Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host, Bridget Markert, with a brand new episode for you guys. My guest today is Wes Leslie. West is the founder of the Haunt Ghost Tours, which has captivated over 40,000 guests with top-rated tours in four California cities. A Bay Area native who discovered his passion for the paranormal in New Orleans, West has

appeared on ghost adventures and been a speaker at midsummer screen, presenting on ghost tour

research and design. Before launching The Haunt, he founded Wild S.F. Tours, leading tours about

San Francisco, culture, food, ghost, music, graffiti, and social movements.

He moved to L.A. to pursue his pop music and expand The Haunt and has since launched Solvang

and Temecula as well. When not doing tours are music. Wes bartends and organizes pop-up culture

nights with live music from up-and-coming L.A. musicians.

Wes, thank you so much for doing the show today. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to be here. Yeah, I am too. I think it's cool that you do these pop-up bars because it's like two different forms of spirits. There we go. There's a couple of ghost tours I've seen out there that are called like Spirits and Spirits.

Yeah.

There's another name that's like it. I'm blanking on it. But yeah, anyways, it's a fun. It's a fun overlap. And I should do more of that kind of stuff, I think. Yeah, I think so too because, I mean, I know it's not for everybody. but I feel like having a little cocktail, like being able to have fun and do the ghost stuff is kind of letting loose and it kind of makes people a little bit

more open-minded and relaxes you, you know? Yeah, there's a reason why every ghost tour in New Orleans,

people are carrying a drink around while they walk, you know? Yeah, there's a reason why every goes tour in New Orleans. People are carrying a drink around while they walk, you know?

That's true. That's totally true. But I also feel like for some people, so I did this one. So I did, I don't know if you know Scott Michaels from dearly departed tours.

Yeah. So Scott and I go way back. We've been friends for a long time.

And I did just like some one-off tours with him where I picked the places that we went to.

And then we sold tickets.

And then everybody, you know, we just went on this like specialized Bridget ghost tour.

And beforehand, I made this special cocktail.

I forget what I called it, but it was like the ghostini or something like that.

And it's interesting because some people are really good about it.

And then other people go overboard about it.

That happens.

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