Merry Krampus! We hope you have a safe and wonderful holiday with your friends, family, pets, and ghosts in your attic. This week, we're of course covering Krampus while respectively drinking the Krampus Cocktail!

It's delicious! Muddle a few blackberries in your cocktail shaker, add ice with two shots of vanilla vodka. Shake it up and double strain it into your champagne glass. Add some sparkling cranberry apple cider with just enough room for some Everclear. Then light it on fire!
Recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m_c7UEndg

First Leyna tells us the creepy backstory of Santa's evil helper and then Lauren shares a few poems mysteriously left in a village where people keep dying at the hands of a horrible creature.
Read them here: https://old.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/e97lt0/krampus/

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It's a Creature Feature! We're switching it up as Lauren takes a turn first to tell us about Hellhounds and how you can protect yourself from them...or make them your friends.
The drink for this subject is called Black Dog!
3oz Jim Beam Whiskey
1oz Dry Vermouth
0.5oz blackberry brandy
Shake it up and strain over ice

Leyna then tells us about little elven creatures called Redcaps. And let me tell you now, these spawns of Satan definitely aren't working in Santa's workshop and Leyna sips on a Gin & Tonic to get through it all!

We're going all the way to Italy this week to talk about Poveglia Island! Ever since it was claimed by people in the year 421, it has seen nothing but death. Leyna gives us the timeline from when it started off as a stronghold for battle, a quarantine zone where over 160,000 people met their deaths, and then eventually turned into an abusive mental institution run by a malicious doctor. Did you know the term quarantine comes from the Italian word "quaranta giorni" meaning forty days? That's how long people had to isolate themselves during plague times...Not these plague times, the other plague times...
Lauren tells us about the spooky encounters that thrill-seeking tourists and locals have experienced, and why they vow never to return to the island.

Our drink this week is a Bellini Cocktail which contains white peach puree mixed with Prosecco. Ironically, some of the best-tasting peaches in Venice are found on Poveglia Island. It couldn't have to do with the soil being made of human remains....could it?