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Askia continues New Orleans Month, sitting down with fangsmith and Vampire King Maven Lore to break down the real life Vampire Community: cult escapes, blood raves, vampires hunters, and all. From 17 years inside a cult to the truth about blood-drinking, this one goes places most podcasts won't.
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Maven Lore has been in the Vampire Community since the 90s, long before it was an aesthetic. He coined the term "fangsmith" in 1998, ran blood raves with stage blood, witnessed actual wood-stake attacks from self-proclaimed vampire hunters, and spent 17 years inside a cult he had to claw his way out of. Pixie brings her own harrowing story of escaping a predatory religious group that targeted her family after her father's death.

Together, they dismantle Hollywood vampire mythology, explain why New Orleans sits at a spiritual crossroads, and make a case for why being weird is not only okay, it's worth protecting. This episode covers vampire folklore across global cultures, the very real dangers of cheap permanent fangs, how cult behavior sneaks up on even the most skeptical people, and why the Vampire Court of New Orleans was structured like a town hall, not a throne room.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing the Vampire King
02:18 - The dark energy of New Orleans
03:38 - Real life vampire communities
16:33 - Vampirism vs Satanism
18:56 - How to escape a cult
30:01 - A day in the life of the Vampire King
32:01 - Becoming a fangsmith
40:07 - What vampires ACTUALLY look like
42:57 - Blood drinkers
48:47 - Real life vampire hunters
54:17 - Secret vampire groups

Askia sits down with Voodoo Priestess and scholar Lilith Dorsey to break down the real history of Voodoo, its West African roots, and why Hollywood keeps getting it wrong. Lilith shares chilling personal stories including telepathic voices in the Pine Barrens, a ghost knocking a cheater's phone into a toilet, firewalking on 1300-degree coals, and the dark truth about fairies and changelings. Plus, practical tips on spiritual protection and why asking for the wrong thing might cost you everything.
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Lilith Dorsey is a Voodoo priestess, author, and practitioner. In this episode she dismantles every misconception Hollywood has built around Voodoo, explaining that it's a religious system rooted in Benin, West Africa, developed by and for the Black diaspora. She gets into the real mechanics of ancestral veneration, what initiation actually looks like, and how spells born from slavery and oppression were tools of justice. not evil.

She also goes full paranormal: a haunted Brooklyn basement, a spirit named Peter, zombie origin stories from Haiti, and real vampires walking the streets of New Orleans. Lilith's path isn't a hobby. It's a calling with a cost.

Topics covered: Voodoo vs. witchcraft, spirit attachments, ancestral veneration, initiation, possession, fairies and changelings, spiritual protection, Pine Barrens, zombies, vampires, Hollywood vs. reality, and more.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Lilith Dorsey
01:29 - What is Voodoo?
03:21 - Lilith's first contact with spirits
08:38 - The Gift
11:37 - Using magick
16:59 - Voodoo initiation
20:08 - Lilith teaching Voodoo
24:05 - Voodoo is NOT evil
29:37 - Hollywood vs Voodoo
32:03 - Voodoo vs Hoodoo
34:48 - Voodoo as a religion
40:11 - Possessions in Voodoo
47:22 - What fairies actually look like
51:24 - How to protect yourself from negative spirits
55:37 - Dangers in the magick community
1:02:10 - Types of witches
1:03:22 - The haunted Pine Barrens
1:10:13 - Using bodies in Voodoo practices
1:14:40 - How to create a zombie
1:17:27 - Vampires in New Orleans
1:21:13 - Working with the dead
1:26:09 - Feminine energy
1:28:06 - The cost of magick
1:33:03 - What does the afterlife look like?

Askia sits down with Rose Sinister, a New Orleans vampire historian and tour guide, to dig into the real history of vampires, debunk Hollywood myths, and get into some genuinely dark territory. From Nazi propaganda creating the werewolf-vampire feud to the vampiric Casket Girls locked in a convent attic, this one goes places. Plus, Rose shares the wild story of surviving a 70 mph crash with a broken back.
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Rose Sinister is a professional vampire tour guide in the French Quarter, author of 'This Crimson Debt,' and host of the Rose Sinister: Vampires podcast. In this episode, she breaks down the Eastern European origins of vampire hysteria in the 1730s, explains why New Orleans became the vampire capital of America, and gets into the deeply queer roots of vampire literature from 'Carmilla' to Anne Rice's Castro-district-inspired work. She also calls out the tourist behavior happening on cemetery graves (you know who you are).

This isn't your basic vampire explainer. Rose brings the receipts: historical, folkloric, and personal. And yes, she'll tell you why you should never leave a crystal ball uncovered. "Vampires are us. They reflect our fears and our dark desires."
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Rose Sinister
01:42 - What makes New Orleans haunted
03:32 - Interview with a Vampire, Vlad the Impaler
04:59 - Weird fears
05:56 - How to become a vampire
08:56 - Anne Rice changed everything
10:20 - Earliest vampires in New Orleans
14:27 - Vampires vs werewolves
17:55 - The legacy of Dracula
20:59 - The scariest NOLA vampire story
28:39 - Misconceptions about vampires
35:56 - Where did vampires come from?
41:09 - Vampires and the LGBT
44:28 - Meeting real life vampires
55:45 - Why vampires don't have reflections
1:00:13 - The allure of vampirism
1:04:33 - Rose's near-death experience

Askia sits down with Sen Elias, a spiritual practitioner, High Priest, and owner of Crescent City Conjure in New Orleans to unpack Hoodoo, Voodoo, possession, exorcisms, zombies, and the real cost of walking a spiritual path. This one goes deep, fast.
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Sen Elias doesn't sugarcoat anything. From breaking down the difference between Hoodoo and witchcraft, to describing what possession actually looks like in person, this episode pulls back the curtain on a world most people only think they understand.

Elias traces his Hoodoo lineage, explains why New Orleans is a living spirit that 'needs to eat,' and lays out the five signs you might be cursed. He also gets into the ethics of placing curses, the chilling reality of exorcisms, and why your ancestors outrank everything when you're in danger. The episode closes with a gut-punch: the cost of this path is normality. Ignorance is bliss, and he can't go back.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Sen Elias
01:55 - What is Hoodoo?
03:47 - What REAL witchcraft looks like
05:55 - Sen Elias's spiritual journey
09:21 - Reincarnation is real?
11:22 - How to connect to other realities
14:48 - Demystifying Hoodoo
17:48 - Initiation into witchcraft
20:25 - Why New Orleans is haunted
29:19 - Cursing people
34:30 - How to know if you've been cursed
37:03 - What possession really looks like
41:03 - Real life exorcisms
45:15 - Bringing people back from the dead
50:05 - Connecting to your ancestors

Askia sits down with Dona Strohbehn, a supernatural investigator and 'Paranormal Therapist.' They dig into paranormal PTSD, why the mental health field keeps getting it wrong, and what it actually takes to heal someone who's been attacked by a shadow person. Yes, that happened to her.
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Dona Strohbehn has been seeing, hearing, and feeling things since she was two years old. What started as 'imaginary friends' her parents dismissed turned into a 40-year career bridging clinical mental health therapy with paranormal investigation. She holds a Master's in therapy, specializes in trauma and PTSD caused by anomalous events, and uses real clinical tools to separate a spiritual experience from a psychotic break.

This episode goes deep. Dona breaks down why mainstream mental health practitioners are quick to slap a psychosis label on paranormal experiences without asking a single follow-up question. She talks about her Pagan practice, Celtic protective magic, and why she keeps Archangel Michael on speed dial during channeling sessions. She recounts being locked in a bathroom at the Lizzie Borden house, channeling three separate entities at Waverly Hills Sanatorium, and getting physically attacked at the Tremont House in Galveston by a shadow person.

If you've ever had something happen in your home you couldn't explain, this one hits different. Dona's message is clear: your experience is real, your experience is valid, and there is no holy water required. "If your therapist is close-minded, find a new freaking therapist."
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Dona Strohbehn
12:45 - Mental health vs the paranormal world
14:38 - Speaking directly to ghosts
16:25 - Paganism and Christian Witches
20:51 - Becoming the Paranormal Therapist
24:38 - What therapy actually looks like
34:18 - The haunted Lizzie Borden house
38:15 - The haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium
44:18 - Protector spirits
49:16 - What is Paranormal PTSD?
52:21 - Attacked by ghosts in the Tremont House
57:57 - What paranormal therapy looks like
1:06:41 - Losing sense of reality
1:16:59 - Religious trauma
1:23:33 - Reliving paranormal experiences
1:25:45 - Ouija boards
1:31:45 - African death masks
1:39:44 - Entities following you home
1:43:12 - Curing paranormal trauma
1:45:49 - Dealing with skeptics