Historical AF Creators & Guests

Kyna's origin story is unlike most hillbillies. While there were banjos, her childhood consisted more of digging up dinosaur bones (read: chicken bones), learning Egyptian Hieroglyphics, and imagining her past life as Cleopatra. She left the hills to pursue degrees in history, psychology, and art then spent the next seven years librarian-ing until history successfully seduced her back into school. Once grasping her MA in Public History, the military decided her next adventure would be in South Central Texas. Kyna is now aggressively pro-Texas and enjoying her days hitting the adventuring, creating art, and being a mediocre trophy wife/dog mom.

Erica, Founder of Cheers From The Grave, is from Orlando, FL and loves all things spooky and paranormal.

Lindsay Valenty Loves All Things True CrimeLike seriously — it’s a bit of a problem.Since discovering podcasts such as Lore, My Favorite Murder, Criminal, and And That’s Why We Drink, she’s been hooked on learning more about all things true crime and paranormal.Her obsession with all things strange started as a free-range 80’s kid, reading books on aliens, Mothman, and other cryptids at the local library. Of course, being able to see ghosts might have also had something to do with it.Nowadays her passion for reading (like, a lot of reading - so much reading) and history has become a Venn Diagram with true crime to form this pet project.When not talking into the void, she spends time with her family, gardens, reads (I know, shocker), leads Girl Scouts, attends book club, and overall just the usual things a stressed and coffee obsessed 30-something Mom does.

Lucy Fitzgerald was going to get a degree in Mortuary Science before she realized she was not good at math, so she majored in English instead and has worked as an editor at a number of food magazines. Her fascination with all things morbid probably scared off a few potential friends over the years, but she DGAF and prefers to be alone with her cats anyway. Her hobbies include collaging, vodka, and drifting off to the sweet sounds of Forensic Files.