The Night Owl: True Ghost Stories

Episode 64 – Spirits of Moonshine Bar & Grill: Part III
Release Date: December 29, 2025
Host: Stephen Belyeu
Investigators: Night Owl Paranormal Research Society – Stephen, Jeffrey (medium), Kate (medium), Sarah (medium), Franklin, Alexis

Overview

In this gripping third installment of the "Spirits of Moonshine" series, host Stephen Belyeu and his Night Owl team gain after-hours access to the historic and famously haunted Moonshine Bar & Grill in Austin, Texas. For the first time, three psychic mediums – Jeffrey, Kate, and Sarah – are brought in completely blind to the location’s identity and history. Each explores the property solo, seeking to independently confirm and clarify the many, often chilling, ghostly presences and unexplained phenomena reported by staff and previous investigators.

The episode goes beyond lore and legend, directly testing patterns reported in Parts I and II against the psychics’ real-time impressions and experiences. The team seeks to pin down the nature and motives of four main presences, while navigating the surprises and contradictions that surface during the night.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Hauntings and History: The Four Main Presences

• Child Spirit: Playful, mischievous, associated with the infamous Table 34 (shoulder taps, vanishing items, computer glitches, child-sized footprints). Linked in lore to a little girl who fell in a well.
• Catherine: Daughter of original owner, cited as a strict but caring presence, enforcing order, mainly around the stairs.
• The Cowboy: Brooding male energy at the main bar.
• Aggressive Male (Carriage House Bar): Unsettling, forceful, has shouted at staff to "get out"; known for physical disturbances (flying glasses, shattered candles).

2. Psychic Blind Walkthroughs: Early Impressions & Confirmations

All psychics explore solo, no prior knowledge, no shared impressions until analysis.

Jeffrey’s Early Senses

• Picks up on “train” imagery, linking accurately to property’s proximity to a historic Austin train line.

  “I wondered if this place was connected to trains, if people hear noises from those offices upstairs when it’s all locked up, no one’s in there.” (05:46)

• Imposes a “store” or “storage” function on cellar, matching factual past uses.
• Hears loud “pots and pans” crashing, paralleling staff reports of sudden object falls or breaking glass.
• Envisions a “man with a handlebar mustache… maybe in a tuxedo,” potentially one of the male spirits reported.
• Senses running water and limestone, which becomes extremely relevant later.

Kate’s Senses

• Feels presence of “heavy smoker, someone’s home… a man, a woman, and a child, maybe mother/daughter,” aligning with Catherine and the child stories.
• Notes “a lonely man at a bar,” hinting at the cowboy spirit.
• Sensation of being touched, especially on head/hair and pacing above—echoes staff accounts of head tapping at Table 34.
• Sees “a little boy,” “objects being touched/moved,” and a fixation on water/pipes—foreshadowing floods and pipe issues discovered during the investigation.
• Later identifies “an older man with glasses” as vividly present in the speakeasy area.

Jeffrey on Aggressive Male Energy

• At Carriage House, senses a “man in black, yelling… get out of here,” matching a staff account (from Sonia) verbatim, although Sonia heard a female voice and attributed it to Catherine.

  “Does he yell at people?... Get out of here.” (12:11–14:49)

• Hears residual “train whistles,” imagery of “travellers, luggage, movement”—direct hit on the Sunday house history as a rest stop for travelers.

Sarah’s Senses (with Transparency Caveat)

• She acknowledges some prior (albeit limited) exposure through a different paranormal project, so her findings are divided by probable influence.
• Describes a mischievous energy, “zip of a shadow… darkening… comes up with them,” and “adolescent” energy—spot on for the location’s reports of mischievous activity but also brings up a more dangerous, disruptive adolescent male spirit, not previously documented.
• Identifies a “woman always outside, looking for the family,” seeming more like a former worker than the owner’s daughter.

3. Physical Phenomena and Environmental Hits

• Multiple psychics sense water issues or mention pipes. Later confirmed: Kinfolk (the cellar bar) has frequent unexplained flooding and pipe leaks (83:28).

• Tech malfunctions and EMF spikes occur during sessions, especially in response to known “hot spots” (mirrors, kinfolk, Sunday house loft).

  “My mic is going haywire right now... It’s tapping now, like, on my mic.” (63:02, 63:45)

• Aggressive, sometimes physical, pressure felt in Sunday house loft by both psychics and the skeptic, Franklin (during Estes session):

  “It was showing me someone hanging from a wire rope... wanting me to push me over the rail...” (45:41)

4. Memorable and Notable Moments

a) Verbatim Psychic Hits

• Jeffrey independently utters “Get out of here” in connection with the angry male—a phrase reportedly shouted by a ghost at staff, previously unpublished.

b) Recurring Spirits: The Man with Glasses

• All psychics identify a gentle male with glasses in the cellar/speakeasy (“Dennis”, later found in a photo), but after the mediums see a portrait, the host discards further details as potentially contaminated by suggestibility.

  “She immediately recognized that this man has been the man that she’s been describing earlier … I can’t treat the later details ... as clean, independent hits.” (66:56)

c) The Mischievous Boy

• Sarah repeatedly references a “12-13 year old boy” causing tripping, falls, and breaking things “for the fun of it.”

  “He feeds off fear energy ... pitting people against each other … you’ll catch him flying between the mirrors... More like adolescent energy … but not malicious to cause real harm.” (55:40–58:59)

• Historical research confirms that a two-year-old boy did die in a tragic accident outside Moonshine, though the age doesn’t match, the parallel is eerily close.

d) Unexpected New Entities

• During a Gansfeld session, Sarah is interrupted by a powerful, assertive “indigenous woman,” dressed circa the 1960s-70s, evoking images of protests, which is later matched to the area’s history as an activist hub in the hippie era.

  “She says, ‘I’m fighting for my… I’m fighting to get my people back’... picket signs, Capitol building … she’ll help stop the boy if we’ll help her.” (88:45–90:15)

5. Direct Communication (Gansfeld and Estes Sessions)

Ganzfeld Session in Kinfolk (Sarah)

• Man with glasses (Gary/Gerald/Greg?) insists, “I’m not as old as you think I am,” and “I don’t harm people.”
• Bloodied hands vision aligns with real-life staff injury incidents.
• Blames the “boy” for physical harm: “He says, two—a push down the stairs. A few accidents from the dishes… thinks it’s funny, but it’s not.” (79:00–79:31)

Second Ganzfeld: Attempting Contact with the Boy

• The “boy” is evasive and describes his own actions as “just for fun.” He claims not to truly want to hurt, but does so out of curiosity and entertainment.
• Session is forcefully taken over by “the woman,” alluding to activism and struggle.

Noteworthy Quotes

• Jeffrey:

  “You’ll catch [the angry man] out of the corner of your eye, someone standing there … like he’s mad at them… just angry about something, maybe.” (14:17) “He’s wherever he goddamn wants to be.” (40:06)

• Kate:

  “I hear dramatic ghosts, acting things out to occupy themselves... they want credit for being funny.” (09:48) “He said, ‘I am lonely.’ That’s what he said. … I kept feeling a pain in my lower back when I was talking to him.” (70:35)

• Sarah (on the dangerous boy):

  “He wants to know what would happen if he… stuck his foot out on the stairs or threw something—just to see.” (56:37) “He feeds off the energy of pitting people against each other.” (57:16)

• Sarah (on the Indigenous woman):

  “She’s saying, ‘I’m fighting for my people...’ every time she says ‘my people’ it feels... I see the Capitol, picket signs, a bunch of people.” (89:02, 90:09)

• Skeptic Franklin (on the Sunday House Loft presence):

  “It was showing me weird… someone hanging from a wire rope... wanting me to push me over the rail. It did not want me up there.” (45:41)

Important Timestamps & Segments

| Topic/Segment | Timestamp (MM:SS) | |----------------------------------|----------------------| | Series Recap / Case Overview | 00:00–02:45 | | Psychic Walkthroughs Begin | 05:31–10:20 | | Aggressive Male Energy Described | 12:11–14:49 | | Transparency Note re: Sarah | 18:44–19:14 | | Sunday House Loft: Shadow Child | 42:20–45:39 | | Technical Disturbances | 63:00–63:52 | | EMF Spikes During Sessions | 85:06–86:13 | | First Ganzfeld Session – Kinfolk | 73:59–80:50 | | Second Ganzfeld (Dining Area) | 87:40–92:22 | | Discussing the “Activist” Spirit | 88:45–93:21 |

Thematic Patterns & Theories

• Repeated Cross-Validation:
  The man with glasses is confirmed by all three mediums (later contaminated by a visible photo), while both the mysterious shadow in the Sunday house loft and the aggressive male are independently sensed, lined up with staff lore and actual experience.
• Surprising New Entities:
  The adolescent boy — not previously central to Moonshine legend — emerges as a significant, disruptive force.
• Environmental Triggers:
  Water (leaking pipes, flooding) and lingering, palpable EMF/physical sensations correlate with psychically “active” areas before the team knew about them.
• Complex Layering of History:
  Spirits are not only old-time residents or staff but also potentially 20th-century activists, travelers, and transient souls, highlighting that hauntings can span multiple eras.

Summary & Conclusions

Key Takeaways:

• Psychic impressions largely aligned with the site’s lore: the mischievous child, watchful matriarch, and angry male spirit were all validated by the mediums’ independent walkthroughs.
• The Sunday house loft and kinfolk bar are intense focal points for both gentle and hostile paranormal activity.
• New spirits appear as “active” during this investigation, including a possibly dangerous adolescent boy and a 1960s-70s indigenous protestor, reframing some of the property’s ghostly history.
• Physical and technical disturbances often coincide with intense psychic impressions—mirrors, pipes, water, and EMF disruptions pattern throughout the night.
• Direct communication yielded consistent themes: some spirits are aware of their effect on the living, some mischievously relish in it, others want recognition, and a few simply want to be left alone, or to be helpful/protective.
• The episode ends with unresolved questions, many clues uncovered, and a promise for deeper exploration in the next installment.

For Further Exploration

The Night Owl’s team will continue their deeper overnight investigation in the next episode (releasing January 26), promising more direct experiments and possibly new answers to who—and what—remains restless inside Moonshine.

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Summary prepared in the spirit (pun intended!) of The Night Owl: True Ghost Stories, preserving the immersive, contemplative, and occasionally chilling tone of Stephen and his research society.