And That's Why We Drink - Listener Stories: Vol. 107

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

We’re flirting with spooky season because it’s officially Zeptember! And to kick it off right Eva’s collected a terrifying batch of haunted thrift store stories. There’s haunted dolls and clowns, ouija boards, and even an armchair story! And we can all agree that Mary Poppins is a witch, right? ...and that’s why we drink! P.S. Thank you to Patron Clarissa (She/Her) for submitting this month's theme!Want to hear more from us? Subscribe to our bonus Yappy Hours on Patreon or Apple Podcasts! http://patreon.com/ATWWDPodcast___________________For 50% off your order, head to http://DailyLook.com and use code DRINK. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to http://nutrafol.com and enter the promo code DRINK. Go to http://helixsleep.com/drink for 27% Off Sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you! Work on your financial goals through Chime today. Open an account in 2 minutes at http://chime.com/drink. Chime. Feels like progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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well we're living on the edge as usual who knows if this episode will ever make it out to your beautiful ears but we are trying our best we are restarting browsers and computers and mixers and i think we're going to knock it out of the park today friends happy september 1st september if you will in my mind it's um officially fall i know me too we're flirting with spooky season i think it's already spooky season i almost we're season. I almost wear pumpkin stuff. And then I was like, okay, give it like another couple days after the first of the month. Like maybe. Like maybe September 1st is trying too hard, but September 2nd is the sweet spot. I think so. I think so. Yeah. So we're excited. The leaves are probably not falling and the heat is probably not going anywhere. But it's fall in our hearts. At least it will be soon. And this week, month, year, this month, we have a suggestion from Patreon for our listeners episode, which I'm very excited about. Um, I love this topic. Have you seen it yet, Em?

I saw the name, but I didn't see. I saw who suggested, but not what they suggested now. Okay, great. So it's Clarissa, she her and she haunted, she haunted, she haunted our hearts. Uh, she suggested haunted thrift store finds. Oh my God with that. That's so good. Like, I could never have come up with that myself. I'm so glad that it's not just me spitting out stupid commentary. How could you not come up with that yourself? I feel like everything you've ever gotten from a thrift shop is haunted. It's because I'm too close. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I'm too close to the case.

Yeah, too close to the case. I got to step back and let Colissa, you know, let me see the error of my ways. Your detective lead is telling you to go home and take a few days because you're too close. Yeah. And how dare you? But then at the end of the day. He was right. He was right.

And then we kissed. Oops. Sorry, that was just private, personal stuff. Okay. So we have this theme at haunted thrift store stuff. I'm very excited. I don't know if there is a, is there an order, M? Maybe you go first because Blaze just asked if Gio ate

because he's pretending he didn't get to eat lunch yet. And I'm going to have to tell Blaze that Gio already ate and he's, he's lying. He's lying. Interesting, interesting. You know what's so funny. First of all, our dogs are so different. Unless my dog's sick. But he just leaves food, just hanging out.

He doesn't like, scarf it down. For years. And then we moved in with two other dogs. Oh, right. and all of a sudden he developed that kind of fixation on eating his food all at once and it wasn't great for his health but it was very immediate and we have not been able to reverse it even though we don't have any other dogs so poor puppy i know my baby boy but it's okay he gets special yummy foods well um before i kick off the first uh story i wanted to ask of all the things you've ever thrifted and you don't get to say all those fucking pictures oh no that was my answer what's the most haunted thing you've gotten or is or do you think just the pictures I think the pictures for sure they certainly take the cake yeah like they're too they're too obvious right like they're like I'm not even I'm too close to that case and I still know that

those are haunted um what else did I even get I don't remember I feel like nothing else was that haunted um I mean again I wouldn't know I probably just wander around like la la la I feel like there's got a eventually there will be a you know what i got a little like doll trunk and it's really creepy yeah i bet i've never seen a doll trunk and went oh that's not that's not at all intimidating spiritually okay well you did just freeze and i'm a worry that now i've really set the doll into motion and now things are going really i said oh the haunted doll trunk and then your whole computer is just glitched oh shit okay maybe it's on my end um yeah i exact words, my exact words were that it, I'm sure any, any doll trunk I've ever seen is spiritually

intimidating. No, for sure. And it's from, I think, 1895 and it has to like the inner lining and the fabric. And it's like, kind of gross. Wake up, Christine. Are you? I think it's just kind of moldy. So maybe I need to just get it, get that under control. But other than that, I feel like just those pictures are just. If you own anything and it's dated the 1800s. I'm just going to have to assume at this point. You know what I mean? Yeah, even Leona doesn't play with that.

But again, it might be the mold. I'm not really short. Okay. And it might be because it's a doll's trunk from 1895, you know, and even she's not. She doesn't need to wake up. I need to wake up. Okay. That being said, let's get into the stories.

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And the title is your classic, Haunted Thrift Shop. All right. Hey, love it. And Katie says, Hello, Humans and Fur Babies. I love the pod and you keep me entertained and creeped out through many hours of work

and crafting. Here is one of my creepy encounters at the thrift store I used to work at in high school. The thrift store was located on the Air Force base I grew up on and used to be a commander's house before housing was moved to the other side of the base. According to the history of the building, at one point, one of the commander's young daughters died in the house when she was young from an unknown illness. Oh, okay. I worked there sophomore year through senior year of high school, and one day my coworker and I

were in the break room the break room was on the backside of the building far from where any customer could get as we sat at the table in the room eating lunch we saw little girl dark behind the couch in my room in your room yeah no in the room in the room in the room okay absolutely not absolutely not just a little girl dart past that i hate it there's something about the ducking and the darting it's just it's not for me i understand if it was like a five year like even a live five year old would be scared and maybe duck behind a couch. But do all of them duck and hide behind couches? Because I feel like every encounter is something ducking and darting.

Yeah, it's wild to think, like, as a child, if someone just kind of glanced at me, I wouldn't like dart and duck, unless I were doing something like nefarious, but it's just like, why are you hiding? What do you have to hide? I don't like it. Maybe it's the blueprint theory of like you're just catching them playing hide-and-seek or something. You have to hope.

I don't know. And we're just always catching them playing hide-and-seek. I mean, Leona does love a game of sardines. So I feel like if she were to haunt a place, it would be like playing a game like hide and seek, yeah. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Well, uh-huh. Needless to say, we noked the fuck out of there

and we came to find out that was not the only creepy thing going on on that side of the building. There was a man who used to stand in the doorway of the manager's office until they painted the office pink and he never showed up again. Wow, afraid of the binary much. No, maybe he was like, please bring it back to the way I like it, turn it pink. and then maybe it turned pink and yeah i love that we had completely different views of that i was

i know i was like he's finally appeased i'm like he loves pink he loves this stuff i actually hope that's the route like he just feels at peace again yeah that's what i chose to believe you thank you thank you um i hope you guys have a l-o-l happy holidays this is from december 2023 uh thank you Merry Christmas, to you and to yours. They met any in the future because they know better. She knows better than to assume we're going to get to this in a timely fashion. Yeah. Okay, so this is, let's see, from, Megan.

It says, don't hold it against me, L.O.L. And I'm like, too late. We did already. I'm so glad I'm not reading this one. I can't wait to judge, though, you know. Okay, I hope your computer freezes the moment you start talking about Megan. This is called Thrift Sor Ouija Board. Dun, done, done, parentheses.

Love it. Okay, I'm really excited. This was sent in in 2019 because I was like, this is an email instead of a submission form. Megan's probably married with kids at this point. Oh, my God. Megan has probably heard us bully her so many times that she's probably married with kids as if she like couldn't have been four years ago or whatever.

I know, but think of all the time that's happened. She could have had, she could have gotten at the, at the, uh, senior center probably She could have gone to bachelor's Anna Masters. I was going to say, I heard you say that she could be like in the home now. I was saying she could have in the time that she, from the time she wrote this email to now, she could have gotten a bachelors and a master's. Oh, and a PhD, maybe. Maybe, maybe.

If she were like super speedy. I don't know. I don't know. Hello, I've been listening to ATWWD for over one year now and I thought I should finally send you the story. The story didn't happen to me, but to my mother about four or five years ago. ago while she was at work one day. My mom worked at a thrift store and she, oh my God, what if this was the mom? No, man. That doesn't make sense. I was like, oh my God, our first Kotler worked at a thrift store. Are you my mother? It was in high school. Yeah. What's wrong with me? Oh, my God,

it's a girl darting behind the couch. Wait a minute. Okay. Wait. Oh gosh. My mom worked at a thrift store and she would always tell me about funny or odd things people would donate there, but this item was by far the spookiest. My mom was in charge of sorting children's toys and in the sea of one-eyed teddy bears and beat up Barbies. Someone had donated a very old wooden Ouija board. The fact that it's an old carved wooden board makes it worse. I feel like Goodwill's should not take Ouija boards. I feel like, you know what? I wonder if some have that rule. I bet you managers are like no. Certainly like in like Alabama. I'm sure they do or something. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like there are definitely places that are like, nope, not crossing the threshold.

Yeah. Okay, let's see. My mom told me it looked really old and she guessed it was from the 1960s, but wasn't sure how old it really was. Okay, I love that this mom works at a thrift store and is like, cool, I'm taking it home to my child, whereas most people would be like,

get this out of the store. This is me. My mom has a love for the macab and thought it was very cool. Living in a small town in rural South Carolina, her coworkers did not feel the same way. Have you so nailed it with the Alabama would think. I believe it. The rural south. Yeah. Living in a small town in rural South Carolina,

her co-workers did not feel the same way about this item. The manager of the store was mortified by it and refused to sell something so satanic in the store. She snatched the wooden board away from my mom and broke it over her knee and threw it in the truck. That's gangster. That's crazy. It's gangster, but you just released all the fucking demons. That's what I see. That's some Zach Begin shit fully. Yeah, but then all the, like, phantoms come out the inside, you know? I know. But imagine all the bullshit he would say after he cracked it over his knee. Is this the spirit from my kneecap?

Is my knee stronger than any human male kneecap in history of mankind? Oh, gosh. They said it couldn't be broken. Nobody said that, Zach. Okay. The manager then said it set a prayer over the board before going back to whatever it is she was doing. Big mistake. The next day the manager went into her office, which my mom told me she always kept locked.

Like, who's got ghost going to haunt except the woman who's so terrified that she broke the Ouija board in half? Like, of course your office is now going to be haunted. Like, you've just stepped into this role of Zach Begans. 100%. The next day, the manager went to her office, which my mom told me she always kept locked and came running out, yelling at everyone, and asked who'd been in there. Everyone looked around confused because she's the only one who went in there because it's always locked. She's the only one with a keep. Somehow the hand mirror, uh-oh, somehow the hand mirror she kept in her desk had been taken

out and thrown against the wall and smashed into a million pieces. I hate that it's a mirror. I hate that. Nope. She demanded that the person who did this come forward. And the ghost is like, I'm here. I'm right here. I'm inside the mirror.

Oh, yeah, well, she broke its thing. Now it's going to break her thing. Good point, Christine. It's like, eye for an eye. babe like we're both here dude yeah we're just trying to live our lives man i love how it took 30 seconds for this ghost to go into her personal room go snooping through her shit find something and crack it on the ground and just be like this is perfect this will send a message that'll do yeah later on my mom jokingly told her it was probably the angry spirits from the Ouija board that

went to her office and broke her mirror the manager however did not find that amusing ha ha from Megan oh my gosh Megan what a poor manager who then had to like like stay after closing or whatever like lock up all by themselves later well she's the one who did it she's the one who started it she shouldn't have snapped a Ouija board in half under the roof I mean come on oh yeah yeah yeah um you say what m does with love and light with love and light I leave you there with love and light literally every time I go and take Hank on a walk we there's um three different spots that feel eerie and every single time I say goodbye like 20,000 And I'm like, hello, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Yeah. You should bring a spirit box there. No. I'm full of good ideas. I'm telling you, like, Hank probably hears the word goodbye the most out on the street. Because every time we walk past something, it's always haunted. Like his, by the way, his favorite thing to chew, I don't know if this makes him a demon dog or I don't know what. His favorite thing to do when I walk him is there's like a cross where somebody like obviously like passed away.

his favorite thing I do is try to lunge out it and chew on the cross and I'm like get the fuck away from that thing and he's never been successful but it's his he lashes at it every time my god he's like a hellhound and the craziest part is that for a while there wasn't even across there like I think like maybe the last one had like got taken or something oh god really the way the way that your computer the way that you just went and the craziest part is and then it just like completely froze and I went what is it? The craziest part is that the cross wasn't even originally there. I think the original one probably got stolen or something. But he used to go over to that one tree all the time and wouldn't leave it. And then eventually there was a cross there again. That was like a new cross. Oh, well, maybe he knows someone's some. Oh, yeah.

Whoa, that's weird. Wait, yeah, that doesn't even make sense. I was thinking like cemetery. And then I went, wait, nobody's buried there. It's just a memorial, right? Like it's just like a site. Yeah, I feel like he's got like a, he can sense something there. And so now what we've done, because I don't want him to be a fucking cross.

He's like, oh, wow, some really dark, heavy, oppressive, sad energy. Yeah, I'll sit under this tree. Thank you. I'd like to imagine that whoever did pass away there happened to be a dog person. I'm sure there's a much nicer way to look at it. And that seems like what it would be because a dog would not go somewhere that they felt freaked out or like. No, he runs to it. And I feel like this ghost has treats for him or something.

It's probably the cross. And you won't let him have it. He's like, it's a big stick. Of course I want to eat it. It's too big sticks. But no, now every time we walk past, I go, say hi to your friend. And then I go, okay, you can't come home with us. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Yeah, sorry. Anyway. One day, Hank's going to be like, you can come home with us and you're going to forget to say goodbye. No, I'm not going to put that in your head. I am terrified that in his heart, he's inviting whoever. Right, right. Because he's just that open energy.

Just come with me. There's got to be a ghost movie out there where like the pets just keep inviting things in. And you can't figure out why all these ghosts are there. Now, I've never seen Pet Cemetery, but that seems like it could be around that. It's not. But I know. I know. I know.

I like to pretend. Um, hello, everyone. We're back. We took a break. we got we got exhausted of your two stories um they were just so powerful that they kind of knocked us into next wednesday um no we're back the next day we actually uh had internet issues that we blamed on m repeatedly and then i went downstairs and found out that my internet was unplugged and my computer i think had been just like moseying on over to my my iphone hot spot and it's like

it's not even a good hot spot so i don't know how we were even managing to like pull unclear it is it is impressive that hotspot can kind of get you 50% there though that's what i yeah and i kind of like am hesitant to even believe that that's what happened i don't really know but either way i think it was my fault because now it seems like we're back to normal um and so with that said i think we were still in the middle of your story we were so should we just start over and just have sure because i already of course forget it even though it was so powerful it knocked me to next Wednesday. No, I'll remember it the moment I hear it, but I have my brain to live.

Did you say knocked me into the next Wednesday, dad? I did say that earlier too, and you didn't react. So I went, I'm going to say it again. Because that's the kind of joke I do is I just say it again and again until someone can all just say it. After how many times do you realize that someone's just accepting you for who you are? I'd say four. Yeah, four is a good number.

Four feels right. If I get away with it four times, I'm saying it consistently in expecting no remarks. Yeah, exactly. And that's just like, it's the new me and you've signed off on it. You've docu-signed. You've re-signed this. Well, I got you at two. So this is obviously a new little sentence that you're trying out, but I like it.

So keep it up. Thanks. Thanks. Okay. So for everybody, because you didn't hear the first part of this. Oh, yeah, true. We got to cut that. That's probably when the Wi-Fi got the worst.

So who knows what that's about. But, yeah. It would make sense because the story is about dolls. Oh, that's true. And I feel like any time I started shouting, it would like freeze. So, yeah, hopefully we're in the clear now. But I'm ready. Well, this is from a they, them.

You know I love them the most if I'm picking. And they obviously chose this name. I love it. I'm saying obviously, because I've never met anyone with this name. Maybe I'm wrong. But her name is aloe. And I love it. It's such a good name.

Yeah, it's a kick-ass name. We called it soothing. We called it. Smells good. Smells good, refreshing. It's just like a really chill and cool name, Allo. Yeah, which if that's what you're going for, you nailed it immediately. Imagine if they're like trying to be like real rough and tough, you know.

Allo has spikes on it sometimes a little bit. Allo is made of sandpaper. What do you think of? Well, here's what Alas said. The title is don't fucking buy wind up porcelain dolls from both stores. Okay, I recall. That's like rule number one of four stores. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.

So Alo says, hi, Lemon & Crew. I'm a big fan of the podcast. I found you all back at the beginning of quarantine and have been listening ever since but holy shit do I have a story for you. Right now I'm sitting on my bed back facing the wall, still shaking because I just got done hopefully

with this whole thing less than a half an hour ago. Oh yeah, it's a timely. We keep making it not timely. But it's a timely rewind for back to next Wednesday, back to last Wednesday, then another four years. And now we're like getting the live report.

Yes. We were very impressed at how on top of it They were, and then we realized that it was like four score seven years ago or something. Yeah, we were a little bit behind. But we're here now again. So Allo says 12 hours ago, but really it means like half a decade ago. Right. 12 hours ago, I'm making a run to Target and I decide to stop by my local thrift store.

Now I saw a porcelain doll and thought, this looks fucking creepy. I wonder why I feel a bit sick looking at it. Oh. And then our internet cut out. Yeah, no, legit, because I think that is when I. said the remark of like if i if something makes me feel gross like a like a like a like a bad vibe i will not buy it even though i buy all sorts of like crazy shit i feel like the the feeling sick looking at it would be the biggest no for me that's the biggest red flag but i will say your ability to sense

when you shouldn't buy something your ticker is off you should and you're right i keep saying this like so confidently and then i get the internet shut off for no reason so it's like what am i what something's clearly going on that I'm not acknowledging. I'm just saying some of the haunted things you buy because you're like, I have a good feeling and I'm like no one else does. It's literally like a moving box full of photos that I haven't even looked at. And it's like

how could you possibly know? And then M goes, that woman has no eyes. And I'm like, oh, she does it? I thought you, I thought you meant a, I know you meant like a box from PUDX, but I thought you you had a moving box of a little bit of which like, yeah, wait, wait, remember at the beginning of the episode

you like yesterday you asked me what was the like weird ickyest thing i bought and i said it was that box that fucking trunk what if now was the time i said oh i didn't tell you it moves around by itself i'm sorry i thought that was crawls around you hear all the voices muttering to each other like it's a sloat feet yeah no uh that is not quite what i meant even the dibick box uh may she have all the respect she deserves does not move as far as i know um maybe she does but no sorry a moving a cardboard box you haul box that's better you really got me there because at first I was sorry about that first I was like that's the funniest thing she's ever said then I went oh she means a little moving box yeah yeah yeah okay well okay alo felt sick by looking at it and yet their natural

reaction was to buy this fucking dog love it alo says I finish up my order at the thrift store and go into the car where I face time my best friend who was superstitious and intuitive I them the doll, and this is where I noticed that the doll is a fucking wind-up doll. Yeesh. Like every horror movie ever, I fiddle with the winder-upper, and nothing happens. And my best friend, half-jokingly says, watch it start playing music tonight. In middle and just like worst possible time. I mean, it's horror movie 101.

Didn't tell me your best friend's a witch who just conducted this whole situation. Yeah, this feels like you shouldn't have mess. Well, clearly. You shouldn't have messed with, well, okay, obviously. We're well past that, L.O. Sorry. We're at four score seven years late for that. And so am I, frankly.

So I don't know where I think I get off, giving you advice. Anyway. Fast forward about eight hours. It's 11 p.m. I'm on FaceTime again with my best friend and another one of our friends. I'm peacefully scrolling through TikTok when I hear music coming from the corner of my room. I love that the friend was there, though. I do love that.

Now I'm wondering if it's the friend's fault. I'm like, is the friend kind of like causing a problem? Because you did sort of say like, oh, did the friend conduct? And now I'm thinking, wait, they've been there for both instances. That's what I'd say. Yeah. That's what I would say. Shame, shame.

Yeah. Also hearing music from the corner of your room. I think I brought this up yesterday. Maybe I didn't finish my sentence. I don't know where is the creepiest spot to hear music because in your room you'd think is horrific. haul is worse or even in the yard in the garage yeah because you said in the garage but like there's no place where the music is okay unless like inside like even inside even outside there's literally no spot

where any music i don't know if you've ever heard this one it was i think like only a few months ago but again my concept of time is warped i guess um but i remember a jim harold story a campfire story where this person said i think it was jim harold or maybe spooked the podcast i'm not sure but this person kept hearing a birthday card jingle like from an inside of a card like you know how like a birthday card would forget that and they like couldn't find it and it went on for like two days or something and it happened you know on a birthday of a loved one they would pass or something like that and they never fucking found it and they said it just stopped and never happened again and it's like coming from under the sink or somewhere and I remember going like this is weird this is so weird I feel like the ghost was like I got myself a fucking card don't worry thanks a lot I guess because I'm dead you don't buy me cards anymore yeah Yeah, they're $3.99. I get it, you know, maybe not worth expense. Wow, no. Yeah, I just, that reminded me of that, because you're right, like, looking for the source, ooh, I've, like, there's no good place for it to be. And, like, even if it's as obvious as right next to you, or, like, somewhere and you can hear it vaguely in the attic. Like, in the attic. It's like, no matter what, it's bad,

because it's like, well, okay, I don't even, if there's, it's already dark. It's like, I'm just suddenly down, you know. It's time for bed time. Well, Alow says, it's the doll up on the shelf where I placed it, having forgotten to cleanse it first, of course. I freak the fuck out. I start screaming. I feel sick to my stomach. And I explain the situation to my friend and frantically go for my sage. The music is playing this entire time more than I wound it up earlier in the day for sure.

And about three seconds into cleansing it, the music stops. I assume it's over and set it back on the shelf. I go back to my bed terrified trying to come up with a plan for the doll how to get out of it A plan for the doll 12 hours later or 8 hours later. A plan to take it back to goodwill. Yeah.

After doing some general curse tests Okay. How do I do one on Christine? It's too late for that. I look back at the doll again sick to my stomach and I know I'm still fucked. Why? This would be a good time to mention

I practice witchcraft and I know what to do in this situation and I have protection. It'd be real rich for them to go, which, witch, which to their friend because they are actually actively witches. Okay, so that doesn't hold water anymore. It's aloe's own fault

for not telling us that it's a covenant that was actually gathering that night. Very good point. Very good point. I know what to do in this situation and I have protections up for myself and my space so I go over to the doll and a second before I grab it off the shelf it starts playing the music again.

don't take it's like I'm home which like the last thing the doll saw was a hand reaching to crap it and then it was like nope oh I can't stand it I can't I almost start crying as I hold the doll feeling the sickest I have that night I get an old shoe box my eggshells black salts and other herbs and I throw that shit into the back into a box on top of the doll and wrap the doll and black twine binding it to the box the box does not move as far as we know No, good. No clawed feet. Okay. Okay, but like imagine if they hadn't mentioned they were a witch at this point and they just said, you know, I just like wrapped it in black twine and we're like, what? Is that like general knowledge? We have to drag you back to your enclosure now. This is crazy. Like your padded walls. Yeah, I need to know like what class you took on this because they didn't teach me this as cool. Which by the way, I did not know this in witchcraft. I was very unaware of the like, like the random kitchen. ingredients meaning different symbolic things i i had i had heard of egg shells being used all the time but for some reason the the why had never come to me um so for anyone else out there is

because eggshells protect the actual yoke so they are they represent production membrane i had literally no fucking clue so uh had i not learned that myself and then your situation showed up where uh alo was just talking about eggshells all of a sudden i'd be like alo's yeah alo Allo and I both need to have a sit down. Okay. Very good point. Understood. I took my eggshell, yeah, in a shoe box.

I mean, if you, like, out of context, it's like, wait, what? What's happening? Okay. If my grandmother were listening to this, she'd go, hang on, what's happening here? Why are you doing this? Which? Which? All of us need a padded room for sure.

Yeah, precisely. But you're exactly in the right place, Alo. Okay, so we're doing a whole ritual. I'm not about to go outside in the dark to bury this box right now, but I plan to in the morning. I cleansed my, oh, like, and really in real time as they're writing this too, by the way. Oh, right. Right. I cleansed my room thoroughly and placed the doll on the opposite end of my room as my bed. And I'm still shaking, but I know I'm safe for now. And I've hopefully learned my lesson about staying the fuck away from haunted dolls at thrift stores. Also, it sounds like your friends

left you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where happened to those? The coven. A covenless witch all of a sudden you are, I think. They were like, we're actually really busy right now at 11 p.m. I'm so glad you have your eggshells and your twine. You don't eat us. Allo's got the eggshells again. Come on. We've got to go. Love to you all and just don't fucking buy wind up porcelain dolls from thrift stores. You don't got to tell me, Alo. You got to tell Christine though. I'm the one who needs the advice. I'm the one who's needing the advice. I'm consciously aware now that I need the advice. Before, I think I kind of tried to pretend like I was wiser than that, but I'm not. So speaking of which, that's a bring it back to eggshells really quick. But one of the things I wanted to mention that, ever since Allison and I moved in here, we've been doing simmer pots at night. Have you ever done a simmer pot? Yeah, but only like at the holidays. Oh, fun.

No, it's become a bit of like a little thing we do. Since Allison's been gone, I haven't really been doing it. That's like where you put ingredients to like smell the house to like, yeah. The house is scent. Yeah. And alo slash all other witches. I would love your take on this.

First of all, if I'm like doing something, I shouldn't be doing, let me know. But, no, my old nanny that I'm now friends with as adults, she's kind of into like the witchy world and she always does like summer pots. Puppins? Sorry. It just hit on so many levels like she's kind of witchy, you know, she's an old nanny. I'm glad you said that.

No, she sure is. Like there's no doubt in my mind. And then like an old nanny and I thought like Mary Poppins. And then I'm like, this is actually tracking for me. A spoonful of sugar? yeah well no we could really get into that because i love how they made that such a lovely little movie but today mary poppins would absolutely be like a DEI witch or some shit i don't know oh yeah it would let's do it let's make a redo remake so uh no my nanny who when i met her i was a little kid and she

was like 10 years younger than i am now which is horrific wow but uh no she's like now in her 40s and anytime i go home we still hang up but she always puts on a simmer pot anytime i'm in town and it's always got like a lot of intentional meaning to it. She doesn't want to tell me about eggshells and a whole bunch of other ingredients. But um, it, I hope I'm not doing anything wrong by like just putting them on for the vibes. But they're so lovely. Like if you're not doing them, Christine, I like, it's very, it feels up your alley entirely. Yeah.

I feel like it's, it really does. And it fits kind of that like Victorian house vibe. And it was thunderstorming again last night. I didn't tell you, but it was thunderstorming again. And I, I was like, ooh, this is. is so moody and I lit a candle but yeah I hadn't even thought of that that's a great idea also I think because my house is is on the smaller side it pretty much takes over um like the the need of a candle like if you put in the right stuff it like it smells up the house in a really like soothing way which

without being a candle and it's like natural and I also think like part of the thing that kind of annoys me about candles maybe it's just me is like I feel like I get used to the smell so quickly so I feel like with a summer pot you can like change it up and like you know yeah spice it up or like add some different do a different literally spice it up literally spice it up right like um one of the ones that alice and I was like a lot of citrus and then there was um like cinnamon in it I've never done that I've never done a citrus one that sounds lovely I think that's our favorite like great fruit and orange and like orange peel and cinnamon but it like ends up smelling kind of like fall it's like very beautiful. Oh, what the hell? You're going to start a new, like, actual cozy trend here. I mean,

it's probably already a trend on, I know, I saw people doing it on TikTok last year. It's just such a lovely, like, homie thing. I love it. If it's for the vibes. What kind of pot do you use? Just like a random pot. We have like, you know, like, you know, like, you know when like the sets of pots because we got a set forever ago, you know, like that one, like weirdly tiny one, you never know what to use. Oh, a toddler. You, I figured it out. out finally, by the way. I try a little baby. Okay, well, it's also your witchy simmer pot now.

It's a craft mac and cheese from Annie's, or not craft, like whatever, Annie's Mac. I don't know if it fits craft. I assume it's the same volume level, but it's also perfect for a summer pot. See, okay, great. Oh, so you use a little one. Okay, I love it. Well, because we don't really, because then it takes forever for the water to boil down and then if you just want to refill it, you can.

Right. No, it's very wonderful. The one that I always kind of think of as a simmer pot, but it probably, well, it's actually dual purpose because it's like mulled wine and so then it smells like cloves and red wine and then you get to drink it and then you leave the orange peel in it it's really lovely um so it kind of serves dual purposes but you get a ladle and you just drink it you know but that's i know that's not necessarily um that feels like the next step of the witchcraft simmer pot it's like now drink it's now it's it feels like red all of a sudden um but also it feels like the thing i would do and they'd all

turn around and go, you're not supposed to put that in your mouth. Like, you're not supposed to actually drink that. Like, I think that's what I, I would be the party file. I, of the witchy potions that, I mean, I don't even know if this is a potion. Fair point. But of the witchy potions out there, if I were to, like, play witchcraft with you when we were kids. Yeah.

And I was like, drink this. This one's like palatable. It's like cinnamon in orange juice, you know. A nice, zesty water. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I, I, again, I hope I'm not, like, doing anything that's like, you know, I, I don't know enough about witchcraft to know if I should or should not be doing it.

I don't think witchcraft is like a closed practice either. I think it's, you know. It feels like I'm just, it feels like in the world of if it's all about manifesting anyway, it certainly gives me some good vibes. So I highly recommend. Yeah, I'm going to look into that. Do you make the recipes up or do you look them up? My nanny sent me a few of her favorite ones.

Can I be, I think you're a lot of just kind of to me. Yeah. Or I could look them up too. No, no, no. I mean, there are like some of hers that she's kind of made up along the way. But I think realistically, as long as you know, like the symbolism behind each thing, you can throw it all together. I mean, then again, I'm sure there's a witch out there who's like, if you mix two things that are the wrong thing. No, I don't think.

So I think everything's attention. I also think like this has, this is something that's not just witchcraft. Like, people just do this when you, this is what realtors do when they're selling houses. Like, it's a very common thing. Yeah, it's not like just a witch. I just like to live in the world of everything's about witches. I've never even thought of it at. I mean, I love that idea, but I've always just done recipes for like.

Oh, really? I've only, because then I talk to, um, other people in the, in my witchy community in my spooky world. And I've only ever heard of center pots being used for like manifesting certain things. Because then you can write like a little like what you want and you put that in the pot too. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I've never done that. My TikTok was definitely not, it was like the same idea, but it was just like to make your house smell nice. Like that was a little bit of, like, that was only the, like,

ones I ever saw. So that's interesting. I'd not thought of it as like a witchy thing. Anyway, highly recommend. Sorry. Love it. Love it. Love it. Okay. So let's see. I have story number four here and don't open anything yet because it looks like they're out of order, but I think they are, they have photos. So we'll look at those afterward. I haven't not seen them yet. Those will probably be a nice surprise. All right. It's called, oh God, it's called clowning around. I knew I wanted to prolong this Here in this story That's why I kept bringing up the fucking eggshells

Okay you were like good vibes right Good vibes everyone we're on the same page All of a sudden I am an egg shell I'm just walking around in all shell Just to protect myself from this bullshit Stuck your head through one Greetings from the Cold North Hi my name sorry I'm sorry without even

Acknowledging your intro It says hi my name's Maddie she they Greetings from the Cold North Canada eh Oh gosh I I spent hours trying to edit and piece together a timeline for my story, but it's been over the course of a few years, so bear with me. It all started with a clown.

Oh, my God. Amen. That's how this podcast. It's sort of my fucking life. It all started with a clown. I was creeping a thrift store for potential furniture, as us poor kids do, when I stumbled across an absolutely distressed, clearly old, decrepit, and downright terrifying cabinet that looked like a clown.

A cabinet. I have not heard of this. That's upsetting. I have not either, and it sounds upsetting. And I'm assuming that's the photo we're going to get, and I don't want it. Finally, furniture, Christine, doesn't want. No, for the first time. I don't even want the picture of it.

I've never felt this way before. Okay, let's see. It looks like a clown. Naturally, I thought to myself, sold. He would be. Of course. He would be very perfect. Nope, it doesn't say that.

He would be perfect to hold my collection of old cassettes of equally creepiness. After lugging this thing into my lovely home with my very unimpressed roommates, imagine living with this person. Imagine living with me. I, no. Very unimpressed roommates. I, of course, decided this fellow needed a name.

I know, I know. You just scream, no, stop, don't humanize him. Oops. Whoops. This is literally what I did with Lemon. After spending two hours searching old man names on Google, I stumbled across Clarence. I appreciate the alliteration, but I don't want anything else to do with it. Too bad. The name stuck instantly. Clarence has stuck with me through four. Oh, I thought he was going to be gone by morning, like our wind-up stall. But no, he's apparently here through four different rental properties.

Oh, my God. All with varying roommates, who probably all, like, broke. the lease when they saw the clown. I actually have to move in with my partner immediately. I'm moving out of Canada. Bye. Varing roommates. And now two provinces. The first time Clarence had shown me any spirit attached to him was when he would frequently knock object off the wall.

Clarence has a bad habit of doing this if a new person is coming into our space and does not acknowledge him. First of all, he's a Gemini. High maintenance. So fucking high maintenance. God damn it. How many things had to fall before? where you started realizing there was a connection.

Yeah, good point. You know? Good point. Because if you're collecting other creepy shit, too, it's like, I guess you had to know the timeline of it. There's a process of elimination that has to happen. Yeah. Especially across apartments and stuff.

Okay. Oh my gosh. Or if you remove a cassette from him and do not play it. parentheses, these are his rules, not mine. Okay. Girl. Okay. I, hey, we have a coven we want you to call.

And they have eggshells and stuff. This feels like, it feels like it's almost forcing someone to get OCD. It's like, well, I have to play it now that I've taken it off the shelf. I know, I know. It feels like it's like the perfect environment to create, yeah, those like stupid. A breeding ground. Yeah, those like compulsions. Oh my God, Clarence.

God damn it, Clarence, you would be not good for my mental health. Okay. He also, oh, there's more. Sorry. okay so these are his rules not mine my roommates and i also discovered after a long night of drinking that he does not like costumes well that's rich coming from him okay you truly he's like i'm the only one on i'm the clown here yeah what the fuck these are his rules okay we already said that he does not like costumes we placed a paper hat oh he doesn't like to wear costumes oh he's like what mine isn't

good enough yeah maybe that's it or maybe he's like this is my identity it's not a costume you know like maybe he's like this isn't a joke okay and then he knocks over another like cassette tape okay I really hope he can't hear us right now oh my gosh don't say that okay yikes all right we placed a paper hat on him and laughed he quickly started shaking all the art on the wall in front of him like an earthquake yeah but just on the one wall the shaking stopped as soon as the hat came off he also oh no I don't like this sentence I don't even know what it means what and this one's for you he also likes to remind you that he cares what does that need

I don't know I don't need the reminder thank you it's not for me thank you he also likes to remind you that he cares on the I'm not even this bad I'm sorry I'm you have to admit like Tony Soprana would say with a gun to your head of like don't worry I care you want to say how much

I take care of my family yeah like what the fuck take care of you I'm sure he also likes to remind you that he cares. On the night before my birthday, my roommate and I were sitting out on our balcony and could hear a faint piano noise playing Mary had a little lamb. This continued faintly until about 1159 and the second it hit midnight, it switched tunes to happy birthday. Ew, I was just saying that about the song. I, I go. Yikes. Thank you, Clarence. Bye. Thank you. Yeah, Clarence, I get it. Clarence has caused my girlfriend numerous nosebleeds after she met him for the

first few months. She doesn't care, babe. It's like you're explaining a toxic boyfriend to us. He does not care. It's like, well, he's saying happy birthday on my birthday, but he gives me bloody noses. For one minute. It's like, girl, get him out of here. The bar is so low with Clarence.

Clarence has caused my girlfriend numerous nosebleeds after she met him for the first few months. She's still with me, guys. Talk about initiation. Oh, my God. I can't believe that. She's waiting for the day you go on a long vacation. Yeah, yeah.

You better put that thing under lock. key or it might disappear uh okay play a da da da da da da so for the first few months played the netflix sound loud on our tv even when the tv was on mute and unplugged just just the other night when i was listening to your podcast don't do that anymore around clarence i don't even knowing about this what i'm saying right now hi clarence we love you you look really nice stay there it's not a costume M. Your uniform. Thank you. Okay, just the other night when I was listening to your podcast, my phone went missing for 30 minutes. Oh, fuck, it's too late. We're too late. He's like, turned the shit off. My phone went missing for 30 minutes, and I found it in our running dryer. He hates us.

Clarence hates us. Okay, abort mission. I am quitting the show. Clarence hates me, and I've never been so scared of my life. It makes me really mad that Maddie isn't telling us what we were talking about. I'm screaming right now. What if we were talking about clowns or something? I mean, I'm so nervous. Okay. All right. All right, Maddie, here we go.

I'm really mad at you right now. Okay. I never actually loaded a person in my life. Just the other night when I was listening about me. I found it in our running dryer. I could go on all night, but I'll end it here with one last thought. He's all tricks with no harm done. Okay.

I guess you could say he's kind of a. clown we've never seen you're delusional mattie we've never seen if we were all at the bar together christina and i would be pointing and laughing this is no we would be fucking surrounding you and being like we have so many questions like can we come to your house i would be texting alo and i'd be like where are the eggshells give me a cross whatever i need christine's dragging me to this haunted clown help um i could go on all night yeah okay so he's a clown we've never seen another one like him and I've attached a picture of him for you guys. Oh, good. I have one more story. I swear, it's a short one. I was making my niece lunch and realized she was talking to someone under the

table. Oh my God. The timer on my phone went off and my niece squealed and said under the table, did you call her? I finally asked, who are you talking to? And she said, a friend. I said, who's your friend? I'm so scared right now. That's not your friend. Yeah, who I said, who's your friend? And she responded, not mine, yours. All the hair on my arm stood up. And of course, I proceeded to cry. Oh, oh, this is a sad one. It's not about. the clown. I thought this was again about Clarence. I thought Clarence was under the table. Oh my God. I did too. I really, really did because also he's lurking in the tiny little attachment picture at the bottom of his page and it's like haunting because I can't see him full size yet. Okay. Um, sorry. So

she said, did you call her? I finally asked you, oh, the timer on the phone went off. My niece squealed and said under the table. Did you call her? I finally asked who you talking to? She said, a friend. I said, who's your friend? And she responded, not mine, yours. All the hair on my arm stood up. And of course I proceeded to cry. I'd lost one of my best friends to drug addiction three years ago. And this Christmas was the first time I've been home since. My niece then came up to me hugging me around the leg. I'm going to cry. And said, Auntie, your friend says they're okay and you will be too. Oh. That's cute. That is. It was the best Christmas present I could have asked for. Thank you for reading all my gibberish. I hope you enjoyed it. I have 100 more. The fact that the phone,

stay thirsty, Maddie. The fact that the phone timer went off by itself and then it said, oh, did you call her? Yeah. Like, did you call her? I also like that the niece like clocked that immediately. She was like, oh, I heard a little beat. That must have been you. Like it couldn't be anything else. I heard that.

Okay, now open the photo. Oh, my Christ in heaven. I absolutely would have bought this. I'm so full of shit. I actually would have also bought this. Yeah, right? I think now looking at him, I get a different idea of what he is. I especially would have bought him because he truly is made for tape cassettes.

Like he's built two size for tape cassettes. it's um he could have been like a little bookshelf or something but really nothing fits in there better than tape cassette so i think also like somebody clearly took a like a tape cassette thing and then like built this creation maybe yeah it's like it's a weird shaped shelf for anything that isn't tiny yeah it's like a narrow tall and then it has like this like vintage clown head on it i mean honestly it sounds terrible but i think i really would buy it i would too and you can tell the little button on his uniform when you when you turn it is what closes the door that's i mean it's i i would have given him a bath like he looks like maybe he wants to be like repainted you know what i mean

i think maybe the paint needs to be redone that's the vibe i'm getting also am no listen i don't want to tell you what to do mattie because this is your friend and i'm being i'm being i'm getting nosy after we said we wanted nothing to do with here no no no i want something to do with clarence all of a sudden here put the phoenix clarence if you if you want a bath and a paint job um It'll, the outfit will look exactly the same. Maybe just like a new coat of color. So you just look brand new and fresh. Then move something on the counter.

If you don't want to be touched at all, then put us back in the dryer. Good. And other than that, we, we, we, goodbye. Okay, now open this one for open, because that's with the cassette's inside it. And you're right, it's like perfect. Oh, yeah, that's the one I clicked by that. Oh, sorry. I click that one first.

That's how. Gotcha. And then I was like, how do you know the exact dimensions of a cassette tape? And now I'm like, oh, I see you already seen this image. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, Clarence, we wish you the best. Please don't.

I'm sorry that. And also, Maddie, I'm sorry that we just shit on you so hard and then went, oh, we for sure get into Clarence. Like, we immediately 180 when we saw a picture. I mean, he's cutesy. I get it. He's like, he's like so strange, but in like a fun way. That's not as like horrifying as it sounded at first. He's cutesy, but I am, I would maybe, I don't know.

Hey, let's do a hole. Okay, good idea. Would you, or in, because now you can do that in a post. If Maddie's okay with us sharing a picture of Clarence and spreading good news about Clarence, if Maddie's okay with that, then maybe we can post a photo and say like, would you, if you saw, obviously, Maddie, no one's coming for Clarence. Clarence, your friend. We're not touching this, okay?

I promise. We're not going to try and take Clarence from you. We would never do that. But my question is, if you saw Clarence, would you have done the same thing and brought him home? Because I think I would have said no, and now I say yes. It's like the thrift store equivalent to like, if you saw him at a bar, would you pick him up? It's like, if you saw him at the thrift store, are you paying for him? Are you taking him home?

I think I would. I think I would do. I think I would realize once we got to my house like, uh, he's a little eerie. I think my first thought would have been to wash him and give him like a new, a facelift. I mean, he's probably been washed. I think he just probably hasn't been, um, paint, repainted. Yeah, I would need him to maybe be a little repainted. Just jush him up, you know, give him a sand, a quick sanding.

Well, let's see if he wants that first. Yeah, you're right, you're right. He's going to move something on the counter if he does want it, right? Yeah, at Maddie's house, don't move anything on my car. Oh, certainly not mine either. Yeah. Um, okay, well, thank you, Maddie, um, and thank you clearance. And goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. We leave you with love and light.

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Nope. That was a thing. You and I got into this big tip about, not even a tip, but we had this like misunderstanding about armchairs. like I said armchair detective or saying and you thought we were requesting stories about armchairs and I was like no like forget we had this big like miscommunication about armchairs and then you were the first person I think to ever say the phrase armchair detective around me and then I was like I didn't understand like are you just going to sit in an arm I don't know what I thought but I do remember this conversation remember you really dug your heels in on you want stories about armchairs and so I was like okay what about haunted armchairs and then I think we just settle on armchairs so it sounds like someone really has come through for you for you that's good thank you and i do remember um digging my heels and because i think i was like well when in rome like let's just see what's going on here on the armchair front it's a fair question and it only took a few years to get an answer so that's all right okay well you know what i'm glad

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I do, too. Oh, and then Kendra says, sorry, I forgot to say hi. Anyways, a few months back, my grandma bought a leather couch from a thrift store, and it came with a matching armchair that she didn't want, which I don't understand, because the armchair is always my favorite one. Me too. We brought it to our house to try to say. sell it for her, but it kind of took up residence in our living room instead.

Mom was annoyed, but I liked the look, and I also joked with my mom that it was probably haunted because I tend to think any secondhand item is haunted. Ding, ding, ding, dang. Yeah, sounds familiar. So the chair had been in our house probably a month and a half at a time we started to notice some strange stuff. My dog started acting really weird. We would be sitting on the couch and my dog would sit and stare at the chair like there was

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Yep, probably. They would also do this. The dogs would also do this in one corner of the living room by a coat rack. And at one point, my dog named Megan. I'm sorry. Okay. No comment. Megan would walk the long way around the room to specifically avoid the chair.

Wow. I was probably sitting in that chair. I was going, I'd fucking bargain it, Megan. I can't even with this. Yeah, stay away from me. Stay out of my carpet. Another time my mom was sitting in the chair while we were watching TV and a plant across the room moved and then when we saw one of the healthy leaf stocks get broke.

Oh, and then we saw one of the healthy leaf stocks get broken and fall to the ground. Ew, that doesn't feel good. It was like plucking it. Just like plucking it. Yeah. heck my mom and i noticed that sometimes when we sat in the chair we would smell a man's cologne but this wasn't every time we sat there only occasionally and it was usually when one of us was home alone in my mind i like to think that this ghost is like oh i'm keeping you

company but for us it's like why is a man here like i yeah i'm alone why are you here maybe i'd be like that's nice but cologne feels a little like i don't need cologne in my face right now i'm like it's like what are we going to a steakhouse get out of yeah right exactly the last thing to happen was when I was a house slash cat sitting at this creepy ass mansion filled with dolls of course I will send in that story separately because it was called the Zach Began's haunted museum it was called a room full of clearances and this porcelain wind up I will send in that story separately because me and these dolls had beef but we're friends now anyways I was at the dollhouse overnight and I had the super vivid dream about the chair I was was standing in my living room and I could smell the cologne again and I look over at the chair and there's a man standing in front of it. He's dressed in 60s or 70s, uh, white colored clothing and he had a little fedora on and he was older like maybe 70. He was tall and thin and we just stared at each other for literally a few minutes and then he sat down and

disappeared. Whoa. So I texted my mom when I woke up that I saw the spirit of the guy who was attached to the chair and women on my mom's side of the family are weirdly sensitive to spirit. stuff and most communication comes from our dreams but we sometimes have those really weird gut feelings i have some pretty wild stories of my mom predicting people's deaths but again i'll send that in separately she said i fucking knew it was haunted it's out of here and she had it sold in less than a week um nothing weird has happened since anywho that's my armchair story love you all and thank you for getting me through nursing school wow wow okay listen that's crazy And also the idea that, like, it just blows my mind that you had to be away from the house to have the dream that clarified what was going on with the chair.

It's like you had to leave the property. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. So let it air out. Yeah. It's almost like you got clarity when you, like, went away from it, which is interesting to me. A P.S. from Kendra is that Kendra was at the San Francisco show where we introduced Lemon for the first time.

Oh, for God's sake. That was quite, talk about a turning point in our lives. Yeah. Wow. You witnessed a miracle that day. No. That's what I would say. That's what I would say. Well, thank you so much. We've only got, I think, one story left. This is the last one. Yeah. This is from Ginny, she, her, and it's called The Day My Dreams became Reality.

Ooh. Hello, I want to begin this with just saying how much I enjoy the podcast and the banter between the two of you. Y'all make work a little less stressful and the ride to work a little less lonely. I was fortunate enough to attend the wrong. Ali live show and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. Technical difficulties and all. Oh boy. Was that the one where your mom was there and there was that Q&A?

That sounds right. Or was that Charlotte? I don't remember. It was a North Carolina show. Yeah. I don't remember which one. I mean, technical difficulties. We were on like 90 minutes late.

If that's the show you were, you went to, I'm so sorry. I hope you too enjoyed the little crocheted ghosties. I still have mine actually. He's over there. I gave y'all. Anyhow, I know that is not what you want to hear about. So, on to the story. I've always been plagued slash gifted with very realistic dreams.

Not every dream I have has this aspect to it, but I learned at a very young age to pay attention to the ones that did. Ooh. Doesn't that make you think it's like a Darwinian thing? Sorry, that's like such a wild side note. But like the idea that like over time people keep this ability and it's like passed along through generations, you know, like to have these kind of prophetic dreams and

stuff. In my mind, by definition, it would be. a survival instinct, like a tactic to, like, be able to know in advance when things happen or to have like that spidey sense. But, um, but I guess it's not, I guess it's not important enough that we have literally weeded through people until we only have that trait left. Right, right, right, right, right. Or maybe it is there, but it's just dormant. Hmm. Yeah, some people just aren't stretching the muscle. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Interesting. Okay. Uh, not every dream.

I have has this aspect I learned at a very young age to pay attention to the ones that did. If I could physically touch, feel, smell, here, or taste things in the dream, it was important. I've woken up from many a dream with scratches and bruising in exact places as I was injured in dreams. Probably about 10-ish years ago, I began having a recurring dream. In this dream, I would be driving into town and pass a water tower on the left that was made to look like a lighthouse. Driving into town, I would go a little ways and pull up to a small cottage-style two-story house. There was a front porch with a window in the center up top with white curtains in the window. I would pull into the driveway, which was on the left of the house.

I always entered the house through the side door. Inside was a thrift store of sorts. Every surface had space was filled with a wild menagerie of collectibles and things. Stuff hung from the ceiling in baskets and nets in haphazardly, half-hazard fashion. Plosets spilled their contents into the surrounding areas. There was an endless sea of things to touch and interact with. I would walk around the house slash door for a while before growing bored and deciding to leave. The checkout was at the front of the house by the front door. I never bought anything

and usually never saw another person in the store. I would always exit through the front of the house and would wake up as I was exiting the town. Normally the weather in town was absolutely beautiful. The sky would be cloudless and blue and you could feel the breeze and smell the salt of the ocean. Why would you ever come back? I'm so sorry. I know. I know. I'd be like, take me back to dreamland and like wandering through a thrift store with not a care in the world I mean it sounds like a dream dream I mean it is a dream I guess yeah uh okay I was driving a da da da normally it was the sky blue salt to the ocean there was only one time the dream changed I was going through a difficult time and this time as I was driving into town it was

as if I was driving into a hurricane the wind was whipping around my car and the storm was raging I still entered the house the same way. Ooh, this gives me chills. I still entered the house the same way, but when I walked in, there were two people I knew already there. They milled around for a bit, then said they needed to leave.

I proceeded to do my, oh my God, I have such chills. I proceeded to do my normal thing, and when I left through the front door, it was as if the storm had never happened. There was not even a puddle on the ground. Fast forward to me telling my now husband about this dream four years ago.

So this is a recurring dream that started 10 years ago. years ago, she's telling her husband about it. He is very inquisitive and starts Googling water towers that look like lighthouses. This is the kind of person I need analyzing my dreams. Thank you. I was paying him no mind because in my mind, it's a silly dream. It does exist. Suddenly, he turns to me and says, do you have any connection to Cape Charles Virginia? As he is asking me this, he turns his laptop towards me and there staring me in the face is the water tower from my dream. Shut up. That's so weird. Oh, my God.

I felt all the blood rushed out of my face and disbelief. I assured him I have no connection that I'm aware of to this town. Oh, my God, that's so creepy. Hmm. A few months later, on the way home from his yearly birthday vacation in July, we made a pit stop in Cape Charles. Sure enough, as you enter the town, the water tower is to your left. I can tell him, I have such chills right now.

I can tell him every turn to take and lead him straight to the house. It is now a private residence, and I could find no record online of it ever being any anything but that. Oh, can you send me the address and I'll do some Googling? And also, like, I would have just straight up knocked on the door and been like, I need to come in. You don't understand. I would be way too conflict-averse and scared, but I would ask you to do it for me. Anytime there's a house that I've got like a memory attached to, I'll knock on the door and ask if I can walk in. Wow. I have recurring dreams of your house that you're a hoarder. Is this true? No, but if you left, at least left a note on the door and then like your number so that they could

like reach out to you maybe. Something. But man, like, maybe. Maybe. amazing it's it's like you were not lucid dream but like astral projecting to a different time it's so weird or or person like maybe you were acting out like a life as this person who lived there or something and you were like oh no but if it was a store back it maybe it was like a I would also be curious to see like what hurricanes have passed through that area oh interesting because then you could figure out time a year you know holy shit dude this is really crazy okay um a few months later on my home yeah we made a pit stop sure enough it's now private residence i could find no record of it being anything but that i could not shake the eerie feeling that enveloped my body the entire time we were there though and i begged to leave as soon as we passed the water tower again i felt at ease oh this is so creepy dude i don't think i noticed that it was like a like a negative feeling i thought this was like a you're excited to finally see it i don't think i got that vibe either until until now um which is a bummer that because you wouldn't have probably known yeah until you got there wow you were

gonna feel ooh that's so chilling i wonder if you got like too close to something too close to the case yeah too close to the case so yeah this is how i ended up in the town of my dreams that's really weird like i wonder if you're just like living out somebody else's like astro projecting to someone else's like daily uh i don't know it's weird though with the shopping in the store anyway and also like the two people that you happen to know were in the dream i'd be like do they remember that dream And did they bring the hurricane? Like, is that the symbolism? Like, they were the, they were the, I mean, it sounds like she was having a she, right?

A tough time. Yep, she, yeah. It sounds like she was having, like, a good time visiting this place often until this one bad day. Yeah, and that energy came back. I have a lot of questions, Jenny. Call me back. Me too. Via email.

Okay, so, well, let's see when this was sends, because I don't even know the answer to that. 2023. Okay, there's a chance Ginny's still with us. I mean, again, with the podcast, I'm so sorry. Every time I say that, it sounds so bad. I mean, with us listening. Yes, I know. But also don't stop saying it.

Okay, thanks. All right. So let's see. Last thing here. So, yeah, that is how I ended up in the town of my dreams. I can thankfully say I have not dreamt of the town since. Weird. Once again, thank you, too, for what you do.

I hope I can come see all again the next time you visit North Carolina. Wow. What a tale. That's wild. That is. You should ask your family if there's any. maybe you have already any connection like to that town or something i don't know i'm going to look at cape charles lighthouse water tower no i i don't think you even know where cape charles is

cape charles to fredericksburg now i'm's going to do like a we're gonna we're on the case i literally like went to college near cape charles i can't believe i didn't know that oh maybe it was your did you ever go to a weird little thrift store inside someone's house no oh it oh it oh Oh, whoa, whoa. It's on a, um, you know, a lot of maps in, you know, maps. No, I don't. There's a, there's a chunk of Virginia that always gets kind of left behind because it's actually an island.

It's, it's, it's, I think it's over on the island. Oh, okay. I'm looking at it. What is it called? Cape Charles? Cape Charles. It looks like, yeah. I typed in Cape James.

What am I doing? It's in the, um, Chesapeake Bay. The town water tower. That's so creepy. um i don't know about this this is creeping me out and that water tower looks not like how i pictured it so it's like if that's exactly what it looked like in your dream that's very weird you know what i mean like i was picturing like a red and white tower and it looks nothing like that so if it's like identical to the one in your dream that's like so it's it actually looks like a like a UFO

pretending to be a water tower it looks like a like a twilight zone yeah that is very imposing I feel like if I kept driving past that in my dreams, it would feel scary. It would feel mean. Like it meant something, right? And the fact that they said, she said like, oh, you could touch everything. But she said, like, tactile dreams were the ones where she knew they meant something. They were important. Like, pay attention. And the fact that you had it over and over again usually means your psyche is trying to tell you something.

But I don't know what that would be. Yeah. And that's not a water tower you mistake for something else. No, no, no, exactly. Ooh, I have goosebumps, man. Has Zandi been to that one yet? Is he still on his? A great question.

Well, Lighthouse or Lighthouse Trail Quetheel? Well, considering it's not an actual lighthouse, I doubt it. Fair enough. A water tower. Fair enough.

But I'll ask. If he wants bonus points, he's got a water tower he could go see. Wow, that is just really weird. Yeah, that's super, I don't know. I was going to say awful. It feels awful.

Yeah, I don't like the sinister. I don't like how it turned sinister at the end. That was kind of sad. That's scary. Well, happy September, everybody. I'm on Yelp now looking up thrift stores in Cape Charles, Virginia. Newport News. Hey, hey.

Yeah, it's actually like two hours away from me, so it makes sense why it. Even in college, so it makes sense why I didn't know about it. Oh, okay. Anyway, thank you, everyone for sending in your stories. You will have another chance to do it next month for spooky season officially. Oh, I can't wait. That's Leona's birthday. Oh, yeah, so we'll have a little B-Day, a little B-day party.

And we'll be ready for the reason for the season. Leona's four. Well, I meant the ghosts and stuff. Yeah, the Halloween, but also the four-year-old. Yeah, she's scary too. All spooky things. Yes. All right, we will see you next time.

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