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Spooked

Los Awichus

Spooked

KQED and Snap Studios

Thriller, Chiller, Horror, Wonder, Fall, Halloween, Leisure, Adventure, Ghosts, Arts, Culture, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Spooky, Mystery, Performing Arts, Paranormal, Supernatural, Scary

4.615.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the middle of Lake Titicaca, Perú, there’s a beautiful island called Amantaní: a place known for its lush hills and friendly locals. But you should never stay out late… unless you want to meet the spirits of the island.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Patti Cake, Paddy Cake, Baker's Man.

0:12.0

When he saw what he saw it and the Baker ran.

0:15.0

Then he did what he did because he had to, fam.

0:19.0

Then he wept and he wept when they found the man.

0:26.2

You've crossed over to spooked.

0:29.9

Stay tuned. So this is frog.

0:52.8

Bright green.

0:59.0

Size of your fist lives high in the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, 100 feet high, can't even see it high, but you can't hear it.

1:05.0

And right before the dawn, thousands of them, croaking, pulsing, throbbing, a chorus echoing through the darkness.

1:14.6

The Kashinawa people, an indigenous tribe of the Brazilian Amazon,

1:18.6

they've been listening to this song for as long as they have been a people.

1:24.6

And they've come to understand something about this creature. They know if you take a secretion off its skin, this milk white, waxy stuff and you put it on a burn, it will heal you. Not like fix a cut, I mean heal the insides of you. They call this medicine combo.

1:47.0

But that's not what was called at the beginning.

1:50.0

In the beginning it was called something else.

1:52.0

I'm going to tell you the story, though it was told to me.

1:58.0

A long time ago, generations ago, Kashinawa were in trouble.

2:03.6

Some kind of sickness tore through the village. People were dying.

2:08.6

And the medicine man, the Pazier, he's trying everything.

2:13.6

Every root, every bark, every leaf he knows, nothing is working.

2:18.3

People keep dying.

2:20.8

So this old shaman, he makes a decision.

2:24.7

He walks into the forest, alone.

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