A journalist and a therapist walk into a bar… and decide to create a podcast. Okay, it didn’t happen exactly like the, but you get the picture. On a dark Halloween night, after one too many glasses of Kim Crawford wine, Elise and Halee decided they should make a podcast. After talking indecisively about it over more glasses of wine, they decided to make it happen. Easy Bake Coven was born. One part spooky and two parts funny, EBC is a place to talk about all things scary, weird and deliciously unexplainable. Halee’s background in social work and Elise’s experience in journalism bring nuance to dark conversations and their sense of humor brings much needed levity. Tune in to explore the dark side of life with your new favorite tour guides.
Halee is first and foremost a spooky bitch. She's also a mother, a therapist, and a lover of cheese. She started her social work career in palliative and end of life care, working with very ill folks in hospitals and visiting hospice patients at home. This only strengthened her lifelong curiosity around ghosts, the supernatural, and what happens after we die.
These days she runs her own private practice, which allows plenty of time for her passion projects like easy bake coven, growing flowers, and obsessing over unsolved mysteries on reddit (will she single handedly find DB Cooper? Probably not, but damn it she's going to try!) She lives in a spooky 100+ year old farmhouse on Vashon Island with her husband, son, and 2 crazy dogs. She dreams of adding chickens, bees, and cows to the mix.
Some of her favorite EBC episodes include the Westfield Watcher (ep 26), and Elise's excellent episode on Mothman (ep 14). Her favorite genres of spookiness include cryptids, aliens, ghosts, and unsolved mysteries. She's currently trying to decide on her first cryptid tattoo... right now it's looking like bigfoot, but she's open to feedback!
Elise has always had a passion for the macabre. Whether telling ghost stories around a fire or watching Forensic Files in a hotel room, she has always looked for the next haunt. After the passing of her mom, she became even more curious about the supernatural and seeks to discover what happens after we die. One day she’ll find out!
Never afraid to ask a question, Elise’s background in journalism has informed her love for telling stories. The devil is in the details, and we wouldn’t want to leave him out! Today she is a commercial photographer and videographer, capturing content for towns across America and looking for the creep factor everywhere she goes. She lives off-grid in Alaska with her husband, toddler, dad and a menagerie of pets. Ryan Gosling has also been known to hang out in her backyard. (It’s a goose, though the man is welcome any time.)
She particularly loves a good history episode, like The Terror of Franklin’s Failed Expedition (ep. 129) and can’t get enough of a good ghost story like Halee’s retelling of The Bell Witch Haunting (ep. 46.) Her favorite cryptid is Mothman and her loftiest goal is to one day see a ghost, second only to convincing Halee to play ouija with her. The ghost appears more promising.
