the various monsters and spirits that people have been blaming their bad dreams on since the dawn of time!   Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of drug use, violence, death, broken bones, blood, animal death/injury, defecation, suffocation, abusive relationships and sex.    Housekeeping - TOUR: Get tickets for our Rolling Bones Tour!  - Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends getting tickets for the Rolling Bones Tour. - B ..read more

The gods (and astrophysicist-folklorist Dr. McTier) are back to channel divine inspiration for YOUR questions. We cover it all, from jobs to housekeeping to dealing with sibling estrangement.    Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of misogyny, birth, family estrangement, capitalism, irregular eating, and depression.   Guest Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrophysicist and folklorist who hosts Exolore, Pale Blue Pod, and PBS’s Fate & Fabled. She wrote The Milky Way: an Autobiography of our Galaxy, named a best book of 2022 by Publishers Weekly. And ..read more