And That's Why We Drink - Listener Stories: Vol. 120

Episode Date: October 1, 2026

Happy October everyone! Spooky season is officially here, and what better way to ring it in than with a collection of ghost pet stories (thank you to Patron Christine for suggesting!) On the tails of her animal sanctuary wedding, Eva has gathered us up a batch of tales of very good boi ghost dogs, and some haunted holographic kitties that nearly bring us to tears. And can someone tell us WHAT is up with ghosts being seen on walls?? …and that’s why we drink!P.S. CONGRATULATIONS to our wonderful Eva on getting married! We had the best time celebrating with you at the beautiful Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab. To learn more about Best Friends you can visit: https://bestfriends.org/.Want to listen ad-free? Join our Certified Yapper tier for $10/month on Patreon! Ad-free episodes starting at E469 at: http://patreon.com/ATWWDPodcast !___________________Don't get angry, get Orchard this Halloween! Visit https://angryorchard.com/ and use the cider locator to find the Thriller Pack near you.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.Save time and meet great candidates sooner — with ZipRecruiter. Try it FOR FREE at http://ZipRecruiter.com/drink .Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster—join at https://RocketMoney.com/DRINK . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I did not do this intentionally, but I was snuggling with my Lola blanket. I'm so excited because it's all I do want to talk about. So finally, I get a chance. It really is the softest thing. Every time I've ever gone to a store and I've been in like the blanket aisle, you know, you have to touch every single one. And then if you're with somebody, you find the softest one and go, you got to touch this one. Put your hand inside of it. And this one.

Yep. If Lola were on that shelf, I'd be like, let's not even, let's just walk past these other ones. It's true. They are. Moonshine thinks it's his mom. It's a whole thing. He like snuggles into it. You know, it's just the world's number one blankets.

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And when you would touch it, it would go, I thought I was going to lose my mind. And then I remembered it was watchable. So, problem solved. Oh, it's a first day of fall also as we record this. And Lola Blankets just dropped their fall collection. So this is perfect. It's finally cozy.

time. We love Lola Blankets and we think you will too. For a limited time, our listeners can get 40% off select Lola Blanket products with code drink at checkout. Just head to LolaBlankets.com and use code drink to get 40% off your order. After you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and let them know we sent you. Wrap yourself in luxury with Lola Blankets. Well, well, well, it's very fitting. We're recording this on the first day of autumn. The first spooky season day. I'm very excited. Very excited. I am. I'm very excited. I've been waiting for it. And I think we can all agree it's time for a shift in the weather and a shift in the tone to something spooky. And so it is October. And by the way, as this comes out, it's Leona's birthday. I forget every year until we say October 1st. And I go, wait a minute. That's my baby. She's turning five. That's crazy. That's a whole child. That's not a baby anymore at all.

A whole child. One more person, M. M.O. Thee tells me she's not a baby anymore. I'm going to rip their head off. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is a full-fledged kid. Like that's a- It's mostly my neighbor, Ann. And I'm like, if you said that one more time, I will unplug your TV and you can't watch Bravo anymore. And she'll never forgive me. What a threat? That's a true threat. She's actually moving. And I think that might be a part of the reason. Anyway, no, sorry. Anyway, happy birthday, Leona. She's turning five. And this year, instead of the usual giant dramatic party with her. at our house. Blaze and I were like, Leona, what do you want to do this year? And she was like, I want to do it at the trampoline park. And we were like, all righty, easy enough. Honestly, probably the best thing you could have a kid ask for because that will be the best sleep she's ever gotten. It was a dangerous open-ended question we gave her. And you never know, right? And so I was very taken aback. And we were like, well, okay, if that's what you want. And she's stuck to it. And so we like, yeah, that was a lot easier than the usual hullabal.

Did you already have it? No, it's, it happens sometime around. I don't know. I think it's a weekend before. So I think it's like this upcoming. Oh, whoa, whoa. Okay. Sorry, didn't interrupt you. No, no, you're good. But yeah. So anyway, happy birthday, Leona. She's five, which is insane. I mean, that's just a testament to how long we've been even doing this podcast. Like, remember when I literally announced the pregnancy with that insane Zachary Began's video. And it's like, now she's turning, no, I don't remember. I'll barely remember that. I'll be honest. I'll barely remember that. I think I blocked it out. I'll never forget it. In the retirement home, I'm going to go, oh, you know, just, it'll just come back. Well, I watched so many damn clips just to find certain words.

And I would just like, like, you do with the silent footage of the ghost hunts. I would sit there with, like, his voice in my ears just listening for the name. And then I found, like, him say the word Christine. And I was like, I've done it. Truly. I mean, that's. I've cracked the code. I looked really insane. No, I truly, I think back on that, probably more than I actually say out loud. And I, every time I think about it, I go, that had to be such hard work. That had to be so hard. The Maltese bagans. Yeah, well, I had nothing better to do because I was just like pregnant and like COVID, you know?

But yeah, good times. I had to like download special software to get the footage. Okay. I'm not going to go there because I'm going to get it. No, again, must have been so hard. Anyway, very silly, silly stuff. But yeah, so five years old. We're in October.

October's a fun month. We love October. 10-01 is a nice little palindrome. Any Halloween plans? Leona told me she's changing the, we were doing the Pete the Cat cycle where I was, she was grumpy-toed, then Blaze was grumpy-toed, then I was grumpy-toe.

So we kind of did the whole. But so that was a plan, and I thought she was surely not going to stray, and then she said she has an announcement. Oh, shit. Yeah, she wants to be cat rat from Gabby's dollhouse, which is like the funniest thing to me, because it's this, like, cute show

about, like, this girl and her kittens, like her little cat. and cat characters. And then there's like this guy named cat rat who shows up and just like is like takes naps and eats everything and is it's like grumpy toad. Like she picked the character where it's like really. It's like picture like the Olaf, you know, of a show of a kid's show. It's like that.

But she's like the bad guy for like a preschool show. But so she's like, I want to be cat rat. And I was like, you've never made me more happy and proud and thrilled. I don't know who that means I get to be. I mean, could you be the dollhouse or however that show. goes. Just the dollhouse. A walking three-story dollhouse. Can I tell you what Allison did I have thought about being too? Yes, please. There's these competing insurance companies here that have billboards all over the fucking place. And one, her name is Veronica. Veronica's insurance. Everybody

knows her. And she's very famous. I want to make sure that I get the right one. I think it's Veronica. She's very famous for having a German shepherd. And in her billboards for people who, have never lived in L.A. It, when you first move here, once you start noticing her everywhere, it's like a little jarring and it's very funny. She's everywhere. She posts herself on, it's a picture of her on a billboard with her dog, but in every billboard, her and her dog are completely dressed for a different theme. And there's a competing insurance company, which I found out there's a whole bunch of drama.

It's her sister's insurance company named Adriana, I think. Adriana, Adriana. That's the one I'm more familiar with, I think. Because I feel like she does not have the dog. She's all over Glendale. Yeah, I remember hers being everywhere, I think. She really must have, I feel like she started first. Then Veronica was like, I'm going to bring our cute dog into it and like kick your ass.

And then Adrienne was like, oh, shit. But anyway, so everywhere you go, you see the two of them both just posted up in different themes, taking pictures of each other and selling their insurance. And so I was like, Alison, if we could find a way to emulate that there's billboards behind us, one of us could be Adriana and one of us could be Veronica with the German church. I mean, that's a very good niche L.A. What are they, what's the gay Halloween? Yes.

I hate that gay Halloween. What do you mean your Veronica's insurance? What do you mean you're going to be the billboards from the competing attorney billboard injury attorneys? Yeah, it's it's bonkers. I remember there being some lore, but I didn't know it was the sister. I didn't know they were sisters. I found out because of TikTok, someone like spread the news. That's a good costume.

Well, it's, it's one of them. Allison is technically the one that gets to decide the official one because since I was here last year with Hank on my own I picked, but now that she's here, she gets a pick, so we're probably going to flip-flop every year. But I did suggest that on our ride trip, our ride trip, our road trip back from Utah. Yes, yes, yes. By the way, Eva is married. Officially. Officially. Again, not again, but officially, officially as the, Nigeria, the drag queen did the officiating. And it was just like so magical and perfect and wonderful. And I don't know. It was just Congratulations to Eva.

Let's get a little. We're just, it's just I can't believe how long we've known her and we got to see her get married. It was like just so surreal. Talk about an ad for ZipRecruiter, by the way.

Oh my God. I know. There's an ad in this episode for ZipRecruiter. We shouldn't, we should have mentioned it. But yeah, it really is like so full circle.

Oh, my heart. And she really, I knew it would be incredible, but she really out did herself. She freaking nailed it. And like even Ray said during the, during the, speech or whatever like oh or the vows i guess um like oh i eva did everything but the napkins

and like she really i mean the napkins were great but like eva really it was something else man it was it was i mean there were like the cliffside projections alone was what the hell like i've felt like i was in a like some sort of like sci-fi movie it was so it was like digital fireworks on the side of a cliff therapy oh and digital giant booty shaking around while like while the song yeah by yeah as my brother kept saying yeah three times uh was playing um like it and to be there with like everybody and it was it was like really special so it was very good and yeah so much love in the air just so much like joy and like the parents the parents speeches were all hilarious and strange and like perfect it was just all bizarre and funny and like we got to see people we haven't

seen in so long and like eva's friends and family from over the years it was cool it was really cool it was very cool and um it was like a cowboy theme so like half the people were like disco cowboy gay oh yeah half the people were dressed like cowboys like not not no shade but just a like casual cowboy like just try to dress as cowboys possible and some people were like in button ups and it was like such a fun little mix of like to see like how people would actually take the theme seriously and all that totally i remember it was kai and chaps or something oh i don't i don't think i noticed i don't know what chaps are in my mind just a phrase for cowboy pants I think, yeah, the ones that go on the side, I think, yeah.

Okay. I noticed that. That's hilarious. Yeah, the theme, I loved it. It was just like the different bolos, like the different everything. And, oh boy. Their dogs walked, were the ring bearers, their dogs were the ring bearers? Just like.

Their rescue dogs at the rescue sanctuary, at the animal sanctuary. It was at an animal sanctuary. Shout out to best friends, animal sanctuary. It was like so cool. Anyway, I just was like, what a kick-ass wedding. Can I tell you what I did before the wedding, the day of the wedding? Please. Have you heard yet?

No, no, I don't think so, have I? I want to give my stupid phone. Oh, shit, now what? This was an Allison request. Oh, no, oh no. And our social media manager, Megan, we ended up, you know, hanging out a lot over this weekend. Oh, and Megan used to work at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

So that was really cool. So she was like back in her old stomping ground, which was neat. It was really convenient when we had no internet and couldn't get the GPS on. and Megan was like, oh, just turn here. And I was like, that's really great. Thank you for that, yeah. No, I'm going to show you. Allison heard through the grapevine.

You didn't do the sliding thing, did you? Sliding thing. Oh, okay. So one of my friends, Ash, shout out to Ash, who does, who's done a few of my tattoos, like my moth, my moth man and my one-one, one. She was there and she did the flash tattoo. She made a flash tattoo sheet that were like temporary tattoos. And so Ash was there with her dog, Coconut, Young Coconut.

but she posted the next day that she did like sand dune sliding like sledding is that what you did I was there with ash you were there with ash it was me and Allison's plan and then Megan found out and then Ash found out that everyone was that it was a day of the wedding it was a day this was the morning of the wedding I thought she did it after the wedding this was like five hours before the wedding did they not look like the three wise men like this literally looks like they're off to Nazareth what's happening they're gonna find a baby Jesus and tell them they're all gay or something. On, yeah, the three gay magi wandering through the desert. I don't even know if they're all gay.

But it felt like a clear experience. The whole wedding was gay. I think everyone there was gay just by being there. For the day. For the day. Yeah, so this is, this was me and Allison and Megan and Ash in the back. Oh my God. So you went with that because I only saw the video Ash posted and I damned her like,

what the hell is this? And she just wrote, she wrote back, I was scooting. And I was like, you're scouting. I'll let Megan decide. Megan has all these pictures. I'll let her decide. You know what movie this reminds me of, which I saw when I was like seven and I had no idea what was going on is space balls. Mm-hmm.

And I remember them like combing the desert with a giant comb. That looks like what you guys are doing. Like you went to the desert and didn't really understand what you were doing there or why. That's exactly right. Wow. Okay. Nailed it. This was, it looks like Mars.

This is Megan going down. That's her sliding down. That's who? Megan. Megan. Oh, man, go Megan. Holy crap. That looks fun, though. Was it fun? I was like, I wish I'd known about this. This looks like fun. So here's the stupid part because, well, it was, Allison heard about the sand dunes. I already had a rundown as like something I might do with Allison. And then I went, I don't actually. You really obviously want to do this. But right. It would make Allison happy. So I have to do it. It looks fun. Sledding. Well, the pictures are very beautiful. But of course, you don't think about like having to lurch through miles of sand to like up hill.

down. Well, yeah, I mean, I think of it. That's why I wasn't there. Probably my soul would not have attended. I was very stressed about the physical toll that would take on my body. And so Allison and I were talking about it. Megan and Ash, we were seeing next to the first night they had smores at a bonfire situation. And so Allison and I ended up inviting them to come. And then I don't know why I agreed to this except to make my sweetheart happy, but we woke up before eight in the morning to go climb dunes the day of the wedding. But that's your thing, M. You're a early riser on travel days. You've already said that. I, and you know what, Megan, bless Megan, because she now knows a completely different side of me where I, I warned her. I was like, I'm going to be so

grumpy. Welcome. Welcome. Be so grumpy. Um, but it's going to be, uh, your stepchild, your 10 year old stepchild for a few hours until I get enough food in me. But the, I mean, the pictures are worth it. I mean, it was stunning. Stunning. It was amazing. Reminds me of Star Wars. Like, it looks like that. Yeah. Yeah.

And they used to film a bunch of Westerns out there too. Do you like that I referenced space balls before Star Wars? I'm like it looks like space balls. I'm impressed. Well, to answer your question, I did kind of go boarding down. But the one time I went down, the board was not waxed. And so I just sat there and then it would stop halfway and then I'd have to scoot and then it would stop halfway. No, that's like my nightmare.

That would be. And that would be, yeah, that would be what happened to me for sure. The only way, I mean, I could have redone it, but that would have required going back up the hill. And I was like, fuck that. Yeah, no, no, no, no. You don't go back up the hill. Forget it. Forget it.

Unless they have one of those bunny slop things where they pull you up by the little. That would be nice. Anyway, that was, we did that. And then we went home and took a shower, or the hotel and took a shower. And then we went to the wedding. And I would, at the next day, I was like, my legs are killing me. And I couldn't tell if it was because I danced the whole night or because of climbing the dune? Yeah.

There was also. the dunes. A lot of dancing and like, yeah, true. But the dunes, I bet you you don't use those muscles very often to climb sand dunes. I sure don't. Sure don't. No, no, no. Anyway, long-winded thing to say I, did you do anything at in Utah while you were there? Did you just fly in and just head out? No, my brother and I explored a bit. Blaze was home with Leona and my brother and I explored town like Canab, which was cool. And we went to like the little like museums and like the little chotchky shops and kind of bopped around. We went to a few cafes and got lunch. So we just kind explored the town. Did you go to the Rocking Vee Cafe? I thought of you there. No, we went to

Desert Blossom, it was called. Oh, I didn't hear about that. No, we went to the Rocking Vee cafe and I thought I was for sure thinking that you would end up there. It just felt like your vibe. We missed that, but yeah, no, it was great. And then we just went back and like chilled. Just kind of laid low because I knew I knew the dancing would be coming and I needed to rest my poor little legs and not climb through sand dunes. I understand. Well, anyway, sorry to take from all this.

I know you're also on time crunch because you've got... No, no, it's all good. I just have to get the little one unexpectedly today for all good reasons. But yeah, so exciting stuff. We had to talk about it, though. Congratulations, Eva. We're so proud of you.

Oh, and I have to say here, this is where I meant to tell M, or I told M, I need to start this because I, feel so bad. I guess when my brother and I did that last minute episode for the September listeners month or whatever when you were traveling, I guess somehow, which like I haven't even told my brother he's going to freak because this is like his worst nightmare. We started a story and never finished it and then released the episode. And the person commented like, hey, you guys never finished my story. And I was like mortified. And Megan and he doesn't even know. My brother

is going to freak. He's such a Libra. He's going to be like, I didn't, I didn't mean to Anyway, so I'm sorry about that. I'm so sorry to Sylvan Shee They, who submitted this story and we clearly effed it up. So I'm going to read it again. And you did it to a double pronoun or damn. That's crazy. Trust me. It feels intentional.

I've lost sleep. I wouldn't even worry about it. No, when we first opened up the stories for today, Christine was like, I need to explain the first one. And I went, okay. Well, there's like asterisks and stuff. And I was like, don't worry, I've got this. I effed it up. I will take accountability.

Yeah, honestly, I don't know who it was probably me. Like, let's be real. It seems like something I would do. It's fine. We're correcting it now. Who cares? Okay, here we go. We're going to be good.

Hey, Eva, I'm Christine at all. I am Sylvan, like window Sylvan. Silvan. Almost like Sylvan, in my hometown, Sylvan was the SAT prep school. At Sylvan Learning Center? Yes. Oh, yeah. I think that was a national chain, probably.

Okay. Yeah. I love that name, though. It means Woods. Sylvan, it means, really? It's like of the woods and trees. Yeah. Okay. Aquarius, love an Aquarius. And I started listening in October 2025. And as of now, June 2026, I'm up to episode 327. I'm a rural mail carrier and I have your podcast on for 48 plus hour six days a week. By the way, the subject is Appalachian Baby and the entity that is still following me. Okay. Okay. I very recently wrote in

this story, but I was cuddling my four-year-old, born 20 days after your little one. So it's it's birthday months. So this maybe it's meant to be. Happy birthday month, your little one. HPD. And I feel like I didn't portray this story with as much justice as I could have. I finally worked up the courage and motivation to write in about most the about one of the most influential and creepy entities in my life. I've experienced many paranormal events, but this one by far has had the biggest impact. This is a bit longer, but I promise it's worth it. To preface, most the events surrounding this entity happened over many years and it wasn't until the last couple years that I've recognized all of the synchronicity. So let's knuckle, buckle and crack into it.

The story begins of the nightmare I had when I was 15. Seen, I'm standing in my kitchen of my then apartment looking out the window to the back parking lot. My mom was in her car about to leave and shouted up, Find Elizabeth. In normal dream fashion, I knew exactly what that meant and immediately went to leave the kitchen to find Elizabeth. Instead of exiting to what should have been the hallway, I was met with a long, dark staircase leading down to a door surrounded by a red illuminating light. even in my nightmare, I was like, absa fucking luteley not. But when I went to go back in the kitchen, everything was gone.

Nothingness and black. So I was forced to go down the staircase. Oh my God. I remember this already. And I'm like, no wonder I just bailed half of this story. It's only because every time. I'm already scared. I was forced to go down the staircase.

I begrudgingly made my way down to the door. And when I opened it, there was the living room of the apartment. There was no furniture. and only a vent on the floor. In real life, the only vent present in that room was one on the wall connecting to my actual bedroom. All around me was a loud breathing, a red aura, and a small voice progressively getting louder saying,

help me. Oh, no, I won't be doing that. Well, you can't turn around because the kitchen's gone. Oh, yeah. So now you're walled into here. This room. Yep. As the voice echoed around, I knew I had to check the vent.

Oh, my God. I remember my heart beating faster as I made my way to the vent, and with each step, the voice became louder and more intense. When I finally reached the vent, I looked down, saw two beautiful blue eyes, which quickly faded to an ash and black, as everything went silent. Then suddenly the most demonic voice you could imagine, loudly boomed, help me. No! Oh my God. Oh, my God. Was it Zach Begans? Right. It sounds like it. If I picture a demonic voice, you know. It's an immortal portal.

Immortal portal, indeed. That is when I woke up. I was obviously shaken, but vivid dreams and nightmares weren't new to me. Fast forward a few months after this nightmare in real life, my mom and I were getting ready to go somewhere and she'd forgotten her purse. She sent me back up to the apartment to grab it. When I opened my front door, which led to the living room, there sitting on our couch, was a little girl.

Parentheses, remember, real life. Like, we're back in real life. It's not a dream. Okay. She was not there long, but long enough for her image to burn into my memory. She was maybe five years old, had on a blue dress with lace edges, long brown hair and beautiful blue eyes. Uh-oh. I was very startled, but she looked just as startled.

Oh, so it's like, it's like that creepy thing where you run back up to the apartment. They think you're gone. Oh. Oh. No. I was very startled, but she looked just as startled. Then she was gone. I sprinted back down to my mom in a tearful panic, parentheses, no, I didn't grab her purse.

She's like, where the fuck is my purse? God damn it. Did you forget again? God damn it. And rapidly explained what I'd just seen. She was annoyed. And at the time, she was a skeptic and told me to stop being crazy. Small paranormal happenings became normal in my life. But one day I finally got some validation. My cousin was visiting and we were playing with things that we were not equipped to understand at the time. Long story short, shit got real scary and we ended up calling her grandma to come get us. She picked us up and my mom got home frustrated that I left without notifying her. She knew I was with my cousin. So she called their house asking me what the hell.

hell I was doing leaving without telling her. At this point, I was still frantic and terrified and was begging my mom not to stay there. My mom got upset and told me she was going to get me help because I kept seeing things. I felt defeated and to this day I cannot tell you why I said this, but I only responded with, okay mom, but whatever you do, don't go in the closet. I'll die. What do you mean? Then click. Line was dead. Could you imagine that being Leon on the phone with you? Just don't go in the Yes, M. Unfortunately, I can. She's like, I'm cat rat. Don't go in a closet. That's how he talks, by the way. And remember how grumpy toe talked? I'm grumpy toe. Yeah. So they all sound the same. It's just she really likes the vibe, which I'm kind of into the bit. Like she loves a bit and I love a bit, you know, and you love a bit. It really does work. I love the like, I mean, it says a lot about her personality that she keeps aligning herself with like people who are like a little grumpy and love to sleep and eat and be left alone. Correct. Correct. What a dream. And like also charming, you know, because they're like. the counter, the foil to the main character.

And coming names and voices. Yeah. She just has double Libra. She likes to just, and a Leo Moon. She likes to just like be seen for her like, you know, little, uh, social butterfly self. Perfect. Um, cause a little trouble. Okay.

Let's see. I'm not going to stop your story. I promise. Okay. Okay, Sylvan. I'm not. I promise. I'm so sorry.

You're probably having a panic attack because I like talk about something completely different again. Okay. Here we go. Okay. Um, so she, She said, don't go in the closet. Then click.

Line was dead. I assumed my mom was mad and had hung up. But, oh, no, something much more sinister took place. She showed up at my cousin's grandma's house horrified. I thought she was just angry, but it turns out she hadn't hung up the phone. When I told her not to go in the closet, the power from my bedroom to the living room shut off. And the cell phone she was on shut off.

Shut up. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. be like I should have listened to my kid. Oh my God. Yeah. Don't go in the closet. Everything dies. I mean, really. For the cell phone to die too, it's not a landline. That's pretty weird. It's just like, it just sucked all the energy out of the house. Boom. Fucking gross. Fun fact, the only closet in the entire apartments was in my room. And another fun fact, that's where the power breaker box was located. Are you fucking kidding me?

Oh my God. Which is, I don't even know what to make of that. If I'm trying to think like a sinister being. Yeah. It's like you might want, you might want to touch the power box. I don't know. Is it a, I don't even know what to do with that. It's like, well, if you're going to go in the closet, I might as well turn the energy off since you just put it right back on. I don't know.

I don't know. Or is it like, oh, shoot, they know I'm in here and it like exploded the, like the energy. Like, does that, you know what I mean? Like, is it something like a reaction rather than like intentional? You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't know. I guess we'll never know unless I finish the story.

Maybe then we'll know. Okay. If only there was an. If only there was a way for Christine to finish a story. Okay. I felt relieved that my mom now believed me, but then she made me go back on, go back in and turn the power back on by myself because she said I shouldn't have been stirring things up. This mom is so creative. She's like, actually it's your fault. You go fix it. I know I believe you now, but I also don't want to be part of it. Now I fully believe that little girl I saw was Elizabeth. Remember in her dream she heard go get Elizabeth.

And in raking life, her mom said, go get my purse. Oh. So it was like she ran back up in the same kind of storyline. But instead, this time, there was a little girl there. It's almost like it's like a glitch in the matrix. Yeah. Like reality was warped. They crossed over with your dreams somehow.

Yeah. Like things overlapped. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh. Or something's trying to mimic something and just missed the mark or something. Oh, yuck. Also bad.

Since then, I'm now 32. Elizabeth has never left me. past partners in my life tell me I used to say creepy things in my sleep, sleepwalk in very sinister ways. I can only imagine what that means. And even wake up screaming, help her, help her, she's burning. Oh my God. And she said, parentheses, remember the pretty blue eyes going ashen black.

Oh, M.G. I can tell why Sylvan was like, you fucking missed the best part. Yeah, they were like, this actually, you've really ruined everyone's experience. with not finishing this. I'm so sorry. So then honestly, I'm kind of, I know, I'm sure it was like not fun for you to have your story that kind of end up to have to comment it on Instagram and yeah. But I'm really glad that I'm the one hearing this. So like, I'm so glad too. I think it was meant to be brought for October. I do. I mean, now you're in the spooky season listeners episode. So hopefully that. And your birthday and the baby's birthday month, you know, I mean. Ooh, I love it.

Okay. Help her, helper, helper she's burning. Remember the pretty blue eyes going ash and black. I've had dreams involving Elizabeth since as well, but haven't physically seen her. I hadn't had any nightmares or dreams since my son River was born. Happy birthday River. River. Remember your life, man? We're not doing any of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know about this. Until about six months ago. Uh-oh, it's back. I had a nightmare where I was just in a dark space, but felt full of fear. I remember in my nightmare, I just said, it's Elizabeth. She found me. How did the F? Oh, yuck. And also, like, why couldn't she find you for the last six months? Like, What was...

The baby. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Maybe the baby? Maybe the baby had some little protective something. Yeah, like a little bubble. I don't know. Since then, some activity has been storing in my home.

I've been experiencing some health issues, and I just know it's her slash it slash IDK. Wow, that makes me uncomfy. Anyways, that is the most condensed version of events I can give you right now. I've had many more experiences from black eyed kids, aliens, demons, et cetera, but those are for another time. I love you all so much. and you really do bring me joy and comfort in my day-to-day work. Okay, sorry, something just touched the back of my head.

I know. I've, like, something just, like, touched my hair. It's been super neat to hear how our lives lined up in their own ways before I even discovered your podcast. Like, we were pregnant at the same time. I had similar health issues to M as they were discovering them. But anyways, I hope you enjoyed my goose cam story as much as I enjoy listening to both nearly every day.

If you ever want to hear more, yes. Uh-huh. Which, oh, the apartment, they believe is a portal, which makes sense. Makes sense. It's like Elizabeth came in and, like, attached to you, you know? And then like in the dream, like go get Elizabeth and you got Elizabeth when you looked her in the eyes. And now she's with you. Ew.

I mean, the fact that's, you're new West Virginia, baby Sylvan. Sorry, that's what it says at the end. The fact that something was screaming helped me from the very beginning. It's like, was that Elizabeth or something else or was now Elizabeth? Well, they think it's Elizabeth because they said in the vent, they heard the voice coming from there and the eyes were blue and then turned dark. But also it's like then the demonic voice came out. Exactly. pretending, yeah.

Yeah, or like, is Elizabeth, was Elizabeth originally trying to lure you in and then used her real demonic voice? And now she's still only showing up as a little girl. But is it? Because if it's causing health problems and stuff and, like, if in your dream, you're in a dark room and you hear she found me, like, it certainly doesn't sound like she's there to bring you good times. No, no. Creepy.

Oh, my God. Well, I'm sorry, Sylvan, that I effed this up the first time. I don't know why I keep saying, like, my brother's going to feel bad because I'm almost 99.9% of sure this was my bad. I'm sorry, Sylvan, that this is happening to you. Yeah, I am too. On every level. Like on our podcast, in your life that this is happening, all of this sounds rough.

Man. Yeah. And I mean, I've said it before, but like, I wish that we had some sort of like Avengers team that we could like, like we could be Ghostbusters headquarters. I mean, we kind of do like chip coffee, you know. That's true. We've got like a little roster. need to form the team, you know, we need to just like get everybody.

We just need to organize and just be like, who, what region does everybody have? What expertise do you have? Right. Phone tree style. Phone tree. Yeah. Okay. We'll talk. We'll talk. We'll talk. We'll talk. We'll talk. Um, so M and I both don't like to be inconvenienced. And therefore, we like to multitask. We like to do things, uh, simultaneously like eat breakfast on the way to work, which is on our way to the living room or on our way to upstairs. Um, you know, we need, it's, it's, it's good to delegate, right? Like, it's good to use subscriptions or delegate your tasks if you need help. And we all have our own time saving hacks for everyday life. But if you're a business owner, how can you save time hiring? ZipRecruiter, of course. SipRecruiter has a new feature that quickly

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Are we sure? Yes. I read the last line, which was, I don't know how to wrap things up, but much love to you all, your new West Virginia baby, Sylvan. Thank you, Sylvan. And I apologize again, but thank you for letting us share your story. This next story is from Kaylee She Heard. Thank you for normalizing pronouns. And I do see on the second page of this email that there is a very cute dog. So I think a dog's coming our way, especially because the title or the subject line, My Late Soul Dogs Gotcha Day, is the same day as your 500th episode. Wow. Aww. Which we have already recorded our 500. I don't know what order everything goes in, but we did record that and it's a fun one.

It's a really fun one. And Kaylee says to us, Hi, and that's why we drink crew. I was checking my calendar to see when your 500th episode is scheduled to come out, and it happens to be on my soul dog's gotcha day. My baby, my baby beagle boy named Walter. Oh! Shut the fuck up.

Walter. From the very beginning to the very end, we've had Walters throughout this fucking show. Walter's been a part of my family since September 27th, 2014, and he sadly passed away the day before Halloween last year.

This is our first year celebrating his gotcha day without him. And since you're celebrating a more exciting milestone, I have, and have a paranormal podcast, I thought this would be a good time to share some Walter ghost stories. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

What a pallet cleanser from Sylvan. No offense, Sylvan. Also, if you could give him a shout out on the podcast, especially the one that releases on September 27th. I don't know how... We did miss that. We already recorded that. But we'll do this now.

And we love you, Walter. Arfarf. You'll know what it means. No. Sweetie. Sniffies. Sweetie baby. Anyway, Walter was a creature of habit and a 13-ish-year-old rescue dog. He was an absolute curmudgeon.

I love that. He was kind of like cat rat, if you will. I was just thinking that, yes. Yes, totally. He had a schedule and he made sure we followed it to a tea. After dinner, he would go outside in the fenced-in backyard, and if we took too long to let him back in, he would let out a single bark every few seconds until we let him in.

Like an alarm burp. Yeah. You know how the microwave beeps at you? Like, remember me? And it's like, God, damn. I have the kind of fridge where if you leave the door open for, too long. It like, hit a little alarm.

Yeah. Yep. Um, a few nights after he passed, we had just let our other dog in after her after dinner potty break when we heard a single Walter Bark come from outside the door. As if he'd like gone out with her or gone out with the other dog. I want to come back in. I'm going to cry. I like how even in the afterlife, he's like, I can't just walk through the wall.

He's like, I want to remind you, you're still messing this whole part up. You're still messing this part up. I may not be here, but the schedule is still expected. It still maintains, yeah. I went to open the door and obviously he wasn't there, but if his spirit was, it's always welcome. Oh, to open the door and be like, come in, buddy. Another one of Walter's routines was breakfast. Can you tell he was a food guy?

Yes, he was. Yeah, of course. My first alarm would go off half an hour before I fed the dog's breakfast, and Walter's bark would go off a half an hour before that. He really is a creature rabbit. He said, I can smell that alarm from a mile away. Nice. We had a routine. He would walk up to my side of the bed, never my partner's side.

What the fuck? And do his single bark every few seconds. He would do his single bark every few seconds until I got up to feed him. He seemed to understand it's not time yet and would go back to bed for a few extra minutes. Sometimes I could get him to relax by reaching over and petting him and he would roll over so I could pet his tummy. and he always just laid out of reach. Aw. So I'd have to lead out of bed to pet him,

which to feed the purpose of quieting him down to get more sleep. He's like, come with me. Come on. He's like luring you out. Yep, smart. But anyways, maybe a week or so after his passing, my first alarm went off and I swear I heard the sound of his little tipy-tappy toes coming over so he could yell at me about breakfast.

Yell at me. Oh, baby. I reached over leaning out of bed to pet where I knew he would have been laying. and I'd like to think he rolled over for some belly rubs. Oh. My heart. We've lost Christine. Little baby, Walter.

Thanks for reading. I have attached a picture of Walter below. He was truly the best boy, and now the best boy is my guardian angel. And also the inspiration for my new therapy practice I opened in his honor, not so subtle or humble brag. Love and like Kaylee. Happy God today. Please go look at the picture of the Walter. Oh, my gosh.

He's a baby. That little beagle baby. Look at his eyes. He's a little baby. Feed me. Oh. Scroch. Oh, his whole face would be in my mouth.

You know what I mean? Yeah, I want to like scrunch. I want to bite you. Grombs to top of your head. Every now and then I'm like, how public can I be with my curious? Yeah, we good. We good? Are we too far?

Too far. Yeah. Sometimes we'll have to determine. At the dog park, people are something like, you've got to back up. Well, especially when you're wearing your cape. They're probably like, this actually sounds more like Dracula. I'm just like the vampire at the dog park. You're a villain, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, so the next one. Oh, the next one's called my ghost dog. Also, like, synchronicity. Look at the shirt I wore today, which I never wear it recording. It's the one that we got at a live show. It says, Mommy, can we keep him? And it has, like, the three-headed dog.

Yes. Oh, my God. Well, did we ever, I mean, the topic is, we never said it. It's ghost pets. Oh, shit. Well, that, hey, fun fact. that explains it. Sure does.

And we forgot to say it's also, I remember Christine, right? submitted it? Yes. Somebody named Christine, she, her. Not I, but a different Christine. So I'm sorry, Christine. Now we're making you stressed out. You've picked this topic.

Thank you. It was a Patreon pick. Yeah, so spooky pet stories. Thank you so much for picking that. What a perfect little send-off are beginning into spooky season is talking about all of our favorite little familiars. And because we just went to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and like guests brought their dogs and it was like animals galore. So this really is a good like little tail and my ghost dog. It's called. Okay. Maggie. Nope. Maddie sent this in. High to leon. Hi to lemon and

Eva only. Okay. All right. Relax. Relax. I'm Maddie. She her. I've been listening to ATWWD for a yearish now. I think I'm finally almost caught up and wanted to submit my story about my first dog. when I was two, I was bitten by my grandparents' dog. Oh my God. And ended up with 11 stitches in my face. Oh, my God. Yikes. That's a tough terrifying.

That's a toughie. My parents took me to the pet shop a mile away afterwards without their credit card because they said they would not be buying a dog so I could socialize with dogs and not be scared when I got older. That's smart, I think. Obviously, we left with a dog. Oh, that really didn't work at all. It actually worked too well. Yeah, it worked really well.

That's true. Like, well, now we're not afraid of dogs at all. Let's bring your home. Yeah. Now we're, oops, now it's our family member. Obviously, we left with a dog. He was a little Karen Terrier like Toto. I hope I'm saying that right.

And not Toto. The other part. Oh, Sharon. Carrier. I hope Toto is, yeah. I hope that's right. And his name was Duncan. Duncan lived until he was almost 16.

And when we had to put him down, our family was devastated. We were all heartbroken, but little did we know Duncan would be back. You know what? My stepmom had a corgi named Duncan who. who also was a ghost dog, who would, like, show up at our house sometimes. Like, things would... Really? Yeah, like, weird stuff would happen.

Like, things would get... Like, a toy would get dragged across the room. And she goes, there goes, Duncan. And we'd always be like, what the heck? I'd forgotten that completely until I heard the name Duncan. And I was like, that was a corgi my step-mom used to have. I will say, shocking, there was never a ghost bear. There might have been, frankly.

Like, it would have explained... She might be the only one that has a ghost bear story. You know what? It would explain a lot. Yeah. Just, like, tearing the windows open. I feel like she could say, like, oh, I'm just haunted by my pet bear.

It's like, yeah, the bear bottle like catalog from the circus. It's, it's, don't worry. We tried to train him. It didn't work. Mm-hmm. Okay. So, Duncan, after spring break vacation a few weeks later. Okay, a few weeks later, we got our second dog.

Okay, this is hilarious. This family cannot keep it together. I love it. They're like, oh, no more dogs. We just want to look at them. Oops, we've adopted all dogs. I mean, it is kind of like very human. all of us. I mean, I'll do it too. Yeah. We've done it. We've done it. Okay. After spring break a few weeks later,

we got our second dog, Finn, because our house was so empty and weird. I do know that feeling where you're like, there's like a void. On the first anniversary of Duncan's death, Finn would not stop barking at an ottoman in our front window, aka Duncan's place when he was sleeping or watching over his property. Oh my God. Imagine the dog's like, who the hell is that on that pillow right there? Truly, he has no idea that there was a dog before him. Yeah, like, wait a minute. Do you guys see this guy? This is my fucking house. Get out. Yeah. What the hell? Okay. My mom took a video of this and to this day the video gives me chills. No one was there. Nothing was in the window. The dog was just barking at nothing right in that specific spot where Duncan used to lie on the anniversary of his death.

Yeah. A few years later, I graduated college and planned on moving from Buffalo to Charleston, South Carolina. I was miserable at my first job out of college and was talking to my mom in her home office about just going to Charleston applying to see what happens. Her office was right under my parents' bedrooms where both dogs could run back and forth and under the bed. As we were talking, we heard running in what was supposed to be their bedroom. We yelled up the stairs to my brother who saw nothing running around that would cause the noise. We've never had any animals or bugs in my childhood home. The running happened for at least five minutes while my family tried to figure out what it was before it stopped. I think both of these were Duncan coming back to say,

high. I think he still does. We find dimes regularly whenever we're going through hard times. A cardinal started to live in my backyard when I finally moved. Either that or it's my great grandma, but I like to think Duncan is still looking out for us. I've now lived in Charleston for three years with my own Karen Terrier, Violet, like Duncan and a corgi. Sully. Sully. It's weird. Last synchronities. Thanks for an awesome podcast that I can't stop listening to ever. Thank you, Maddie. Thank you, Maddie. Do you have any haunted spooky pet stories, Christine? just those ones about Duncan Oh that Duncan yeah

Yeah sorry yeah My stepmom's dog But other than that no not really do you I don't think anyway I had a childhood dog growing up named Bones And we were buddies And he was around from when I was like four to 14

And when he died I swear for like the first week or two I would always hear his like collar like his like tags jingling whenever but um but then after that I didn't ever see anything again um or hear anything again yeah people say that that you hear like the like clitor clap yes you know what I mean that's like and I do wonder if it was just like psychological like I was used to hearing that like oh well you're probably just like like like filling in the blanks which like you know it's hard to debate that I would say but like like a muscle memory kind of thing

with you I think like that definitely is a is an occurrence oh Yeah, I don't know. I know my stepmom did with all of her witchy stuff, the first Halloween after he died, we did like a whole thing. And she let me be a part of the ritual and all that. And it was very sweet. But yeah, I only remember hearing his tags jingling a few times. Other than that, I haven't had anything. Yeah, I've heard that being a common thing.

I mean, honestly, the creepiest pet ghost stories I've ever had is when we were saying in haunted hotels and, like, I felt like something jumped on the bed. And they say it might have been a cat or something. That's happened to you. I don't think this ever happened to me. That would freak. I mean, I had that weird man sitting at the end of my bed, but I'll take the cat. I was going to say, actually, why am I complaining? Why am I not complaining? I should be complaining. Guess where I was last night on my Rocket Money app. I gathered the courage and I opened it up and they were so nice to me. And they said, can we help you with just a few taps and clicks. And maybe we can check some subscriptions. Maybe we can even help you cancel some unwanted ones. And I said, thank you for being so. welcoming and like non-judgmental rocket money. I appreciate you helping me because I need the help. And yes, they were able to help me cancel a few subscriptions and realize maybe that I was spending too much in certain categories. And it's all part of the part of the learning curve. Rocket money has is and will always be there for me. It feels like a nice friend patting you on the back saying I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. And they totally. What a nice feeling that is. Yeah.

They still come through anyway. It's really nice to just have some like a service on your side to be like, let me save you money. Just stop everything you're doing. Put your phone down. I've got this. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel on wanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. But let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster and join at rocketmoney.com.com slash drink. That's rocketmoney.com slash drink. So Allison had a little get together the other night and she had people in the SpookyZ. I'm still not allowed in there, but she has people coming and doing all there. They were all hanging out in there and they were talking about different ideas of how to finish it up. And the only way that they're going to get through it is drinking a little bit. And Allison was like, I know what you guys should have. We have Halloween themed Angry Orchard in the fridge.

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Our next story comes from Hannah C. And the subject line is, my two-year-old is seeing ghosts. I am proud and half scared shitless. I was like, remember when I kept saying, I wish Leona would say something or she still hasn't really. I am happy for you and disappointed all at the same time. I know, me too. Like, that's how I feel. I'd be like excited and also terrified, you know.

She has done a couple of things, but I've already talked about those where she was like, who's that? And I was like, I don't like this. Yeah. Yeah, it really is a, like, be careful what you wish for. Grass is always greener situation? A hundred. A hundred.

The moment she said, is that daddy? It's way taller than Daddy. I was like, okay, well, actually, actually, I like the way it was before this. Thank you. Yeah, it's like I actually prefer you a little boring, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe let's go back to close-mindedness. Wouldn't that be fun?

You know what? Daddy being a skeptic, all of a sudden is a really neat character quality we should end still. Isn't your DNA part of his? Shouldn't that be more present? And also like, yeah, yeah, yeah, the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Hannah C says, hello, Eva M. Christine, Gio, and Juniper. this was written in 2019.

So Gio and Juniper were, I think, the newest characters. Oh, that's right. Moon wasn't here yet. Yeah. Just a twinkle in Juniper's eye. So long-time listener, they said that in 2019. So I wonder how long-old... Long time.

Seriously. Wow. First-time story submitter, but I had some weird shit happen lately and I thought you would all like to hear about it. What's crazy is that this kid that we're going to hear about, the two-year-olds, is now a nine-year-old. Oh, that's right.

Oh, how weird is that? Oh, my God. So maybe your 9-year-old is listening to, like, this diary entry you sent it to a podcast. Yeah, that's really trippy. Yeah. So this is on Halloween 2018. For some backstory, my best friend had a dog 10-plus years ago that passed away. But her and her whole family always make comments about how they can still feel and hear the dog comment around the house.

Aw. They have not had another dog sense, nor do they have any dog things in their house. It's like, I'm assuming tennis balls or toys or treats. We went to her neighborhood to go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and we stopped in her house for pizza. My two-year-old casually walked over to the corner of the kitchen, pointed and said, doggy, woof, woof. What? My best friend just stared at me and said, that was Comet's favorite spot. So he's still there.

Oh, on Halloween, with all the little kiddos, and the two-year-old can see the dog. I'm going to, I mean, really, that's so sweet. Oh, my God. I am on my period right now, and it is starting to really. show because I'm like I'm like ready to just cry oh I have full-blown chills because like the puppy still wants people to see him for a two-year-old to say woof-woof and it's like and it was his favorite spot I mean my heart it's like Duncan on his favorite spot oh my god he kept going over to that corner all night the two-year-old he would sit over there and just say doggy over and over again

my kid was definitely hanging out with a ghost dog oh my yes for sure the second time my son's saw a ghost was maybe a month or so later. He was having trouble sleeping and his dad was at work late, so I let him come snuggle in my bed. Oh, no. He'd been doing this thing lately where he says, am I a baby? No, I'm a big boy. Oh. So I'm laying there half asleep and he starts nudging me and goes, mommy, mommy, baby.

And I said, no, you're a big boy, still half asleep. And then he nudged me again and said, no, mommy, look, baby girl. And pointed to the wall. Okay, wait, but how many times have we heard that? when a little kid points at the wall and says, look at the people. And I'm like, why are they always at the walls? Like, what's at the walls? I mean, I guess there's blank space. But why is the baby up there? Is it someone's holding the baby? And that's why it's up so high on the wall. You know what I mean? That's such a good point because, I mean, honestly, my first thought was like, is the wall the easiest to, like,

gain access to? It's almost like you're holding on to the structure or something. Right. But you're totally right that it might just be that it's a blank space and easiest spot. Right. Because like in between you and the wall that you don't see anything except the wall, but maybe there's something in between there. But like the baby being up at the wall is probably like being held, right, or something? Like how else would it? Hate to break it to you. But that your theory implies that when we're not looking at the wall, there's a bunch of things hiding around us that we can't see as easily. Oh, I'm, I promise you, I'm well aware of that. And I've, I've been well aware of that ever since my OCD really told me, told me there are dangers lurking. No, no, no, no, that,

but like, it's interesting. It's like, hmm. No, you're right. You're right. I have no idea why. You know what I'm picturing is like when a person holds a baby over their shoulder like this, like to burp them? And then like if you don't see the adult holding the baby, but then you see the baby and it's just like floating there. Do you know? That's what I feel like that's interesting. I was thinking more like Rafiki holding the baby high enough up. Or that. But I feel like if you're like doing just a repeat, you know, like maybe it's just someone burping the baby and they're just like floating around.

That would be wild. I'm creating an entire narrative around that. I don't know that this is true at all. If I saw that, I guess I would be able, as an adult, to say, like, it looked like someone was holding the baby, but that other person wasn't there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because for a little kid, you wouldn't know any better wise. Yeah. It's just a flying baby.

Yeah. It's just a flying. It's no big deal. Or, like, is it just, like, the face of a baby? Right. I don't know. So he pointed to the wall and said, baby girl. I hopped out of bed so fast, turned on the light, showed him there was nothing there.

But then he kept pointing at the blank wall and saying, mommy baby girl. mommy baby girl. It's still there. So, whoa. Even with the lights on. I feel like the rules are you need to disappear now. Yeah. Once I turn the lights on and get scared, you have to be gone.

That's part of the rules. It's goodbye time. Also, like, so that means in the dark of night he was able to figure out there was a baby there. So, like, it had to be a pretty obvious baby. Yeah. I couldn't just be like the shadowing because it would just be like a bundle of something. But you know when you say like when adults say like you see a ghost in it like is like glowing or like it's like lit up maybe that he just didn't as a baby was like

oh look and didn't like maybe it was somehow illuminated i don't know i don't like that needless to say it scared me shitless and i saved our house the following week no ghostly citing sense but i'll keep you posted sorry this was so long thank you for uh bringing me true crime paranormal stories and laughs on my long commute to work you guys are the best hashtag team wine haven't seen that wow wow well well well i don't blame you by the way to you and your nine-year-old I hope that nothing else has happened. I mean, I'm curious how long that went on, you know. Is it?

That's fascinating. All right. So this is the second to last story, I believe. This is called ghost cat. And it was sent in by Holly. She, her. Thank you, Holly. It says, hi, everyone.

I have a ghost cat in my apartment. I moved into my apartment about a year ago after leaving an abusive relationship. At first, I just always felt like there was someone else in every room I would walk into. It wasn't scary. To be honest, it was sort of comforting. I kind of thought it was just me. dealing with PTSD symptoms by trying to make myself feel less alone. Then about six months into living there, my friend house sat for me over the weekend.

And when I came back, they were like, yeah, so why does it always feel like someone else is already in every room you're about to walk into in your apartment? Bye. What do you mean? What? You're like, that's just my PTSD. They're like, nope, happened to me too. Do you think like the person, like the abuser, like died and was like, haunting them?

I think it's a cat. I mean, I know it says ghost cat, but I'm trying to, in my head I immediately made a darker. I don't know why I did that. Oh, I mean, I don't think the person died, did they? No, no, no. I'm just saying if it said that they left an abusive relationship, I'm like if it felt like something like oppressive was in the room. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I said it was comforting, though. They said it felt like somebody was like they were just trying to feel less alone. I appreciate you reminding me of that because my brain immediately made it so much more fucked up. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I liked your weird twist on it. That's like very law and order. SvU plus. And it's like, no, we don't have to do that.

What if not? Okay. So the house sitter is like, why does it feel like this? And they're like, oh, it's not my PTSD. It's like actually other people are experiencing this too. Shortly after that, I started seeing what looked like a little cat darting away in the corners of my eyes when both of my pets were snuggling on the couch with me. My best friend, my BFF and boyfriend have seen it and commented on it too. Then about four months ago, I was taking a selfie to see what this new lipstick I ordered looked like, and I noticed something weird when the motion feature was turned on. You could clearly see a little kitty shadow run past my shoulder in the corner of the room. Kitty! When I took the photo, my dog was laying with her head on my lap, and my cat was

curled on the end of the couch. Last month, I was digging around in my dryer for a clean top, when I felt what I thought was my cat Betty brush up against my legs and then run under the bed. I was sweet talking to her as I walked out of the latched bedroom door and saw her perched on the counter looking at me like I was crazy. I was definitely, it was definitely ghost cat that was brushing up against me. I love my apartment and I love ghost cat so I just don't think about it too much. Of all the ways to be haunted, a sweet little snuggle kitty seems like the best possible situation. Thank you. I love your show. Hashtag team wine. Team wine. You know, I think about, um, like the fact that there was just a ghost cat there. That makes me really sad because it means like maybe someone lost

their cat and now the cat stuck there? Or just like, what if you're not? Yeah, and what if someone moves in who's like not a cat person or like. Right. Or like you just have to hope when you leave if your cat's ghost is still there, at least someone will love him for you, you know? Like I think comet, I think comet, but like the dog who always sits in the corner and like luckily 10 years later a baby can still see him.

But like what if that family moves and Comet's still just like sitting in his spot? I mean, I think there's more like, I like to think maybe there's more agency there. like it's just a remnant of like wanting to stay and experience earth and hopefully like go on when sure i hope i don't know that's what i hope like maybe they're just staying with the family or with until they're like no longer i don't know i don't know i'm with you i know i understand what you mean because that like that could turn sad very fast very fast and i know you've loved to do that today so i sure do usually that's my job to make everything fucked up i would like to i would like to I mean, if that were the case, though, or hopefully it's not the case, but it would be a fun, like back in the 90s when children's movies were trying to make children cry and then be very hopeful at the end, it would be a wonderful ghosty version of Homeward Bound.

Yeah, I was going to say, it could be a good, like, plot for a movie, yeah. Like finding the home to your parents live now. Yeah. Anyway, here's our final Halloween, October spooky season story. This is from Mahala, who uses she or pronouns. And the subject line is played with cat's ghost. Played with cat's ghost. We'll see.

It says, hello, everyone. Recently this year, my sweet baby cat Kiki passed away at 12 years old. I was obviously devastated. I was obviously devastated and decided to get a tattoo of her using some of her ashes. Then one night in July, I was lying in bag. and in bed, what's wrong with me? And felt tiny little feet walk across my legs and walked to my husband's side of the bed and I just felt something watching me. When I looked over, she was just sitting on top of my husband's pillow, which he always hated because she was allergic.

But she was a soft gray and almost transparent and a little flickery like an old film. Wow. I wonder if that's what the kids saw too, you know? Like maybe that's how. Yeah. Yeah, wow. Just a little kitty still pulled off. Just a little like hologram.

Like, hi, mom. Oh, I can't, I just can't bear it. I watched her clean herself there for a good 30 seconds. Why did that get me? I don't know. Just like licking the paw. And then she, and then I reached my hand out to touch her and she pooped her little nose on my finger. Stop, Emma.

This happened three. more consecutive nights in a row with me gently petting her until she faded away. I'm going to cry. This is what I mean. I'm going to throw up. I'm going to throw up in your face. And this is what I mean when I say, like, maybe it is like you just fade out over time that, like, you know, like you show them enough love and affection. Maybe it's like they're time to go.

I don't know. That's what I'm going to tell myself anyway. Oh, my God. That's like the most poignant and like my heart can't take it. That's like exactly what you want in some ways with your. It's like so beautiful. Oh, your nose and send a pet you. And to do the thing your husband hated and sit on the pillow and make him allergic one last time.

Also, like, I know like we're having a sweet moment, but like for science, I would have to nightmare at Elm Street this and try to like pull some of her hair out to see like if it's real when I'm holding it one day. So you just like rip her hair out and she's like, ah! Well, you know, like one little strand always ends up on you. I would hope that that would happen. You get one scratch up your arm. Yeah. Just to see if I could pull her out of the dream. Yeah.

Now, even though I can't see her, I think she. is still there. My dogs will suddenly start looking around the dining room table with which her, which was her favorite napping spot. My hair ties and paper receipts still go missing. Oh, that's cute. And one week, my husband and I had a living room camera to watch our dogs and it would alert or track something moving around when no one was there. I'm still sad. I can't see her every day, but it's nice to know she visits from over the rainbow bridge. Oh, and also, I'm I love that like you can't see her anymore, but she showed you herself enough so that you know she's there. Which is like, that's so nice that like you got the confirmation visually.

And now you're like, oh, I sense that she's here, but I don't have to wonder because I actually already saw her. Thank you all for sharing so so much. Wow. What a way to make me feel my feelings. Thanks, everyone. That really hurt. That one was a tough one to go out on. That was a very sweet, though.

It really is truly one of the better ghost pet stories I've heard of. And it's ideal for what all of us probably won is just upon last couple nights with our little baby. Exactly. Very, very true. Very true. Well said. And happy October. Happy October. And that's why we drink.