And That's Why We Drink - Listener Stories: Vol. 101

Episode Date: March 1, 2025

Get ready to boogie into March with us while we read you a selection of ghostly Listener Stories. From a haunted home built by a criminal, to a dog loving poltergeist, a prankster ghost and some not so friendly/friendly cemetery ghosts, this episode has it all! And we hope the leprechauns bring you all a lucky month filled with positivity... and that's why we drink!For a list of resources or ways to help those affected by the fires in Los Angeles visit: https://bit.ly/atwwdfirehelp ! The Pour Decisions Tour is back on the road! Catch us this month in Monterey and San Luis Obispo, California! Get your tickets today at https://www.andthatswhywedrink.com/live ______________________ Make progress towards a better financial future with Chime. Open your account in 2 minutes at chime.com/DRINK. Banking services and debit card provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A.; Members FDIC. SpotMe eligibility requirements and overdraft limits apply. Boosts are available to eligible Chime members enrolled in SpotMe® and are subject to monthly limits. Timing depends on submission of payment file. Fees apply at out-of-network ATMs. Get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, at SELECTQUOTE.COM/DRINK Get 15% off OneSkin with the code DRINK at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Get better sleep, hair and skin with Blissy and use DRINKPOD to get an additional 30% off atblissy.com/DRINKPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello everyone. Oh. Yep. I was just going to say hello. It's March. I wasn't sure if you were here yet or if I was just warming the room for everybody to for your warming up the audience You can warm it up. Yeah

The fluffer- no that's boring, sorry Wow That's a different thing Okay well no fluff away I would like to see that I just want everyone to feel like they're like ready to groove you know I'm ready to groove In whatever sense they feel ready to groove Boogie, would you- do you think you would groove or boogie if forced to do one?

I think groove, because it just feels less pressure than boogie, like less energy. What about you? Really? I feel like boogie is a lot more casual than a groove. It is more casual, but I feel like it has more like intense movements, where groove I feel like you can kind of just sway. Yeah, but I feel like groove is more of a... I don't know. I feel like you have to have talent to groove. Oh, really? Well, then I choose the other one. Okay. Well, I didn't know that before I picked.

So we'll both be boogying. Okay. Happy March, everybody. We made it two months into this fiery hellscape. I literally called it a February listener episode. That's how confused I am about the world. Sorry, Jack. This is as you've certainly figured out by now. This is the one for March. So yeah, happy happy March. Do you feel like March is gonna be? What's it gonna be like? I don't remember what LA is.

Lucky? I was thinking like leprechauns. I don't know how March is going to go so far. So far it seems, the weather seems fine. So I guess in terms of weather, March might go fine. It'll certainly be better than the rest of the year. I think March is our last cool month in LA. Oh, okay.

Well, that's good. I don't remember it at all. I feel like I blacked out the seasons of LA. I feel like once April hits, it's just like, it just feels like you're in an oven until November. Yeah. Yeah. What about you? Yeah, we have like little birdies chirping and you know, the whole like, I feel like my mom, like I feel like I'm getting old because I'm like, oh, Leona, listen, do you hear the birds chirping? Like that's a blue jay. And she's like, okay.

You know, I'm like, oh no, I'm such a mom. I'm like, look the bugs are forming in the tree. I know, probably normal fun people are, but I'm over here just grooving by the trees and you guys are boogieing. So yeah, you get it. I get it. I feel like she'll care eventually

when either the ADHD kicks in or the, something will kick in and then she'll be like blue jings? I think for a while she will aggressively not care. And I need to like mentally and spiritually prepare for that. Because I know I certainly didn't care when I was a kid and my mom drove me nuts with her, like, look how beautiful it is outside. And I was like, leave me alone. I want to play Gameboy, you know, so I feel like I get it and I don't want to be pushy about it.

But I cannot wait for her to hopefully someday like a crow as much as I do You know what sucks though? I feel like she's gonna have to be like tortured to death by capitalism to finally want some goddamn peace and just listen to birds You know, I feel like that's what happens. That is kind of the cycle, isn't it? I think she's just having fun because she's happy and innocent and has a lot of hope for the future. She just finds joy in the present moment Yeah, I think birds come once you're really trodden down she's happy and innocent and has a lot of hope. She just finds joy in the present moment. Yeah. Yeah. I think birds come once you're really trodden down. You have nothing else to live for except the chirp of a bird in the spring.

It's like the only thing I've left. That thing sounds happy. That thing doesn't know what capitalism is. I'll attach my well-being and worth to that creature. There's a trend on TikTok right now about dogs and how peaceful their lives must be since they don't know who Trump is. Oh yeah, well fucking for that. Must be nice. I think my dog actively knows who Trump is, but he hasn't told me who he voted for.

He does give a side eye like a Republican. He does, doesn't he? You know? And he does have the Karen haircut on his tail The the buck curtain I think he likes to make you wonder but then at the end of the day he's gonna Yeah, but you do have to wonder you do he likes to be a little bit mysterious in that way He likes to piss off the Thanksgiving crowd. He likes to just He likes everyone down and really just make them listen. Yeah.

Real quick, before we do our stories, which we're doing today, everyone, we're doing them today. I promise, I think. We wanted to shout out a couple of live shows we have coming up that we've never been to, towns we've never been to before, and we wanna make sure that people there know

that we're releasing tickets, more tickets there. We have some available that is Monterey, and then I don't know how to say the other one. San Luis Obispo. That's the one. Monterey is going to be March 14th, so in two weeks from now. Is that St. Patty's Day? No, it's the 17th. So if you'd like to, I don't know, pregame before the leprechauns come in droves, then you can come to Monterey and the Golden State Theatre will be there on the 14th and then in San Luis Obispo Will be at the Fremont Theatre the next night on the 15th. So yes, I'm very excited for that

It'll be a nice little escape to your your side of the nation while the weather is nice exactly So that's maybe why I was subconsciously wondering. But yeah, buy tickets, go to and that's where you drink.com slash live. I just know we always forget to mention that when we're asked politely to mention it. So here it is before we get in trouble. Before we get asked aggressively. Yeah, before we get told not gently and nicely. Well, we've got a few stories for you all. For those who have not been here before, welcome to the listeners' episodes

where we share your stories. We do them on the first of every month and you can submit them to, send in your own stories at andthat'swhyIdrink.com. So, do you wanna go first or me? Should we do rock, paper, scissors again? How about you go first? Cause I am busy playing with my hair

and didn't open a file yet. Okay, I was busy playing with my hair in the mirror just a second ago, and then I decided it's a hat day. Oh, you know what I pictured, like this old timey, when they would have slumber parties and they'd be like, you know, twirling their hair and looking in magazines when you said that and kicking their feet up. I thought that's what you meant when you said you were playinging their hair and looking in magazines when you said that and like kicking their feet up.

I thought that's what you meant when you said you were like playing with your hair in the mirror. But I guess you were saying like you were trying to. I actually, what I was trying to say in a kinder way to myself than I'd probably warranted is that I woke up today and had, I'm not kidding, I think actually the worst hair day of my life. My hair was literally, I was like,

I'm bald on this side right now and everything was shifted this way like I just slept in the weirdest way and it just I've never seen less hair on the side of my head. It really freaked me out. I was like okay hat time. So it wasn't a cute sleepover it was more like a panic. No kicking my legs in the air. Cool cool noted. Okay. Except in panic. Yeah Okay, here's the first one. This is from Ryan he uses he him pronouns. Thank you for normalizing pronouns, Ryan and The subject line is not so friendly Friendly ghosts at the cemetery. Well, you know pick a fucking lane here My starting with the mystery because I already don't like it if it's like it might be a little bad I'm like, well, I don't want a part of this. I don't say they're not friendly,

but they're still friendly. Yeah, Ryan. Hmm. We'll see. We'll see if we agree by the end of feeling very, I'm feeling very aggressive. I'm sorry. Ryan says, Hello, Christina. My name is Ryan. I use he had pronounced. Wow. Okay. Thank you again for making sure that we knew that. Thank you for normalizing twice. I've been listening to your podcast since the, since late 2019 and I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to you guys and I'll be seeing you in Springfield, Missouri in October. Well, I hope you had fun, Ryan. Are we going to Springfield, Missouri in October? Oh, uh, we sure did. I was like, we did. And I, Ryan, I can't wait. I can't believe how much fun we had together.

Wasn't that fun? It was, remember when we stared each other in the eyes. Yeah. Yeah. I love that moment. He just, and I said, I know your pronouns, Ryan. You sent them twice. Yeah, Ryan smiled and they said,

he, him is having a great day. Yeah, beautiful. This all happened the summer after I graduated high school back in 2019. Oh, and then you listen to us. Great. Okay. Myself and my friends, which we'll call the Flower Family, love that, decided to visit

the cemetery late one night in Grove, Oklahoma. The reason for this visit is our friend Ashton mentioned that they knew an elderly couple that was buried together there and that they were friendly spirits. I have questions for Ashton immediately. I'd be like, how many times have you been here? And what's your story? And like, what's the source material?

Yeah, it was like your eyes? Is that the source? Right, exactly. Like your dreams? Like I'm just... Yeah. I, at this point in time, did not believe in spirits or anything of the sort. So the four of us, myself, Ashton, Daniel, and then Brian's ex, we all went to the cemetery

around 1 a.m. and we parked near the entrance of the cemetery and made our way down to the tombstones of the elderly couple and were there for about 10ish minutes. While chilling at the... Sorry, I said that's so white. While chilling at the... While chilling at the tombstones, my ex freezes in place and is staring off into the distance. Her face turned pale and in a panic she asked Ashton, do you see him? No. I love how punctual this ghost is. Asha has been there maybe once

and there's been an experience. Now 10 minutes into this time. Asha's like, just watch, it'll happen. It's like, what the fuck kind of confidence? Maybe we need to be more confident. We need to be like, no, just watch. Yeah, just show me your staircase and tell me to just be patient.

It'll happen. Just be there. Show me your staircase, oh my. Well, your haunted-ass staircase. I keep waiting to hear something and every time. It's Juniper It's always always so She turned pale and in a panic. She asked Ashton. Do you see him? I of course think this is some elaborate joke and think they're trying to pull Daniel and eyes leg

That's pretty good though like to put the plan ahead with somebody else Just a text like a little text to Ashton and be like, I got this. Yeah. According to Ashton, it was like a, it was dark gray and kind of hunched behind a tree. I hate when they're hunched. No. And when they saw it, it kind of raised up

and was tall enough that it hit some of the higher branches. So I hate that when you look, then it gets taller. Shouldn't it get smaller? Yeah. I feel like why are you hunching at all if you're gonna stand up? Exactly. Like were you waiting for your reveal? Oh my God.

Ashton nodded to Max and said, we need to leave. Ashton, you brought us here. You started it, you started it. You said they're friendly and I were like, we have to go immediately. Well, and then you said, well, sort of. We began to briskly walk back to the vehicle, and on our way, Daniel gets knocked over.

Briskly walk. I'm so sorry. I like it. So jog. We're fucking running. What is wrong with you guys? You guys are so chillin'. Just so chill.

We begin to briskly walk slash sprint, I'm guessing, to the vehicle. And on our way, Daniel gets knocked over. And I'm assuming he tripped over something, which would be me. The second I need to run, I'm guessing, to the vehicle. And on our way, Daniel gets knocked over, and I'm assuming he tripped over something, which would be me. The second I need to run, I will trip. But there was nothing. Every man for himself is what I would scream.

Go get up. You're fine. We're probably about 20 yards from the vehicle and my ex-op's dead in their tracks and asks Ashton to lift the back of their shirt up. We all start to look confused. Oh, sorry. We all. Well, I'm sorry. Get naked. You're taking the looks. I'm really turning on right now. I'm start to look confused. Oh, sorry, we all well, get naked. I'm really starting to look confused. They all stopped to look confused about the situation is what I was meant versus me who

was just confused. I was just stuck on the taking the shirts off. I don't know. As Ashley lifted the back of their shirt up, we saw three giant scratch marks that were nowhere remotely human, mainly because the size of the marks. They were going straight down their back, beginning at the nape of the neck all the way down to their back. We all immediately ran back to the vehicle and drove off in what was one of the quietest car rides I've ever been on.

Couldn't be us. Much love from Missouri. So let's go back to the title here. Not so friendly, friendly ghosts. Oh yeah, what's this about? What's the friendly part? Besides Ashton's retelling of the past, you know? Ashton apparently has some sort of like one-sided

parasocial relationship with these ghosts. I think Ashton's a little shit-ster, that's what I think. Um, anyway, thanks Ryan for your story. But you love, I love an Ashton's a little shit stirrer. That's what I think. Um, anyway, thanks Ryan for your story. But you love, I love an Ashton. Like that feels like the energy that I like to bring to a situation, just like, let's see what happens. You know? I mean, if you weren't hanging out with Ashton,

if you weren't chilling with Ashton, you'd be at home listening to birds, you know? So. You know what? Life can only be that exciting. I wish. Well, thank you, Ryan. It feels like nothing is easy anymore. I saw a TikTok recently where somebody said like,

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my haunted childhood home was built by a pedophile. Oh, excellent. This is a first, I think, as far as subject lines go. Oh my God, it's dead. Katie just texted us, please remind, finally reminder to discuss the Monterey show senior recording today. We get it, Megan, we get it.

Thank you. This is Katie this time, not Megan. Oh, sorry, you said Megan's. Sorry, I'm just so primed to be pissed at Megan's. I'm just like immediately mad at our submitter, Megan, because you're here, Megan. And that's what we're saying is like, you have A-G-M-E-A-G-A-N. Like you're gonna be the scapegoat in this situation.

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Okay, here is an email from Megan. Wow, I'm feeling real saucy today. Hi Eva M. Christy and Lemon. Oh shit, okay. My name is Megan. I know, I know, but it's pronounced like Reagan with an M. Oh my God. But I think that makes me even more obnoxious.

You're right. Okay, but see, that's why I'm like, but I like that. I like that awareness. It's really like. I love an aware me agin. I love, I love them. You got it like, especially if you get to mention Ronald Reagan every time you tell someone your name,

that must be really fun. You know, like Ronald Reagan, but Megan. Megan like Reagan, yeah. Megan like Reagan, so here we go. Fun fact, I'm also a Gemini, of course you are. And my birthday is June 3rd. See, this is what I'm saying that love and hate are so close, I think, Em, that you're one degree away from people. See, this is what I'm saying that love and hate are so close,

I think, Em, that you're one degree away from people. Like, oh my God, look at the balloons. So I'm so sorry. Talk about how the hatred forms again. Yeah. I'm like throwing a party for you and Megan. And you're like, you have the same birthday. Like that's where that comes from, I think.

This bitterness. Yeah, I do think the love could be too close to the sun. And I'm just starting, I'm starting white hot, you know? Yeah, I get it we're yes, it's too the love could be too close to the Sun and I'm just starting I'm starting white hot. You know, I get it. I get it. Sometimes you gotta fun fact I'm also Gemini my birthday is June 3rd. Anyways, here's a story I've been sitting on that's both true crime and paranormal I grew up in a rural town in upstate New York And when I was about 12 my family moved into a house with a dark history The house was only 20 years old at the time and we were the third family family to ever live there. It was the father of the first family who built it. Trigger warning,

we learned later on that he repeatedly sexually assaulted his own teenage daughter and her friend in that house. Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm not sure who turned him in, but he was eventually found out. Before police could get to him, he took off down the road and shot himself near a pond. But I don't know many details beyond that and haven't been able to find much. That's the short true crime part of the story. Fast forward to when my family's living in the house and it's haunted AF. F, first of all, not surprising, I guess. Yeah, duh is the answer there. Right, like I don't doubt it for a second.

Every member of my family has experienced something weird in that house. I'll start with myself. One day I was showering and I felt a cold breeze go down my back that lingered. Granted, this bathroom had no windows and breezes didn't just happen like that. And it felt like something had touched

the back of my head as well. I quickly finished my shower and as I was stepping out, I smelled this strong odor of something rotting in addition to smoke. It was super strange and hard to explain. After leaving the bathroom, the smell was completely gone. I even checked around the house to see if I could find where it was coming from and nothing.

In addition to that, at night, it literally felt like something was watching me from the dark corner of my room. Not all nights, but way too many of them. That almost scares me more that like some nights you feel something and some nights you don't because it's like, wait, that must be something, right? Well, I feel like I would think, oh, I'm finally safe.

And then, oh, nevermind, it's back. Because I think you would keep tricking yourself into thinking you were just crazy. Especially if it's a few days where you're like, oh, I must've been imagining that. Yeah. Ugh, God, that's just maddening. Okay.

And this next part is a gray area. It could totally not be supernatural at all, but I still find it scary and somehow related. But I would wake up randomly in the mid- Oh my god! Sorry Megan, I love this. This is the most Megan thing I ever heard. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but watch how I act like a literal demon half the time. Here we go. But I would wake up randomly in the middle of the night, sitting on my floor with the overhead lights on, looking straight ahead with no recollection of how I got there.

Oh my God. But that must be like just a fun coincidence. Yeah, that's just like a fun quirk. That's just a fun little thing you did. You know what's even weirder than the waking up in the middle of the night to be sitting in the middle of your floor is that the lights are on. Thank you, that was my exact thought.

Easily the worst. If you're sleepwalking, you don't even really like, you're not concerned floor is that the lights are on. Thank you, that was my exact thought. Easily the worst. If you're sleepwalking, you don't even really like, you're not concerned usually about whether the lights are on. So I'm like, what are you doing? Well, in my mind, I was also thinking like, if there's a ghost involved, like usually you would think, oh, everything creepy happens with the lights off. Oh, true.

So it almost feels like, oh, you're not safe in any environment. Yeah, and it feels almost scarier that suddenly everything's bright when you wake up and it's still middle of the night. And you're like, oh my God're not safe in any environment. Yeah, and it feels almost scarier that suddenly everything's bright when you wake up and it's still middle of the night. And you're like, oh my God, why is it all, oh. It's what it makes you have to turn the lights back off. Yeah, and sleep in the dark, oh no.

Okay, Megan says, I did have a history of sleepwalking since I was a small child, but it got scarier at that house. I would also find myself walking upstairs to my parents' room and just standing there, staring at them next to their bed in the dark. That happened a lot. I didn't stop sleepwalking until I went off to college and moved out. I later learned from my mom that our previous house was also haunted. I really do feel like it wasn't a coincidence. And it wasn't just me that experienced things. My younger brother would see a man. He saw this man more than once. His bedroom was upstairs across from my parents and in the hallway between them was a nightlight.

The first time it happened, my brother was laying in bed and saw a man standing in the doorway. He kept saying, Dad? Oh god, it's so chilling. Because he thought it was our father. He asked my mom the next day why dad was being weird last night and staring at him. She told him dad was working late last night and wasn't even in the house. I immediately as the mom I'd be like is someone living in our attic? Yeah, yeah like my eyes would start twitching like uh-oh we need cameras or something. Yeah. So okay well here we get some insight. I feel like Reagan, Megan is reading our mind here. What's the difference? Yikes, yeah. Here I go. My mom has always believed in ghosts, by the way. She always believed us,

aw, when we told her what we saw and experienced. Very supportive, but also very terrifying. My dad, on the other hand, was a skeptic up until he started seeing things as well. That nightlight in the hall I mentioned earlier, my dad started seeing shadows moving in front of it. He is a hunter and had a desk in their bedroom with empty bullet shells to refill and reuse. He would hear them clinking around at night. The first time it happened, he thought it was the cat, but then when it happened again,

the cat was laying in bed next to him. After that, apparently things being shuffled around in my parents' room at night became pretty regular. I mean, think about the guy went in with his gun to the pond. Oh, shit. And now the bullets are rattling around. Tinkering or being touched, yeah.

Yikes. It says, I'm sorry this is so long, but the last thing I wanna cover is what I experienced while visiting when I was in college. My boyfriend, now husband, and I were in the living room watching TV after everyone had gone to bed. We were on the couch that was against the wall and the family cat was sleeping on the other, was playing with bullets in my parents bedroom. That was against the wall and the family cat was sleeping on the other couch that was closer to the kitchen.

All of a sudden we heard a dragging noise coming from the kitchen. The cat immediately stood up and all the hairs on its back went up staring in that direction and began kissing. The dragging noise went on for multiple seconds. After it stopped, we went to investigate. No one else was in the house and the cat was obviously with us. My husband is super skeptic

and he tried recreating the dragging noise we heard, but he couldn't replicate it. Our first thought was a chair moving, but it sounded nothing like that. To this day, we have not been able to explain it. The annoying thing is my husband still doesn't believe in ghosts. Yeah. Welcome to Ms.

In my world where our partners also don't believe in ghosts and just says that the experience was spooky, but surely there's an unknown explanation. I love him dearly, but come on, man. Yeah. That's why I feel later on another time when we were visiting, my brother had taken my old room, so we were staying upstairs in my other brother's room on an extra bed.

The ceiling was vaulted, and you could see into the attic that was above my parents' room. It was kind of like a loft attic, if that makes sense. Anyways, that night, my husband and I were staying on one side of the room, my brother and his friend were on the other side. I was having a terrible time sleeping, so I was already half awake, but I started to hear voices. My first thought was that my brother and his friend were on the other side. I was having a terrible time sleeping, so I was already half awake, but I started to hear voices. My first thought

was that my brother and his friend must have been whispering to each other. It kept going on so I got up and walked over to them. They were both completely out cold. They even started to shake my brother a little bit and said his name, but he didn't wake up. I quickly got back into bed and tried to brush it off, but then I heard the whispering again. At this point I thought my brother was surely messing with me so I didn't even get up and I just started whisper shouting at him to shut up. When it didn't stop I got up again to check and they were still sleeping. I also forgot to mention it felt like someone was watching me from the creepy dark attic loft. I questioned my brother the next morning. He had no idea

what I was talking about and was only 10 at the time and bad at lying. Otherwise, I would have known if he was. I never slept in that room again. A couple years after I moved out, I asked my mom about the activity, and she nonchalantly told me it pretty much stopped after I moved out. Great, thanks. Since then, I haven't lived anywhere else that has felt haunted, but I don't think it's because I grew up or anything. I can still sense when places have an energy. Also, my parents sold that house a couple years ago and now live in Kentucky. Uh-oh, don't worry, their new house is ghost free from what I've experienced, but that's my story.

Some creepy ghost was definitely feeding off of me or something when I lived at home. I'm just glad it didn't follow me and I never realized how bonkers it all was until I started reflecting back to write this. Hope you enjoyed and that's why I drink. I didn't know how creepy it was until I was waking up in a fluorescent lit room. No, not even that did it.

It was perfectly normal. Oh! Nothing weird about it. Remember the pedophile part? That was like a whole different thing. Yeah, true crime and paranormal. Sexual abuser, basically. Jesus Christ.

This is our third story. This is from Tara. He uses she, her pronouns. Thank you for normalizing pronouns. And the subject line is, the time a painting flew off the wall. You've never had that happen before, Christine, have you? I thought I said that literally.

You've never had that happen before, Christine. And I went, oh my god, they know me so well. Oh yeah. That has happened. And Em went, what did you do? I'm like, oh my God, they know me so well. That was very good. That has happened. And Em went, what did you do? I didn't do it, I swear. Okay, so Tara says, hi, I'm Christine Eva, the rest of the team, that's why we drink fam. My family and I moved into our house about a year ago

and I've not gotten any spooky feelings being here, but this has been the only place we've lived that really truly feels like home Oh, that's nice In our living room. We have a fireplace flanked by two recessed walls one on each side and each recessed area. We have Uh some shelving with various stick is Sorry It's a fireplace with two recessed areas with shelving and a big stick tangled up in a bunch of wires

The stick did not come with the house. That was a christina that I added and I feel like it really the resale value went Tara are you listening? Go find a big stick Uh in our living room we have the In our research, oh my god in in each recess area. Sorry, what I said was really necessary. I got really thrown by the stick. I can't stop thinking about her. I actually saw her in person recently.

Didn't you, and wasn't it as beautiful as you'd expected? I think actually they posted, Megan, speaking of Megan's, I think Megan posted on, I think I muted it because I was so nervous people were gonna be like, what the fuck, Christine? So I was like, this is like the real me. You can see the mess of my brain. I thought it was really creative.

I thought you certainly branched out. Oh! You did say you got thrown by the stick and I was trying to make a fetch joke, but really it just didn't land. I still appreciated it. There was, no, I saw the stick and then what, did you have little sticks next to it or something or what was that?

Well, my stepdad thought it was funny to like find a stick and bring it to me. And then every time he came over he was like, where's my stick? And I was like, one day I'm gonna throw it away like when he's not looking. I did see the stick with Tim in the room and he, you're right, he does still chuckle about it. He thinks it's great. He loves it. In each recessed area we have some shelving with various knickknacks. I don't see anything about a stick.

Various knickknacks could include a lot of things. Stick stacks, yeah. And a whimsical deer painting they have. So I didn't see that at your house, Chris. No, not yet. These paintings have been up for a majority of the past year with Nary an issue until that is a few weeks ago and I was sitting here that's beautiful bring back nary make nary great again

make America nary again yeah okay until it is a few weeks ago I was sitting on the sofa reading and one of or out of the corner of my eye I see a weird light kind of flash by on the wall and and then I hear a thud. Looking up, I cannot figure out what just made that noise, but having two semi-energetic and clumsy dogs, I first assumed that one of them had knocked something over. That is until I looked to the upstairs hallway, which is visible from downstairs, and I see my two dogs wide-eyed staring at me as if to say, what was that? You hate to see it.

Then my kids come out of my oldest son's room to also ask what that noise was. My husband, oblivious to all this, was in our bedroom napping with the cat. Honestly, not fair. A convenient, convenient backstory, I guess. So now I'm really uncertain what made such a loud noise, since it clearly wasn't my dog's. Plus, there's literally nothing in the hallway to knock over. My oldest son comes down to help me look and start and we start with them more obvious places, the kitchen counters table.

And we figured out we had precariously stacked something in another ADHD doom pile and gravity had taken over. We thought that might have happened, but nope. I finally happened to look into the recess to the left of the fireplace and I realized the deer painting is now on the ground. As I'm walking over, I figure the nail must have not been in the wall that well and just finally slipped out. So I pick up the painting and assume I have to pry the nail from the wall,

but the nail was still sticking out of the wall at a good upward angle with plenty of surface area for this painting to sit upon. So how the heck did this painting come off of the wall? Combine this with the weird light I saw, and I'm convinced that it was something ghosty, even though my husband refuses to believe that. Well, your husband was sleeping, so whatever. Yeah, anyway uh you know you should have said oh dear oh dear look

oh dear not again not again and then when he said he didn't believe you you should have gone dear please oh dear please anyway i hope uh i was just it was i hope it was just some spirit rushing through my house to get elsewhere and accidentally knocking down my painting as we haven't had anything else. What is your house? The train station for ghosts? I hope not. You know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe it was just a fleeting moment.

Anyway, thank you, Tara, for your story. I do like that because I feel like to see a flash but then not even connect it because you see the flash and then you hear a thud and you're like, what was that? And you don't even realize like, oh wait, it was related to the flash I saw until afterward, until you notice it.

I wouldn't have even connected them. I would have had to have someone later be like, oh, didn't you see a flash too? No, yeah, I would have also totally missed that. Wow, creepy. Well, I guess I won't be adding any more decor to that recess shelving. I'll just leave the stick and leave the stick only.

Okay, perfect. No paintings, thank you. This is, da da da da da, where am I? Nobody knows. Number four. Number four is called that time a painting blew off the wall. So I think maybe I need to go back. Oh, that's number three for me.

Really? Oh, maybe we have them organized differently. Maybe. Mine is by date modified. Oh, mine's by name. Oh, I'm amazed. Oh, so who knows what the fuck we've been reading. We've just been reading random stories. Um, okay, whoops. Uh, by name you said? Yeah. Okay, well, they all changed on my end,

so we're gonna have to find some new angles here. Okay, so the one that I have here is called Unknown Cries. I don't know what that is for you, but. That's number five for me. I don't know, just read it. Just read it. This is from Lauren She Her Hers.

Hello my fellow Geminis. First, thank you for normalizing pronouns. I work as a mental health therapist in a residential facility for youth. Fun fact, we were the first residential treatment facility in our state to assign students by their gender identity, not sex assigned at birth. Whee! Hey! I love that. I just wanna make it clear that this is not a facility

like the program documentary on Netflix because our program focuses on trauma-informed care, which is the opposite of what that documentary presented. I could get on my soapbox further about why trauma-informed care is important, but then my ghost stories would get lost. So. Okay, let's talk about this trauma instead.

Yeah, we'll talk about this instead. This facility originally started as an orphanage and has made transitions over the 100 plus years that it's been around. Unfortunately, students have come to us with some horrific traumatic experiences that sometimes I cannot believe that they would even trust another person. One thing that I've definitely learned is that people are resilient. So you can imagine that their psychological pain has caused some lingering spirits Hmm, I'll start with my own experiences when I was a unit clinician

I tended to arrive on campus after the students had transition to school The school and the residential units are on the same campus think a very small college campus My office was on the residential unit so I had purposely come in after school started Everyone would be off the unit or they should be off the unit, dun dun dun. On that specific day, I'm settling into my office, drinking my coffee, and then I start to hear this sobbing that continues to get louder and louder.

I open my door as I think, oh shit, a kid got left on the unit. A kid alone for a few minutes is not a big deal to some, but we deal with students with trigger warning, suicidal attempts, and ideation. I continue to hear these deep sobs as I go through every bedroom, including closets, until I get—oh my god, this is so chilling that you keep hearing it while walking around and trying to find the source of it. It sounds like when the—I mean, I guess it's just like crying, but when you hear voices and you don't know where they're actually coming from.

And they don't stop? You think like, maybe I'm imagining it. Nope. Okay, let's see. Until I get to the last empty bedroom on the unit and the sobs suddenly stop. No one was on the unit but me. So as anyone would do, I bolt off the unit and did not return until others were there all day. I told my boss later that day and she believed me! That has an exclamation point which I think is so cute. Guess what guys? She believed me. You know, small victories. Yeah, seriously. I mean, that's pretty impressive. Another time I was also on the unit alone. There was a stack of board games in the common room securely on a table. From across the hall I saw the board games being pushed off the

table. There was the time I came in after my day's off to a Ouija board on my desk, but that was a student playing a prank on me after I told them no Ouija boards on campus. And then says, we are too busy focusing on the processing the trauma of the living than to process the dead's trauma. Love that for you. Love that boundary. Others have told me about times especially on the overnight shift where the kitchen sounds like pots and pans are being thrown about. When they call a supervisor to check it out nothing is disturbed. Then there is an apparition of a small boy that someone I

know has seen. During a fire drill all of the students were out of the unit but there was a small boy waving to them from a window. Hi, I was like, in a fire. Hey, I don't have to go outside. Yeah, right? Like, what are you guys doing out there? That's actually a great point. I would totally brag if I didn't have to go outside. Right, I'd be like, I'm a little alone.

Yeah, especially if it's cold, yeah. When they went back to search, no one was there. On an, to see someone waving too, like that feels so intentional. Not just like a glimpse of somebody in the window, but an actual child waving. And also, do you think, wouldn't you recognize, or I think I'd be more freaked out

that it was a kid they didn't recognize in the building. Yeah, that's true too. But I feel like if you're, I mean, I imagine people are going in and out a lot, like if this is, you know what I mean? mean, like just pick a date a day player exactly Yeah, yikes, okay When they went back to search no one was there on an overnight shift a Basketball bounced and rolled out of a room where everyone had been sleeping for hours

Staff was assigned to watch that one room all night so there was no student who woke up to do that. As you can read, there's a lot of haunting things here. I wanna thank y'all for a couple things. Normalizing pronouns, same back to you. Normalizing mental health and wellness, obviously same back to you. And talking about our shared value

of constantly being open to learning and validating experiences with others. I saw your show in Providence and it was amazing. Monterey, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis, San Luis first time I passed. Oh, yay. Small victories. Big victories. Yeah, small victories. Okay, thank you, Lauren. That was awesome. Awesome. Well, yeah.

Pick a story from the hat, Em. I know. Because who the fuck knows where we are? Just sift away in there. Just find one that doesn't seem familiar yet. Let's see. Nope, that's Ryan. That's Ryan.

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watched over me. Oh, now this seems different than Ryan because Ryan said friendly and not friendly. And we have no information on the personality of this one. So this actually feels almost more sinister because it's like neutral. Yeah, like even I didn't try to claim. It's a blank slate, yeah, I don't like it. Alex says, hey, that's why we drink.

It's pretty long, so let's jump right in. When I was about two years old, my bio dad and step mom bought a new house and they had heard from the sellers that it was an old man's house that they thought he was still around. And if you hide Skittles behind a chair, they'd go missing the same day.

Babe, that's rats. That's like. That's, I was gonna say that's me. And then I'm so, rats and I went, shit, yeah, let's go with rats. That's a lot less incriminating than me. Christine's my favorite little rat. But I, that's true.

I have a feeling, maybe it's a ghost. Maybe it's a ghost. It could be Geo also, or ants. Yeah. Just like leave a, like a trap nearby, just in case, you know? Maybe just, yeah, maybe just like put a camera there and see what happens. I mean, if you know that they're gonna like,

you'll definitely get something on camera if you know that they're gonna go missing, right? So. Right. Maybe it'll just be they vanish and that's pretty cool. Yeah. That's the epilogue update I would like from Alex. Send us a video of the Skittles. They never did, oh, they never did that. Can you imagine, we're gonna get an email called

video of the Skittles and we're gonna go, what the fuck are they talking about? We're gonna go, what on earth? We didn't ask for that. Okay, here's my favorite part because I should have kept reading. It says, they say if you hide Skittles behind a chair, some would be missing the next day. They never did that, of course.

So I guess they never even tried to hide the skittles. They probably knew about rats. And we're like, we are not going to try that. Thanks, old lady. I don't think so. Apparently, for them, it was because they did not want to invite the spirit into the home if it was already there or has been there You know, I like antagonize it fair. I would have also agreed with you I was like, I don't want to leave can't like good candy on the floor perfectly good candy. Forget it

Anyway, they had some really creepy things happen to them in the house interesting Sounds like you could just let the skittles then you can see it feels like the skittles were like an appeal to appease them Yeah, it's like I felt someone gave me skittles I wouldn't harm them probably. If the logic in my head is I'm not leaving out Skittles because I don't want to invite anything in, but things are clearly already there, then I'd be like, maybe I try the candy to shut you up.

Yeah, exactly. We'll get you just on my line, like on my page. What I'm saying, yeah. So really creepy things would happen in this house. They would hear a baby crying at night, even though it wasn't my half sister or any neighbors as we had the only kids on the street. A hand clamping over my dad's mouth

in the middle of the night and leaving a handprint on his face. Ew. And my stepmom's angel figurines being turned around and facing towards the wall. No, sorry, that was so loud. But like, you know, I can't I just got full body freak out the idea of them not wanting like angels watching over you.

And to make sure you see like, I don't like these angels don't get to look at you. Oh, forget it. You're alone. Forget it. I've always been sensitive to the paranormal with plenty of experiences with other spirits and knowing when I should or should not be somewhere. I never felt anything but safe in that house, even when, not your dad, but even when everyone else felt on edge or straight up fearful in that house.

I wasn't treated the best by my stepmom or youngest half sister, so I always felt like an outsider, but I never felt unsafe as long as I was in that house. Maybe the ghost was like, you and I should form an alliance I was gonna say maybe you did drop a few skittles just in case you know and the ghost was like yeah You're you're my kind of guy. Yeah kind of person. You're not that bad One night when I was about 11, I was sleeping at the end of my half sister's bed I didn't have my own bed since I was only since I was only there every other weekend. No comment, that's sad. No comment.

He started grinning, what the hell? And I felt like someone was watching over me. I woke up, turned over and saw an old man just standing there looking at me. Ugh. He started grinning as soon as I looked up at him. I said, hello, and he gave a little wave. Oh my God.

It's actually so precious. Yeah, maybe he's not bad. Okay, so I guess, okay. I told him. It's actually so precious. Yeah, maybe he's not back. Okay, so I guess okay. I told him I was going back to sleep. He gave one last smile before he turned around and disappeared. I love that he was just checking in on you and you had a whole ass conversation. You're like, actually, you know, thanks for checking in, but I'm actually real tired. I wonder if you really were tired and went back to sleep because that was my experience. I really was so exhausted. But I also wonder if you really were tired and went back to sleep because that was my experience.

I really was so exhausted. But I also wonder if you were like trying to like socially back away from the strange man in the room. Right. It's like, Oh my God, I would love to continue this conversation. Just maybe another time. I was really busy though. I'm going to go back to that.

Yeah. Yeah. As you can see, my hands are full. That's really cute. The hello and the little wave. Like as long as you weren't scared, that's great. Yeah. That's really cute. The hello and the little wave. Like, as long as you aren't scared, that's great. Yeah, I would have immediately thought that he was like totally watching out for you from that point on.

The lights just flickered. I literally saw that. Did something. Oh, my God. Now deer painting is going to fall. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. The lights just flickered and turned right back on. That was weird. I we got that on camera. Paranormal caught on camera. Well, okay. At least it happened when I was talking about

what seems like a kind ghost. You said it looks like he's watching out for you and then your lights flickered, Em. Okay. That was like really touching. Can the lights flicker again if someone's watching out for me? Nothing.

Okay, great. That hurt my feelings. So, where were we? Wow. I rolled over and I went back to sleep. Great. That hurt my feelings. So where were we? I rolled over and I went back to sleep while the rest. While the rest of them always felt uncomfortable, I always felt protected as if someone was watching over me. And I believe the little old man who previously lived in that house was always watching me and making me feel safe.

I have lots of stories about other ghosties, but I thought you might enjoy this one as it's the nicest spirit I've had contact with. Thank you for all the spooky content. Love you guys and And the show so much Wow That's really sweet and then somebody popped in to say hi to M2 which is really sweet Okay, so I think this should be the last one right because you went first. I think so. Yeah, okay. I'm digging around Alex Ryan Megan last prize Okay, so I think this should be the last one, right? Because you went first? I think so, yeah. Okay, I'm digging around. Alex, Ryan, Megan. Last prize.

Emily, we don't have Emily yet. No, we don't. Okay, this is called the dog-loving poltergeist oh God, the dog-loving poltergeist that climbs into bed with you. Oh God. This feels like a lot of duality we have today. Like a lot of ghosts that feel scary

and then are like nice or like kind of a mix of both. It's giving Gemini. Yeah, it is, isn't it? Too bad it's only March. I guess it's the start of our birthday season, you know. You know what? The second I hear that bird chirp, I'm like, here we come. Which word makes you think the most of birthdays? Bird days. Of birthdays? Bird days? Of bird days?

Great question. I don't know. When you think of a bird and you think of your birthday, is it like a hoo hoo or is it like a ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch I think it's more of a ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch

ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch is the day after when you wake up from the sleepover. The sleepy time one. Yes, you get it. Yeah, yeah, that's the groove one. And then the, what was the other one? Bojangles?

No, what did you call it? Bopid? E-bopid? What's happening now? I said shi shi shi shi shi. Boo. She is calling the police. The, you said would you rather groove or?

Or boogie. Boogie, not, what did I say? Be bopped up, I don't know what the fuck. Okay, I'm so sorry, Emily. This is about you. She, her, thank you for normalizing pronouns. Hi, Eva M. Christine and all of the ATWWD fam. I'm Emily and I love your show.

I started listening back in 2021 and I've listened to every episode, some of them twice. Ooh, I recently joined Patreon so I could hear more of the silly rambling that's gotten me through many hard days. That's the perfect reason. Anyway, enough sappy shit and let's crack into the story. To lay the groundwork, my entire family on my mom's side

has been eerily sensitive to the paranormal for as long as I can remember. I've been, quote, blessed and cursed, as my mom would say, with the same ability she has to see ghosts my entire life and have seen multiple. When I was about seven years old, we moved into a new house, sort of in the middle of nowhere, and my grandma and uncle were my neighbors.

The house was a double wide, basically a large trailer. Ours is super cute inside. When you buy a double wide, you often buy it off of a lot from a salesman. Well, when we were picking out the house, I was playing in one of the back rooms, which later became my room, when I felt a sudden and terrible sense of dread and urgency. Oh my god.

I bolted into the living room to find my mom and told her we shouldn't get this house. Alas, we did. Ever since we moved in, living in the house was strange. My curtains would blow vigorously without cause no air vent in there The light bulb to my room went out and each time it was replaced It simply went out again to the point we stopped replacing it I got a tall lamp instead and had to walk across the dark room I hate that when it's on the other side of the room and you have to like navigate and like rush

But you don't want to bang your shins. You mean the beginning of a horror movie? Yes, but the ghosts are ready to grab you. Oh, I Got a tall lamp instead and had to walk across the dark room each day to turn it on on many occasions The lamp would be unplugged that used to happen at my house On many occasions a lamp would be unplugged and I would be stuck in the darkness until I could find the outlet with the same sense of doom just hovering over me. The smoke alarms would go off in the middle of the night without cause and I would have terrible dreams. A couple of them were so bad they still haunt me to this day. One night I was laying in bed Skyping with my friend, parentheses, LOL. Throwback.

I still get anxiety from like, do do, do do do do do do, glop, I'm like, sorry. Was it duke duke glop? Was that what you just said? It was a mouth sounds. It was Skype had its own mouth sounds. I'm like, don't do that. Yeah. And then it's like, has this horrible warbling sounds and it's like, what do you think you're

doing? I know exactly what you're saying. Scatting at me? Like stop. It's just so. So there it's like, what do you think you're doing? I know exactly what you're saying. Scatting at me? Like stop. It's just so. So there's a groove, a boogie, and a scat. Yeah, I know. How many like old timey musical numbers can I reference say?

Okay, so I was Skyping with my friend, LOL, and all of a sudden the blankets quickly got ripped off of me with lots of force. Oh my God. This happened twice and I checked the room. Also like the fact that you were on camera and someone else was watching is like disturbing. Like it was waiting for someone else

to be there to witness it. This happened twice and I checked the room for the cat but he was nowhere to be found. Only about a week or so later I woke up in the middle of the night sweating. I couldn't go back to sleep and as I slept with the TV on I decided to watch whatever was playing. It was sweet life of the night sweating. I couldn't go back to sleep. And as I slept with the TV on, I decided to watch whatever was playing. It was Sweet Life of Zack and Cody.

Of course. Of course. The TV was reflecting a bit of light onto the floor and walls. Suddenly the shadow of a tall man with what appeared to be a trench coat and a top hat was moving across my room and towards my bed. Goodbye. I want nothing to do with the hat man.

No, thank you. I quickly sprang up and ran to my bed. Goodbye, I want nothing to do with the hat man. No, thank you. I quickly sprang up and ran to my room. We moved out of the house only a few months later. Once we moved out, my mom told me more about the man in my bedroom. I love that mom's like known all along. Oh my God. And while we're at it,

here's the stranger that's been living here. Yeah, oh, that sense of dread you feel is perfectly normal. She said that when she was a teenager living in my grandma's house, only about a hundred feet away from Mars, something got into bed with her and was applying pressure to her chest and neck,

and she couldn't breathe until it finally went away. Next time she told me, or sorry, next she told me of the time when my older cousin was a baby and how he would sit in the corner of his crib and scream and cry while pointing at the opposite corner. My uncles had strange occurrences too with whatever this thing is. One day he was in the shower and asked his then-wife to get him a bar of soap as he had just run out, but he didn't realize that she had run out to the store for groceries. Suddenly, a bar of soap was thrown violently at the shower curtain, and he was in shock when he later learned she hadn't been home.

And his son wasn't even old enough to walk yet, let alone pelt a bar of soap. So the ghost is like begrudgingly granting your requests. I'll give you a bar of soap with a lot of aggression, though. Yeah, I Okay, just I don't I don't know what's happening here. Oh my god. Sorry. We got a real zoom in What's it enjoyable? No, you can probably see the coffee stains on my shirt, okay, I Wish the story ended here two and a half years ago. I moved back into the house. Oh My dear, I don't like. Oh, my dear friend.

I don't like it. Oh, my dear friend, Emily. I knew whatever was lying, sorry. I knew whatever was living here was still around as the previous tenant frequently mentioned how he always got locked out of the house, had shoes thrown at the wall, the annoying constant taps on his fish tank,

the eerily long claw marks on the inside of the bathroom door, and the fact that his dogs broke through to get whatever was inside, and of course, the time he felt his dog jump into bed with him only to look down and see his dog on the floor. He was a skeptic and had no knowledge of the house being haunted before this. My mom has since named the entity, ooh, I don't like this actually. This actually feels really bad to me. Bad energy. My mom has since named the entity Edgar

Oh my god, isn't that bad for some reason? I well naming it at all But also Edgar just feels like why give it an old man name It's like a scary name like it feels like it could actually be his name. You know yeah and The name stuck although. I'm not sure why Because I think it's probably true because Edgar was like I like the name stuck although I'm not sure why because I think it's probably true Just Edgar was like I like the name. You're like, that's my fucking name now. Yeah since moving here however, I feels like the you know who I picked you want to hear Edgar is the the grandpa from courage a cowardly dog

That to me feels like an Edgar like a really like cantankerous scary Cantankerous, yeah. Yeah, a curmudgeon. Curmudgeon for sure. No offense, Edgar, please, please go away. Stay where you are. I don't have a fish tank to tap on, so please. Nope, no soap over here.

No soap, please. Thank you very much. Let's see, I'm not sure why the name stuck. Since moving back here, however, I've only had a few things happen with Edgar I wonder if he'll be back now that we're aggravating him Stolen keys and glasses which were finally returned when I asked politely Coming home to my dog being let out of his crate that always weirds me out. I hate it Objects being knocked over

drawers that I know for certain my dog can't reach are sometimes open, and the snacks inside them will have been eaten by my dog." Okay, so basically someone's feeding the dog. Yeah, the dog is in cahoots too, because you would think a dog would get really freaked out at a ghost, but if you see the ghost coming to open your crate, you're like, I won't rat on you, you know? You're like, hmm, yeah, I feel like Gio heard about Edgar and was like, hang on, where do I get an Edgar? Like, no, no, no, we, no, this is not part of this. Where's Harry and why isn't he trying to live

up to his name? Yeah, Harry's nowhere near as nice to Gigi. It says, I guess Edgar likes my dog Ozzy and the previous tenant's fish. Last year while on my way out the door for an event, I walked out of my room and saw a dark shadow of a man in the far end of the living room. The entire house smelled horribly like rotten eggs

and I'm thankful I didn't put those pieces together until after I left. And lastly, once my boyfriend moved in, oh, Edgar began terrorizing him. One night while we were sleeping, I heard the noise of glass breaking. It didn't wake up my boyfriend, but the glass breaking noise happened three more times,

which finally woke him up. You know Edgar was pissed. Like how many fucking glasses i have to break this fucking guy looks like i'm gonna smash you in the face with it yeah how about if i swing it directly into your head we discovered a glass cup that had been knocked off of the far end of the nightstand on my boyfriend's side of the bed and smashed into the carpet floor that's weird not only oh only once, but it appeared as if someone or something was hitting it on the floor over and over. Oh no.

I mean, it's carpet too, so you'd have to get it, right? And the fact that they heard four glass, separate glass smashes. Like he was trying to smash it, yeah. Forget it. Also, my boyfriend once had a dream of something evil, quote unquote, yelling, leave, then woke

up because he felt something grab his arm which was hanging off the side of the bed. Oh my god. It says eeeeek. Yeah. Anyway, I now like to think of Edgar as a prankster and I will say I rarely get the awful feeling I once did while in the house. It's weird that I had the doom feeling in the lot with the salesman when it seems like whatever is here has been here for a long long time

According to others accounts anyway, I'm not great at this and I'm strangely enough a little nervous Don't be nervous. So I'm sorry if this is law. I mean we may have bullied you We usually bully people who write in so I guess you have the right to be nervous Megan Megan I appreciate you reading it PSM. I grew up 10 minutes away from Radford, Virginia and went to Radford High School. So when I heard you went to college here, I almost peed my pants out of shock and excitement. Love your hair, hate your guts. Emily. I love that that makes you pee,

but not like the grown ass man goes in your house. You're like, I was on my way to an event, so I didn't have time to put together the sulfuric demonic smells and the stranger in my house. But I love that we're neighbors. Well, thank you for the story and I hope that he stays with you and not here. Nowhere. I know I have pets, but they're really not fun. So stay with Ozzy, please. And yeah, I'm okay. We're full up. We're all full up. No room in the inn here. Well, hopefully, since we talked about some negative seeming ghosts, hopefully in this

lucky month of March, everyone leaves you alone for a second. Yes. Yes. Let's all wish positivity, positivity. Leprechauns everywhere taken care of. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Nothing bad can happen. I hope for me a pot of gold. That's creative, sure. And lucky. And lucky, very lucky.

And for you, a pint of ale. Oh, thank you. I'll take it. And for everyone else a rainbow, but only the gay people. Only the ones who know it's, only the ones who know it's really invented by God Take it back. Yeah, I'll reclaim the rainbow

Well, happy March to everybody and I hope that these stories get you through until our April Fool's Day one, which we never do anything April Fool's II, but April Fool's Day one, which we never do anything April Fool's-y, but We'll be two fools telling you stories at least. I mean it'll be foolish I'm sure we say this every year, but it'll be foolish no matter what Nary, nary a serious situation only only fool them? Only foolery? Only Tom Foolery left and right. Goodbye. And? That's why? We. Drink.