Spooky stories with crime-scene whiplash.
And That's Why We Drink runs on spooky cases, grim crime, and the kind of chatter that turns a rhombus-shaped object into a group concern. It suits listeners who want haunted places, strange lights, old scandals, and emotional whiplash without a solemn museum-tour tone.
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And That's Why We Drink is built around the pleasure of being told bad, strange, and possibly haunted stories by people who keep interrupting the dread with jokes, clarifications, and sudden sincerity. The show moves quickly. Its regular voices bounce off each other with the comfort of people who can turn a tiny wording choice into a full comic detour, then swing back into a mansion haunting or a murder case without making the turn feel false. Paranormal material is a major draw. Recent episodes include haunted homes, EVPs, spirit boxes, doppelganger children near a little league field, a ghost town hotel, unexplained lights over a road, and questions about whether a ghost can still be limited by age, injury, or memory. The true crime side is blunt and often grim. Stories about missing people, family betrayal, bodies being found, and life sentences sit beside the show’s looser banter, which gives the episodes an uneasy but recognizable texture. It can be funny. It can also get bleak. The listener-story episodes make the community feel central rather than decorative, especially when submissions bring in strange sightings, childhood woods stories, and details so specific that the conversation has to stop and inspect them from three angles. The show’s rhythm is not polished in the formal sense. It is lively, crowded, and socially fluent, with tangents about drinks, ads, astrology, moon phases, bras, snacks, and the logistics of explaining a spooky-crime podcast to a stranger. That casual sprawl helps the darker subjects feel less airless. An old speakeasy disguised as an ice cream parlor can sit near a joke about rum raisin. A haunted staircase can become both architectural clue and comic fixation. A listener’s rhombus-shaped object can become a miniature debate about geometry and terror. The result is a show for people who want paranormal and true crime stories told with warmth, speed, and a little chaos, not austere narration from behind glass. Its best moments feel like shared disbelief: the case is frightening, the details are weird, and somebody has to say exactly how weird it is.
Made for: For listeners who like true crime and paranormal stories with fast banter, messy tangents, and genuine reactions. It especially fits people who enjoy listener-submitted weirdness as much as researched haunted places and crime cases.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its quick duo chemistry and its willingness to let comedy, confusion, and seriousness coexist. Listener stories are not filler; they are part of the show’s core engine.
Murder and the paranormal finally meet! Grab your wine and milkshakes and join us every Sunday for some chilling ghost stories and downright terrifying true crime stories. The world's a scary place. And that's why we drink!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A goofy, well-observed detour through bar lore, Prohibition tricks, and duo banter.
This episode centers on the Crystal Bar and its odd little history, turning a Prohibition-era speakeasy into a strangely memorable detour. The hosts track how it was disguised as an ice cream parlor, then widen the story with a spiral staircase and a second door that let ladies…
A hovering road mystery, a timely semi horn, and a rhombus debate give this listener story its nervous spark.
A strange road sighting anchors this PlayNext listener-story review, turning a nighttime drive into a compact possible close-encounter tale. White lights, blinking blue and red lights, and a dark shape between them first read like a plane taking off, then become harder to…
A ghost-town hotel story where the numbers are as eerie as the building.
The episode follows Goldfield, Nevada, where a gold rush lifted the place from nothing to 30,000 people in eight years, then left it falling to 5,000 by 1910 and about 1,500 by 1920.
A familiar field turns uncanny when a figure in the woods refuses to make sense.
This single-episode review finds its charge in a little league field that should feel safe, then keeps asking what was moving at the edge of it.
EVPs, a stair-bound ghost, and a 28-room mansion keep the episode humming.
The episode's ghost-story segment keeps its focus on a mansion haunting built around EVPs, including one that sounds like "Melville." It follows investigators asking a presence to identify itself, then weighing voices that seem to point to an adult woman and a little kid, along…
A listener's murder story lands heavily before Eliza steers the room toward astrology.
Listener Stories: Vol. 112 featuring Eliza starts in a grim place, with Mimi's death at the center of a listener account that is hard to shake.
Mary E. Hart's cemetery legend turns into a chatty, uneasy spiral about death, folklore, and the fear of being wrong.
And That's Why We Drink spends this chapter on Mary E. Hart, shaping a cemetery legend into something more uneasy than tidy. The hosts let the discussion circle around funerals, pulses, and the fear of being wrong at exactly the wrong moment, which gives the episode its…
A cat, a deer, and a suspiciously slow orb fuel a warm, funny paranormal debate.
Listener-submitted hauntings shape this single-episode review, starting with a cat seemingly locked onto something its owner cannot see and moving to Ring camera footage of a deer and a strangely slow orb.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Hosts Christine and Em present listener-submitted alien and UFO encounter stories for April Fool's Day.
Hosts Em and Christine welcome guest Roz Hernandez for a listener stories episode featuring spooky videos and photos.
The host apologizes for releasing a live episode instead of a regular one due to illness during Thanksgiving, explains future scheduling changes, and thanks listeners for their support.
The hosts discuss the passage of time in March 2026 and introduce a segment of listener stories submitted by patrons.
This episode features a live comedy show at The Brooklyn Bell House where the hosts banter about weather differences between LA and New York, engage with the audience, and introduce a drinking game.
Christine and Emma open the Listener Stories: Vol.
They spend a long stretch on the Crystal Bar and why it still feels like a story worth telling.
And That’s Why We Drink: Listener Stories: Vol.
Goldfield, Nevada gets the full run.
The hosts discuss how to describe their true crime podcast to others, settling on vague terms like 'bad stuff' or 'spooky, creepy things' to avoid overwhelming people with details.
The host shares a personal story about being asked about their mattress, leading to a sponsored promotion for Helix Sleep mattresses and a humorous tangent about Shake Shack.
Hosts Christine and Em open "And That's Why We Drink" by reading listener-submitted full moon stories, a topic requested by a patron named Bea.
The conversation keeps circling a haunted house already crowded with ghost logic.
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The hosts open on a cemetery story centered on Mary E.
This episode features a discussion on OCD and mental health, highlighting specialized ERP therapy and treatment options through NoCD.
The host excitedly recounts a whirlwind 24-hour trip to Canada, fulfilling a childhood dream and sharing humorous personal anecdotes about the experience.