Crime, ghosts and conspiracies, one state at a time.
Austin, Bridget and Lauren work through the country state by state, gathering the crimes, conspiracies and hauntings tied to each place. The history comes with real detail, and the chatter around it stays loose, ranging from an 1892 vampire exhumation in Rhode Island to tarot readings and pierogies.
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Tipsy Ghouls works through the United States one state at a time, and at every stop three friends, Austin, Bridget and Lauren, set crime, conspiracy and ghost lore side by side. The episodes open with a quick roll call of all three names. What follows sounds more like friends catching up than a lecture. Food comes up, and so do buzzing dryers and whether it is too late at night to be recording. Then the stories start, and the three appear to divide the work, each arriving with a topic they found themselves. The Rhode Island episode shows what that homework can turn up. One of the three admits the smallest state took real digging, and the episode settles on the Brown family. Neighbors suggested to George Brown that one of three dead women in his family was feeding on Edwin, and on March 17, 1892, a party of men exhumed all three bodies to check their hearts for fresh blood while the family doctor and a Providence Journal correspondent watched. The paper's coverage is credited with keeping the story in such detail. Oregon brings a cave owned by the Masonic lodge in the nearby town of Burns. It also brings an older layer: a legend, tied to Great Basin peoples, of the cave as a refuge during a conflict, with a coyote carrying a warning. Pennsylvania has Raystown Ray, recommended as the nicest cryptid anyone could hope to befriend, plus a carnival story that sends the conversation toward Evan Peters' role in American Horror Story: Freak Show. The lessons drawn are blunt. Do not get back with an ex. Do not pocket a rock at a national park when the gift shop exists. Not everything stays light, though. The Oklahoma episode turns to Black towns erased by white supremacist violence, history the friends say they never learned in school. In 'Spooky Tales of our Hometown: Dayton, OH', a tour of Woodland Cemetery takes in the chapel's Tiffany window and the Wright brothers among its famous residents, then detours to a mausoleum linked to the founder of Huffy bikes. The same episode closes with a request that anyone with information about Erica Baker contact the Kettering Police Department. Elsewhere there is plenty of play: '53: Somebody Spook Me' includes a group tarot reading that turns up the King of Wands reversed, which one of the three ties to a nerve-racking meeting the next day, and the Oklahoma episode ends in an improvised mock commercial for a craft store. The language is casual and sometimes salty, and the tangents are part of the appeal. For history, start with the Rhode Island episode. For the three on home ground, start with Dayton.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime and ghost lore with local-history detail, told by three friends who wander off topic and swear now and then, but still stop to make a serious appeal for information.
What sets it apart: Its state-by-state structure puts crime, conspiracy and the paranormal from one place into a single episode. The easy back-and-forth between the three friends keeps the local history from sounding like a lecture.
Welcome to TipsyGhouls, a podcast where three best friends Austin, Bridget, and Lauren discover the stories from your neck of the woods that keep you up at night. We discuss one true crime case, one paranormal phenomena, and one conspiracy from each state in every episode.Crack open a cold one, and question EVERYTHING.
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A Rhode Island vampire story turns family illness, local fear, and a gruesome cure into uneasy comic history.
Tipsy Ghouls heads to Rhode Island for a brisk, grimly lively account of the 1892 exhumation of Lena Brown. Her preserved body and the blood found in her heart were taken as proof that a vampire was draining her family, and the hosts follow the case from the Providence Journal…
A loose, tarot-led hangout where show pressure, ambition, and unpaid rent all become part of the spooky texture.
Somebody Spook Me finds Tipsy Ghouls looking inward, with Austin, Bridget, and Lauren talking through the pressure of 16 remaining statewide episodes and the strain of recording so often.
A loose Pennsylvania stop where Gettysburg ghost lore sits comfortably beside pierogies, Pop-Tarts, and ex advice.
Pennsylvania moves like a relaxed tour of stuffed pastries, carny lore, and Gettysburg's Devil's Den. The hosts let a pierogi open into a wider argument about ravioli, calzones, dumplings, empanadas, and Pop-Tarts, then somehow steer it toward plainspoken advice about exes.
A loose Oklahoma conversation traces how racism and schooling pushed Black histories out of view.
Tipsy Ghouls' Oklahoma episode starts in loose late-night mode, with Austin, Bridget, and Lauren joking their way into a harder conversation about Black communities pushed out of U.S. history.
A loose cave episode where Indigenous legend, Masonic ownership, and room-noise charm share the same flashlight.
Tipsy Ghouls uses its 50th episode as a casual wander toward a cave near Burns, where local legend, disputed-feeling ownership, and a strange water detail give the story its shape.
True crime, hauntings, and no indoor voices.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Rhode Island's 1,214 square miles and 48-by-37-mile footprint set up an episode that jumps from state trivia to vampire panic, a cold case, and the Conjuring house in Harrisville.
Tipsy Ghouls' "Somebody Spook Me" mixes Austin, Bridget, and Lauren's banter with a Smithsonian-backed profile of Gryla, the Icelandic ogress tied to Christmas folklore.
Pennsylvania gets framed through Amish population stats, Pittsburgh livability rankings, and the cheesesteak origin story tied to Pat Olivieri.
Tipsy Ghouls episode 50, "Oklahoma," moves from state trivia to the Tulsa Race Massacre and the Camp Scott Girl Scout murders.
Tipsy Ghouls marks its 50th episode by retiring the "good things" segment, joking about stretching the state series to "Episode 5,426," and lining up Oregon facts like Hell's Canyon, Portland breweries, strip clubs, physician-assisted suicide, and more than 80 ghost towns.
Austin, Bridget, and Lauren devote Tipsy Ghouls episode 49 to Dayton, Ohio, combining local recommendations with true crime, conspiracy, and ghost stories.
Tipsy Ghouls hosts Austin, Bridget, and Lauren combine Ohio true-crime stories with discussions of conspiracies, ghosts, tarot, and local life.
Tipsy Ghouls’ “47: Ohio Conspiracies” examines Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Project Blue Book, Hangar 18, Roswell reports, and Ohio State University’s 72-second Wow Signal.
Tipsy Ghouls’ Ohio paranormal episode features Austin, Bridget, and Lauren sharing three haunted-location stories, beginning with Crybaby Bridge in Salem, Ohio.
Three friends discuss true crime, paranormal, and conspiracy stories from each state, starting with a personal anecdote about delivering beer.