Drink about something

A peppermint coffee in hand and a heavy story on our minds, we sit down to revisit the kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell and the decisions that failed her. This raw, unedited recap cuts through the noise to look at how a repeat sex offender moved through the system, why “good behavior” behind bars can be a dangerous metric, and what it takes for a grieving family to turn los...

A cozy holiday hang—warming up vocals, trading birthday plans, laughing about sweaters—becomes a stark lesson in vigilance when we turn to the kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell. That tonal whiplash is intentional: joy is what we’re protecting, and Sarah’s story shows how quickly comfort can fracture when a predator knows the spare key and the routines inside a home. We trace...

A Christmas singalong turns into a hard pivot, and for good reason: we’re stepping into one of the South’s most contested cases, the death of Kendrick Johnson, a 17-year-old athlete found upside down in a rolled gym mat at Lowndes County High School. The official story says accident. The details refuse to cooperate. We walk through the timeline with clear eyes—how the mats were stored, where the s...

A Hollywood mystery collides with holiday chaos and neon-soaked nostalgia. We start by unpacking the Natalie Wood story from the ground up: a child star shaped by a mother’s ambition, a career that paid the family’s bills, and a haunting “dark water” warning that framed her fears. Then the weekend that won’t let go—Catalina Island, a yacht called the Splendor, broken glass, smashed bottles, delaye...

A holiday toast turns into a hard look at a Hollywood legend whose final night still churns like rough water. We start with Black Friday energy and fresh mojitos, then trace Natalie Wood’s path from Miracle on 34th Street to West Side Story, a childhood built by a mother’s ambition, and an industry that too often rewarded silence. The bright arc of her career meets the shadows of Old Hollywood—all...

A town can break twice: first when its jobs vanish, then when its story gets rewritten by fear. We walked through Fall River—slept in Lizzie Borden’s room, ate with locals, and then pressed into Bedford Street’s harsh past—to examine how a “satanic cult” rose from recession, predation, and performance. The headlines point to demons. The record points to control. We lay out the players: Carl Drew,...

A hard seltzer on a cold balcony turned into a journey through one of New England’s darkest chapters. We pull back the curtain on Fall River at the end of the 1970s—where a shrinking economy, a booming sex trade, biker swagger, and occult theatrics collided. At the center: Carl Drew, a violent enforcer who ruled Bedford Street; Andy Maltese, an older predator who claimed Jesus and psychic visions...

A 14-year-old’s name should not depend on a leaked memo to be seen. We sit down after a long day and open up about the case of Emily Pike—how a child in a group home disappeared, was later found murdered, and still no arrests have been made. We unpack why this story matters, how it connects to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Persons (MMIW/MMIP), and what it says about systems that fail t...

A surprise reunion at the table quickly turns into one of our heaviest episodes: the life and loss of 14-year-old San Carlos Apache girl Emily Pike and the systems that failed her. We walk through the timeline with care—from unprosecuted assaults and a distant group home to repeated runaways labeled as routine, the denial of an Amber Alert, delayed notifications, and the devastating discovery near...

What if the scariest part of your favorite haunted tales isn’t the demon at the door, but the people who profit from your fear? We tear into the Warrens’ most famous cases and the broader ecosystem that turned moral panic into a business model—linking Amityville’s admitted hoax, Annabelle’s elastic mythology, and the Conjuring franchise’s “true story” aura to very human motives: money, status, and...

Ever notice how the most famous hauntings get louder the moment a camera shows up? We grab a cold seltzer, shake off a brutal post‑Halloween fog, and trace three headline‑making cases—Enfield, the Smurls, and the Snedekers—while testing each story against timing, incentives, and the thin line between fear and folklore. It’s part road trip through late‑70s and 80s paranormal culture, part reality c...

October doesn’t just smell like cinnamon and pumpkin at our place—it crackles with stories we were told to fear. We kick off with a joy-soaked Halloween ritual: 66 quarts of candy, shots for stressed parents, porch tacos, and a quick-hit recap of Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando. The fun isn’t filler; it’s how we rebuilt our relationship with fear after growing up with rapture timelines, church...

A quiet Ocala duplex block with kids playing in the yard should feel safe. Instead, it became the backdrop for months of hostile 911 calls, a neighborhood on edge, and a fatal shot fired through a closed door. We walk you through The Perfect Neighbor—built from body cam footage, interview tapes, and security videos—and trace how a petty patch of grass, a seized tablet, and constant harassment turn...

A haunted waterbed, a family in over their heads, and a courtroom where the devil wasn’t allowed to testify. We pull apart the real story behind The Conjuring 3’s “Devil Made Me Do It” and ask the hard questions the legend prefers to skip. Did a possession jump from a teenage boy to his sister’s boyfriend, or did stress, alcohol, and tangled relationships set the stage for a fatal mistake? We trac...

We trace the Glatzel and Johnson families from the first day of oddities to the arrival of Ed and Lorraine Warren, “light” exorcisms, and a promise that the beast would claim another soul. When Debbie starts fresh at a kennel owned by Alan Bono, pressure builds: a boozy lunch, doors blocked, music hammering, and a sudden fight that leaves Bono fatally stabbed. In the aftermath, Arnie Cheyenne John...

A brutal family murder, a discounted dream home, and a legend that swallowed a neighborhood—Amityville is as much a story about us as it is about a house. We walk through the facts of the DeFeo killings, then slow down to examine how a decade of grief turned into a global ghost franchise. The details that matter—addiction, violence, a rushed confession, and shifting insanity claims—sit next to the...

The most infamous Dutch Colonial in America didn’t start as a horror franchise—it began with six bodies found face down in their beds. We pull back the curtain on 112 Ocean Avenue to separate what’s on the record from what was engineered for the spotlight. We walk through the 1974 DeFeo murders, Butch’s shifting stories, the courtroom battle over insanity and “demonic influence,” and the sober ver...

The map said nine days; our hearts turned it into a highlight reel. We roll out at dusk, chase the Exorcist Steps before sunrise, get humbled by DC parking, and reset our nerves at Ford’s Theatre. A tunnel panic in Baltimore tries to hijack the ride, but we breathe through it and learn a trick we’ll use all week: pair fear with a bigger view. Philly greets us with a concierge win, a middling chees...

A leather mask, a clink of cans, and a key turning in a famous front door—our night at the Lizzie Borden house started playful and got serious fast. We walk you room by room through Fall River’s most talked‑about address, balancing the eerie staging with the ordinary rhythm of a B&B: check‑in chatter, locals with big hearts, and a neighbor who opens the shop just to tell stories. The trip beco...

We’re sitting in Lizzie Borden’s bedroom, mics in hand, feet on century-old floors that creak like a metronome for the past. That intimacy changes everything. The famous rhyme fades once you see the sightlines, test the doors, and realize how a body could hide behind a bedframe and a myth could hide inside a tidy narrative. We trace the real timeline: Abby’s silent fall upstairs, Andrew’s final na...

The seltzers crack open, the laundry hums, and we dive straight into the story that haunts American horror: Ed Gein. Coming off a nine-day run through New England and a somber detour to Gettysburg, we trace the path from a Plainfield farmhouse to the birth of a cultural myth, focusing on the small, brutal truths that too many summaries skip. We talk about Augusta’s iron grip, the isolation that st...

Ever wondered where Hollywood's most iconic villains came from? In our landmark 50th episode, we pull back the curtain on Edward Theodore Gein—the Wisconsin recluse whose nightmarish crimes spawned Norman Bates, Leatherface, Buffalo Bill, and countless other fictional monsters. Born in 1906 to an alcoholic father and fanatically religious mother, Ed Gein's childhood was defined by isolat...

We're raising our Bloody Marys to celebrate both Lindsay's birthday and our podcast's first anniversary in this raw, unfiltered episode that perfectly captures what makes Drink About Something unique – our ability to balance life's joys with exploration of its darkest corners. The celebration kicks off with a recap of Lindsay's birthday dinner at her favorite Mexican resta...

The twisted saga of David Parker Ray, known as the Toy Box Killer, represents one of the most disturbing chapters in American true crime history. From the shores of Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico, Ray orchestrated a reign of terror that spanned decades, leaving an unknowable number of victims in his wake. Perhaps most disturbing was Ray's methodical approach. He recorded an "orientati...

Set in the tight-knit community of Bill City, Michigan, this harrowing story begins when 13-year-old Lauren and her boyfriend Owen start getting increasingly hostile, sexually explicit, and psychologically damaging messages from a mysterious sender. What starts as insinuations about infidelity quickly escalates into a full-blown psychological assault, with the unknown caller telling Lauren she&apo...