And That's Why We Drink - Listener Stories: Vol. 113

Episode Date: March 1, 2026

It’s March which has us asking at what point do we officially feel like it’s the new year? This month’s theme is full moon stories submitted by Patron, B! From terrifying alien encounters to laughing ghosts these stories truly bring the goosecam. And let us know what your favorite moon phase is! …and that’s why we drink!___________________Help your dog live their best life with high-quality food from The Pets Table. Take advantage of this limited time offer: Get 55% off your first box PLUS 10% off your next two at https://ThePetsTable.com and use code drink55.Download SAILY in your app store and use our code DRINK at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase! For further details go to https://saily.com/drink Join millions banking fee-free with Chime and get up to $350 when you sign up at http://chime.com/DRINK .Get 40% off select Lola Blankets products at https://Lolablankets.com by using code DRINK at checkout. Experience the world’s #1 blanket with Lola Blankets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I'm Dr. Christina Chen, a geriatrician at Mayo Clinic, and host of Aging Forward, a podcast highlighting unique topics in geriatric medicine and the science of healthy aging, helping all of us live longer and fuller lives. Whether you're a caregiver for someone or learning how to care for your own health, we're here to help you feel informed, inspired, and empowered. Mayo Clinic's Aging Forward, new episodes every other week, wherever you get your podcasts. Girl, it's March. I know. A sixth done with this year. Thank God. That's a sixth done.

Oh, yeah, okay. Two twelfths. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very nice. Eight weeks, eight out of 52.

Would you say, like, because I feel like there's a point in the year when you realize you're not thinking of the year as like the last year. I feel like I always hit this point where I'm like, oh, it's 2026. It's usually by March. I feel like March is where it starts to really sink in that we're stuck in in this particular time at this particular moment. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. No, 2026. It's starting to feel that way.

I think I'm almost there. So maybe by actual March, because we're obviously recording this in advance. That's right. Yes. We're still in the thick of not understanding our time and place in the universe right now. So bear with us, please, as we read you these listener tales. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you to everybody who wrote something in whenever you chose to. Could have been yesterday. Could have been nine years ago. No, but that's the fun roulette of this particular game we do. We'll never know.

But luckily we did, we reached out to Patreon or to our patrons. I always forget how to actually say that. For a topic request, we had, thank you, Eva, for picking the request. Anyway, the topic this week or this month is Full Moons. Love that. And that was suggested by, oh my gosh, who was it suggested by? B. Thank you.

All right. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scream. No, I couldn't find it in time. Thank you, B. Great topic suggestion. I'm surprised we have not covered full moon stories. I'm shocked.

We haven't done any sort of lunar, because, well, as we record this, yesterday was the new moon. And yesterday signified the start of our entry into the year of the firehorse. And so it was a big astrological time. And I just kept thinking about it. But it never occurred to me to do stories about the moon. That's so fun. Yeah. Do you have a favorite phase of a moon? Yes. Thank you for asking. People don't ask that enough.

I know. If it were a first date, I would ask. I'm really into a waxing give us, is what I'll say. I would be so basic and just say full moon. Oh, I see. Well, I do love a full moon. I think the excitement of the waxing is that it's becoming a full moon. So it's like, ooh, almost any day now. Here comes the full moon. That's fun. I would have really respected that answer if it were a first date. I recently had a... Imagine if it was on that MySpace quiz quiz that we used to take.

You know what? MySpace quiz quiz. I would have been like, this bitch is crazy. I love her. Yeah, this is fucking nuts. No, I had a, I told you I had a friend date, a first friend date recently. Yeah, how did that go? Not good.

And I asked questions like that and I think that's not her vibe. That's okay. Oh, no. Honestly, I think I told you this already. Five minutes in we both knew we did not like each other. So we said awkwardly... Wait, no, you've not told me this. When were not heard?

about this. I feel like I said the whole thing on the podcast at some point, but no, we realized when we last spoke, I believe that you were, you had just committed to the friend date. I don't think I've even heard the aftermath at all. No, I've had a few friend dates recently and a lot of them have gone very, very well and this one was a real stink fest, but neither of us liked each other. So it was fine. And I feel like part of that is like, oh, that feels like, okay, at least you're secure in knowing like, oh, that. And I feel like, okay, at least you're secure in knowing like, oh, that. that's just not for me. Yeah. You know, like it's not like it, because I feel like in your 20s, you're trying to figure it out and you're like forcing friendships or you're like, oh, this is the kind of person on paper. I would, but like if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. I think it was one of those situations where I've never had this before. I'm sure others have and can say that this is a normal feeling.

But we had incredible texting energy for like two weeks before we hung out. That's a real thing. That's a real thing. And then after the dinner, we both ghosted each other. And honestly, the only feeling I had was thank God because I did not want to have to like play this out, you know? No. Wow. Okay. So it's a mutual ghosting. Listen, I'm all mad respect for a mutual ghosting in my humble Gemini flighty opinion. It's because it was mutual. If I was really feeling it, but neither of us were. I knew I could smell it on her that she was not feeling it either. And that's going to just amplify it in your own. You know, it's just going to be like a self-fulfilling prophecy at that point. You're like, okay, we both know what's happening. I was like, I'll never see you again after the center. I'm sorry to hear that. That's a bummer.

I'm not, that's fine. They can't all be winners, you know? And then also, like, when you have something like that, you're like, oh, see, that makes, like, the friends I have made, like, that much more of a legit connection. The other friend dates I've been on, they went so well that I think this one didn't, was fine. It was bound to have a little more. Yeah. Yeah. Then you'd be like, what's going on?

Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, I did, I think one of the reasons she didn't like me is because I asked fuck-ass questions like that. I was like, what's your favorite type of moon? I think she was like, I don't know and don't care. This is not for me. Wow, really? I'm surprised by that. She wasn't quirky. She was like normal. Oh, see, that's not for me either, you know, but I, I wanted the weird, the weirdo. I wanted a weirdo. Anyway, it's okay. You're not weird. I guess if you're listening to this. Congratulations. I guess if you answered with your favorite moon and didn't say, um, that's not for me. Then maybe you and I would be friends. If not, it seems like it's not going to match. But that's okay. That's okay. We learned a lot about each other. I learned you don't have a favorite moon. But I learned you have a favorite moon. But I learned you have a favorite. favorite moon. Thanks. And that's why this works. I'm telling you. I, uh, anyway, that's,

how did we get here? Oh, moons. That's the topic of today. You know, the silly thing is you can just say full moon and you would have been like, that's a great answer, you know, it's not like you have to come up with something crazy, like a waxing gibb. Like you don't need to make a show of it, like a spectacle like I do, you know, about everything. So like, you could just say full moon. And then it's like, okay, that's an open, open way to answer that question. I don't know. What shape is a waxing givis? What does it look like? It's where the... Oh my God, my brain. I'm like trying to...

Because I learned it where with the X and then I think of it as prescription, never mind. It really doesn't make sense when I say it out loud. It's okay. I'm with you. I'm trying. It's where it's getting bigger. It's not waning. It's waxing. Is it like where it's almost a full circle, but there's like a little chip that hasn't seen done yet? It's growing into a full moon. Yeah. Right. Yeah. What's the toenale looking one? That's a crescent. I like her. That's a crescent.

A toenail one is really very, like, mystical, too, I think. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Okay. Good to know. Yeah. Would you like to tell the first story since I. Oh, well, thank you so much.

Man, you are just, like, such a gentleman today. Like, really? I feel like I just keep talking and not shutting the fuck up. No, you're like, what kind of moon do you like? Hey, why don't you go ahead? Oh. It's really, uh, please. Listen, here I go on my red carpet.

Okay. This is from Ryan, he, him. Love that for all of us. The subject of this is everything has a ghost, even the moon. Okay, I love this already so much. This is what I wanted at that dinner, I'm telling you. Yes, exactly. And you know what?

A ghost on a moon? Some people just have no taste, you know? I know. I hope you all are doing fantastic. Your stories have become a lifesaver on my commute to work every day, and I have a story I think you might be interested in. This happened a little under a year ago while I was driving home from grad school. The drive is about three and a half hours and takes me through very rural cornfields of the Midwest. It was the dead of winter and the turn of the new year so the sun was setting

very early in the day. Oh good. And you're in the middle of a fucking cornfield. This is going to go super great. Couldn't be, couldn't start the story better. Couldn't. Yeah, nothing bad, nothing good can happen from here on that. On this specific drive, I was not able to leave until the sun had already set. So the whole drive was going to be in the dark. I had done this drive a good amount of times by now and knew the route by heart, but I still use a navigation app just to be extra cautious, smart. Half an hour into the drive, the night was completely upon me and the moon was shining full and bright.

I could see car lights in front and behind me. I passed a few cars every minute or so, and it felt good knowing there were other people on the road, although ever since I left, I had this strange feeling. When people talk about having strange feelings, they usually say they feel it in their stomach or gut, but this was different. I felt it in my hands. Oh, I've never had that. Have you had that?

I feel a lot of things in my hands, but over the years I've learned, I think it's like a trauma response. A circulation issue. It's a circulation issue. I've got restless leg syndrome. It's all that. In my fingers, yeah. No, I think it's like a trauma response.

So I don't know, but I remember when we first started doing the show, like I would talk about how I would feel like my left arm would start tingling. You were like, you're having a heart attack. See, it's medical, surely. Anyway. Interesting. Okay. But I don't know where we're going with this, so I don't know if that's the same or not.

Okay. If it ends with him in a hospital, then we know. Yeah, that's true. It was circulation issues, yeah. Okay. I felt this in my hands, and the feeling was heavy, like anchors trying to slow me down. I figured I was probably just getting a little tired and focused on driving. While most of the drive is straight through cornfields, there is one area where I have to drive through a patch of trees and over a bridge before taking a hard curve north.

I remember it so well since it is one of the only spots where the road takes such a hard turn. I was approaching the trees and the feeling in my hands became heavier. I kept peering down at them and tried stretching out my fingers to make the feeling go away. Suddenly I was at the turn and had to focus on going around the curve. The trees blocked my view of the sky and any headlights in front or behind me were cut off as well. As I came out of the curve and the last few trickles of trees, I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what it was at first, but I soon looked up at the sky and could not believe what I was seeing.

The moon had grown what seemed like five times its normal size. Oh, my God. So the sky is the moon. You're just in the moon. I'm scared. What is he? Like space traveling? Yeah.

Crazy. That's freaky, dude. Okay. I don't know why that scared me so much. The moon had grown. what seemed like five times its normal size. The color and shape were the same, but its heavy, bright presence sat in the dark sky immovable. I don't know the best way of explaining it, but basically if you took a coin and held it up to the sky at arm's length, you would see the

approximate size of the normal moon, but the moon I was seeing was much larger than that. It was like if you took an apple or baseball and held it up instead of a coin. I also noticed all the car lights behind and in front of me we're gone. Stop. Doesn't that feel like simulation? Like I don't, that's freaky dude. Yeah, I feel like you accidentally got dragged out of your like into like a different. It's like the sim accidentally got picked up and brought to a different house and it's like,

wait a minute. This one's way closer to the moon. Yeah, no, I would be, I would absolutely have a panic attack. Like maybe you ended up on like Mercury for a second, you know. Yeah. Wait, no, that's the wrong. I understood where you were though. I'm so sorry.

I didn't mean that. My, my thought, like, can you astral project outside of Earth? You can, yes. Yikes. Okay. Yeah, you absolutely can. Yuck. No thank you for me.

Yeah, yeah. That's a no dog. Thanks. Anyway. Hey, here we go. Okay, so, yikes. All the lights were gone around. Let's see.

The darkness surrounding me and the endless feels felt somehow darker than night. The only light I had other than the moon was from my headlights and the navigation app lit up on my phone. I peered down at the app and saw that I currently did not have any service. Oh, God, oh, God. This is like a Twilight Zone episode, you know? Like, oh, my God. I like it's like, there's no service in space.

Like, and also, I imagine if your car headlights are on, what is it flashing on? Because it feels like you're so close to the moon that you almost can't even like, like, it would just hit the moon. Like, the lights wouldn't reflect on anything else. Well, five times the moon's normal size, I feel like is like, you see. It takes up your whole vision, no? No, I feel like if it were, well... Like, I guess I'm thinking about, like,

the biggest moon I've ever seen at a normal scale, and then, bop, bop, bop. I still feel like you're, like, driving down the road straight into the moon. Am I a crazy person? Yeah. No, I think, like, I'm picturing it more like it's up in the sky,

but it just appears a lot bigger and closer. I just... I mean, I don't know. Tell me he stopped the car. Is he still driving? I don't know. Girl, turn off the car. Oh, my God.

Maybe. I don't know. Yikes. Okay, let's find out. Let's see. The only light I had, well, but also he's going around this huge curve. Right. In the middle of the night.

The only light I had other than the moon was from my headlights and the navigation app lit up on my phone. I peered down at the app and saw that. Oh, and he also said it's like holding up a baseball. Yeah. So it's like, so like, yeah. So it's, okay. So you could still see other things. But that's freaky, dude.

To see, like, the moon that you see every single day, like, suddenly, I had a nightmare like that once that a planet was coming towards us. I mean, yeah, I would think, like, a meteor crash or something. Is the moon coming to us or are we coming to the moon? Neither one's really good, I think. Okay, the darkness around me. I didn't have any surf. Anyway, the darkness. Speaking in tongues.

Okay. the uh i look it up here down at the phone at the app and so i currently did not have any service and my location had drifted into the middle of the fields okay this is not great so you think about the magnet think about the magnet of the moon and now your magnetism your gravity you're all fucked up in that way like you're that's so creepy dude oh my god oh my gosh okay um i wondered if i should try to get off at the next exit and give myself a moment to figure out what was going on but I realized there were no exits off the road anymore. What?

Okay, so someone in the room, in the control room is like, shit, we got to get him back in the like right timeline. Control all delete every distraction. Yeah, like, yes, Control Z, Control Z, Control Z. Like, don't let him get off the highway. Oh, this is so creepy, dude. Okay. I drove for maybe 15 minutes and still no other cars exits or even poles or buildings.

Oh my God. All I had was the giant moon and the. endless darkness. I was getting worried at this point, could not figure out the best move. Then just as suddenly as before, this heavy darkness was gone. The normal night sky came flooding back in, and my eyes had to adjust. It was blurry for a few moments, and I had to slow down because it was hard to see the road. I blinked frantically for my vision to come back. And when it did, everything was normal again. The feeling in my hands was gone. The lights of other cars flickered around me, and the moon was normal size again. Yuck. The rest of my drive was uneventful, but I was so anxious to get home. I

was too tired by the time I got home to try and figure out what happened. I just needed to get into bed. I looked at the clock and realized it took me way longer to get home than it should have. Yeah. And I feel like the being incredibly tired happens after like being abducted or something. Yeah. Ew. So maybe that was just like a like a like a screen memory that the aliens put in. Like oh, here's your moon. I feel like his car was a was in the middle of getting beamed up and then one of the like supervisors on the UFO is like oh not that one and they put him back down. Like he was like half abducted, you know? It feels like he like has still kind of like the weird like like, like, um, that must

feel really shitty though to get like rejected from an abduction. Like I just know you'd write a whole book about it. You'd be like, I would. I'm going to like a memoir. Yeah. I think I'm going to write one anyway just in case. No, I, but I feel like it's something, something hold him closer to the sky. It feels like.

Yes. But he didn't go full abduction. Yeah. But the fact that he was like for 15 minutes, the moon was. so much closer is so weird too. I don't know. So I'm like, it feels like a screen memory,

you know, which is when they say they abduct you and then they put a memory in, but it's like off. That's what that's called. And you're like, that's weird though. Like I wouldn't, I wouldn't do that or that doesn't make sense.

It's like how they perceive. They just like, oh, here's your moon and your fields. Yeah. And they like the dimensions were off. Yeah. Ooh.

I like how that's like just a default video on their computer. Right. It's like a screensaver or something that they're just like putting you in for a minute. Yeah. Interesting. Yuck. I don't know. Anyway, that feels kind of weird. But okay. The rest of my drive was unfa full. It took a full hour and a half longer than normal, the drive. The next day, my mom told me she tried calling me a few times, but I had no notifications of anyone calling me during the drive. Now with more energy, I decided to try and figure out what happened. I could not come up with any good explanation other than my tired imagination somehow getting the better of me.

I searched online through forums to see if others had similar experiences, but nothing was coming up. The last topic I searched for was the current phases of the moon, and I was terrified when I saw the search results. According to every source last night, the phase was supposedly a new moon, not a full moon. Oh, so you're totally, I feel like you're right about the screensaver nonsense. What the fuck? They're like, here's a moon. Don't ask questions. They didn't even think about, yeah.

Oh, the fact that you find out it wasn't even a full moon that is so sinister. Oh, my God. Totally an image implanted in some ways. That's not like a conspiracy crazy person, but I feel... That's my gut, man. Makes sense to me. If it was a new moon, I should not have been able to see it at all. Yet somehow my whole drive home, I saw a full and bright moon hanging up in the sky. I was super creeped out by this discovery, but did not know what else I could do about it. It did remind me of a story I heard from a friend in college.

Their grandparents live in Arizona about an hour outside of Phoenix. They said their grandparents believed in something called a ghost moon, some type of ethereal cosmic presence that came out during new moons and played tricks on it. I've chills right now. That's my new favorite moon. I'm freaking out. That's a M. Change your answer. And I'm going to hop on the bandwagon because that's kick ass. Yeah. That's really gave me chills and played tricks on anyone going out under the night sky. They said to have seen it twice before. And while I did not want to believe in a folk story, this folk story, I couldn't stop thinking about it for a few days after. It has been about a year since that night happened and I try not to think too much about it even today. But there is one thing I know for certain. Whatever I saw in the sky that night, it was not the moon. Oh my God, thanks for listening, Ryan. Horrific.

That's just terrible. Horvific. Sorry we immediately went alien, but that's just the only thing I could think of. I wonder if full moon is going to accidentally become a little more UFO themed, especially because our next story is alien themed. So I feel like maybe just moon, lunar space, UFO, all kind of fold into each other. Interesting. Okay. I know you've got three pets and I've got one.

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Okay. And Mayor says, I grew up in a rural area of upstate New York near Rome, and we spent a lot of time being little degenerance at a Little League fields about a quarter mile from my house and my cousin's house. My cousin, myself, and other neighborhood kids always felt like something was kind of off there. One time when my cousin and I were 12 to 13, we were chasing each other through the woods, around the Little League field with airsoft guns. The sun was getting lower, so I yelled to my cousin

that we needed to get home and ran out of the woods. I thought he showed up right ahead of me, but he came out of the woods on the opposite side of the field. We were both so confused, like, wasn't I just chasing you through the woods?

And yet they came from different areas. Yuck! He and I both said we were chasing each other, but clearly not because we weren't anywhere near each other. Doppel Ganger ghost children. Yeah, that's not good. That's not good.

I can't stand that. We convinced ourselves that maybe we were both chasing deer or something that we never felt right. But that never felt right because we had grown up in these woods a new difference between four legs and two legs. I would think so. I would think so. Four-legged or two-legged sounds. Sorry. Also probably different amounts of lives.

Also a deer in a person, yeah. About 10 years later, I was at the same Little League field with my then boyfriend. And we were just hanging out in a new relationship, being all cute and gross. And it was a full moon, very bright, and an almost. most cloudless sky, which is rare in upstate New York. We were just bullshitting looking at the stars when we saw someone come out of the woods where there was an entrance to a little trail. It was around midnight, so anyone out and about was likely to be one of our friends.

They looked like our buddy John, so we started shouting, hey, man, hey John, what's up? We didn't get any answer and we're getting a little creeped out. Yuck, yuck. My boyfriend started walking towards the person to see who they were, um, because, because in a rural area, everyone knew each other. And the person still wasn't responding to anything we were saying. And I was kind of freaking out. So I grabbed a big stick and went towards with my boyfriend.

This is like how horror movie. Like I really, this is the most horror movie. Like, don't go over there. But like in the moment you don't, you're like, it's John. And you know what's even creepy about that too? Is that it feels like whatever this creature is grew up with them. Like it's not, it's still not playing like a little kid version of them. It's like it knows their new ages.

Is that make sense? Yuck! Okay, wait. Oh, I see what you're saying. Oh, that's horrible. Because I feel like if 10 years ago, you remember chasing your 10-year younger cousin, and all of a sudden it looks like your friend who's probably the age you are now. Oh, I didn't even put the cousin thing together. It just occurred to me. Okay. Oh, that's bad. That's just gross. That's gross. And if it, so it must have known you were there and known to like to morph into something you would recognize.

and chase after and walk towards. Or maybe since this is a small town and everyone knows everyone, maybe he just picked a random person in town that day. To imitate. And you just happen to recognize the person. Anyway, okay. So we have a big stick. We're going with the boyfriend over.

We have a big stick. Good, good. We were inside the Little League field and the person was on the outside of the fence. We got to about 10 feet away from them and there's this full moon just shining down on all of us. The boyfriend is asking the dude if he's okay. and we get no answer. They had on what looked like khaki shorts and a beige hoodie with the hood up.

They look up and all we see is this dark face with a long, curving nose that almost looks like a beak and enormous black eyes. What? We grab each other totally freaked out thinking what the hell am I looking at? And while we're looking at this,

it changed shape from a human figure with a weird ass face to a signpost. Hey. Hey. So I think I'm religious now. Yeah, I'm upset. I'm upset. Hey, so now every signpost I see in my, in my fucking town, I'm going to be like, I don't recognize you.

I'm going to start tapping it. What about the sign you have in your house? Don't even win me. Just kidding. Like a picket sign on a wooden stake. It literally went from a person to a fucking street sign. And not even a person, like a person to a demon to a street sign. every time I ever hung out with John ever again in my life I'd be like fucking reveal yourself to me

I don't know what's going on reveal yourself John oh my god I know your secrets John it never occurred to me that aliens I mean I in my mind they morph into people that we know or like critters it never occurred to me they would also just turn into like inanimate objects that you would walk right the fuck wudgy energy oh my god I'm gonna turn into a stop post a signpost and like like turn you around and get you all mixed up. Very few stories really freak me out these days. Yeah, that one got you. We freaked the fuck out and got out of there, obviously.

We had to go on part of the trail through the woods to get back out of the car. But the fact that they both saw it, sorry, the fact, like, I feel like one person's brain can turn something into and like scare you and like make you misremember. But like the fact that two people both at the same time were like, that just turned into a signpost. I would be like, oh my God. I would almost and yet still be afraid to like. because like if the boyfriend is someone like I'm dating Allison Allison would find any logical reason to not believe what she just saw I would still be scared to be like you saw that right that thing became a

fucking street sign because she would gaslight the shit out of me so that way she could protect her own sanity yeah I mean a lot of us probably would try to fucking protect her insanity so I feel like I wouldn't even say anything to my own partner I'd be like okay I think I just snapped it and nobody else saw that would you run though yeah I'd run and I'd have to explain myself later I don't know what I would do I don't know what I mean I feel like if there was a person that your that like your partner was talking to and then all of a sudden they were just gone and there was a sign there instead like clearly yeah wow I'll have to check with Allison see what she would do in this situation but that like truly for the rest of time I would first of all where's your phone take a picture take a picture because one day that street sign's not going to be there but then I guess people could say oh yeah they just took the street sign out of the ground I don't fucking know. I don't have no idea what I would do. I'm panicking. I wasn't even there. Honestly, though, and also like the threat that that would pose in the immediate moment,

you probably wouldn't take a picture. You'd probably be like, fuck this. And I wonder, was that like a silent warning of like, you didn't see me stop talking to me? Or could it not even hear us and thought it was just like going? Like, why would it do that in front of you and not say anything? Yeah, what was the point of that? Like, wouldn't you just morph into a bird and fly away? and get out of the situation. Like, why are you turning into something that's just going to stand there in front of our faces and not say anything to us? Maybe it's that thing we all say, like, oh, I want to crawl into a hole and die. Or like, I wish the earth would swallow me up.

And he just, like, turned to do a signpost. She's like, I'd just bury myself right here. I, like, what would have happened if she, like, tapped on the street sign and be like, am I crazy? I thought that was a fucking person for a second. Probably should never hear this fucking story because she'd probably be gonezo. I don't know. Yeah. I'm like, is this thing violent?

Like, was this like your last? warning to step away or like wouldn't have hurt you? I have no idea. I mean, it had like black giant eyes and like a beak nose. I feel like it can't be that lovely. Man. I don't like it at all. We didn't even say word to each other until we were about 10 minutes back into the drive back to our apartment. I know it sounds crazy and unreal, but I have never been so terrified in my life. That's not crazy or unreal. I would also be scared. And I would go to a third place first, like how we went to Denny's. I'd be like, that thing's not following us home. Just trick it.

Because for all you know, his best friend turned into your car. You know what I mean? No, don't say that. Come on. Oh, my God. It would make, that would be the first step into my journey in an institution. Because I'd be like. To question your entire everything around you.

The TV remote when I got home. This microphone. It's an alien. This place was truly weird. There was another time that some of my friends were there late at night and heard freaky noises coming from the woods that scared them so much they climbed on top of the concession stand. Jesus.

And they called my buddy's dad who showed up with a giant flashlight. The dad said he heard the noises like groaning and whispering coming from the woods and was so disturbed he couldn't wait to get out of there. The field is all overgrown now and no one plays there anymore, at least not kids and teenagers anyway. I said trees because my thought was, of course it's overgrown. That's actually the whole family gathering and hiding. They're just all fake trees.

They're just weeds. Wow, that is fucking crazy. I'll never forget you, Mayor. Thank you. I know, right? It's haunting. I wonder what it's, is it just trying to scare you, you know? I'll never stop thinking about that.

I don't think that's even alien. I don't even think that's even alien. I think that's like some sort of shape shifting. Gould. I don't know. Gull, exactly. I don't even know what creature to blame it on. I have to assume alien because it like morphs,

into other things, which for some reason is in the alien category for me, but... I feel like it's very like, holtergeisty, like, trickstery alien behavior, like to doppelganger and, like, not necessarily hurt you, but, like, scare the shit out of you? I don't know. Could it be like a skin walker? Yeah, maybe something like that. That's true. We did already have, like, a folk story in the first story of the moon, the ghost moon, which, by the way, also going to remember that forever. I, yeah, this actually, um... Wow. I would like to know about these woods.

Part of me is so sick and I want to fly to those woods immediately. Like I want to bring my own stop sign or something and just like post it up and be like, oh, this is your buddy. Like I'd do something just to be like, turn into this right now. I'm going to walk away and when I come back there by me two stop signs, you know? I don't know. You're going to tap on it and see what happens. I would leave candy or something. I would try to appease them, but I'd be like, show yourself.

I've heard the rumors. Let's do this. interesting why am i so sick yeah i don't know man i don't know i don't know what's wrong with me like in an overgrown little league field no thank you i don't want to be i don't want to invite whatever fucking energies are swirling around there the fact that it's like this little league field and it's not even used by like it wasn't even used 10 years ago when this happened like clearly the energy is not right you know if like people are not even playing baseball games or like and it's just a bunch of teenagers hanging out like that it's something's off part of me is like was there

something like in their small town infrastructure wise, like, did they get a different field and that's why they don't go there anymore? Where did everyone slowly feel like something was up and they just stopped opting to use it? You know, like I'm also curious about that. Yeah. It feels like it, I mean, which I just read for the first time. So that's why it's on my mind. But like the like parts of the city you don't really go to, but like, you know, the misfit kids hang out there.

Yeah. It just feels very, um, Stephen King to me. Okay, now what do we have here? This is from Katie, she, her. It's called Full Moon Spirit Capturing. Okay. I mean, I'm fascinated by all of this. Okay.

Good evening, Christine, M, Eva, and all little friends. On the last listeners cast, you asked for full moon story. Oh. Oh. Well, then maybe we did this. In November 2020, we asked for full moon stories. Or maybe B just remembered for us, six years. later and was like you guys never did this yeah um we'll see on the last listeners cast you asked

for full moon stories and i thought maybe i'll send mine in with the slim chance it'll end up in an episode so where do i begin i've always had the eye for spirits and things of that variety including but not limited to aura's spirits spirit animals past people and many more i decided one day that i would try and capture the spirit of my dead cat he died the day before in a rock which had called out to me. So, oh, which called out to me. So I found a rock, bathed my crystals, and meditated it in the full moonlight to try and see if I could bring him back. Safe to say, I think it worked. Oh, gosh. This is why I don't mess. Not I'm saying that this person's messing with it, but I know I'm not equipped to handle shit like this. So I would,

I tread with such caution because I know myself. I would slip and do something wrong or say it out loud. 100%. Yeah. Mess it all up. You know. A sneeze. Yeah. Totally. Totally. Okay, so let's see. Safe to say I think it worked. I'd moved my crystals and his rock inside, but didn't have them in my room because I was keeping them close to moon water in the hopes it would do something. After a while, I decided to move them into my room, and that's when things started getting weird. I moved them probably a month after him passing. Oh, okay, so this is now a month later.

Okay. After I moved them into my room, I noticed things happening, which he used to do, like the sound of him licking himself, the sound of him scratching my door, the pressure of him. him at my feet and purring noises when I was drifting off. It was comforting knowing that somehow I had allowed him to stay with me a little bit longer before he decided to go. He had to be put down unexpectedly. So he got to say goodbye properly like he wanted to. Oh, thanks for reading my story.

I hope it gave you some kind of happiness. I have many other stories about encountering spirits of dead loved ones. But that's for another time. Oh, just wanted to add that my 60th birthday was on a full moon, which definitely makes me some kind of a witch. I love that. That is so fun. Thank you, Katie. Very fun. No, that's a much better story than whatever the hell may or maybe read. No, that was very, very sweet. Yeah, it's like a pallet cleanser, for sure. Palet cleanser, great way to put it. And thank you for waiting six years

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Results may vary. See chime.com for details on applicable terms. This is from Sarah who uses she her pronouns. Thank you for normalizing pronouns. And the subject is laughing ghosts and the full Halloween moon. Oh my God. And Sarah says, let's start off by saying my home is over 100 years old. And my guest's room, particularly the closet at the front of my house is where most of the activity occurs.

So as soon as you walk in. Yeah. Right at the door. I regularly smudge my home because things just get weird and after I do, they tend to settle down. My dog also acts weird and chuffs and is on alert and there's activity where he is usually a sleepy loaf. After a while, I noticed that the increase in activity coincided with the moon cycle with the most activity being when the moon was full. Oh my God. That's so cliche.

I fucking love it. I know. It's like, what is this on a, you live on a sound stage or something? Yeah. But this particular story takes place on Halloween of 2020. Oh, bad year. Bye. Energy was crazy.

When the moon was full, blue, and a harvest moon. I remember that. So one could say I was screwed from the get-go. And you're stuck in your house because you're quarantining, I'm sure. Oh, and probably children are showing up unannounced and you haven't even seen people, you know what I mean? Like trick-or-treaters. Oh, God.

That's totally right, Christine. Oh, God. Nothing worse than just children. children appearing at your door. I mean, we can all agree on that. So the week leading up to Halloween slash the full moon, I started hearing stuff in my house that would make me wake up in the middle of the night. This was fairly typical, but usually at this point, I would smudge my home and off I go.

But a friend of mine who sends this stuff was coming over for Halloween, so I left it to see if she noticed anything. I love that. You're like, I'm going to see if this girl has an opinion. That's kind of awesome. I feel like I would do that with you. I'd be like. Yeah, you totally would.

We both would, I think. And I wouldn't be able to pull it off, but I'd mess it up. But yeah, that would be kind of a fun experiment. I'd be waiting nonstop for you to go, what the hell is going on this house? Yeah, you'd be like looking at me a little too intently, I think, and I'd be like, why are you staring at me? Yes. I'd probably notice your energy more than I would notice the energy of the house.

Yeah, I would be the weird activity. As the week continued on things became more and more intense. One night, the sound of someone walking around was so loud and clear that I searched my home for an intruder to find nothing. I mean, and that's so scary because you're like about to call the police. And it's like you'll be, you'll regret not calling the police if someone has broken into your home. Obviously, you know, but you'll regret calling the police if it's a ghost. And like that's also a rough.

I don't know, man. That sucks. Then the next morning as I was getting ready for work, I saw the reflection of a human shadow walk behind me in my window. That's where I draw the line. Absolutely where I draw the line. I'm so lucky and I hope that it stays this way. but like this house came with like no bad vibes, which I love. So good.

But like, um, like I never think that there's a ghost in the house, which is so wonderful. If you're out there and you're keeping quiet, please keep being quiet to keep it up. Keep it up. Um, but if I moved into a house and all of a sudden, you know, every full moon or so, there's just humans walking around, I'd be like, this ain't going to work for me. Like this is not it. It's just, if I start seeing things in mirrors like that is where I absolutely, I think that's where I would freak. Like that's where I would really freak out.

Agreed. And my favorite part is Sarah then said, but I was in such a rush. I just ignored it or tried to ignore it. I'm like, there's no way. I would be sitting in my driveway looking at all my cameras inside my house being like, is it there? Paranoid. Yeah, I would turn paranoid.

So it's Halloween Eve and my friend leaves around 11. I was hanging out on my, I would ask your friend to stay through 3 a.m. I'd be like, what the hell? You're not leaving. Sleep over, bitch. I was hanging. The vibes are weird and I don't care. You're staying here for the rest of the night.

Maybe your friend intentionally left at 11 and was like, this is too fucking crazy. I don't know about this anymore, yeah. I was hanging out of my bed with my dog with the lights on and I start to hear movement in the hallway and kitchen, which was odd because it usually only happens after I've fallen asleep. So this thing's getting cocky. I don't like this. Yeah, it's expanding its own boundaries. As time went on, the noises became louder and after about 20 minutes, the sound of something pacing up and down the hallway outside my bedroom was continuous. The fact that it was building up to that, like, it was like, here's what I want the end result to be pacing outside of this person's bedroom.

And then it has to build gradually over time. Like, that gives me the heave-divis, dude. Like momentum. It's like, it's intelligent. And the dog, by the way, seems to just be goddamn chill. And where is this dog? The array of noises coming from my kitchen and guest room were also increasing, and it was loud. Then all of a sudden, this loud scurrying noise came from under my bed.

ran towards my closet. It sounded like a giant rat. Um, no. My dog started freaking out, thank you. But couldn't find or smell anything. Um, and then 10 minutes later, there was a loud knock on my bedroom door. This is a horror movie. Needless to say, me and my dog had resolved to not sleep that night sitting petrified

in each other's arms. The walking and the loud noises continued. And after an hour finally slowed down, uh, it finally slowed down and came to a stop. I was able to turn out the lights without pooping myself. Why would you even try? I would never, never turn the lights off again. And me and my dog were finally able to fall asleep. The noises picked up in the middle of the night, but I was just trying to sleep because

fuck this. That's crazy because I would have gotten myself a dog-friendly hotel that minute. I don't know. I don't know what I would have done, but I think I would be way too scared to fall sleep. But I don't know. I mean. And I would have climbed out of the window too because who's knocking on my door?

Oh, I would not have gone out the door, I don't think. I imagine in that moment you have keys on you at all moments. Like you don't leave your keys in the living room on a night where you know they're going to be knocking on your door. Oh, I hate this. This is so scary, dude. I'm freaked out. So the morning comes and I immediately smudge my house, but I knew I would need to do it again because something still felt off. But I continued with my morning because I can't stop for every paranormal entity that walks into my life.

Wow. You stand alone, babe. I was like, it would have taken over. If I ever text to Christine, I can't record today. I have to absolutely cleanse my house. That would be well understood, I think. I would be like actually just FaceTime and I'll record it for us. For Patreon.

For the episode, yeah. I was listening to music in my room and on the shitty little speaker and I laughed at something and two seconds later, my exact laugh came through the speaker like an echo. And this is where I drew the line because now it's copying her. Me and my dog got the fuck out of there and went to my mom's for the rest of the weekend. My mom has spent an exorbitant amount of time studying. different facets of spiritualism and I told her what happened. She immediately went on to cleanse my house from afar, having me draw out of the, draw out

the rooms of my house. Even when I was drawing the house, I could feel like whatever was there was influencing me because for the life of me, I could not get the proportions or the layout of my house right. No, it wants you to do it wrong. Oh, God. Weird, especially considering it's a square house. Oh, my God.

Stop. That makes me think, like, it was almost like channeling you and making you draw the original blueprints. Oh, interesting. Because if it refused to let you draw what's currently there, and it usually stays in one part of the room and not like maybe an addition from later. I was thinking it was trying to influence the floor plan so that the mom couldn't cleanse the space where it was hiding. That's worse. Yeah. So it could like, it could stay in the house. Yeah, so it could like have its little creepy corner. Fuck this big time, dude. Once I drew the house, oh my God. Once I drew the house, she's,

said she was able to clear it focusing a lot of time on my guest room. She said it felt okay and that she would check it again at night. Lo and behold, when she checked it that night, she said that activity had drastically picked up. Oh, mom did it wrong. And now she suspected there was a portal in my guest room. Uh-huh. Um, okay. Yeah, because the full moon is opening the portal. Duh. Uh, anyways, happy days. She cleansed the space again and things have been fabulous sense. Wait, that's absolutely what was happening at that fucking baseball field. You're right. They're just like, it's like inviting bad energy.

It's like inviting anyone, but like bad energy can probably get through there and just show up and like scare you and harass you. Sarah, that was a horrible story. I actually, for a moment, forgot about mayor. I, you know what? Wow. Oh my God. That was fast. Wow.

I don't like either of your lives. That sounds really, really scary. Either of your lives. I'm so sorry you have to go through that. I really. Leave us out of it. Please. Please.

Oh my God. I'm really actually kind of creeped out. Okay. There's something about portals that feels so... Oh, and the new moon, I do know is a portal. Or no, no, sorry, eclipse season is a portal, I believe. And we are in an eclipse season right now. Excellent.

I wonder if Sarah's guest room is doing okay. No, no, not in that way. I hope. Yeah, seriously. Imagine Sarah leaves and a new family moves in. They're like, oh, we have children. That old guest room will be the kids room. Oh, my God.

Those kids are going to... A nursery or something? They're going to write to us. one day, I feel like, geez. Wouldn't it be crazy if after all these years, two different people have written about the same location, they just both happen to live there at different times.

That, I wish there was a way to categorize that somehow. I wish, that's so cool. We just have to read everybody's census records, that's all. Yeah, that's easy. Call the government, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, get them on. Hey, Eva, get the county auditor on the phone, on the horn. Okay, this one is from D, pronouns they them and it says wine stealing UFO oh my god christine stole a UFO they better not come to my house because i need that that sounds it sounds like xenon so far wine stealing sure does sure does she's like i'm not drinking it i'm just taking it home with me yeah in my stomach yeah yeah in my stomach hello and that's why we drink family i've been listening to the podcast for years and it kept me sane through some long night shifts.

I never had anything interesting to share, however, until N covered the Meringa and Mirosol abductions. I don't like all this abduction talk. I told you the UFOs and the aliens were going to get involved in this. No, you're totally right. I was talking to my grandma after listening and randomly asked if she believed in aliens since they were on my mind, and I got a very enthusiastic yes as a response and a story to go along with it. So now I'm telling you about how my grandma's brother-in-law got abducted sometime in the mid-80s. Oh, my.

She wasn't present at the abduction, but she witnessed the aftermath firsthand, and it was enough to convince her that aliens are real. Oh, my God. That's crazy that you don't even witness an abduction, but just the symptoms of one. Just the aftermath. Yikes. Okay. Oof. But you know how you hear that when people say, like, oh, as the police officer who interviewed him could tell, like, he was really terrified.

Something was off. Yeah, something was actually wrong. Oh, that gives me the creeps. Okay. My grandma's sister lived and still lived. lives on the outskirts of a small town. One day while my grandma was visiting for the summer, her brother-in-law and a friend of his took the train to the nearest city

to go help a friend with house renovations. They stayed the whole day and only caught the last train home, arriving back in town well past midnight, carrying a bag with two bottles of homemade wine and another with some food that they'd gotten as a thanks for the help. Food and alcohol as a thank you is common practice where I'm from. Okay. And where I'm from, and I love that for all of us.

Same. Now the train stop in that town is actually outside of the town, and there is about a kilometers walk to their house along a road surrounded by grain fields with no street lights on it. They put up lights later, but the 80s didn't care much about that. What happens next is my grandma's retelling of what her brother-in-law explained happened to them. The night was clear, and the moon was not full, but as they walked... Girl, just say it. A second full moon suddenly appeared low in the sky.

in front of them. It started growing bigger. Okay, I'm like, now I'm really good. The sky is a simulation. I kind of believe that like maybe we're not in simulation, but the sky is.

There's got to be something happening here. Don't like, come on people. That's some Truman show shit. Or like the aliens had a big projector. And I think they were trying to cast something on the moon and they missed, you know?

Or it's like their UFO and they're like, we'll just disguise it as a moon. They won't know any better. And it's like, we're not that stupid. Like, we're pretty dumb. You could have put anything else. You could have literally put like a giant burn and we would have been confused. But the moon, I usually know where that is.

They honestly could have put, they could just been a UFO. We would have fell for it. Yeah. Yes, than like the giant moon. That's a good point. It's such a good point. Ew, but like now I'm freaked out that this is something happening multiple times. This is giant moon for showing up.

Oh, my. I don't like this. Oh my. I don't like this one bit. Okay. Um, as they walked a second full moon. I hope we're not freaking out, Ryan. Probably we are.

Um, okay. A second full moon suddenly appeared low in the sky in front of them. It started growing bigger. And again, it's not a full moon, but a full moon appears. They realized it was coming at them at a great speed. This is my dream I had one time. The light got. Tree or nightmare.

I will. Okay, fair point. The light got so bright it hurt to look at, but he couldn't close his eyes. Then he felt something, grab him by the shoulders and pull him up into the light. Last he sees in the light is a big X-like shape. X-like shake. coming into view as he's taken. Next thing he knows,

I wonder if that's like underneath, like the lights. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I don't know. Next thing he knows, he's waking up on the grass, on the side of the road,

covered in sweat, and with his shirt missing, but his vest on and buttoned. See, this is that shit I don't like. I don't like. This is terrible. His friend was on the asphalt in a similar situation,

although I don't know if he was missing any clothes. They were shaken and a little disoriented but managed to get up. The bag of food was scattered some way down the road, while the only thing remaining from the bag with the wine was the bag itself. The bottles were nowhere to be found. The two made their way back home only to discover it was nearly 5 a.m. They had lost about three hours. Oh my God.

Just like Ryan lost an hour and a half. Yeah. On a commute through fields, empty fields. It's also weird that this is very similar to the, oh, well, the moon, like a different image of a moon appeared or like it feels like the same computer file on that, on that last UFO. 100%. It feels like the same memory.

The same screensaver, just like reappearing. Yeah. Oh, God, this gets even creepier. Okay, they lost three hours. They told their story and my grandma's sister didn't believe it, claiming they were making up an excuse for finishing the wine and getting drunk. but my grandma swore as they were completely sober and obviously very distressed. In the morning, the brother-in-law insisted on taking them to where it had happened,

but only a few minutes under the sun made a nasty rash breakout on any exposed skin they had. So they had to go back in. The rash stayed for several days and he was feeling sick the whole time. I think that's like what radiation poisoning? He never spoke about what happened after that first night, claiming he felt like if he did, they'd come back. And I've heard that. Yeah.

I've heard that that like they don't want to bring it up because it's going to draw them back. My fear is more ET based where it's like I would be afraid that the government would come get me. Oh yeah, that too. And now I'm being tested on. But like I would, I feel like if I had a rash, I would love to know what the medical chart said was the, because if it wasn't radiation, if it was like some lotion they put on me or something that is not of this earth. I don't know. That's so creepy. I know, but it's hard to imagine a dude in the 80s going to the doctor and being like, an alien put this on me.

Yeah, right, right. Or like, hey, can you tell me where this rash came from? And hopefully they would be able to, I don't know. I have no idea. But it's all horrifying. The rash stayed for several days. Yeah, he didn't talk about it ever again because he felt like if he did, they'd come back. It was enough for my grandma to become a believer, though.

She and her sister did go to look for the wine. I like that. I love it. They did go to look for the wine eventually, but found nothing. Maybe they were just flung somewhere in the fields, but I like thinking that the aliens developed a taste for homemade red. Thank you so much for reading and thank you for making an amazing podcast. Love Dee. Wow. That's quite a tale.

Shocking. And that's very interesting to... And this is the stuff that like entire movies are based off of. Like this is a like a story you've got here, D. You could sell your right. Sell the rights to a... grandpa, great uncle, brother-in-law, whatever, writes to his story.

I feel like we don't get a lot of people who witnessed, like I feel like we get stories from people who either claim that maybe they had like a mini-abduction happened to them or they lost a lot of time and they don't remember what happened. But it's interesting to get a message from somebody who is like the second rung. Yeah. Like I witnessed someone who was. I would love to hear more stories like that from people of like,

this didn't happen on me, but I saw firsthand how scary this could be. And I witnessed, like, just how real in the aftermath, like how real it was for, yeah, ooh, that's intriguing. I'm, I like that. Yeah, maybe a future topic. We have one last one, and this is very interesting, and I'm nervous to tell this one, because this is apparently a submission from the Crypt is unscripted Poetry Slam. Oh, God.

Okay. Which we did not have a Cryptos Unscripted this year. No, this year we did not. But I'm glad that this will be our little taste of what could have been. This is from River, who uses they then pronounceing normalizing pronouns. And the subject line is crypted poetry slam submission. Love it. And the reason I'm nervous to tell it is because I never know what, like, oh, the rhythm or pattern they want me to say this in.

Yeah, yeah. So. I believe in you. I don't believe in me, but I'm going to just channel it. It'll be bumpy before I figure it out. So anyway, this is called seaweed queen of the underworld. Whoa. I don't know how the full moon plays into this at all.

I can't wait. Through the murky, nope, already messed up. Through the dark murky waters, the kelpie swims. Seweed trailing through her main hooves and fins. The time to feed is ebbing near. The full moon will shine through the skies crystal clear. From the dark seas, she will rise to find a human fool enough to ride. the back of this sleek, beautiful beast

to join past souls, sacrificed for a feast. She hears her victim walking along a path nearby, whistling along, not knowing he's about to die. Oh, God. She runs full tilt through the fields and trees, her seaweed nane whipping in the breeze.

The target is finally in sight. He must be tired. It's nearly night. She slows her gallop to a graceful trot. Despite her power, she's silent in her stalk. When the time is right, she steps into the fading light, and the man stumbles and gasps at such a beautiful sight.

He reaches out his hand to offer his smell, not knowing he's about to be taken to a watery hell. Oh! She offers her back to this doomed stranger, so unaware of the depth of this danger. He climbs on with a thanks and presses his legs into her flanks. But she turns with a buck into the air, and when he grasps her seaweed main hair,

he realizes his horrible fate, a ghoulish death he can't escape. His body has become fused to hers. He feels weak in his vision blurs. The salty seawater hits him like a knife. His final thoughts racing through his life. He thrashes in panic as his lungs begin to fill. Into the hellish realm of the kelpie,

she swims down, down, down with her kill. Whoa. Wow. Very, very good, River. my goodness that's spooky um man i like that we at least got a little a little poetry moment i'm sorry that i had to be the one to tell it but it was very well done i loved it i didn't know i didn't know where we're going it got so dark oh my goodness i uh big fan big fan of uh creative writing because i certainly am not that but um well done everybody thank you everyone for your stories this was a a wonderful way

to start March. See you, see you April. April Fool's episode is next. April Fool's. Yeah, I wonder what that's going to be. I don't know. I don't know. We don't have an idea yet.

But yeah, right in, you can go to and that's where drink.com and there we have story submissions there. Maybe we could do, for April Fool's, we could do, like, if you were pranked by a ghost or something. I think we did that. Did we? Maybe. It sounds like something we did, I'm pretty sure.

But if you have that, please send it in. that's a great story. I mean, it's still a great topic. Sorry, everyone. No, no, no. If we are, but maybe we didn't. But I think those pranks was definitely something we asked for, but it feels like something we've done. Send them in again.

I don't know. No, thank you everybody. And then, as you just said, you can submit things for our website. And that's where we drink.com. Yes. Yep. And, and yeah, that's it. Thank you, everyone.

We'll see you for our regularly scheduled programming every Sunday. and that's why we drink