And That's Why We Drink - Listener Stories: Vol. 50

Episode Date: December 15, 2020

Welcome to our big 50th listener stories episode! In honor of such a milestone, we're covering the hard hitting topics you've always yearned to know more about, like "does every dead guy have his name changed to Walt in the afterlife?" and "if you buy 12 cakes and your grandfather's ghost eats 9 of them, how many do you have left?". We also have a very special theme this time around: How ATWWD Cursed Me. We're chilled to our very core by all your creepy experiences related to the podcast. We also may have had a special guest write in... and that's why we drink! Please consider supporting the companies that support us! Don’t spend a minute of your holiday season at the Post Office this year. Sign up for Stamps.com instead. With our promo code, DRINK, you get a special offer that includes a 4-week trial PLUS free postage and a digital scale. No long term commitments or contracts. Just go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in DRINK.Glossier put Boy Brow + Generation G together for an instantly put-together look— full, fluffy brows and just-blotted lips in just two steps. Get the Boy Brow + Generation G duo by visiting glossier.com/podcast/DRINK. For a limited time, new customers can get 10% off your first order. You can grow thicker, healthier hair AND support our show by going to nutrafol.com and using promo code DRINK. New customers will get 20% off – this is their best offer available anywhere. Plus FREE shipping on EVERY order! Get fresh, pre-measured ingredients and mouthwatering seasonal recipes delivered right to your door with HelloFresh, America’s #1 meal kit. Go to HelloFresh.com/80drink and use code 80drink to get $80 off including free shipping!

uh i was trying to think 50th is here but that doesn't make sense um it does make sense because the 50th is here i know but it didn't sound i didn't it didn't feel right in my soul you didn't commit 50 no shit okay all right you're fired uh if this were a community theater play I would fire you as your director happy happy 50th listeners episode Christine oh can you believe it and it came out right before nope right after our 200th episode. So it is a very monumental month. Which means we have put out 250 episodes. Yowza. That math sounds correct. Yes.

I think. We've recorded 250 times. That's a lot. That is a lot. That's a quarter of a hundred. Why do you even still talk to me? That's not a quarter of a hundred. They pay me. That's a quarter of a thousand. Even I know that much. I know a thousand even you're right i know i heard it and then i was like whatever at this point anyway uh happy 50th that means we've read like oh my god i'm trying to do more math i need to stop i was don't do that i was gonna say we've read like 300 stories or something like that now if we don't i look at me that much is too math

that math much never mind 300 something stories we have read and it's been pretty bananas uh it's been pretty bananas pretty noodles and guess what this time i get to go first because i know i love it that's what eva said i like that i can go first i don't have the uh the pressure of like making this episode really juicy or like right from the top so like i get to follow your lead the pressure you go first every time even in regular episodes yeah but this time i feel like you'd be used to the pressure nowadays no no no it never it never it never ends the you know trying to be perfect all the time so uh okay i'm gonna ride your thanks okay great well so then i guess i'll

start um oh right we have a theme and we actually like came up with a theme early this time and uh i already i already forgot the theme oh m oh my gosh this is my favorite theme yet oh i do know the theme is and that's why we drink cursed me so it's like basically we are cursing ourselves by reading stories of how we cursed you that that's the theme i'm very excited about this i um i have the only time i've ever heard about times where we've cursed anyone was with like ptd who we don't talk about yeah i wonder if we're going to talk about ptd a lot today oh my god it's my guess i was afraid that every email was going to be specifically about it might be i'm gonna do sign of the cross because i have not read them yet um

so i guess so anyway we told patrons our our theme first uh so they could get like a little bit of a head start so um i think we've gotten a lot of submissions so and it's a really we have not oh sorry go ahead oh i'm sorry i thought you were writing my coattails today. I, I, I don't listen to my own rules. Apparently. I'm sorry. All I was going to say is if you, if we're not reading your story today, fret not, because apparently we have a lot of them.

So maybe we'll do a future episode part two. That's a good idea. I also was, I was was gonna say that this is a perfect way to close out 2020 that's true yeah i mean if this is the last listeners episode of the year we might as well talk about how our own show has made more trauma for you has ruined everyone's lives well that's on that note i guess we'll get started you're right this is the last listener episode of 2020 wow fittingly remember last time? We still get tweets today from people saying, oh wow, I just got to the episodes where 2020 began and you guys were all hopeful and cheerful

about the year. So should we make predictions about 2021 or should we just not even try? I think we should just let it be and let it do its thing without trying to force it. Because last year we were pretty gung-ho and people yeah like still tweet us and say oh you guys sound like such fools and i'm like yes i know um yeah this this year really uh really hardened us i think because now we're like let's just see how the next one plays out yeah i'm like nothing surprises me anymore so all right well this first email is from Michelle. And it is called, and that's why we drink, Cursed My Dog, which I'm already upset about. Oops.

We apologize. Michelle's first line is, definitely didn't want y'all to worry. My fur baby is totally fine now. So, okay. Thank you for letting me know in advance. And Michelle uses she, her pronouns. So, thank you, Michelle. It says, hi, Eva, Lemon, M, Christine, and all the furry friends.

Okay, don't feel bad. But, and that's why we drink, cursed my dog. Or maybe I cursed my dog. It was you, not us. It was you, not us. It was definitely you. And if it was us, it was Christine. Yeah.

Yeah, well, it was maybe me, but it was probably you. Maybe we did a joint thing team effort team effort okay back in 2018 my partner got tickets to your live show in la i am a huge fan and was so excited to go to add to the fun y'all were doing and that's why we draw a throwback and asked for a picture of a disneyland nobody wants to go to i remember that prompt i got right on that ish because i'm no artist but i love me some disneyland and and that's why you drink spooky fun well i was absolutely elated when at the show i saw my drawing was selected oh we have a superstar here uh when i got back home that night i did what any normal person would do and hung that picture

proudly on my fridge. It was the best of... It is sweet. I wish it would end there, but it keeps going. I wish she had included the photo. I'm sure we have it in our inbox somewhere. Probably. Okay.

It was the best of times and then it was the worst. My poor fur baby, Winry, started acting really strange over the next few days. She wasn't eating. She didn't want to play with anyone. She just seemed incredibly lethargic and anxious, and I had no idea what was going on. About two or three days into this, I was about to call our vet when it occurred to me. I had basically created a shrine to Annabelle, Robert the doll, Black Eyed kids and john wayne gacy on my refrigerator good night i remember this picture now that you mentioned all the details i took the picture down immediately ripped it up and threw it in a trash can very far away from my

apartment winry's mood change was almost instant she ate dinner that night just fine and was her usual self the next day she even played tug of war with me within hours of me taking down the picture i was so relieved that she was better but it still freaks me out to this day that i had the power to bring something into my home that could hurt me or my fur babies with some crayons and a piece of paper definitely a lot of prayers and saging followed that day winry is living a glorious life and can be found sunbathing as she's seen doing here or playing with our quarantine baby coda as for me my fiance has banned me from listening to and that's why we drink in our home well you'll never hear this and we never make any mention of cursed dolls this is why i drink thank you for reading my story i love you all so much and can't

wait till you can safely get on the road again because listen to this everyone your live shows are fire oh thank you love michelle also these little pictures of your puppy dogs are so cute i know i was gonna ask if you see them i also like that uh you're banned from listening but clearly you knew what the theme of this episode is gonna be so i wonder if she just steps into the backyard and listens you just drive around all for hours in the night just uh in the night in the night i imagine that's the that's the the aesthetic uh but i like how your dog likes to go sunbathing knows the feng shui of the room and is affected by it spiritually um seriously sounds like a i also love that you tried to blame us for your cursed crayon drawing you put it on the fridge all right you could have

folded that puppy up and put it in a drawer you could have given it to us at the live show and cursed us with it which many has happened in the many people did we have uh we have a lot of and that's why we draw us in our and that's why we drink apartment right now. That's right. That people gave us. So anyway. Wow. That was a fun time. And that's why we draw. Aw. Okay.

Well, I'm next. And this is from Sally or Celine. Silly? Celine? There's two names. There's options. That's why I'm. Oh, I see.

I'm acting it like the N is silent in one of them. And they use she, her pronouns. So thank you for normalizing pronouns. options that's why i'm oh i see i'm acting it like the n is silent in one of them um and they use she her pronouns so thank you for normalizing pronouns and uh celine says hi eva and hi eva christine m lemon geo junie mooney and whoever else i might have forgotten i think you got everyone lemon's there lemon is before geo i don't know yeah but lemon needed to be twice okay well in that case lemon should be all of them just say lemon 10 times uh no something terrible will happen if you look in the mirror it's like beetle juice um you guys are my absolute favorite i'm going to tell you how you guys cursed me and broke my brother's phone in the process oh god i thought

i was gonna say back or neck or head or oh my god thank god it was the phone okay god so my husband ryan and i normally go on a drive uh a drive on sundays to listen to your show precious what a nice that's nice it's a quarantine date right there wow uh well i hope you're driving right now and um don't crash don't speed um embrace your surroundings okay well we happen to be listening to the listener's story that was all about the black eyed kids side note this is the one that till this day the dolls are a close second uh has scared me so bad and i still can't get over it so good for us i feel powerful so christine i am right there with you uh with the absolutely not anything related B.E.K. related.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So anyways, we were listening to the second one. I believe I'm already on the verge of tears because I'm terrified. And my brother Nano called me. I obviously jumped but answered and asked him if he was home. And then he said no. And then it just repeats in my brother's voice over and over no

no no no oh so i hung up uh and then ryan tries to call me with his phone and the phone uh is picked up but uh oh okay sorry ryan tries to call uh tries to call him with his phone and the phone is picked up but there's not a sound from him so it's just silence on the other end so we tried calling the rest of my family uh and the same thing uh that they there would be a pickup but no sound from them then we called my sister who doesn't live with them to see if it was our phone but she answered and we were able to talk so it's like in the house or something no one's phone was working so r Ryan and I went home and I was able to call my brother with no problem. And we did not finish the episode on the first drive because we were freaked out, but we also didn't want to finish the episode in our house.

So we went on another mini drive to finish the episode the same night. We were in the middle of the fourth story and Nano calls me again, but this time to finish the episode, but this time the cell phone starts off with my name or my nickname in his voice sally and just repeats it over and over again sally sally sally sally sally i cried again and we tried to call all of them back but the same thing happened uh and they would pick up but there was no sound on their end we finished the stories and ryan who doesn't normally get scared had goosebumps and we went home and i could call everyone normally

except this time the calls wouldn't make it to my brother and he couldn't make calls on his end so they tried to reset his phone and they took it in and he had to get a new phone because there was no fixing that phone and the tech people couldn't figure out what was wrong that's so yeah i was cursed and my brother's phone paid the price and that's why i drink i wish my curses just went to my brother like deflected onto him that would be nice yeah if your curse is that you can't get a hold of your brother then like depending on your relationship with him it's like not really a curse wow that is really freaky and i hate that it kept repeating the words and i hate that it happened twice because i feel like once is like a fluke, like you had a weird tech issue. But if

it happened hours later, like that night, and then and then the reverse happened where now you couldn't like nothing was coming through on his end. Oh, okay. Well, thank you for your story. But also, I'm glad I'm not you. Oh, God. Also god also my bad also uh now i want to go check my phone after this okay i have a story here this is uh let's see becca this is from becca who uses she her pronouns thank you becca hello all my name is becca i've been listening practically from your start and i can't thank you enough for keeping me sane who knew your voices and stories could keep me focused when at work? I certainly did not.

Anywho, getting right into it. My grandfather passed away six years ago, and it was one of the worst things I've ever felt in my life, up until my grandmother, his wife, passed away nearly two years ago. We moved her closer to me, and my family and I ended up becoming her primary caregiver. This past spring, my aunt, the daughter of said grandparents, went to a holistic healing slash psychic slash crystals and what have you type convention. Oh, I'm there.

That sounds really fun. See you there. Yeah. We purchased a couple of stones and crystals and went to the next booth, which was a psychic. Where is the, I want to go to like a booth,

like a convention of psychics. Are we guest appearances over there? It sounds like something. I want to just get a badge, of psychics. Are we guest-appearancing over there? It sounds like something. I want to just get a badge, like a visitor badge, and like meet everybody. I want a backstage pass so I can have early access to all of the stuff at the booths. It's like CrimeCon. Yeah, it is. But better.

But metaphysical. But metaphysical, right. Okay. Let's see. I sat back, letting my aunt take the time when my grandfather came through. Soon, though, the psychic looked at me and apologized to my aunt, asking if she could speak to me because my grandfather was being insistent that he needed to talk to me. Oh, shit. Cue floodgates.

Uh-oh. She told me that he had been trying to communicate with me by showing me things in threes. to communicate with me by showing me things in threes specifically if i went home and looked in my fridge i'd find three bottles of something three cans of something etc all together in their sets i like how this grandpa was like i know you're gonna check that fucking fridge like yeah you're gonna drink beer and there's gonna be three of them specifically here's three chocolate cakes that you don't remember putting in there there were were 12, but I ate enough that there are only... I was like, I say enough because I couldn't do the math that quickly.

There are, I ate nine of them. If you buy 12 cakes and your dead grandfather eats nine of them, how many are left? You still at least have three chocolate cakes. That's true. I could live with that, I guess. I'd also find things outside of the fridge

or knew that I had been hearing things like knocking three times yes the things of three were in the fridge and sounds other things of three were definitely showing up in my life then the psychic said that i had a spirit guide that lived outside on our property she began to describe my house and groupings of trees the lake and how everything was situated she told me that my spirit guide named walter okay hang on is every dead man's name walter yes that must be like a process they go through it's a new name badge it makes it easier for god to go through like social services they get their name change i understand it's a process okay she told me my spirit guide named walter lived in one of the

trees in a grouping of three trees which happened to be my three favorite trees on the property oh and do you have three favorite trees i don't have three favorite trees i'm i'm more focused on why is one of them hanging out in the tree inside the tree if i found out that my grandpa was haunting me from a tree i'd be like you're barking up the wrong tree like yeah i'd be like i'm not coming up there i hope you don't think i'm gonna climb this thing you were better off waiting in the fridge i was definitely gonna find you there you had me you had me with the fridge i don't know why you had to make it weird walter why are you showing off climbing a tree i get it i can't climb the tree and you can that's nice

to be fair if i died and became walter and could climb a tree i would show off to everybody so i get that i take my nine cakes and i would take them up into the oak tree and i would have a good time if you know i can't do like a cartwheel in real life and so one day just imagine my dead body just cartwheeling everywhere m's gonna be like my spirit guy just cartwheeling through the room i'm just gonna be like simone biles but the but like the afterlife version like but also eating nine cakes yes okay uh she says it all seems so coincidental and i'm not sure if i really truly believe yet but there was just so much more to the rest of the conversation my aunt and i had with the psychic for me not to i'm definitely curious enough to want to go again now that i've taken your time remember love on your family you

never know when you won't be able to again trust in your walter that's wait a minute that's a great saying wow i love that trust in your wal. Be aware of your surroundings, especially if something comes in threes. And as a fourth note, since I guess she didn't want to end in threes, there is always a reason to drink. Hashtag team wine, but love you both and Eva. I love that. Wow, Becca. I think you should believe it.

If this is your sign to believe it, I say believe it. I say believe it too. I mean, Walter's hanging out in the tree screaming it at the top of his lungs. You just can't tell. So yeah. And I feel like if a psychic said, oh yeah lake by your house it'd be like nice try there's definitely no lake by my house so i feel like if she's like there's a lake by your house and there is yeah she's on to something i definitely uh if if i'm ever speaking to like any sort of medium or anything like that and they nail anything that grand or that obvious or that

you know specific that's specific i would be like oh shit whatever you have to say i'm i gotta listen to for sure oh who's in a tree okay i'd also be careful like which tree because now i'm like which tree is walter's tree like what if i decide today i want to climb a tree what if i feel like a little hand go meh like i'm already here you know what if you just it's the one that the acorns are just pelting but what if you have to do construction and like you have to tear down a tree can you imagine can you alter would be pissed how do you even explain that so it goes like you finally have to climb down and go into another awkward or you can just come inside just come inside now there's cake in here there's cake you know that um okay thank you for your story uh this is from amelia who uses she

her pronouns thank you for normalizing pronouns and the subject line is uh and that's why we drink triggered my gift oh don't know what that means why didn't it trigger my gift i'm still over here i don't know spiritually blind as a bat. Maybe that is your gift. Maybe, maybe. The story is, Hola, Eva, fur babies, fruit mummies, and Em and Christine. Wow, love it. Concise.

And all the Walters in the world. I've been a longtime listener and sent in a few stories before this one, but after I saw your Patreon bat signal, I started to realize something. Ever since I started listening to the podcast, most noticeably after the synchronicities episode i've been noticing now that i've become more in tune with my sixth sense i started out uh it started out small mostly just feeling random goosebumps and seeing things out of the corner of my eye all this chalked up to my severe anxiety at the time and And the fact that I have clear,

thick frame glasses that kind of wrap my, or kind of warp my peripherals. But even after some therapy and medication and switching back to contacts, things just seemed to get worse. The blurs started to get bigger and take on more human-like shapes and a strong sense of deja vu will often come over me. This is a feeling that I haven't really experienced since I was a kid. And to make matters worse, before all of these podcast shenanigans, I was-

That's a very kind way of putting it. You could have said it a lot meaner. I started laughing because I heard it and I was like, I know what you meant. Yeah, we know what you mean. Before all the podcast shenanigans, I was and still am notoriously known for my false memories that my family and i will be talking about old stories and i'll chime in with something i remember clear as a bell only to be shot down by weird looks it's a force of habit so almost like a past life or something um it's a force of habit now for me to just tag on real or fake whenever i try to bring up an old

memory it's something my family and i have grown to laugh at at the very least oh so it feels like to me like either a past memory or like you're astral projecting to another time or like you can just like travel back in your mind it's wild or there's implanted memories from aliens. Wait, the government? Are you listening? No, no, no, no, no. No, please, dear God. These are just shenanigans. Just shenanigans over here.

Nothing to see here. Nothing but dead cartwheels. So now this is something I really started to pick up on after the Synchronicities Listeners story episode. And I am getting better at weirdly meeting someone's needs before either of us know it's going to happen i didn't notice it right away but following that episode i was starting to get better at low-key anticipating what my sister was going to do there was this one instance when we were going to visit our parents for the weekend and as i was throwing stuff into a bag i was suddenly

struck by a need to grab a normal bra. I hate wearing anything but sports bras. Okay. I couldn't think. Why would you not? Sports bras are better. Okay. I couldn't think of why I would want to bring it. We were only there for like a day.

So what was the point of wasting space in my overnight bag? I'd like to, I'm like in my mind, I'm predicting like, does this become like a, like, are you going to see a cute boy or something? Like'm like well like there's like like why do you need a fancy bra what's happening i like i'm assuming the sister needs a bra oh that's probably makes more sense that i anticipate my sister's needs i guess so but i was like what i was like going to grandma's and i need a nice bra. What is going to happen? A lacy third love number is what I got to say.

Listen, take your Fit Finder quiz because then you'll never care about wearing sports bras versus regular bras ever again. Anyway, sorry, I assumed. I was just like, where are we going with this? Still, I packed it up without thinking more on it. And the next day at my parents' house, I woke up and just thought, I need a full face of makeup today. Okay, I'm still- Oh, okay. Okay.

You're winning. You're winning. My theory is still right, I think. For a day that would involve nothing but a trip to the bank or so, I thought, as I'm grabbing my keys to go, my sister stops me. She's got my arms full of photography equipment and some dresses. And she asks me, did you bring a good bra? Creepy. That's specific yeah I'm baffled and tell her yes only for her to tell me to go put it on uh it turns out the whole reason we'd

come for the visit was so my sister could take photos for her art class project and I was apparently supposed to model for this project okay I see so we were both right well not really neither of us spiritually blind as i like to say our gift if you will we're gifted yeah other incidents just uh our other incidents have just been getting snacks on a whim when shopping and it ended up being what my sister had been craving all day or feeling the need to check the time on my phone seconds before a text comes from a friend or family member one time i had even been humming a song that was stuck in my head and it ended up being from a movie my brother couldn't think the name of and had texted to me to see if i knew on the one hand this had uh all been kinds of fun being half

a step ahead of the curve but i'm also not enjoying the fact that whenever i get my deja vu or goosebumps my dog will look in the corner of the room goodbye and that's how it fucking ends thanks that's it thanks again for all the spooks and giggles love you mean it amelia and alfie the labradoodle alfie i'm sorry oh i'm sorry your mommy's scaring you that was a really good like if that were the script to a movie you ended it so that a sequel could come from it. Like, it was very, it was precious. And then the last sentence was a little too dark for me. There's still a mystery afoot.

Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Wow, I love, I wish I were your sister. Just like, oh, you brought me hot Cheetos. That's exactly what I want. Oh, you brought me more box wine. Oh, you brought me hot Cheetos. That's exactly what I want. Oh, you brought me more box wine. Oh, you brought me leggings and a nice bra. Wow, everything. And a pair of Rothy's.

Somebody commented on my Instagram post and were like, those don't look like Rothy's. And I was like, that's because they're FabFitFun slippers. So check yourself, man. You really are always wearing at least one of our sponsors. It's shocking. Listen, it's because i we only endorse things that we actually uh enjoy every time every time i've seen you since you moved away you're always in rothy's and you're always wearing a third love bra listen i'm like i i want

to rep i want to prove that you know we got we're repping good product we're not leading anyone astray no no no no okay this is called listeners 50 50th patreon story the child and me oh don't bring kids into this okay don't make it weird creepy enough okay this is from kira who says uh dear christine m Juniper, Eva, and Moonshine. First of all, congrats on the 50th listeners episode. I'm so excited to hear all the spooky stories. My name is Kira, she, her, and you guys gave me one of my first haunted experiences in my life. You are welcome. You're welcome.

Great. I usually listen to your podcast in my car. First off, teacher life. But secondly, because the car seems safer than welcoming demons and dolls into my home. Everyone's saying this. Meanwhile, Em and I just sat in my living room for years. Yeah, now I'm trying to think maybe people are onto something. Also, this explains why a lot of people during doll stories have said something happened in their car. Their car.

Now everyone's driving this whole time. Yeah, that doesn't seem safe either now that you mention it. Yeah, next time if we ever do another doll story, please just put your car in park. Like, just, just turn it off the ignition. Stop moving. Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay.

I also just got a goose cam because I read the next line and now I'm freaked out already. Why? Oh, boy, I am. Why? I remember distinctly listening to your New Orleans episode. You had a young kid ghost that liked cartoons. God damn it. His name was Michael.

I'm scared. And I know for sure he liked the Flintstones. Okay, he definitely can hear us for sure right now. Em and I always feel like he's kind of just chilling with us around. The second we, that was, was we definitely that was a weird attachment that we got because like anytime i even think about him he's for sure next to me yeah m does not even like when i mention his name like m literally has asked me to please not say his name which i was like okay weirdo but now i kind of get it uh for the record in case you are listening

michael it's not that i don't like you it's just that i thought we were pretty clear and that you should stay in new orleans and we would we would leave and yet you always find your way over eight year old really listens to grown-ups instructions i guess you're right you're right you're right okay it says oh boy i'm gonna get creeped out here it says i don't know how able-bodied this ghost is or strong or if another demon that i've welcomed into my car was messing with me but this child changed my whole perspective on the haunted and unknown see ya ah why am i home alone right now okay oh my god okay i was turning left onto a major highway from my home i had your episode on low just in the background so i could focus on driving you know how you turn down the music to see better yeah that was me it says i was laughing at the part that you were saying he really enjoyed the

flintstones as it was a favorite of mine as a kid as i'm making this turn my radio suddenly cuts to static first off i'm on bluetooth so this shouldn't have happened in the first place the static is ridiculously loud and then my stereo turns off i already swerved into another lane accidentally so i was steadying myself before turning my radio back on when i switched it on my bluetooth turned on and so did the flintstones theme song shut the fuck up on high volume great this gets weird m it did it already did we can we're done it's too late i wish i had a blanket it says it still said on my phone that your podcast was playing not any other song i thought you guys had included the theme song in your podcast as a joke to scare people who are listening eva please god say that's exactly

what happened did you do that did you put that in can you imagine oh my god if anyone else is listening going wait i thought they did put that in please let me know because that's holy shit horrific okay great as far as i'm concerned we did it because i would be way too lazy for that we did not i'm really hoping that like someone else who edits our our show did this okay great oh my god okay i really thought you guys had included the theme song in your podcast as a joke to scare those listening so i rewound it back to see what had happened and enjoy the joke instead of terrifying myself however when i played the episode from a previous point it played normally with no static or flintstones interruptions good night i've checked this exact episode multiple times and I've never had it happen again.

Nor has my Bluetooth ever turned to static again either. This experience. Okay. I'm fully, fully freaked out because that, because do you remember what happened, Em? That's what happened with Michael. Em went to the bathroom and my iPad started blasting music that we had never heard before. That was my first thought. It literally started blasting music on we had never heard before that was my first thought it literally started blasting music on my ipad that didn't even have music like i don't even

know how it got on there oh the one i'm holding in my very hands wow the goose camp it's like these these goosebumps want to rip themselves off my arms right now they're running away from trying to escape my body i don't blame them okay i've checked this episode multiple times okay so that this experience has honestly scared me to death and i get a little anxious in the middle of some episodes in case my car buddy comes back either way i just wanted to share with you the fear and terror i've gone through with your podcast not including the newly developed sleep paralysis that has begun about a month ago. Okay. Adorable. Okay.

Michael, if this is you, please leave our friend Kira alone. And please don't mess with my equipment and blast music. I like- Or mine either. I like you messing with other people, not me. So let's keep me off the list. Thank you. Other people that don't listen to our show. Yeah.

Let them just not even think that it could possibly be anyone. It's just a weird malfunction. Okay. Hopefully you get the chance to read this maybe it will make its way on i know there's more scary stories out there but i just wanted to share a bit of mine i don't know this is maybe one of the scarier ones it's because it's personal it i feel personally attacked yeah i feel victimized i'm like oh god oh god raise your hand if you've been victimized by michael the ghost the child ghost i hope you guys are doing amazing and as always love your hair hate your guts kira kira i'm so sorry we didn't mean for that to happen we didn't even know he was going to come home with us that is a fact i promise in fact we asked him politely not to uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh hmm hey want it to get worse there's um my next story has to do with ptd

no i knew you'd end up with one so this is from ayla who uses she they pronouns love a good double pronoun thank you for normalizing a they they okay i hate i regret that uh then uh they say the title is the one where I listened to PTD. And that's why we drink episode and got attacked at work. And I'm not saying PTD. Hopefully by now, you know who PTD is. If you would like to look up who we're talking about, just type in go to and that's why we drink.com. And then click listen.

And you'll see a list of all of our episodes and you control find the doll and it's the one that isn't Harold. OK. Wait, is there a doll on or I'm sorry, is there a list on our website? Yeah. Since when? Like six months. What? Yeah.

Who put it there? Me. You didn't tell me that. Yes, I did. I said I'm going to do it and then I did it. And then we just never talked about it again. What? I didn't tell me that yes i did i said i'm gonna do it and then i did it and then we just never talked about it again what i didn't know that oh my god that's handy i wish somebody had told me oh i thought you were aware no now i'm going to it i had no clue about this oh no uh i think the only one missing is the last one that came out because i haven't done it yet

holy shit there's a whole list of our episodes on our website everybody m i swear to god okay um okay anyway it's also not robert it's also not robert it's not robert it's not harold it's the other one that starts with a p okay so uh okay let's just crack into it i guess wow and it says hi eva and everyone else if this gets picked hello to you even everyone else that should be the new name of the podcast eva and co um i heard that the 50th listener stories theme would be cursed by and that's why we drink and i knew i had to and i had to submit it uh here is the story of that time i was listening to the ptd episode uh at work and I got scratched and attacked in my cubicle. Even writing this is making me paranoid and I'm about to get attacked. So here's hoping all goes well.

Well, great. If I have a follow up after this, I'm going to freak. Cass, if you're listening and everything shuts down in this room, please come get me because I guarantee the door has locked itself. Okay. Mom, pick me up, please. okay mom pick me up please for context i'm a clairvoyant claircognizant clair a bunch of things uh who has seen heard and felt spirits energies and entities for most of my life i submitted a few previous listener stories back when my pronouns were different because of self-discovery i've been there uh with some stories about the chill child ghosts and not

so chill demons in my house growing up oh i remember that story that only i could see anyway i've uh been to the zb haunted museum a couple of times and have met ptd before but nothing eventful had happened to me specifically while in her room fingers crossed it doesn't change but i can say the same for you and me that's true yes this uneventfulness might have been because i was getting attacked by the entity attached to the dybbuk box instead at the time so i was a little preoccupied which by the way did you know recently the sage they keep around that box has been molding for no reason we love to see it um do we anyway i'm getting sidetracked i'm sitting at my cubicle at my old crummy accounting job

listening to back-to-back and that's why i drink episodes with one ear button to avoid getting busted by my boss as i'm listening to the ptd episode i started thinking back to the time i'd seen ptd and how she'd called someone who wasn't taking it seriously an asshole all yikes all of a sudden my neck feels really hot like someone had pressed a hot towel on my neck, and I feel something behind me. As many clear people will tell you, you can't decide when you're going to see or hear or feel something, it's really out of your control, and not something that you can decide, I feel something in that corner. So let me focus in and see on it. Or let me touch this cloth and see who the previous owners were. It just doesn't work like that for

me. But I knew something was behind me. even when i spun around all i could see was this solid wall of energy it felt dark i couldn't very well just start talking to it in my cubicle yeah can you imagine that's like the super that's like the superhero problems you don't really think about the like you're at fucking work and like this is happening well and you're not even supposed to be listening to a podcast you know you're already trying to hide that and now you're at fucking work and like this is happening well and you're not even supposed to be listening to a podcast you know you're already trying to hide that and now you're talking yeah so many things you have to juggle right now imagine being like in a like a conference meeting and there's just like a demon on the table and like you have to ignore it like you know you're like trying to give a powerpoint presentation and they keep standing in front of the laser

pointer and you're like excuse me oh just the worst well that's me as a ghost uh it's just you doing like the can can on the table ruining your power point uh i couldn't very well just start talking to it in my cubicle for fear of judgment so i tried to calmly walk to the empty bathroom outside my office and once inside i looked in the mirror to find as if in a damn horror movie three swollen scratches across the back of my neck oh i couldn't feel i could feel the energy i couldn't feel the energy around me anymore so i started putting water on my neck and assumed that it was over but as i'm standing in front of the mirror in shock at what just happened and trying to calm myself down the lights started dimming okay this is like some

actual horror movie shit woofaroo it wasn't much, but noticeable enough to put me on edge. I can't stress to you that the lights in this bathroom never dim. They're those bright, heavy-duty industrial ones. And then I hear a low growl at the end of the stalls on the opposite side of the bathroom. This is literally fresh out of a movie. Yes, it is. It sounded like the growling and hissing that those little girls zombies make and walking dead no i don't like that noise fuck off something inside of me kind

of snapped and i told it verbally and without caring if anyone was outside or walked in to leave me alone i've been dealing with negative energies and spirits long enough to know that if you get scared of it and don't set boundaries it will keep fucking with you kind of like gross ex-boyfriends anyway i guess it listened to me because it got quiet and the whole bathroom got quiet but i knew it was still there so i stood there for another few minutes just waiting for someone to walk in and see me standing there long uh looking at an absolute looking like an absolute lunatic eventually i uh i left and told my boss that i was going to take an early lunch at which point i proceeded to do all the cleansing practices i know in order to get this thing and energy off of

me i took a picture of the scratches and sent it to my other claire friend uh who had been to the zb museum with me and without prompting she got the impression that it had something to do with the doll thoroughly spooked i haven't thought about this in a few years because life in grad school happened but hearing the topic instantly brought me back to that day needless to say i haven't been back to the zb museum since two attacks is too much for me and my anxiety anyway this was long but i hope this provided enough goose cam and commentary to make it onto the show i hope to see you all in denver once covid restrictions lift ayla wow oh my god i mean honestly like we went to the zb museum and i was like this is so creepy but we looked it in the eyes we looked her in the eyes we were like

whatever and then when emma and i started watching the quarantine special i was like i didn't realize like how wild this place gets like how dangerous yeah people get really affected and there i remember we were kind of like laughing at all i remember being like 10 nervous but 90 thinking it was funny but like zb literally makes you sign like a life uh like a yes he had like a 12 page a 12 page waiver of like if anything happens to you it's not our fault like including death and we were like okay zb yeah and like if your back breaks then it's not my bad like and uh but then after watching quarantine yeah i was like fuck like okay yeah i don't blame him for that anymore that is actually pretty sensible wow well i hope that uh nothing happened after you sent that email

i hope not either i hope nothing happens to us after having read the email yeah me too but we kind of did this to ourselves huh sure did oops we always do okay now we have a bonus story this is uh a story so this is the last one this is a story from anonymous and uh anonymous's pronouns are he slash him slash ghost thank you for normalizing all pronouns all All pronouns. This is called Hello, Is This Thing On? Pretty Sure You Haunted My House. Sorry. So let me just crack right on into this. I live in a house I'm pretty sure you haunted.

Uh-oh. Okay. Nothing weird had ever happened to me here to my knowledge. I have a feeling. I have a feeling about this. Why? I have a funny feeling about this in my tum tum oh nothing weird had ever happened here to my knowledge although granted i'm not originally from this

area so who knows what could have ever happened here before sorry what could have happened here before me uh-huh i know what's going on i'm from a small town in alabama but moved to california after some wild cross-country adventures my house was open and sunny and peaceful well not for long my favorite part was this nice little bar cart in the living room this is relevant i promise i would typically make myself a gin and tonic in the evenings and hang out with my dog who's super cute but a bit of an asshole that's not really relevant but felt important to share i get it i know what's happening here i literally yes from the first line was like something is something is off here.

Oh my gosh, this is genius. I'm Claire Gmail and oh my gosh. Okay, for other people who don't know yet. I guess we should just pretend right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll just see if you figure it out. Genius. Sounds nice, right?

Because when I saw anonymous, I was like, oh boy. Sounds nice, right? Well, it was until i started hearing voices at first it was just little things that i could ignore or explain away mostly muted whispers coming from one of the upstairs rooms i never really liked to go into that particular room just gave me a weird feeling like someone was listening to me shut up pretty unsettling but i just brushed it off as my old ears playing tricks on me. But then I started hearing full words, which really creeped me right out of town. One night, gin and tonic in hand, I heard clear as day,

hello, coming from the stairs. You guessed it, leading back up to that upstairs room. What was going on here? Was someone from the other side trying to make contact? Well, I wanted no part of it, so again, I ignored it. Then the words got more frequent. Mostly hello, but I swear I also caught murderer, ghost. wanted no part of it so again i ignored it then the words got more frequent mostly hello but i swear i also caught murderer ghost cyanide yikes and here are some real kickers bra

citrus and fresh quite a confusing combo they say so by this point i couldn't really ignore it anymore it would happen so frequently i could barely get any peace and quiet every time i went into that upstairs room to double check i wasn't losing my marbles no one would be there so i did the only thing i could think of i got out the old ouija board oh i tried to ask some basic questions like what's your name or where are you from but it almost felt like whoever was on the other side of the board was trying to ask me questions i don't really know how all that spiritual stuff works but i tried to answer as best i could i remember we both seemed to enjoy gin because right as right as i spelled it out the bar cart rattled so loudly downstairs.

I thought all my booze bottles were going to shatter. I closed out the session right then and there because I wasn't willing to sacrifice my alcohol to whatever otherworldly annoyance had clearly taken over my house. So where do you come in? Well, here's the kicker. One day, this gal just shows up on my doorstep. She's a little younger than me and turns out she's got a pretty wild story. She tells me she knows this will sound weird,

but that she just followed two entities here all the way from Las Vegas. Oh boy. God damn it. Stop. Okay, continue. I think she's some kind of new agey practitioner because she said she had met them briefly at a house party where the veil between worlds was thinner

she said she wanted to follow up on a conversation they had started oh my god i couldn't ignore the coincidence so i told her everything i'd experienced she said it sounded to her like my house was haunted by podcasters oh my god oh my god i told her maybe she's the one who lost her marbles and sent her on her way she just shrugged and said she was pretty sure you'd both be leaving my house soon anyway so she'd find you another time oh my god wow but before she left she showed me how to access your website form thing in case i wanted to contact you directly i have to admit i thought all of this was just a giant load of hooey. But then, true to her word, everything quieted down not too long after that.

So now I'm back to my quiet gin and tonics, but here's the real kicker. Now I kind of miss you dummies. Aww. And what Peggy called, and that's why we drink. Great name, by the way. Yours non-corporally the og walt p.s tell eva she was a doll for letting me automatic write with her shut the fuck up that's so wonderful that's so fucking wow frame that because it's poetry that was that is lyrical genius whatever that was whoa i just got like sent

to another dimension i'm speechless i'm just like stunned did you did you get the the friend from las vegas thing yeah well i well okay so i really officially picked the first you said like oh i know what's going on then you said alabama and i was like who the fuck do we know from alabama i was the only the only detail that went missing was um that his his like he has twin grandkids or something that was the only yeah everything else was covered i noticed when you said drinking with my dog and i was like oh yeah i know exactly for those who don't know, that was apparently the story of Walt in almost like The Others. Yes. Wow. Wow.

I miss Walt. That was the ghost at my old house. And a lot of people have asked if he came with me. Apparently, the answer is I didn't go with him. So I think he's in the clear now. So sorry, Walt. Okay. But Bra Citrus and Fresh has to be like the funniest thing in the world.

Oh, that's good stuff right there. I love that it was hello, and I was like, I'm waiting for fresh to show up in this email. Also, that last line of like, this lady came over, and then at the end it said, I miss you dummies and what Peggy called, and that's why we drink. So sweet. Okay, but now that I think about about it like that was the last listener story we'll do for the entire year what a nice way to end it that was so sweet after i moved and everything oh i love that although that was like such a comforting presence he was the only waltz

i uh i trust currently um i love that it was because apparently he was trying to hide from us and like get us away right and the gin the gin cart nearly exploding we threatened his gin yeah which is the second that he spelled gin we did go kind of ballistic so we freaked and we probably rattled the hell out of that gin cart wow oh well brava brava brava indeed thank you walt for and thank you eva for you know channeling walt through your writing or however this situation worked through the online form i didn't know you had such a gift um i didn't know clearly automatic writing was such a talent of yours oh my god i had a feeling my god did eva say anything to you beforehand no i just said no i just got a weird

feeling when it said anonymous and i was like this is gonna be some sort of like turn on me because it said you haunted my house and i was like okay this is some game i i didn't even cross my mind when one of the pronouns was fucking ghost i know well we had one with the pronouns grandpa so at this point i was like whatever that checks out wow wow well thank you waltz thank you everybody who wrote in um that was really fun i like that wow maybe we should start doing like um regular like waltz like waltz journals or like i love that idea like waltz entries for patreon or something of like what waltz not being around dear diary dear diary it's finally quiet um well thank you everyone who

listened to uh our 50th listeners episode and to everyone who's listened to one or all 50 of these episodes that's so awesome and you know what um i just realized it was really creepy about this last email sorry to go back to it but that it said uh i told peggy or i told her that you weren't here and she said she'd find you another time good night don't love that yeah that was a weird manifestation she wanted to finish a conversation we started oh no no no no we said goodbye okay it was a hard goodbye a final a final see you later um anyway thank you guys so much and uh if you ever want to submit your stories to future listener episodes, you can do that on our website.

And that's way we drink.com. Which apparently has an episode list that I'm bookmarking straight away. Because that's so, thank you, Em. That is so helpful. I had no idea it was there. You're welcome. I appreciate you. I say it a lot during Marvel Mondays.

I think that's the only time I ever really talk about it. But. Oh, my God. I'm like so mind blown. Well, thank you, thank you for doing that. And thank you, everybody, for listening all the way from episode one where we made up our own stories or not really. We we did.

We took our friends stories. We texted our friends and said, give me a random name and then send me a story. They were true stories. We didn't make up the stories. But yeah, we made up the names. But and now we have people from all over the world emailing. So it's really special and not only that but 50 listener episodes later we have we went from our friends having to send the stories to people writing us stories about how we specifically

ruined them i know wow this has come like full rhombus it's like i was gonna say it's like a full circle but then like in the other way too like with a double yeah like a double helix or something all right well uh and that's why we drink yay see you in 2021