Hey guys, I hope you all had a wonderful Spooky Season as we at IYHGYHE did! I have been working on a number of books including the 2027 Practical Distillers Almanac and have become quite taken with writing fairytales and poems expressing the Majik of this place where I live. I decided to narrate a few of these for you this evening. To be quite honest this is by far my most personal episode to date and I think represents the purist expression of my thoughts as of yet to be represented to the public.
We all have limits and boundaries to overcome in life and I think I may have found a way to overcome mine and bring the various disperate pieces together into a cohesive whole in coming years. I do hope you will enjoy them and please, please share them. They will all see some published form in the near future. Here you will hear a folk tale about a hidden fountain that produces ardent spirits with the help of a Clurichon. Folk Majik I leaned from my grandparents. A poem about a folk distiller on the edge of town. How the highway meets the sky in the Black Forest, and my personal favorite, Felix, the maybe friendly feral, feline, familiar!
A huge thank you to my friend Stephen Smith for inspiring me to pursue this path.
1. The Forbidden Kind
2. A Step At A Time
3. Where The Highway Meets The Sky
4. The Sovereign Man
5. Felix; the maybe friendly, feral, feline, familiar.
Keep an eye on The Alchemist Cabinet
in the coming days for an order link for the brand new 2025 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac!!!
Kim is joined this week by YeOldGothWitch Jamie Walker who coined the phrase "Anybody else's mountain witch granny..." from Tik Tok. Follow Jamie under the same handle across all platforms
What if a Faustian deal backfires on ol' Scratch himself, at least initially? A little folklore from Ireland.
On tonight's Spooky Season Bonus Episode we skim the depths of Djinn folklore as an introduction to a much deeper dive planned for later this season.
Keep your eyes peeled on www.thealchemistcabinet.com as the brand new 2026 Practical Distillers Almanac will be dropping very soon!
It isn't often I just talk candidly about my form of Majik on the show, but this one just fits. We explore the Majik (SIC) of using an old Skeleton Key as a talisman and pendulum in the Vevay Indiana Cemetary to find the grave and access the knowledge of the spirit of an Absinthe Distiller in the 1830's!
A fun narrative reading of "The Well At Worlds End" , The Frog King, and The Frog prince. As always we enjoy reading a few Fairytales for Spooky Season because no one reads anyone enough Fairy Tales now days!
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Happy Spooky Season!
It seems to us like it is about time we got around to the topic of the Trickster on some deeper historic level here at IYHGYHE, considering the events surrounding the experiences that spurred this podcast in the first place detailed in episodes 2 and 3 of Season 1.
We decided we would dedicate a couple of episodes to exposition thereof as well as a telling of some mythology (Greek and Navajo here) related to Trickster type entities; of course, a little Orphic hymn to Hekate never hurt anything either.
Join us as we dive into this invaluable 'Spiritual Intelligence' that who cannot be ignored.
#tricksterspirits #hekate #hermes #navajo #thegambler #thecoyote #preternatural #supernatural #mythology #folklore
Spooky Season starts here! Tonight we present some field recordings of the Washington County Actors Theatre Crown Hill Cemetery Walk from some field recordings we did at the recent event! Featuring Bradie Shrum, Lee Sinclair, Nancy McCoy, and Mattie Gladden!
Kim is joined by Colleen Coffman-Author, Paranormal Investigator, and Special Effects Artist. Find her book The Adventures of a Sketch Book Diary at https://hangar1publishing.com/collections/colleen-a-coffman
A short hyper-localized episode featuring Daniel Main of the Washington County Indiana Actors Theatre detailing the upcoming Crown Hill Cemetary Tour and Salem Indiana Murder and Mayhem on the square event!
I can't express truly how wonderful the work that Daniel and Charity do is. Both of this events are no misses for Kim, Penny, and myself and are highlights of the beginning of "Spooky Season"!
Hey! We are back, finally! In episode 1 of the newest season of IYHGYHE, we interview our neighbor to the west in Paoli, Indiana; Chance Martin, about his Bigfoot research group and upcoming events!
This is a great episode as we haven't had a lot of Bigfoot related content over the years, and not for a lack of trying. Finding someone local with firsthand encounters who is actively researching other local encounters is truly a treasure trove.
As always, we truly appreciate the support of our listeners and we hope you enjoy the show. Please like, rate, and share the show as it helps us promote the show to a larger audience and means the work to both Kim and I.
Be sure to tune in for all the bonus Spooky Season and Main Season material headed your way in the coming weeks and keep an eye onThe Alchemist Cabinetfor the brand new 2026 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac which will be available for order in October!
You can find chance here: (3) Orange County Bigfoot Group (O.C.B.G.) | Facebook
Also, be sure to keep up with Indiana's newest craft distillery Old Homestead at: Old Homestead Distilling Co.#ghosts #paranormal #Indiana #bigfoot #paoli #ifyouhaveghostsyouhaveeverything #alchemistoftheblackforest #alchemistalmanac #washingtoncounty #sasquatch #bigfootresearch
Indiana is home to numerous paranormal groups. Tonight Kim is joined by Southern Indiana's own Access the Paranormal. Kim stumbled on their video on TikTok recording from Mitchell, Indiana, Spring Mill State Park. Danny joined Kim, and briefly Alan, to discuss paranormal investigation and their approach. Access the Paranormal takes a truly unique approach in that they invite and encourage the public to join them. They teach them how to use and analyze equipment and evidence, and debunk.
Give this awesome episode a listen. You can find Access the Paranormal on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. Don't forget the "the" otherwise you'll be following someone in Australia.
We are joined once again by our good friend; author, poet, and seed saver Stephen Smith to discuss his various paranormal encounters! I have truly enjoyed speaking with Stephen on this episodes and greatly enjoy his writings as well, it was a pleasure to give him this platform and I look forward to many more conversations to come.
Don't forget, you can still buy the 2025 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac as well as The Alchemist Cabinet Vol 1: Philosophy and the Black Forest Method books at www.thealchemistcabinet.com
and be sure to check out www.oldhomesteaddc.com for all the updates on our new distillery!
For about the past year I have been recording an occasional video from my porch diving into the deep distilling history of The Black Forest of Southern Indiana; stories of preacher-distillers, murders, mystery, and Spirits production in general. I thought that compiling them into a volume of IYHG might be a worthwhile endeavor and a fun listen. Understand that these were recorded on my porch from my cell phone not utilizing a microphone so the quality of the audio isn't the best in the world, but I think you will find much to enjoy in the stories themselves.
#ghosts #distilling #blackforest #alanbishopdistiller #alchemy #alchemistoftheblackforest #whiskey #brandy #murder
Kim sat down with Canadian Practitioner Joan Dohey to discuss Reiki Practice, and Soul Genesis. Join in to learn more and follow Joan at https://facebook.com/joan.dohey
#ifyouhaveghosts #ghosts #spiritual #ecoteric #reiki #soulgenesis #cryptid #ufo
Today we have a short field recording from my office at Old Homestead Distillery featuring Cory Richards .Cory gets into a strange experience he had in his early 20's.
Be sure to come visit us and check out www.oldhomesteaddc.com for all the updates!
Its not often that all of my passions can come together under one heading. I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Stephen Smith, fairy tale author, poet, plant breeder, and teacher. Join me as we explore all of these on tonight's all new episode of If You Have Ghosts You Have Everything.
\Alan is joined in this episode by Dr. Timothy Walker Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to discuss Portuguese Folk Magik. Dr. Walker is also an author, you can find his books at https://www.versobooks.com/products/3224-the-captains-coup https://www.umasspress.com/9781625345929/sailing-to-freedom/
This week Kim was joined on the podcast with Paranormal Investigator and Author Cyn Shrader Hill. Have a listen as they talk about some of Cyn's most profound investigations and experiences, including a trip to the infamous Bell Witch Cave in Adams Tennessee. You can check out Cyn's socials on her linktree listed below.
Cyn Shrader Hill, Self-published Author/Editor/Publisher, is a native of Fayetteville/Lincoln County, Tennessee. She founded Elk Valley Paranormal that serves the Southern Middle Tennessee and Northern Alabama region. Sensitive and empathic, she has known "others" were around her since she was very young. She has also been 'rescued' a few times over the years from very dangerous incidents. Cyn has helped other paranormal teams, both in the US and abroad as well as law enforcement officers with evp (electronic voice phenomenon) analysis. She currently has 5 self-published books on Amazon (paperback & Kindle versions (free on Kindle Unlimited) Currently working on books 6, 7, and 8!
Happy Oestra! Find the eggs!