And That's Why We Drink - Listener Stories: Vol. 81

Episode Date: July 1, 2023

Welcome to July. We're in mourning because our birthday month is over. Pride month is over. What is there to look forward to? Oh yeah, your creepy tales! This month we've got a spooky summer smorgasbord for you covering everything from UFO sightings to cryptids in Kentucky, not to mention we might have triggered a government conspiracy. And did we just get invited to naughty gaudy night?? ...and that's why we drink!Don't miss Christine on tour this summer with Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet! beachtoosandy.com

welcome to july it's a sad day is it oh well it is yeah you're right our month is over we're in mourning um i wish we weren't on youtube because i would say we're both wearing black but only m got the memo today yeah i started my funeral early um really once and there's a reason for that um june 30th and my family is an unlucky day so why oh i didn't know that tell me more the family curse uh so we i don't know my mom just always me, oh, June 30th is the bad day. June 30th is the bad day. Well, the more you say that, the more it probably makes it true, too. Which is great. I don't know if there were multiple family tragedies on June 30th, but I do know my great grandpa died on June 30th.

And I never, I never met him. He died actually when my, my grandpa was like 10 years old so i never even had a chance at meeting him but because of that my grandpa always hated june 30th obviously and so he always just said like oh don't ever do anything on june 30th it's like a cursed day it's an unlucky day and now it's just created this cycle yeah it's spread throughout the family fulfilling prophecy well it nothing to me has ever happened on june 30th but i saw a fucking wood hello we're not there yet i do celebrate though because apparently it's a family tradition this comes out this is scheduled to come out the day

after so can you imagine like oh we're like ha ha ha and this comes out and everyone's like oh no oh actually yeah that does terrify me something happened to us yesterday folks um don't blame us it was june 30th so i don't know if it just happens if we get canceled it's just because it's an unlucky day you know what i like to think too i know it's not technically like gemini season's over i know we i or is it no it is over already yeah oh yeah but um uh yeah june 30th for some other reasons got some bad stuff to it and my mom actually like had to sit with herself on it because she ended up getting married to my stepdad on june 30th oh that's right i did know that i was gonna say i feel

like i've heard this kind of fun fact about you but it's because you told me about their wedding and i was like what a mysterious choice she's made to get married on her unlucky day the family was like are you sure are you sure you want to do this how bad could it go if could he leave you they're still together actually the wedding was fun and great not um marriage but dating i think this is 10 years for them so congrats you know this is blazing my tenure as well oh wow you and my mom have something special in common that's right um but i'm not gonna reach out to her on june 30th to wish her i just don't want to get involved you know what i mean that's fair yeah i'll reach out the day after just in case which is today happy july everybody we made it i hope do you have any

plans in july you're looking forward to um we got some beach shoes sandy tours baby if you haven't checked it out come see us guys we really we have a couple east coast shows coming up um this month and i'm so excited i think like now that we're recording this i finally have done a couple of the shows and it is just like so much freaking fun and it's like i don't know it's just been like really chill and fun well uh so i know you've got a dc show right around the time i'm supposed to head home so are you gonna go i'm gonna cry i'm gonna pee my pants out of fear no out of excitement oh okay then yeah then yes if it was out of fear then then no. Oh my God. Wait, I'm so happy. Are you serious?

Yeah. Oh my God. You just made my whole day. That's bananas. We have such different responses. I know that. If you told me you were coming to anything, I'd be like, oh my God, I think I'm just going to have to cancel the whole show.

That's very, very mighty kind as my mother would say well i was looking at the dates and i just i i couldn't swing any of them and then i felt really bad but i saw a dc one and i planned on going to the east coast anyway so i'm just gonna use your show as about it i'm just gonna use it as a reason to go oh my god i'm so thrilled like you have no idea oh you just made my whole July. Okay. So that makes me happy. Oh, good. Happy July. I hope that July goes very well for you.

You as well, Em. Are you going to just be chilling, maxing, relaxing? Technically. I will be put in the same space for, I'll be, you know, not traveling as much. Right, right. So yes. But it's like a very busy month for me. I have my anniversary.

I've got a friend coming into town. Or, no, when this comes out, a friend's already come into town. And then I have another friend coming into town. And then I'm going home. To see family and friends. Right. To see family and friends. And me.

So I'm only traveling once, but it's, like, the long haul cross-country that's a bit and it's a big trip it's not like a weekend like you're gonna be gone for a few weeks right really indefinitely i still don't know when i'll be coming back but um i will be recording from uh the homestead the whole homestead so anyway okay well i hope everyone else has a happy july if you understand like you and i can't stop smiling i'm so happy right now i am so happy you've just made me so happy uh you're giving me an ego boost by being so happy that i'll be near you um i'm so excited no one's ever been so excited for me to be in a room with them that's very lovely same venue that you and i did like years ago when linda took a limo to the show oh i could do you know we could do a repeat i could

carry that tradition if you'd like i was just telling my brother because i was like our dc show um at this at the i think it's dc improv um linda we we were in the green room we knew linda was coming we didn't know the extent of her travel accommodations, aka the limo filled with booze and all her friends. So we were in the green room and the security guy opened the door and was like, listen, I'm so sorry to bother you. But there's a group of people who just came in holding solo cups. And, you know, we don't allow outside alcohol. Is there a way you want me to handle this?

And Em goes, like, looks at me and Eva and goes, I'll handle this. Sir, I think that's my mother uh that sounds pretty much on brand for something she would do so uh if you could just tell her to please get the solo cups out of here um she can buy her own drinks he was like oh it's your family do you need us to make an exception you were like nope just tell her to get those solo cups what a nice version of that story because i remember crying backstage but i know it was very very stressful overwhelming for you so um i will say that was the uh that was the show where deirdre was our security in a juicy velour jumpsuit that's right so if you need me to bring

pregnant deirdre yeah pregnant cool mom deirdre come on this time she is a cool mom so those hormones yes she is literally and those hormones will be on our side you know just like defending us yeah so um if you need me to bring additional security i can bring her if she wants to come only of course but i can also bring open containers of alcohol and then tell them i'm with the talent so they have to let me do it and then I can pretend I don't know you it'll be so fun yeah it'll be just like last time um just like old days uh oh so anyway I hope everyone has less chaotic of a some uh July as we do I hope you're getting some good R&R just rest rest it up just chillaxing guys and um and other than that we've got just to kick it off for you

we have some good stories so yes and uh eva said m goes first this time which is exciting i don't think i've gone first for a while maybe a while maybe it's been literally since the last time we did it might be two months but it feels like it's been a while um and so you go sorry my microphone keeps falling and i feel like it every time i move i keep on falling oh my microphone can sing beautifully by the way um sorry it keeps falling it makes like a farting sound when i fix it so i apologize that's me oh yeah that's um throw you under the bus anyway so you go first and eva said it's like a summer smorgasbord which is it's delightful what a way to describe it yeah i wish i like a summer smorgasbord, which is delightful.

What a way to describe it. Yeah. I wish I had a summer smorgasbord right in front of me. Yeah, I as well. I as well. Okay. So this, oh, I already love it because we have a double pronoun writing in today. This is Nikki who uses she, they pronouns.

Thank you for normalizing pronouns. This is Nikki, who uses she, they pronouns. Thank you for normalizing pronouns. And Nikki's title to the email is Psychic Dream University of Toronto Love Story. What? All those words are overwhelming to me. I know. Well, so I did just cover the ghosts of University of Toronto.

So I wonder if that has anything to do with this. Yes. Okay. Hi, everyone. Longtime listener and second time writer i heard m's story about the ghosts of ut and realized that i also have a paranormal psychic story about the school this is a bit of a long one and requires some context though so hopefully it's worth it about nine years ago when i was 17 i started a minimum wage summer job as a ride attendant at a cedar fair owned amusement park called canada's wonderland wow i wish i was there oh my haven't we read oh i think

maybe zany and i've read reviews of that place it sounds really i think so it sounds really familiar how were the reviews because i sure want to go i think it was a review where a guy like lost his kid and then it was not sad. It was like funny. Like it's hard to explain, but he was just very angry. So but I'm sure that wouldn't happen to you. So don't worry. I don't probably have a great time as long as I'm not like with Leona. I think I certainly can avoid the losing again.

I started a minimum wage summer job at Canada's Wonderland about an hour and a half north of Toronto. There I worked as a roller coaster. I can't read today. I'm so sorry. I worked as a roller coaster. Good. Congratulations. I have two pronouns and I identify as a roller coaster.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. What's next? People are going to start identifying as roller coasters is that what we want in society oh now that it's july 1st i do guess pride month is over so i don't get to make the same jokes yeah we just mock everyone relentlessly i know now everyone's back to mocking me uh there i worked at a roller coaster called vortexortex and met one of my coworkers, Beatrice. She was a year older, way cooler than me, and a million times better at her job than I was.

And within a couple weeks, I had the biggest crush on her. Ooh la la. For the rest of the summer, we spent a lot of time and got pretty close. But I was very aware of the fact that I could never confess my feelings because she didn't reciprocate. And we were both going our separate ways in the fall for school. I was going to a school in Toronto called Ryerson University, and she was going to move back to her dorm on the other side of the country at University of BC. No.

I really, you know, there is something to be said about a summer love. And I think an amusement park summer love summer love sorry my microphone's singing again i'm a roller coaster she really said it's singing time she said i'm the karaoke girl here i'm so sorry uh there is something about a summer love, especially the theme of an amusement park summer love just feels so perfect. It does. It feels timeless almost. Like it could go all the way back to like Coney Island.

Yeah. But like still works today. It's beautiful. But after some heartfelt goodbyes and several months into the school year, I had this dream. I was never one to believe in ghosts, the paranormal, psychics, etc. But one night I dreamt that I went over to UT, which is about 20 minutes away, and was sitting in a lecture hall, room 252, and saw Beatrice two rows down from me. I had never been to UT before, definitely hadn't snuck into a lecture hall before, and didn't even know if a room 252 ever existed, but I felt some sort of psychic pull to it. So in the morning, I blew off

my lecture and snuck into the university with a friend of mine. We discovered that room 252 did in fact exist, and it looked just like it did in my dream. We sat at the back of the lecture hall as to not draw any attention to ourselves and two rows down, there she was. No. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me or something, but it turned out that Beatrice had transferred schools partway through the semester because she wanted to be closer to home.

She saw me and I used being a photography major as an excuse to ask her to model some pictures. Oh, you are smooth all of a sudden. That's what the kids are calling the riz, I think. Oh my. And the rest was history. I asked her to marry me at the roller coaster we worked at. Shut the fuck up.

Are you serious right now? And we're planning on getting married in the fall and i told her about the dream about a year ago and about a year into our relationship and even her sciencey engineer brain can't explain it but we're both glad i skipped my lecture that day and glad she went to hers was she wondering though like why you were at a university of toronto lecture hall like since weren't a student there? Probably. It sounds like Nikki is cool with a little white lie.

Oh, right. Can just kind of be like, oh, no, this is for my photography project. Did I mention I'm a photographer? I am seeking a model. By the way, here's my camera right now. And we should take some pictures, but also not on campus because I don't actually go here.

And I'm actually being escorted off the property um and also i forget oh right she was saying that uh they're they're a that she's a um engineering right yeah so i'm like you're like i'm a photography major in this engineering lecture for i promise i have a good reason it's like of all the classes to like slip into you have there's very little overlap there for you that's what i thought huh well thank you nikki for that story do you what a mystery do you have any stories like that where you have a pull like to something and you don't know why but it ends up leading into something great like a pull like um to a physical place that's a great question do you well i think i do oh what is it and what's interesting is i also remember the room number because it was and it was so theirs was two hers was 252 mine was 257

no it wasn't isn't that the craziest what do you mean what is it it was the first day of college and i had some sort of feeling uh where i was looking at my i couldn't tell if i was in the right class or not or no it wasn't even class it was um orientation where like you had to go somewhere for they were just going to teach you about like you got into college and now this is what you're gonna learn when you get here and i was supposed to go into a different room and they assigned me a different like they broke us up in a chunk so we would there enough of us would be in the same room and um if anyone's from cnu it was mcmurray in 257 but i wasn't supposed to be in that. I was supposed to be in a different chunk of people.

But I remember looking at that room and I remember seeing 257 and even remembering in that moment, remember the number to this room because this room is going to be what changes your life. And I was like, what? And I remember feeling like I had just such a weird gut feeling about it. And I knew somehow it was going to be like the long game. Like I was going to meet someone there who was going to kind of just take me on the right course. And I ended up sitting next to my very first girlfriend. And because just the way that the butterfly effect works, it's not like she changed my life. Sorry if you're listening.

In a nice way, there's more to it on top of that. works um it's not like she changed my life sorry if you're listening you do not totally in a nice way there's more to it on on top of that um but by being with her butterfly effect led me to my next girlfriend which led me to my next girlfriend which led me to moving to los angeles which led me to meeting you by the way which led to this yeah well i thought oh okay i see yeah so i just and i know that could just be like yeah that's, by the way, which led to this. Yeah, well, I thought, oh, okay, I see, yeah. So I just, and I know that could just be like, yeah, that's how just the course of time goes. But I remember just thinking like, like I know if I hadn't met her.

Yeah. Absolutely, I would, things would have not gone the way that they did. Right. There's just the only way everything else would have happened is if like I had the canon event of like meeting that one person. And I wouldn't have if I didn't go into that room. And I know it's kind of like hippy dippy and a million people, probably Nikki's partner,

who's an engineer and could be like, that's so stupid. But I remember. But also they did get married. So if you had married that person, it would be a better story because you could be like, and then I met my future partner, future spouse that's true but uh you know it's it was just i remember thinking like this is going to put me on the trajectory i'm supposed to be on i love that i always vote listen to that feeling yeah it was just a even if it didn't lead to anything i would still remember wow that was a weird thing to think about i have to remember this room i love that the room was so close to

this one too that's weird what about you do. I have to remember this room. I love that the room was so close to this one, too. That's weird. What about you? Do you ever have any, just any gut feeling where it ended up working out? Yeah, I often have gut feelings. I actually feel like I regularly, if I have two options, I just try to go with my gut every time. And I feel very content and happy with where life is.

So I like to think that all those little gut feelings kind of bring you in the right direction. I also like you know what I like about us too is that we've always had the same gut feelings about our own stuff and it's always been right. And we trust each other's which I love. Like if one of us says like I have a feeling about this we

don't we just say okay. Yeah. We are on the same page then. There are times we've gone well then that's what we're doing or OK, I'll stay the fuck away from that too. Right. Exactly. Like we we have had moments where even I was like so embarrassed, but I was like. I can't I don't want to do this. I don't want to go to this place that we're supposed to go to. Yeah, I have like just a bad, bad feeling. And then Eva chimed in and said, you know, I also don't have a good feel. So it was kind of it's you know, it happens even in times where it's inconvenient. But I think there's something really special about having gut feelings that you

can trust. But then to meet someone else whose gut feelings are aligned with yours is crazy. Because so true. I never have to explain anything to you which is one of my favorite things about our friendship is like yeah we just our gut feelings ride or die with each other true i don't think about that enough but yeah that's that's that's huge um and i think that that's served us pretty well so yeah well thank you nikki for your story and the tangents that ensue we made it about ourselves as usual um yeah well yeah well how sorry are we i've said sorry what am i canadian uh i'm sorry i'm a roller coaster what can i say so this is oh boy sorry this is from diego he him and it's called aliens in the south

oh i'm excited oh that's why ev Eva wanted me to read the other story. Well, first you got Canada, right? Yeah, that's a good point. And then you got Aliens. Okay. Hello, y'all. I just wanted to start off by saying that I love you both. You guys make the days go by faster, and I always look forward to your episodes.

I work in IT, and when it's slow, I love listening to you both while I'm at the desk. Anyway, enough about you guys. Now it's my story. Diego knew we would talk forever before we got to his story. He's like, he probably had a gut feeling his was next and we were just delaying it. He does say just kidding. So we'll forgive you. I live in Texas around the southern point.

And at the time I lived with my parents in their farmhouse. We lived on about seven acres of land and were located somewhat on the outskirts of the city not in the middle of nowhere but kind of in the quiet part of the town it was giving very much little house on the prairie like there is a walmart and heb around the street but we lived behind all that if that makes sense so you get like best of both worlds like little house on the prairie but like oh shit i'm out of i need 45 eggs oh well walmart's right down the street perfect that's perfect um moving on my boyfriend would come over pretty much every day and would leave around 12 a.m each night to head back to his house since we both had college classes the next day one night in 2020 just like

every night he said his goodbyes and took off from my driveway and started his drive back to his house. No more than five minutes later, he called me in a panic, saying that there was what appeared to be a UFO hovering above the street he was driving on. What the F? I love how he's like, I'm going to call my boyfriend. I feel like I would call the National Guard. Who would you call? I don't know. 911. I have no idea. The Air Force air force actually i'd probably call you or blaze like so i guess that's a fair point like i think

in a panic i would just call you or blaze yeah um or maybe my mom i don't know i think in fear i just usually call my mom or at least in an alien situation i feel like you only want to call someone who's gonna believe you because if you call anyone with any authority, I feel like they'd just be like, no, you didn't click. Exactly. Like, what are they going to do? Really? Yeah. And then the men in black are going to show up at your house. Like, I don't have time for that. Yeah, it's too messy. Too messy. Exactly. To give a little backstory, we are both entertained by the idea of the paranormal and cryptids. But we understand that most of these tales are just lore. But nonetheless, we like to keep a positive mindset while also being somewhat realistic. That being said,

when he called saying there was a UFO hovering in the sky, it took me a minute to make sense of what he was saying. As we were on the phone, he then proceeded to FaceTime me to show me what he was seeing, while also saying that I needed to step outside since it was close to my house. I'd be like, fuck no, you record it for me and i'll watch it later their gut feelings are not aligned i don't know that's so true that's so true as i step outside or maybe they are because it sounds like he was fucking thrilled to walk outside underneath the ufo as i step outside i look out into the sky and in the distance sure enough is this huge triangle shaped craft with some lights slowly hovering away.

That's fucking terrifying. From my point of view, it was slowly hovering away from my house. But from my boyfriend's point of view, it was just slowly flying down the street. It was not super high in the sky either. Just about four telephone poles high. As we FaceTime, you can see the craft slowly over this busy street having its flashing lights just flickering. I hope somebody screen recorded this. guys gotta screen record it cars on the same road as my boyfriend started to pull over i love that validation and start to record this craft as

it's just hovering taking its time to fly in one direction the weird part oh i just got goose camp the weird part was that there was no noise coming from the craft just total silence that seems to be how it goes and i hate it every time that and it's so unsettling like defies our planets yeah whatever like whatever or yeah it's doing something where their technology is stealth mode every time it's so creepy especially when the thing is like right over you yeah like i can't we can't get through a recording without an airplane flying over us but these people can just do it so quiet fly a football field above someone's house and make no noise we thought maybe a drone or some type of military aircraft but where we live it would make no sense to have either of

those objects in the air like why would there be military aircraft in a neighborhood as my boyfriend and other onlookers are stunned to see this huge craft fly in the air without any warning it just stops and then starts to hover faster away now in an upward direction into the sky i've heard that too that it just stops and like shoots off yeah and that's i again i'm not saying anything nobody that i'm not saying anything that we don't know right now but there's something about like again defying physics you're like you don't even need a launch off you just like the tic tac where it just kind of like went in directions that like physically we're not able to manufacture like oh yeah exactly no more than a few minutes later it went into the dark skies without a trace. It was super weird until this day.

We still talk about it. Oh, wait, does that mean you're still together? Aw. Aw! My boyfriend got the firsthand experience and still mentions how quiet it was, even though it was so close to the ground. He also mentioned how in a weird way he could feel as if there were things watching from the craft.

I feel like for every way that they're able to cloak themselves there's always the sense that they can see you like i feel the same way and it feels it feels like that has to be intentional i guess that's true if it's intentional that makes more sense like i can't i can't sense your plane i can't hear it it. Right. But I can feel your stupid eyes. Your dumb little eyes watching me. Yeah. That's like a threat tactic. Yeah. I could cloak everything if I wanted to, but you're going to know that I'm thinking of you.

But I can see you. Yeah. He also mentioned how in a weird way he could feel as if there were things watching from the craft, almost like watching from above. If you are interested, I do have a video of the craft. Come on. Where is it? Why did we start with that? Is it not attached here?

Okay. Eva, is it attached? I'm going to scream. If you're interested. Yeah, we are. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. I do have a video of the craft since I knew no one would believe what we saw.

I began to screen record the FaceTime call. Excellent. Oh, come on on i knew it yeah listen i knew diego and i had the same feelings about this okay uh i'm so glad you were smart enough to screen record so i began to screen record the facetime calls proof i hope you both end up reading this and shout out to eva who by the way is now harassing you for that video probably so yeah yes goodbye man okay well Diego um I am glad to not be you let's be clear I'm glad to know you and not be you yeah I'm glad to hear it secondhand um but I do hope you're okay and I hope you haven't felt anything staring

at you I would be so paranoid you know what's wild because a lot of times at night not so much these days I think I'm in like a less active place than the one I grew up in. But so many times in my life, I grew up with that ghost in my room, feeling like something was staring at me, like its face, like our noses were touching. The second I see a UFO, that I never think about a ghost again. If I feel like something's staring at me i'm always paranoid it's the craft coming back yeah great point like they're watching especially if it already gave you that feeling when you just saw the craft like i feel like any time from then on you'd just assume they were back and even if you were just like having like a day of anxiety and you're like i feel like someone's looking at me i would be i would just now officially always it's like every time you get that kind of hair on the back of your neck like that tingle you'd be like oh no are they coming back for me i would live the rest of my life paranoid yeah it's sorry diego i didn't mean to make you feel that way but i guess more maybe

if it were more like a one-on-one experience with an alien i would be convinced yeah it's one of those things where i think you don't realize how insidious the trauma is about to be and then yeah and all of a sudden christine explain it to you, Diego. And then you're like, wait a second. I hope up until this moment, you didn't have that kind of fear. Me too. I also hope we didn't just give you instill it in you. Yeah.

Okay. Well, anyway, thank you for your story. The next one is from Nolan. He him. This is the first time I think we've ever had two he hims in a row. You're probably right. That's a great point. Our demographics are not usually geared toward shifting, shifting. He hims. Yeah. So this is very vague.

Just as wicked cryptid and Boston. I don't know. It sounds like Kentucky is coming up. Oh, OK. All right. Your neck of the woods. I hope you're all doing well thank you i have a story that is not my personal account but one that has been told by my family my entire life including my uncle grandma and great aunt i never met my uncle knew i loved animals and cryptids even as a child so he would frequently retell his experience whenever i asked and this is what he would say our family hails from kentucky and southeastern ohio oh uh oh southeastern ohio yeah way out in the sticks allegedly i was about to say i don't think i've ever been to that part of the state because it's like so random and out there that's like how

there's virginia and west virginia but western virginia oh is a different thing right and nobody knows what's going on over there it's the real skinny part out of right it's like just out there yeah yeah we're just we're just like whoever that is you're basically your own state hope you're having fun over there yeah yeah yeah our family house from kentucky and southeastern ohio and in the 1960s my uncle and grandma went to visit an aunt that lived in southeastern ohio deep in the woods in a bermed house a house that was built into the side of a hill i didn't know that was called a bermed house i didn't either my uncle was young at the time around 10 years old and decided to go hunting for squirrels to eat for dinner.

Yum, that's very Kentucky. Let's you know where they are. He had been gone for several hours and decided to stop for a drink from a small creek in a hollow. Wow, it just keeps getting more southern. I'm sorry, a holler? Is that what we're saying? I feel like we might as well lean into it, down by the holler. Well, it says in a hollow, a.k.a. a small valley, a.k.a. a holler. Okay, there we go. Okay, see? He's on it. So Kentucky's rubbing off on Christine, is what I just learned. Clearly.

After taking a drink and resting for several minutes, he heard a noise from across the creek that drew his attention. As he looked toward the noise he saw a huge black form oh he described it as being massive covered in thick black hair standing on two legs and long arms the thing my uncle would always emphasize is how massive the chest was at least four or five feet wide what the fuck my uncle never did estimate how tall the beastie i almost said bestie his new bestie my uncle never did estimate how tall the beastie was because before he could get a look at the creature's face my uncle bolted back towards the house hoping to find safety my uncle did not look back and he did not hear any footfalls behind him. And unfortunately, the story does not end there.

Oh, unfortunately for him. Fortunately for us, there's more. That's the one. Yeah. Later that night, after the sun went down, my uncle, grandma and great aunt had eaten dinner. I assume no barbecue squirrel. Yum. And we settled in for the night everyone was abruptly awoken to the sound of something

repeatedly slamming into the side of their house oh no oh no and your first thought is it's an intruder yeah i mean mine would be yeah for sure into the side of the house and then the roof so something's now on the roof and then the front door all at the same time wait what how long is this thing's arms yeah right in the berm the chest being at least four to five feet wide that's a very small guess it's actually a gorilla like a big old gorilla godzilla king kong um but yeah so the side of the house the roof and the door all getting slammed into all at the same time that is not like poltergeisty it does feel yeah then began the howls and screams and growling that were coming from every direction oh my god oh no oh no oh so

there's like a group of them presumably or i don't know maybe it's one of those like mountain cryptids where it's just like it just screams and you don't know what direction it's coming from. Yeah, the confusion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The situation continued to intensify, which inspired that my great aunt grabbed the double barrel shotgun and sat in a rocking chair facing the front door, just waiting for whatever may come. So scary scary but so badass of your grandma so kentucky or just like i'll just sit here and wait with my shotgun but you come to me yeah at some point in the night the activity died away and things became calm again when my family exited the house the next morning there was damage to the house and various things

on the property but worst of all several of the i'm so sorry barn cats and dogs were dead and mutilated around the property oh no oh no so whatever it was certainly doesn't sound human no and it doesn't sound very nice no so like if if you didn't have the house protecting you or your great aunt with a shotgun at the door, if they were doing that to small animals, I don't know. That's horrific. A lovely family story to pass on to child me, right? My grandma would refuse to tell me this story except to say that it was one of the scariest moments of her life. And my uncle will always retell this consistent story to me. So I leave it up to you to make your own decision. But if you ask me, I think Bigfoot is real. scariest moments of her life and my uncle will always retell this consistent story to me so i

leave it up to you to make your own decision but if you ask me i think bigfoot is real i think twice before saying no and i appreciate you all for everything you do and wish you many blessings and don't fuck with bigfoot's pet squirrels oh my god that's i mean i don't even know what to say to that it's one of those moments where like you can talk about cryptids all day long and be like oh maybe they're real maybe they're not but like something did damage to all sides of your house and killed the barn animals like that's crazy that on the same day that you saw it yeah which also means to me that it's somewhat like intelligent that it must know how to find you but how come it didn't just break down the door if it can like mutilate a dog you know what i mean why why did

it just like flick a window and bust through i wonder i wonder if maybe it was just trying to scare them or i mean if you really if it really didn't want you to mess with squirrels which i don't know if that's the whole reason but maybe maybe it was like, well, then I'll mess with your animals. With your pets? Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. Hmm. That's an uncomfortable story, especially being so close to me.

I feel like I always think of Bigfoot as being up in the Pacific Northwest or like way out, you know, but that's only a couple hours for me. I don't love it. Ugh. The plot twist is like, maybe your uncle or great aunt,

they were like, they owed money to some big people and it was just actually a group of people, but they were like, no, no, no, it was Bigfoot. It was Bigfoot. You remember you saw that furry thing by the creek? Yeah.

Yeah, I guess. You were 10. No, I don't know what it is, but all I know is that's creepy and I don't envy that experience that sounds really really horrid um okay so the next one i have is from a she her and the subject is my dead oh no my dead patient follows me home bye oh bye indeed and a government conspiracy oh my god what a twist okay hi i'm christine eva geo all

petrified fruits and creepy cryptid connoisseurs i am a 23 year old nurse who wishes to go by a i am team milkshake although being violently lactose intolerant smiley face been there yeah you have i absolutely love your podcast and it's gotten me through lots of long night shifts in the hospital i always feel that i've got great company when listening to y'all. I've been debating on writing this in for a while, but I thought maybe writing out what happened would help me process these situations I'm about to tell you. I have two stories, and the first one is a long one, so I apologize in advance. Let's crack into it. For context, I've always had a connection to the spiritual realm my whole life.

My mom has the gift of being able to hear and see spirits, and I can hear and feel spirits occasionally being able to see them. A few months ago I was taking care of a patient in their last days of life. I had taken care of the patient the day before and they had been expected to pass on the next shift so I was surprised to come in the next day and see they were still there when I got into the unit. At the start of my shift I stepped into the patient's room to tell the family I was there for them if they needed. And upon my initial assessment of the room, the spiritual vibe of the family was very uncomfortable. And the spiritual vibe of the patient felt really heavy with anger and resentment. Oh, no. Oh, I don't like that. I had been in the room for maybe 10 seconds before i noticed the red flashing on his

heart monitor the patient's heart had stopped and they died right then what the fuck their family looked at me with teary eyes and hugged me as they said oh no why oh no okay i'm just gonna read it their family looked at me with teary eyes and hugged me as they said they waited for you they must have wanted to thank you for all of your care but immediately i felt extremely uncomfortable so basically died 10 seconds upon you walking into the room and felt like they were waiting for you oh Oh, no. You know what? I think in a moment of intense grief, maybe you're willing to believe anything. Yeah, that's fair.

Fast forward again to me being home that night and telling my husband about what had happened. My husband is not spiritual at all and told me not to worry. What a man thing to say. Yeah, thanks so much. Indeed. Well, that night at about 3 a.m my husband woke me up asking me to check under the bed or around our bedroom for one of our cats we kicked them out at night because they are hellions he told me that he had felt something run across the bed and then heard

something fall off of our dresser long story short there was no cat in the bedroom i tried to rationalize it and force myself to drift back into sleep about 10 minutes later all of the items oh my god on my bedside table and our dresser slowly started falling off onto the floor one by one oh absolutely i just would leave the home and never return oh my god one by one god so bad it's not like something bumped it and they all fell it's like intentionally loving the theatrics of it like it's so dramatic if you're gonna be a ghost you're like um we're not doing this without a little razzle dazzle so i want to stretch this out as long as possible yeah yeah yeah oh my gosh sorry um i squeezed my eyes shut

and flinched at hearing every item slowly hit the floor i opened my eyes cautiously and directed my gaze to the corner of the room a black misty figure that was about eight feet tall with freakishly long limbs at its side was staring at me what the oh my god i immediately knew that it was the spirit of my patient who had died that day wow this is scaring me i felt the anger and resentment from the figure and i had no reaction except to tell the figure that i was so sorry the figure stayed there for a good four or five minutes okay on minute two i'd be like i need to do something i don't know what to do except i would be like well yeah i've already said my piece and you're still there i'd be like so it's so anyway it's been lovely i think it's time we

head out i think what's that midwest thing where they like where they always let you go i don't like where they like slap their laps and they're like well well well i'm out of here i felt the anger and resentment and i had no reaction except to tell the figure that i was so sorry the figure stayed there for a good four or five minutes but ended up leaving i've never had another experience like that and i hope i never do and so that's the first story but like i'm like why are they so mad at you what did you do yeah i wonder if i don't know well maybe because they're spiritually sensitive like maybe because a is spiritually sensitive the patient had the anger and resentment already maybe toward their family or toward like unfinished business in

life and like kind of latched on to you like that latched onto you because you're spiritually open and like you needed someone to recognize it i mean i want to know if that thing ever came back or was it just the one night well it said that they never had another experience like that so yeah but again talk about like some insidious trauma because every night officially i'd be like it could happen again every time your hellion cat knocked something over i'd be like oh my god especially like people like you and evo where you're like oh if i ever hear a sound i can blame it on my cat it's like now now if it's my cat i'm like what the hell else is going on exactly i blame it on the eight foot shadow figure i wonder if it's like his anger and resentment like manifested into a creature like that you know what I mean it's a lot of anger yeah well I don't know I maybe there was like a family thing

like a family something following the family I have no idea oh yeah maybe it was attached to the person and then when they died it latched on to you yeah like it didn't know where else to go and it just attached to the next vulnerable person oh that's spooky to think about anyway whatever story whatever you did to get rid of it well done because it sounds like it never came back it sounds like you had a very polite conversation and it was like well i guess i gotta go i'd be like i look i'm loving the energy but this is just like not gonna work for for me. The timing is not ideal. The theatrics are great, but the rest. Yeah, exactly.

Okay, so this one's shorter. It says my second story. So my husband is in the U.S. Space Force, parentheses, yes, it's a real thing. For some background, my husband deals with some pretty serious and mysterious things that I don't understand and don't want to understand, quite frankly. So whenever we have serious conversations about things, we turn off all phones and electronics in the house. Oh, I love this already.

You connect the dots there. Anyways, one day while he was at work, I was at home alone making some lunch and listening to, and that's why we drink, because what the hell else would I listen to when I'm home alone and emotionally vulnerable? LOL in all caps. This particular day, I was listening to the episode on the AA tip. What was that again? The aeronautical.

We just talked about it in a recent episode. It was. I don't remember what it stands for, but I do know they were. The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. There it is. And they were involved in the TIC-TAC. Yes. Yeah.

Right. I was listening to the episode on... How do you say it? AATIP? AATIP? Maybe. I just kept calling it the AATIP, but I'm not on the Space Force. For some reason, I thought you had...

You're not? Yeah. For some reason, I thought you had a cool name for it but i might i was probably imagining that a tip makes sense sounds right but i don't know um okay this particular day i was listening to the episode on the advanced you know whatever protection no you know are you you've heard that their their thing the a tip i was about 20 minutes into m explaining it when i started to feel really weird for a couple seconds but couldn't explain why i'm so sorry i know i'm like i'm glad this is m's fault not mine immediately after i got this feeling my phone shut completely off along with all oh my god

all of the other electronics in my house and my electricity turned off what What? I did that? Wow, my ego. You're so powerful. I'm divine. That's terrifying. And I wonder, my immediate thought, which I'm sure is not realistic, my immediate thought is that your husband heard

and pressed the- The emergency shut off. The panic button and was like shut it down shut it down my guess is that whoever he works for has ears in all the employees places you know what i mean yeah but you would think if it was something i was saying that freaked someone in the government out they would have already reached out to us and been like that maybe it's not that advanced like they know where it's from maybe they're just recording the audio on the phone and then they hear aeronautical whatever protection and alien or something and it's just like all right code red i don't know i don't know

um so it says even my apple watch that was on my wrist had turned off i don't think i've ever turned off my apple watch like i don't think i even know how to turn off my apple watch that is what bizarre oh wow this is very freaky um okay so she says cue my absolute panic everything was dark and silent for about two minutes while i stood completely still only hearing my own panicked breathing in the dark. In the dark. Oh, God. Fuck me. This is horrible.

I would even wonder if there's an alien that listens to you and was like, ooh. And just shut down all your equipment. The power and my phone did come back on, but the Spotify app would not open on my phone as if something or someone was telling me i had heard enough about the aatip to this day i have never gone back to that episode and i'm not sure i ever will i'm sure it's an amazing episode you can just skip to my crime part no i'm just kidding yeah yeah yeah i'm sure it's an amazing episode but maybe while i have a connection to the space force i'll hold off on listening i've got lots more paranormal stories all the way from a three-headed oh i wonder what happens if

you listen to this episode oh because it has like your i mean it doesn't have your name but it has like the words like government aeronautical you know whatever the hell um maybe maybe it'll happen again she's like no i don't want that that's a good experiment though maybe listen to it like somewhere other than your own home or from a different phone yeah um let's see i've got lots more paranormal stories all the way from a three-headed dog in my bedroom to a psychic stranger telling me about my future firstborn's life expectancy i don't like that i am curious but i don't like it i don't like it but tell me all about it yeah uh and then wrote but that's a story for another time it always is oh thanks a

thanks a and also sorry that apparently that's rough that's scary m i really wish there i had some explanation or like maybe it was during like a phone wide reset or something. I don't know, but that's crazy. Can I ask for a story request, like a theme request? Yeah. Can you guys email us in? And I'm sure some of you already have stories that have happened while listening to the show. And I don't mean that in like a narcissistic way, but just like I'm'm so curious about like, whether it's like conspiracy,

like governmenty or like ghosty, you know, like you're listening to the episode. That's a great, that's a great suggestion. I'm sorry. I said her name. I just,

I wanted to say in case somebody forgot, but yeah, I don't know. Just in case anybody's had something weird happen, I would love to hear about it while they're listening to the show. That's great. I have an aunt and uncle who were in the navy and they were in some like high classified something and i guess like it's i wonder if they've also had the same thing where

like maybe there's always a recording going on in their house or something because i i do know that like they're they couldn't say certain things or he couldn't say certain things to his wife the wife couldn't say certain things to him so i um i wonder if there was like any actual monitoring like some surveillance as part of the job description yeah yeah yeah it must be because otherwise shit would just get leaked so much more often i feel like yeah yeah you know it'd be a fun episode uh which we can't actually do i guess we technically could is if you and i were the anonymous writers and we just wrote our own experiences that we can't talk about on the show and we just you know what i Oh. And no one would ever know that it was actually us reacting to our own stories.

So what if one day we did that, but we won't say what month it is. And we completely make up names and pronouns for all the people. And write our own stories down. And then I'd be like, oh, this one's a double pronoun. We love a double pronoun. Oh, wow. What a special listener okay let's uh this is actually our next one is from a baby which i'm excited about

named joan and joan's story says i won't look out the window forget it i mean i won't either but i don't even have a good reason to which i'm sure you do as of today i'm never looking out a window again so um first off yes this is a pseudonym because i know people who listen to this and they can't know me is this your story did you already insert your own story into this episode maybe that's why i just pitched this to like so no one would suspect that this one's me. So I've grown up with lots of paranormal experiences and one of the biggest things that followed me, literally,

was my instinctual fear of looking out the window at night. Oh no. It started due to an old family story but came true when I had an experience as a kid. My window faced expansive woods across the road, and it was well known we saw and heard owls and planes from the local airport and military post but when i started seeing the

weird light thing darting through the trees i knew it was different oh no note this was in the early 2000s and there were no drones what was worse was when i turned around and went back to cleaning my room i got the feeling of being watched oh no this feeling stayed with me until i went across the house to where we kept my family's rosary and i was out of sight of the woods fast forward to last year i'm happily married and living in the same region but in town now so not worried about seeing spooky nature shit just as much. Just normal ghosts and shit now. I got up with my partner to make them lunch and noticed one of the streetlights shining brightly through my front door window. Oh no.

At first I thought nothing of it. Honestly thought the town had maybe finally replaced the bulbs or something. the town had maybe finally replaced the bulbs or something. But noticed, the longer I was in the kitchen, the brighter it seemed to get, and the heavier feeling I got too. When my partner got ready to leave, I asked if they noticed it,

and they said the streetlight was as dim as normal and asked if I was okay. Oh, jeez. When I looked at them, it was dim. The moment they left, though, it was back. Oh! Okay, so they did see it normally but then the second the second pair of eyes wasn't there again it's like it's intelligent of like knowing that it has to like yeah hide from other people trick people normally i go back to bed or at least meditate but that morning i had this feeling that i needed to turn off all the lights in my house and stay awake what the fuck and that if i

fell asleep something would happen oh sorry turn on all the lights and stay awake i was like why would you sit in the dark very spooky okay i felt the need to turn on all the lights and stay awake and that if i fell asleep something would would happen. I don't know. I don't know what just something bad. I followed my instincts because I have learned they are typically right. And it was the weirdest feeling when I sat in bed with every light on, feeling like the air was buzzing around me and weighed too heavy to be normal, trying to make me sleep. It was trying to make it so trying to make make, like waiting for you to fall asleep. That's horrible.

I was almost late to work that morning because I refused to even step foot near my door until it was fully light out and I have not felt it since. At least that. I mean, yeah, let's hope that stays that way. Oh my God, that's just so, to know that the air is staticky and like it gives me heavy. And they're almost trying to sedate you to get you to fall asleep. And you feel like you're being stared at. Like, what is it like if you do fall asleep? Then what?

You know, it's like the light playing tricks. Oh, God, I hate that. Also, they ended it by saying they just tried cheesecake factory and they see why we love it so much it's fucking good isn't it it's fucking good it's pretty darn tasty good um but wow thank you for that and i can see why you also want to use a different name because you maybe you feel like they can hear you now too i mean if they can see you you know that's that's not a a wild far off yeah it's not stretch i guess okay well this is a scary episode that eva planned yeah i think and then also conveniently eva had to go because she had plans so she's not even here she's not even listening on the other

side anymore she just like peaced out a minute ago which we probably shouldn't even say out loud because now i feel like whoever's listening is like okay let's roll now we can say all we've ever wanted to about her and she'll never know except when she listens to the episode oh yeah she she did an excellent job of picking scary things and then gotta go bye oops okay so this is our last one i believe this is from jalee she her it says hi i'm christine Christine Eva and all spooky and citrus friends. Oh, and the subject is I grew up at Massey College at U of T. Oh, wow. So two UT people.

Yeah, wow. Huh. My name is Jalay, and I loved hearing Em talk about U of T in the most recent episode. When I was born, my mom was a junior fellow at Massey College and stayed to do her PhD there. Massey is just as fun and weird as it sounds, with some really impressive academics in regular attendances. I've heard Nobel Prize winners,

well-known authors, and even former Bletchley Circle members. What's a Bletchley Circle member? We're about to find out because I got Google right here. I got really embarrassed. I was like, even Bletchley circle how do you spell bletchley bl bletch l-e-t-c-h oh it's a show the bletchley circle oh yeah it is a show oh it looks good oh remember i said a bunch of shows filmed there oh yeah maybe that's what

they're talking about it's a show set in 1952 i love a good period piece okay i'm gonna watch this later and even former bletchley circle members speak at events there as a kid the former masters kids would babysit me while my parents went to the events held there wait i just had a thought what if bletchley circle was a thing before the show and now we're like oh it's actors from the TV show and they're like I think that's what it is probably oh sorry that was so loud uh Susan Gray Millie Lucy and Jean worked together at Bletchley Park to decipher German military codes for the British military during World War II oh and this is so this is real no it's not that's the plot of the tv show

what a head spin i'm having right now i'm so sorry it said this is what bletchley circle is but that's also the tv show but i think it's a real thing oh it is a real thing war history i'll go to war history online.com world war ii's female code breakers in bletchley park okay so it is a real thing i'm sorry okay okay okay you just spun us out friend we had no reference we had no understanding so sorry we're so ignorant um it is my fault as a kid the former master's kids would babysit me while my parents went to the events held there but i was always allowed to go to gaudy night every year remember naughty gaudy night who could forget naughty gaudy night we still have to have a christmas party about it i can't wait

maybe we should go maybe we should go to canada come christmas have go to the naughty gaudy night i don't know yeah and talk about bletchley circle since we know so much about it we have a lot of time to learn about it that's true as a kid the former masters kids would babysit me while my parents went to events held there but I was always allowed to go to gaudy night every year and still go with mom whenever they offer extra tickets to alum and their guests gaudy night is pretty much as you described it a festive holiday dinner and ghost story night I mean it's a dream come on the former and current masters now their role has been retitled as principal still have us all gather around to hear new ghost stories each year usually they're pretty silly ones but some are downright bone chilling one of my favorites was one about a ghost dog that is

seen in the quad every so often and used to be mistaken for the former master's family dog yes i've also heard about sightings of Robertson Davies himself. In the stairwell, there's even a bust of him with a very shiny nose, as it's said to be good luck to touch the nose as you walk by. Aww. I took my mom to your last Toronto live show, as she's a big paranormal buff, and she was hooked. Wait, that's so nice.

That's very sweet. Okay, get ready. She says that if you're ever in Toronto in December, she'll happily bring you as a guest to Gaudi Night. I'm going to pee my pants. Oh my God. We have an in. I really want to go like dead serious.

We have an in. How fun would that be? We have to go to Gaudi Night. Julie, this is Antonia. It says at the end here, who I'm assuming is your mother. Please, please. We really want to go. Thataudy night julee this is antonia it says at the end here who i'm assuming is your mother please please we really want to go that's so nice to invite us i don't know why i got whiny but ah well i don't know either but i am i understand i just like wow how cool would that be i just hope they're serious you know i wonder how you dress like how festive

are we because it says gaudy so in my mind i'm dressing camp costume jewelry dolly yeah yeah what if we show up that way and everyone's just very professional we look like idiots everyone's in tuxedos and we're like okay she says if you're ever in toronto in december she'd happily bring you as a guest to gaudy night we'd both happily do a haunted walk tour with you around U of Toronto too. The ghosts there are endless. If you're ever curious about another very haunted university in Canada, you should look into where I went for my first undergrad. The University of King's College in Halifax, which has a special place in both our hearts, M.

Sure does. Is one of the oldest universities in North America. It's burned down multiple times and even has a special place in both our hearts and sure does is one of the oldest universities in north america it's burned down multiple times and even has a ghost cow oh dear so instead of boo it's moo yeah moo always happy to write in again with more details they're looking forward to hopefully seeing your next toronto show if one pops up in de, we should schedule one for December. Jalay and Tanya. Wow. You know, we should just start like telling our Andrew. We should start telling our booking agent, our Andrew.

We should start telling him that for our tour, we just want to start going to places that other people have mentioned in listener stories that they can get us ends on. Just free stuff. other people have mentioned in listener stories that they can get us ends on because free stuff i would love to have a show at massey college and then we can just like go to gaudy night after we wrap up that's literally like the most emin christine thing ever like we just want to be part of like so we'll just schedule the work around all the cool free fun shit we want to do that's it yes yes yes i i'm sure he'd be fine with that so I think it's totally normal for us to do that. For us only. For us and no one else.

Yeah. I feel so bad for everyone that works for us. They just have to roll their eyes at every moment we have an opinion. They must just have to hold their tongue all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you everyone who wrote in your stories. If for some reason this is your first time hearing a listener's episode and you want to submit your own story you can do it at our website and that's what we drink.com

and uh wow just that's a good way to kick off uh kick off july yes and if you um have stories about something that happened while listening to the podcast or you know like something spooky like you were listening to i don't know something about ufos and your phone shut off or whatever i don't know i would love to hear more stories like that because that one was so spooky that's such a good topic i don't know why we've never thought of that but i would love to i also i would love part of me is like have we but i don't think so i don't know yeah but if there's an episode where we're somehow involved in a government conspiracy and don't know it we would love to know thank you so much hit us up and i hope everyone has a great july we'll see you with more stories in august and i just uh you know hope everyone has is having a good summer so and that's why we drink