Easy Bake Coven Podcast (2024)

09/11/2024

On February 9th, 2004, 21 year college student Maura Murray made a series of decisions that have haunted, puzzled, and captivated folks the world over for the past 20 years. Maura sent off an email informing her college professors that she would be out of town due to a death in her family, despite no such death having occurred. She packed up her car, withdrew money from an ATM, and headed north. Where was she headed and what was her plan? We may never know. In rural New Hampshire, Maura lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a snowbank. By the time officers arrived on the scene, her car was locked and Maura was nowhere to be found.
Thus begins one of this country’s most confounding unsolved mysteries. This week we’ll unpack the strange mystery of Maura’s disappearance and the even stranger circles of websleuths who have spent decades poring over every single detail. Will we solve this decades-old true crime conundrum? Tune in to find out!
1. Maura
2. An age progression photo to show what Maura may look like now
3. The last photo taken of Maura, at the ATM before she left town
4. Maura’s car
5. Fred and Julie tending to what they call “the blue ribbon tree”, which marks the spot where Maura’s car was found. Unfortunately the tree was cut down by the land owner, despite having immense importance to the family
6. The “mug shot” taken of Maura after the pizza theft
7. Maura and Billy
8. Police searching a house near the crash site
9. Aerial view of the crash site, with the red pin showing the approximate location her car was found

31/10/2024

🎃✨HAPPY HALLOWEEN, COVEN!✨🎃

Have you listened to today’s episode? It contains terrifyingly true ghost stories from our very own dear listeners! It’s spooooooooooky. We released one day early so you could enjoy all that scary goodness on the spookiest of days.

We’ll also be picking a winner today for our very first sweatshirt giveaway. We appreciate you and your support and can’t wait to see you repping our gear.

Send us photos of your costumes so we can share in our stories! We hope you have a wonderful holiday. Happy haunting! 🖤👻💀

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26/10/2024

Scary movie night has been an integral part of Lisey and Halee’s relationship since its conception. What better way to celebrate spooky season than to bring you in on our most favorite tradition?

Tonight we’ll uncover the haunting stories that inspired some of our favorite horror flicks. We’ll dig into the real life haunting that inspired Steven Spielberg’s classic, Poltergeist. We’ll knock on the door of room 217 at the Stanley Hotel, where Stephen King dreamed up his outline for The Shining. Of course, scary movie night would not be complete without diving into one of the highest grossing horror films of all time, The Exorcist.

Each film created its own cultural phenomenon and will forever live on in cinema history. We’ll share spooky facts about production that will have your heads spinning and reminisce about our favorite (and least favorite) scenes. Grab your popcorn and a box of candy because this one’s a scream. Happy Haunting!

1. Heather O’Rourke, Carol Anne from Poltergeist.
2. Real skeletons used in the film.
3. The Herrmann family who inspired the film
4. The house where the poltergeist popped bottles
5+6. The Stanley Hotel
7. Room 217, The Stephen King Suite
8. The Timberline Lodge was the exterior for the Overlook
9-11. The Ahwahnee Hotel inspired the interior for the Overlook
12. The scene Kubrick made Duvall and Nicholson shoot 127 times
13. 60 doors were used to film the classic “Here’s Johnny” scene
14. The Exorcist
15. Linda Blair levitating over the bed
16. The demon Dave that scares Elise!
17. Roland Doe

25/10/2024

👻✨ GIVEAWAY!!!!!!✨👻

We told you we were bringing free swag your way, and we meant it! Now’s your chance to rep your favorite pod!

Tag a friend in the comments and share it to your stories, and you’ll be entered to win a free sweatshirt and sticker! Make sure you tag us in your stories so we see it.

We appreciate you always and love your support! We’ll pick a winner on Halloween! 🖤🎃💀

20/10/2024

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18/10/2024

Dearest coven, our newest spooky season tradition continues this week with a deep dive into our nation’s motorways. Doesn’t sound too creepy at first, but it turns out danger and ghouls are lurking at practically every corner out there. From the Devil’s Highway in the south west, to a forested stretch of road once dubbed the ‘graveyard for truckers’ in the north east, we’ll travel all around the country finding the most haunted roads. There are goat men, melon heads, skinwalkers, hellhounds, and all other manner of scary creatures out there just waiting for you. So the next time you find yourself on a deserted stretch of road late at night, lock your doors and say your prayers that you make it home safe. This one’s an episode you may want to listen to from the safety of your own comfy couch, folks!

1. The view from Prospector’s Road in Garden Valley, CA
2. Georgetown Hotel & Saloon
3. Jeremy Swamp Road
4. The road to nowhere & the spooky tunnel
5. Riverside Cemetery on Owaissa street
6. The grave of Kate Blood
7. Turnbull Canyon
8. The plane crash in the canyon
9. Stagecoach road
10. A ghost spotted on Stagecoach road?
11. Spooky mist on Stagecoach road
12. Highway 666
13. Route 2A in Maine

Happy Haunting!

12/10/2024

Spooky season is in full swing, witches, and what better way to celebrate than with a terrifyingly true ghost story. In the late 70s, a family of five in Enfield, England would experience one of the most prolific ghost encounters ever documented. Knocking could be heard throughout the house. Marbles were thrown from unseen hands. Furniture was moved across the room, and dozens of people were there to witness it.
The haunting centered around Margaret and Janet Hodgson, both going through puberty, and it continued to escalate for the next two years. Janet started speaking in a different voice. She’d levitate from her bed and even claimed to move through walls. Was it ghosts? Or was it the results of a fractured family, with a young girl seeking attention? Maybe a little bit of both... Tune in to decide for yourself! Happy haunting!
1. The infamous photo of Janet allegedly being pushed from her bed by an unseen entity
2. Maurice Grosse and Janet, in a trance state
3. The Society for Psychical Research folks set up at the house
4. 3 of the Hodgson kids around the time of the haunting
5. The house as it looks now
6. Maurice Grosse aka 100% who you would want to show up at your house to investigate poltergeist activity
7. Guy Lyon Playfair, getting weird with a plant? We love him
8. All the Hodgson kids at the time of the haunting
9. Janet Hodgson now

04/10/2024

Spooky season is upon us! And we’re celebrating in style. It just didn’t seem right to devote two entire episodes to news during the most special month of October, so instead, we’re embarking on a new mini-series celebrating the best haunts from all 50 states. 👻🎃👽

We’re kicking things off in California, whose list of spooky specters is as long as the state is large. We’ll explore deadly waters surrounding the Point Sur Lighthouse, peek behind closed doors at the Brookdale Lodge and uncover the mysteries of Bodie State Historic Park, aka the ghost town of our dreams.

Of course, no California ghost tour would be complete without a stop at the infamous Alcatraz, where jail cells slam shut and glowing red eyes follow you in the dark. There’s no shortage of haunts on tonight’s episode, so grab your wine, light your candle and prepare to be scared! Happy haunting!

1. A rendering of what the Dark Watchers might look like.
2. An example of the Brocken Specter
3+4. Los Coches Adobe. Yikes!!
5+6. Point Sur Lighthouse. Talk about isolated!
7-9. Bodie, the ghost town of our dreams! Or nightmares. 🙃
10. Stokes Adobe
11+12. The waterfall inside Brookdale Lodge, then and now.
13+14. Hotel Del Coronado then and now.
15. Kate Morgan, the beautiful stranger.
16. Alcatraz
17. Cell block D, where one of the prison’s most haunted cells is located.
18. The haunted laundry room

30/09/2024

In 1845, a crew of 134 men set out in search of the elusive Northwest Passage, hoping to find a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Armed with thousands of canned goods, gallons of lemon juice and a passion for adventure, they set forth on the HMS Terror and Erebus, ready for a taste of glory.

Instead, they found themselves stuck at sea for more than three years, their ships encased in thick, unforgiving ice. When it refused to thaw in 1848, the men abandoned ship and headed out on foot in the hopes they’d find help and a way home. And then... they seemingly disappeared.

It would take years before any trace of the men was found, and what was discovered were simply sun bleached bones, scattered in the wind. Today, much of the failed Franklin expedition remains a mystery, but a few clues have been realized, painting a grisly picture for the crew who gave their lives in pursuit of discovery. We’ll discuss possible theories, dive into AMC’s miniseries “The Terror” and uncover the shocking details that make this 140-year-old mystery so haunting.

Elise can’t get this one out of her head, and perhaps you won’t be able to either. Northwest Passage cruise, anyone? Happy Haunting!

1. Final portraits taken of the men before their fateful voyage
2. Sir John Franklin, Commander of the voyage
3. Francis Crozier, Captain of the Terror
4. James Fitzjames, Captain of the Erebus
5. A painting of what their icy prison may have looked like.
6. Beechey Island, where the crew spent their first winter and buried three dead.
7+8. Petty Officer John Torrington, buried on Beechey Island
9+10. John Hartnell buried on Beechey Island
11. Reward for any information about Franklin and his men
12. The message left in the cairn by Lieutenant Gore, later written in the margins by Crozier and Fitzjames when they abandoned ship.
13. The path the ships and the men took.
14. The modern Northwest Passage in the summer, still icy.
15. The Terror and Erebus were found in 2014 and 2016.
16. The HMS Terror found in Terror Bay.
17. Officer epaulettes discovered in the wreckage
18. The bones of James Fitzjames were positively identified and showed signs of cannibalism.

26/09/2024

Dearest coven, by now you’ve probably learned to expect the unexpected on this podcast. That lesson will serve you especially well this week, as we cover all kinds of weirdness. Halee recounts her awkward grad school dating life, there are 8 year olds driving SUVs, and the Titanic is probably haunted. You’ll hear our hot takes on affirmative action, we’ll talk UFOs in Mexico and China, and get back into real estate drama- we just can’t stay away! That’s not even an exhaustive list of everything we’re bringing this week.. because friends, you just never know what you’re going to hear on Easy Bake Coven! Tune in and enjoy!
Happy Haunting!

13/09/2024

On June 4th, 2004, Marvin Heemeyer embarked on a rampage in his fortified Komatsu bulldozer that would forever change the town of Granby, CO. But before Killdozer, there was Marvin the welder, who loved snowmobiling and being outdoors. How did this seemingly normal man go from well-loved community member to the manifesto spouting anti-government character in the headlines? This week we’ll explore the origin of this sad and shocking story, and ask ourselves the important and difficult questions. Was Marv a folk hero or a lunatic? Is it possible he was a bit of both? You know we have strong opinions and we aren’t afraid to share them! Tune in and form your own opinion about Marv and this wild story!
Happy Haunting!
1. Marv, seen here in better days
2. Marv and his girlfriend Trish
3. Marv on his family farm in South Dakota, shortly before the rampage
4. An officer on the top of the dozer as Marv continued on his rampage
5. The city hall/library
6 & 7. The damage that Marv left in his wake
8. former newspaper editor Patrick Brower, Casey and Rhonda Farrell (former owners of Gambles store where the dozer eventually got stuck) and George Davis, owner of Maple Street Builders pictured around the 20 year anniversary of the incident
9. Capt. Gary Torgerson of the Colorado State Patrol, right, and James Holahan, manager of the Grand County Office of Emergency Management, examine the killdozer

10/09/2024

Oh coven, you’re in for such a treat this week. You may have figured out last week from our subtle hints and spooky foreshadowing that we’re bringing back a tried and true favorite- spooky hour! We finally tackle one of our shared obsessions... glitches in the matrix.
Have you ever lost time that you couldn’t account for? Had a strange occurrence that you just couldn’t explain? Sometimes the answer is simpler than we might realize- we actually live in a simulation and sometimes there are errors in the code. There really isn’t any better explanation for the stories we’re sharing this week!
We scoured the internet to find our favorite glitch in the matrix stories and can’t wait to share them with you. Listen with your feet firmly planted on the ground or you may get sucked into this rabbit hole, folks!
Happy Haunting!
Here’s some photo evidence of glitches… how else can you explain these pictures?!

28/08/2024

America’s National Parks are as inspiring as they are humbling. Their vast landscapes provide a place for adventure and exploration, but solitude can turn deadly if you’re not prepared. At 3.4 million acres, Death Valley is the most sprawling and desolate park in the Lower 48. Reaching temperatures of 134 degrees, much of its landscape is inhabitable and unforgiving. In 1996, four German tourists entered the park completely unprepared for the kind of topography and environment they’d encounter. When they missed their return flight home, the four were reported missing, seemingly without a trace. Three months later, their rented minivan would be found two miles down Anvil Canyon, with no clue as to where the four had gone. Thirteen years later, dedicated search and rescue volunteer Tom Mahood refused to give up on this decade-long cold case and set out on his own to uncover the truth of what happened to the “Death Valley Germans.” Was it aliens? A government coverup? Or does Mother Nature simply take no prisoners? You’ll have to tune in to find out. Happy Haunting!

1-6: photos from Elise’s trip to Death Valley, including their green van Bo**er, the general store in Ballarat, Charles Manson’s supposed truck and the famous salt flats.
7. Egbert Rimkus and his son Georg.
8. Cornelia Meyer and her son Max
9+10 The Plymouth mini van found in the wash in Anvil Canyon
11. Tom Mahood looking for the missing foursome.
12. Searchers scouring the bluff where bones were found.
13. Looking at the bluff from the valley floor.
14. Tom’s photo showcasing the vastness of the area.
15. Tom’s entire search area.

05/08/2024

It’s our first news update in what feels like forever! And you better believe it’s a good one. We’re covering crime-fighting eleven year old girls, babies who survive the unthinkable and idol culture in Japan. We’ll hear about Halee’s latest obsession - a self-published memoir laden with conspiracy theories, gifted by a fellow islander. Elise promises a future reading from a sure-to-be classic in erotic vampire fiction, and we’ll give our opinions on the hotly debated Ballerina Farm expose. Need I say more? Happy haunting!

1. The famous With Impunity (love the sh*tty screengrab 🙃)
2. Elise’s favorite, The Huntress
3. Creepy ass photo found in Halee’s house
4. RIP Shelley Duvall
5. Aaliyah Jack
6. Japanese Idol Momoka TojoL

29/07/2024

We’re back, witches! Did you think we’d leave you for months again? Not this time! We’re diving back into the world of true crime with a cold case from Breckenridge, CO. Bobbi Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee went missing within hours of one another on a snowy night in 1982. Their crime scenes would hold two key pieces of evidence that would have investigators asking if this was the work of one man. Premonitions, playing cards and episodes of Unsolved Mysteries would all play a part in solving this 40 year whodunnit, but the answers lay in DNA. And the results are nothing short of shocking. Happy haunting!

1 + 2. Bobbi Jo Oberholtzer
3. Bobbi Jo and husband Jeff
4+5. Annette Schnee
6. Hoosier Pass
7. One of two orange booties found at both crime scenes
8. Bobbi Jo’s brass keychain
9. Where Bobbi Jo’s body was found
10. A young Alan Lee Phillips
11. The Sonic bag that provided DNA
12 + 13 Alan Lee Phillips lookin rough
14. Side by side headlines of Bobbi Jo’s murder and Alan Phillip’s miraculous rescue

06/07/2024

Happy Friday, coven! This week brought all sorts of weird and wonderful news and of course we are here for it. We’ll hear about the latest innovations in robot technology, and - spoiler alert- it’s not great. We’ll get some updates on Charlotte the stingray and Sherri Papini, and hear about a scandalous true crime story out of Boston.⁣
And then we’ll ask the important questions- who is your dream dinner guest? And is God real? We’ll tackle all this and more on this week’s episode!⁣
Happy Haunting! ⁣
1. A robot ‘civil servant’ has taken its own life in South Korea ⁣
2. This week we share our final stingray update 😔⁣
3. A UFO was spotted over red rocks, which has got to be one of the cooler places to see a UFO⁣
4. Karen Read was acquitted in the murder of her boyfriend this week… and we have thoughts ⁣
5. Donald Ray Lantz, 63, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 62, have been accused of adopting 5 black children and then forcing them to work around their property⁣. They also allegedly made the kids sleep in a barn… suddenly we’re in support of the death penalty again!
6. Sherri Papini is going to appear in a new docuseries to tell her side of the story… whatever that means! ⁣
7. This week we tackle the incredibly complex subject of religion while slightly tipsy… here’s halee as a 12 year old with a rosary she got at the Vatican. No, we will not be taking any questions at this time. ⁣

01/07/2024

In 2016, Keith and Sherri Papini appeared, by all accounts, to be a picture perfect family. They lived in a quiet suburb in northern California with their 2 beautiful children, and Sherri lovingly referred to their life as her ‘happily ever after’. But when Sherri vanished without a trace on November 2, 2016, their lives would be turned upside down andf those around them would come to realize that all was not as it seemed. This week we’re covering the stranger than fiction tale of Sherri’s disappearance, and for fear of giving away too much, all we can say is you don’t want to miss this truly twisted tale!⁣
Happy Haunting!⁣
⚡️We recommend looking at these photos after listening to the episode so the story doesn’t get spoiled! ⁣⚡️
1. Sherri and Keith Papini on their wedding day ⁣
2. Sherri being interviewed by investigators after being “released” ⁣
3. Sherri in the hospital after being released ⁣
4. Sherri’s bruised legs ⁣
5. The brand on her back ⁣
6. The FBI sketch of her captors 🤔⁣
7. Sherri and James Reyes ⁣
8. Appearing in court after pleading guilty 😬

04/11/2023

Are you, like us, feeling the post-Halloween blues? Melancholic at the thought that spooky season is coming to an end? If so, we understand and we feel your pain. But do not despair, coven! It's always spooky season here! This week's news includes many lessons learned about what can and can't be donated to a thrift store, a master class in long-term revenge, and just how much acid Goldie Hawn was tripping on in the California desert when an alien touched her face. We get updates on the do***ey ghost tour company trying to trademark a historic event (RIP Lizzie Borden's family), and uncover even more potential vampiric graves from centuries past. As usual, Elise is thirsty for mothman, and Joe Nickell is still ghosting halee- but what's new? Come bask in the spookiness with us and keep Halloween season going year round!⁣
Happy Haunting! ⁣
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1. Just highlighting the mothman ab situation referenced in today’s episode 😬⁣
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2. A woman buried with a sickle across her neck at a burial ground in Poland. Recently a child was also found with their foot padlocked. Apparently they were all either vampires or the undead, to which we say hell yes. ⁣
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3. Maleesa Mooney was found murdered in her LA area apartment. ⁣
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4. The greatest revenge story we’ve ever heard, via TikTok. ⁣
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5. Turns out the guy capitalizing on brutal murders is a do**he … who would’ve thought?! ⁣
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6. Goldie Hawn said an alien touched her face and it was blissful. That’s what we always imagined it’s like, but it’s nice to have confirmation! ⁣
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7. People are donating some weird stuff to thrift stores 🙃⁣

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