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Snap Judgment Studios. If

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Humpty Dumpty sat on the

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wall and nobody pushed

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him, how did he fall? With all

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the king's horses and

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all the king's men, why

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couldn't they put him together

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again?

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You're listening to Spooked. Stay

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tuned.

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From KQED and PRX,

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you've crossed over to Spooked.

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Here's the crazy thing about the story I'm going

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to tell you. I learned hypnotism as a

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lark. In addition to the

1:11

occasional card trick at the school library, I practiced

1:14

my hypnotism games. You

1:16

were getting sleepier and sleepier.

1:19

Every sound you hear, every breath you take, more

1:22

deeply and deeply enthralled. Then

1:25

I make it so people can't open their eyes,

1:28

or maybe they suddenly feel cold or

1:30

hot. Have tiny

1:32

little petites display extraordinary strength

1:36

such that even the muscle heads can't

1:38

bend their outstretched arms.

1:41

And finally, I'll take them blinking out of the spell,

1:44

not remembering a thing. Ta-da!

1:48

Yeah, I take my bow. Sometimes

1:51

even the teachers clap. And it's all fun

1:53

and games, but there's this thing I'm itching

1:55

to try.

1:57

Age regression. Just like it's in

1:59

the movie. sounds I finally get a volunteer

2:02

Sally and right

2:04

when she's at her deepest state Sally

2:08

you were 12

2:11

10 years old 7 5 3 years

2:16

old now Sally

2:19

please write your name on this piece of paper

2:23

I smile as she cast around confused

2:27

but I don't know how to write

2:30

the screen the gas the applause

2:33

my fellow students back

2:35

intoxicated

2:38

I don't know what let

2:42

me not lie let

2:45

me at least tell the truth here let me finally tell

2:48

the truth because I do know what that's

2:51

me to do what I do next try

2:53

to be the man try

2:56

to impress people I don't even know

2:59

so when Matt asked to go under

3:01

things be friendly

3:03

trusting Matt Matt who's only ever

3:06

been nice to me Matt waiting backstage

3:08

with a group of drama kids getting ready to

3:10

practice a miss somerside dream it's

3:13

my chance okay

3:16

everybody gather round no

3:18

talk please I

3:20

put my two faces deeper and

3:22

deeper

3:24

then Matt the 10 9 7 6 the 5

3:30

years old now

3:35

what

3:44

you

3:46

and this is the part I've never done before thing that

3:48

will show off my mad skills and

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make me a high school legend man

3:54

there are those that claim they've been

3:56

here before

3:58

if you're one of those city friends

5:49

What

6:02

is wrong with me? What

6:31

is wrong with

6:34

me? What

6:37

is wrong with me? What

6:42

is wrong with me?

7:09

Understand that our

7:11

many faces to every action, every

7:13

person has more than two sides, even

7:16

those closest to us. Our

7:18

first storyteller, Tiffany, when

7:21

she was growing up, she was very

7:24

close with her grandmother.

7:48

What

7:51

is wrong with me?

8:13

We were very close. I grew

8:16

up a lot in her house.

8:18

She'd sit at the kitchen table and drink

8:20

her coffee and she taught

8:22

me to drink coffee. She

8:25

would drink her normal coffee but she had these little demitas

8:27

cups where I would fill

8:30

it half full with evaporated

8:32

milk.

8:34

She always had a story

8:37

and she really liked telling

8:39

you the stories especially while you were

8:41

making dinner. Oh you know,

8:43

you know what I have a taste for? Bright

8:47

oysters. Why don't you brine me some oysters,

8:49

Tiffany? I loved hearing

8:51

her stories.

8:58

My grandmother used to tell me all these outrageous

9:01

stories with her best friend from high

9:03

school, Eunice.

9:08

So she grew up in a small town called

9:11

Hepner, Oregon. She

9:13

and Eunice used to get around town causing

9:15

all sorts of havoc. In Hepner

9:18

at that time, you could go

9:20

to the bar and drink if

9:23

you were married. She

9:25

and Eunice used to go to the grocery

9:27

store and buy plastic rings.

9:31

They would have these plastic wedding rings

9:33

on and then they'd go and go

9:35

to the local tavern. One

9:39

evening they ended up stealing

9:41

a birthday cake from some party.

9:43

They ended up in

9:46

somebody's front

9:47

yard extremely drunk

9:50

eating the birthday cake as everybody's

9:52

going to work in the morning.

9:55

To imagine her being young

9:58

and being friends with you. It

10:01

was incredible.

10:05

After I graduated high school, I went

10:07

and got up to as much shenanigans

10:09

as I could.

10:16

I moved from Seattle

10:19

to Boston and then down to North

10:21

Carolina. So I finally

10:24

made it back home. And when I did

10:26

get here, of course, I was flat

10:28

broke, didn't have any money. And my grandmother

10:31

said, hey, you can live in

10:33

the basement while you get your feet

10:35

back under you.

10:38

She had the whole upstairs

10:40

to herself. She was a heavy, heavy

10:42

smoker. And I am

10:45

not so staying in

10:47

the basement kept most of the smoke

10:49

out of my room. So

10:51

I moved back in with

10:54

my dog, Chuck. I

10:58

was very relieved to move back into the basement, of

11:00

course, but it was always so creepy.

11:04

I never, even as a kid, wanted

11:06

to go downstairs by myself.

11:09

It was a half-sunk basement. It was dark. This

11:12

was always a little bit something weird

11:14

down there. My aunt,

11:16

who'd grown up in the basement, that was where her room

11:18

was, she wouldn't go back to that

11:21

house by herself ever. It

11:24

never

11:24

felt like you were alone. It

11:26

always felt like there was something in there with

11:28

you.

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11:31

didn't believe in ghosts.

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was scared to sleep down there but

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I had my dog.

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Chuck wasn't afraid

13:14

of anything.

13:15

Chuck was always Mr. I am here to protect

13:17

you. He would lunge and he would bite if

13:20

he thought I was

13:20

in danger. He

13:23

slept in bed with me because there was

13:25

no way I was gonna sleep by myself.

13:28

He was a huge dog so he would sleep

13:31

in every corner of the bed and he

13:33

was an old grumpy dog. He made

13:35

all sorts of old grumpy dog noises

13:38

but

13:38

it was comforting to me to

13:40

hear him.

13:43

After I moved back in that's

13:46

when things

13:47

started happening. It

13:51

was 4 30 in the morning

13:54

my eyes open and I can hear

13:56

somebody say, Tiffany, hey Tiffany

13:59

come here. And

14:02

I sat up

14:04

and then I heard,

14:06

hey, Tiffany, come here. I

14:11

could hear it. It wasn't in my head. I could hear

14:13

somebody tell

14:14

me, come here.

14:17

I wasn't scared at first. I was

14:19

still half asleep.

14:21

So I got up out of bed and I started

14:24

walking across the room.

14:28

About three seconds after my body

14:30

started moving, it just dawned

14:32

on me. I had no idea

14:34

who was talking to me. And I didn't

14:37

know what they wanted

14:40

me for. And

14:43

I thought, my God, I'm walking

14:45

into a trap.

14:47

I was terrified.

14:51

So I got back in bed and put

14:53

the covers over my head. And I actually

14:56

sat there in bed saying, no, you're

14:58

not getting me. I

15:01

didn't talk about that event. I tried to ignore it

15:04

so that it wouldn't come back. But

15:06

a few weeks later, something else happened,

15:09

which I couldn't ignore. It

15:13

was a regular work night for me. I

15:15

had to get up and go to work in the morning. Went

15:17

to bed at 10 o'clock. I

15:19

couldn't sleep with the lights off. I had to sleep with

15:21

the lights on. My bed's shoved

15:24

up against the wall. And I'm sleeping

15:26

towards the wall because anything

15:29

that's going to get me is going to have to go through.

15:31

Chuck first.

15:34

Woke up in the middle

15:36

of night because the bed was shaking.

15:40

Chuck was always rolling around and grumping. And

15:42

I could hear him doing that whole grumpy

15:44

dog thing. As

15:48

I sat up to tell him to go back to sleep,

15:51

there was a woman standing

15:54

right next to my bed.

15:58

She had this brown pant suit on.

15:59

and a cream-colored

16:02

camisole top. And she had this long,

16:05

beautiful red curly hair, and

16:08

it looked like she was going to

16:10

a conference or going to

16:12

work. She looked,

16:13

she looked done up. I

16:16

did not recognize her.

16:19

Chuck was moving around trying to get closer

16:22

to this woman that was standing in the middle of my

16:24

room at three o'clock in the morning. And

16:27

she was petting him on the chin and petting

16:29

him behind the ears.

16:32

And I thought, what

16:34

the hell is going on?

16:38

I knew that she couldn't be

16:41

a real person

16:43

because no real person would

16:46

be standing in my room petting my dog

16:49

while I was sleeping.

16:51

Because Chuck was paying attention

16:54

to her, not trying to defend me,

16:57

I didn't feel like I was in danger, but

17:00

I was terrified because I had never

17:02

had any sort of experience

17:05

like that. I didn't know what to

17:07

do.

17:09

My first reaction was the high

17:11

note of the cover, which is what I did. I

17:14

was there for about 15 seconds and I thought,

17:16

is she still there? So I poked

17:18

my head out from underneath the covers and yeah,

17:21

she was still there.

17:22

And I realized that she was looking at

17:24

me while she was petting my dog.

17:28

So I hid underneath the covers again, this

17:30

time for a little bit longer, maybe 20 seconds.

17:33

And when I came out from underneath the covers, she was

17:35

still there. I

17:39

realized that hiding under the covers

17:41

was not making her go away.

17:45

At that point, I realized that I

17:47

didn't really have an out.

17:50

So I just sat there and looked

17:52

at her because I didn't know what

17:54

else to do.

17:57

And she looked at me.

18:00

After what felt like 10 minutes,

18:03

she walked to the end of my bed.

18:07

Chuck didn't get up. She didn't react

18:09

in any way. Other

18:12

than, hey, you stopped scratching. My ears

18:14

come back.

18:16

She stood there and

18:18

looked at me and she was

18:20

smiling a little. So

18:23

we kind of had this, um, I

18:26

see you, you see me. And I thought,

18:28

okay, I feel like you

18:31

just wanted some recognition that you

18:33

were here.

18:36

Then she started

18:38

to disappear

18:40

and, and not like

18:42

fading away. She melted. She melted

18:45

her hair and her clothes melted

18:47

off of her body. Then

18:53

her skin started melting

18:55

like candle wax, dripping

18:57

down her face.

18:58

And her eyeballs

19:01

were looking at me and she was still

19:03

smiling.

19:05

Then her eyeballs started to

19:07

melt and pour out of

19:09

her eye sockets. She

19:12

still kept looking at me. I remember her

19:14

skeleton looking at me in the

19:17

eyes.

19:20

And then she finally melted away,

19:24

but there was nothing on the floor.

19:27

She was done.

19:29

Chuck was sitting right next to me, not

19:32

scared. It took me a moment

19:34

to realize, oh, that just happened.

19:37

I remember thinking, this

19:39

is the single scariest thing I have

19:42

ever seen.

19:44

At the same time, I thought that

19:46

was incredible.

19:51

It almost felt performative.

19:55

Like she was giving me the biggest

19:57

send off that she took.

19:59

so that I would remember

20:02

that

20:02

she was there.

20:05

There was a very finality

20:07

about it, and

20:10

for that reason, I was

20:12

able to go back to sleep.

20:20

So we wake up in the morning, just like normal,

20:23

and for half a second I forgot that it had even

20:25

happened. I sort of sat there and

20:27

thought, wow, there was

20:30

a lady in the middle of my room

20:32

last night. So

20:35

I go upstairs to have a cup of coffee with my grandmother and

20:37

tell her about my experience. As

20:40

soon as I got upstairs, I

20:42

noticed that she's upset. And

20:46

I said, well, how's it going, Graham? Are you okay? She

20:49

says, no, I just had a very upsetting phone call. She

20:54

was sad. Well,

20:56

you know, my friend Eunice, I

20:59

just got a phone call that she died

21:02

in the middle of the night. And at that point, I was

21:05

like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm

21:09

sorry, I'm sorry. And

21:14

at that point, I realized,

21:16

hmm, maybe

21:17

Eunice came to visit me last

21:19

night. I didn't want to upset

21:21

her anymore, but I did really,

21:24

really want to know if that's who I saw. And

21:26

so I kind of manipulated the

21:28

conversation around to say,

21:31

hey, you know, Graham, you

21:33

told me all of these stories about Eunice, and

21:35

I've known of her all my life,

21:38

but I never knew what she looked

21:40

like.

21:42

And my grandmother's response was, well,

21:45

I don't know what she

21:46

looked like these days, but

21:48

when she was young, she had the most

21:51

beautiful, long, red, curly

21:53

hair. I

21:56

didn't want to upset her anymore, and I don't think

21:59

she was a good person. She wants to hear any weirdness

22:02

about Eunice dying. If I had brought

22:04

it up, I maybe would have been,

22:07

like,

22:08

ridiculed for believing that actually

22:10

happened. So I didn't say anything. I didn't

22:12

tell her.

22:20

I think Eunice came to visit my

22:22

grandmother that night. I honestly

22:24

do. But my grandmother maybe

22:26

wasn't receptive enough to that. She

22:30

was not open enough

22:31

to see her. Eunice

22:34

came to say goodbye to him and was

22:36

like, oh, there's a dog. I'm going to go pet him.

22:40

My grandmother, she passed

22:42

away about six years ago.

22:45

I think of her often.

22:47

Once in a while, I had

22:49

a day where I just smelled cigarette

22:51

smoke everywhere.

22:54

She told me all the time she wouldn't

22:56

believe in ghosts. But when she was nearing

22:59

the end of her life, she

23:00

would joke about how she was going to come back

23:02

to haunt me so that I wouldn't forget her. She

23:05

also said,

23:06

you know, I'll be there because you'll

23:08

turn around and you'll see

23:09

this little wisp of smoke. Do

23:11

you want to do this?

23:28

Thank you so much to Disney for

23:31

sharing your story with the spook. Big

23:33

love to you. And to your grandma.

23:36

I'm so glad they're partying it up on

23:38

the other side.

23:40

Original score for that story is like Daniel Riera.

23:43

This is the truth. The game is for...

23:50

Now,

24:08

some people,

24:15

some

24:22

people,

24:24

they hear a bump in the night and

24:26

they rise. But others,

24:29

they reach across the veil

24:32

and they live to tell the tale of our

24:34

next storyteller, Rhea. Sometimes,

24:39

sometimes when you've walked this path for too long,

24:42

you forget. So I tell

24:44

friends, whoa.

24:48

I let

24:48

Rhea take it from here. Rhea,

25:04

Rhea, Rhea,

25:15

Rhea,

25:20

Rhea, Rhea.

25:37

That night, it was a Friday

25:40

night.

25:41

We hung out as a family.

25:43

We have dinner together. My

25:45

mom made a good dinner. My dad

25:48

asked if we want to hang

25:50

around a campfire,

25:51

and we do.

25:54

So my dad has made some benches

25:56

out of fallen pine trees.

25:59

And my son usually

26:02

carries out all the supplies. And

26:04

he has the graham crackers. And he always

26:07

opens the Hershey bars first, because

26:09

he likes to sneak bites of

26:11

the chocolate.

26:14

When we're silent, and we've all had a s'more

26:17

or two, we just sit there and listen to

26:19

the fire crackling. And

26:22

that's when I really notice the nature noises.

26:27

Like

26:28

coyote yips. You

26:32

hear ruffling. And

26:35

bobcats make noises

26:37

that sound like screaming children. And

26:40

it's just so noisy.

26:44

I have this horrible

26:47

sense of dread. And

26:50

this feeling that, I don't

26:53

know, there's something watching us.

26:56

But I can't really put a finger on it.

27:05

So I go inside. And I get ready for

27:08

bed. I

27:11

can't sleep. That first night, I cannot

27:14

sleep at all. And I think it's that

27:16

moment when I think of that

27:18

woman that I realize it

27:21

wasn't just a hiker. Earlier

27:28

in the day when we were driving,

27:32

we turned down the road leading

27:35

to my parents' house for the first

27:37

time ever. And I

27:39

recall the flashes of color

27:41

that I know to be hikers. I

27:45

looked to my right out the window. And

27:49

I saw a woman step

27:51

back into the woods a bit.

27:55

In a white dress with really

27:57

long hair. And

28:00

she's just standing still.

28:06

And it feels like something

28:08

wants me to believe that

28:10

it is a woman.

28:12

But I don't think that is the

28:14

true shape or the true form.

28:19

You know, I've always had these experiences

28:21

and I've never been terrified. I've

28:24

never felt

28:26

threatened. I've never felt evil

28:29

like I did in that moment.

28:34

So that first night

28:37

I was wide awake.

28:42

The next day my

28:44

mom is just not herself and

28:47

we decide

28:49

let's do a little shopping.

28:55

We left the house and we start

28:58

driving into town and we're just talking

29:01

about the day and the

29:03

further away we get from the house, the

29:06

happier and more upbeat she becomes.

29:08

So

29:10

I asked my mom, you know, mom,

29:12

what's up? You don't seem like yourself.

29:15

You don't act

29:17

like yourself. You just blah. And

29:21

she said that she's just really

29:23

tired because she hasn't been sleeping

29:26

well. She just feels emotionally

29:28

drained. And I think,

29:31

well, that makes sense because everything

29:33

kind of happened in a whirlwind. My dad

29:35

came home, declared

29:37

he purchased this house and then

29:39

you moved up north. Like

29:41

she's a very social creature. And I think

29:43

that's a good thing to go from having friends that

29:46

she would spend time with on a daily

29:48

basis to being completely

29:51

isolated.

29:57

That night my mom and

29:59

my daughter were in a room.

29:59

son play a game of Uno, which

30:02

is their favorite game. His

30:04

dad watches TV

30:05

at nuclear

30:07

level volumes because he's

30:08

getting older and he's hard of hearing.

30:11

And

30:14

I feel on edge.

30:17

I've got boost bumps all over. I don't

30:19

know why. And it was so noticeable

30:22

that even my husband asked me, hey,

30:24

what are you? Okay, what's going on? And

30:27

I just tell him, you know, I don't know.

30:29

I feel like

30:32

I don't know.

30:36

And I go to our room.

30:39

My husband is down there. He goes

30:41

to bed early. So he's already in

30:43

there

30:44

in the bed, already sleeping.

30:47

And

30:50

when I

30:52

turn off the lights to the room,

30:54

I

30:54

can see the glow of light from my

30:56

son's room

30:57

because he is in there. And

31:00

he is reading.

31:02

And I am reading a romance

31:05

novel because that is the only

31:07

thing to kind of, it's nice and fluffy.

31:10

It gets my mind off of things. I

31:12

can just kind of escape into

31:14

that

31:15

world.

31:17

And I heard some shuffling out in the

31:19

great room. And I

31:22

think, oh, my son, he's probably up, you know,

31:24

getting a snack, trying to speak something

31:26

because he does that. He's teenagers.

31:30

I get out of bed and

31:33

I walk to the doorway of the room and

31:35

I go to the great room and there is nothing

31:41

in the great room. There's just like the dull

31:43

hum from the fridge, the

31:47

odd ice cube falling

31:50

down in the fridge. And as I'm standing

31:52

in the great room, I

31:56

realize there's no noises out

31:58

there. side. So

32:04

I thought, maybe, maybe

32:07

it's a bear. I don't know. But

32:11

it was unnerving.

32:16

I grab a glass of water and

32:19

I head back to bed. I turn

32:21

off the light in the great room.

32:22

I

32:27

check out my son.

32:29

And then I go back to bed.

32:31

And

32:31

in the glow of this tiny

32:34

little light in this cavernous

32:36

room, I go back to reading my

32:39

romance novel.

32:43

And about 15 minutes later, I

32:45

heard a shuffling. And

32:48

I glanced up from my book.

32:51

And in the doorway

32:53

of my room, there's

32:56

a figure standing there. I think

33:00

it's my son. And because

33:04

we always joke about being up

33:06

late, or whatever, I looked

33:09

up and I just said, Oh, it's

33:12

really late. I know. But what page

33:14

are you on? And

33:17

all of a sudden the figure rushes towards

33:19

me. My

33:21

light slips off. And in my right

33:24

ear, I hear

33:26

in my son's voice,

33:27

naughty

33:30

mama.

33:32

I felt the breath in my ear.

33:34

And I felt cold

33:37

hands

33:37

on my forehead.

33:40

And I reached over

33:42

to the right to kind of like, pat

33:45

my son. And there's nobody

33:48

there. And

33:50

I turned my light on. And there's

33:54

nobody in the room. And

33:58

I go to the end of the room. And there's a hallway.

34:03

I check on my son.

34:03

My son is sound

34:06

asleep

34:06

and he's all curled

34:08

up in his blanket. And

34:12

that's when I look to my left out

34:15

the window in my son's room. And

34:21

there's a woman

34:23

in a white dress with long hair.

34:27

No facial features standing there.

34:31

But this entity

34:34

is staring right at me.

34:37

I felt threatened because it

34:39

imitated my son. There's

34:43

like a certain amount of observance that

34:46

something has to do in order to get

34:48

my son's voice. And

34:58

I get the feeling that

35:00

it's a challenge.

35:04

And that's why I

35:06

mentally put up a

35:07

brick wall between her

35:10

and the house. And

35:13

it's

35:13

each individual brick in

35:15

front of the lady. And

35:18

I say, you are not welcome

35:19

here.

35:21

And as I'm mentally putting up the brick

35:23

wall, I

35:27

see the figure straighten

35:31

and arms kind of go up.

35:36

And the arms are gray.

35:39

And I say, you are not welcome here.

35:43

And then I envision

35:45

the brick wall going up all

35:47

along the front of the house.

35:49

And then the side. And then the back.

35:54

And that lady is still

35:56

there in the same

35:59

exact spot.

37:59

week

38:02

and she goes, we'll try.

38:13

As we go to leave, you

38:15

know, my husband is driving again and

38:18

I'm sitting in the passenger

38:20

seat in the front of the vehicle and

38:23

to the left is the house. And my

38:25

dad and mom are standing

38:27

by the garage door and my dad

38:29

is waving and my mom is just

38:31

crying. And

38:35

I started crying and

38:38

I don't want to leave her, but

38:41

I know I have to. And

38:44

we

38:44

pull out of the driveway

38:47

and I do look back and

38:49

she's still there waving and

38:51

crying and clasping

38:53

her hands in front of her.

38:57

My dad is still waving and

39:00

then he

39:01

puts his arm around her and they go

39:03

back into the house. As we reach

39:05

the edge of the road, I

39:08

look over to the left

39:11

and there she is,

39:14

the whatever image

39:16

of the woman standing

39:18

back in the woods.

39:28

I mentally said, you are

39:30

not welcome.

39:32

It feels like that's

39:35

the part of the property where it manifests. And

39:40

it doesn't feel like a regular spirit.

39:42

But

39:45

if something worse, I

39:47

don't know how to describe it other

39:50

than it

39:52

just needs to stay away.

39:59

The next time we

40:02

went up there to visit my parents,

40:04

my mom is happy.

40:07

It feels

40:08

lighter after the house has

40:10

been blessed. She

40:13

greets us the same way she

40:14

used to

40:15

when she was living near Milwaukee

40:16

and is more

40:18

vibrant and she's very

40:20

happy to see us.

40:24

My dad is very proud

40:26

of his patio

40:27

so he asked me if I'm

40:29

going to go sit outside with him and

40:32

I do. We're

40:34

sitting there and there's

40:37

a glow from the house, an

40:39

orangish glow from the lights inside

40:43

and my dad and I are just sitting there.

40:48

I feel like

40:51

I'm being watched

40:55

and I look behind

40:57

me because my back was facing

40:59

the forest

41:01

and she's standing there. The

41:04

teacher was faced just

41:07

standing at the perimeter

41:09

of the house, sat back in the woods,

41:14

facing the house.

41:17

I tell my dad,

41:19

I need to go inside

41:22

and I think in my mind you are not welcome here.

41:30

But this time it feels

41:34

different.

41:35

There are noises. You

41:38

can hear the wind rustling through the trees.

41:43

I feel anxious but

41:46

not as anxious as I did before

41:49

and I know whatever

41:51

that is, it won't come inside the house.

41:55

But I will not go outside

41:58

at night unless I'm with other people.

41:59

Huh. And

42:02

if I do, I always stick to the light.

42:14

Thanks to Rhea for sharing

42:17

that story with the spook. Rhea

42:19

is a spook listener who reached out to share

42:21

her story. We love to hear from

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42:28

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42:31

score for that piece we played, Xavier, was

42:34

produced by Annie Nguye.

42:54

I

43:00

know, I know we walked

43:02

this path together, spooked season six,

43:05

real people,

43:06

real stories, real

43:08

wonder. So let

43:10

me ask, do

43:11

you yourself possess a

43:14

story of inexplicable power that

43:16

has shaped every aspect of how you

43:18

see the world, but no

43:20

one will believe? But you

43:22

think no one will understand? Well,

43:25

try me, because I want

43:28

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43:30

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43:32

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43:37

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43:53

so much more. There is so much more. I

43:55

would like your storytelling under the bright light of day,

43:57

under the glorious rays of sanctified. I'm

44:00

sorry to respond to our sister program.

44:03

It makes us open the Snap Judgment Podcast.

44:07

For a little more time, we're gonna be in touch

44:09

with you.

44:22

It's great about the team. No,

44:25

not to let high school boys hypnotize them for

44:27

a funny project. It's

44:29

just a cheap result. I'm

44:31

gonna test it. And

44:33

the Snap Judgment allows us to first handle

44:36

any win, more music. We

44:39

are more emotional, baby, too. Zogoya,

44:42

tail to cop, risk it, dodge. Zoey

44:45

Brigno, particularly to Lee. Ian

44:47

Ford, Doug Stewart, and Isaiah.

44:51

Game Saw, by Pat Z. I'm

44:53

not even running from Washington.

44:56

I know, that you cannot

44:58

avoid the wall, like you're nying

45:00

the wall. You cannot ward

45:02

off the chill by seeing there is no cold.

45:05

Neither can you avoid the dark shadow, but pretend

45:07

that you do not want to hide you. Ignorant

45:11

does not bless. Knowledge

45:13

is the only power, so no matter who tells

45:15

you that there's nothing to fear in the

45:17

darkness, no matter how consistently

45:20

they shriek, how carefully

45:22

they wail. Never,

45:25

ever, never, ever,

45:27

never, never, ever,

45:30

throughout the

45:32

night.