Episode #251 | 9.30.25
Led Zeppelin Pt. 2: The Haunting at Headley Grange
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In this episode
In 1971, Led Zeppelin holed up in an old English house in the countryside to make the album that would crown them the biggest rock band on earth. But they weren’t alone inside Headley Grange. This is a story about obsession, occult rituals, and music made in the shadows. About pentagrams. About black magick. About a song that felt like it was being written by an unseen spirit. And about a house that went from forgotten ruin to something far stranger—and the band that may have changed that house forever.
Sources
When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin, by Mick Wall
Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin, by Barney Hoskyns
Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga, by Stephen Davis
Headley Grange: Led Zeppelin Recorded in a HAUNTED Recording Studio? (The Paranormal Review)
The satanic messages in Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' (Far Out)
Led Zeppelin – Backward Masking 1983 – Televangelists
Spooky days out: 10 of the most haunted houses in the UK | United Kingdom holidays (The Guardian)
The TRUTH Behind Led Zeppelin: When the Levee Breaks (Rick Beato)
Led Zeppelin (Chilly Stories)
The 10 Wildest Led Zeppelin Legends, Fact-Checked (Rolling Stone)
A rock legend and black arts figured in Malcolm’s life (Inverness Courier)
House of the unholy (The Scotsman)
Jimmy Page and the Grouses of the Holy (GQ)
‘Laughing your head off.’ (Culloden Battlefield)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Zeth Lundy.
Mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak