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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We’re getting spooky again this week with a quirky haunting from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and a tale from a girl who escapes a ghostly force through astral projection.

Be afraid… this Halloween special features supernatural stories from our evil twin podcast, Spooked, told by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. You can listen to Spooked for free on any podcast platform! Episodes drop weekly.

STORIES

Night at the Aquarium

On Kevin’s night shift at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, things get wet, wild, and very very weird.

BIG thanks to Kevin Wright and the magical Monterey Bay Aquarium. Thanks also to KAZU Radio in Monterey, California for its assistance.

Original score by Yari Bundy & Renzo Gorrio, produced by Anne Ford

Out of Body

Tiyi just wants to get away from the man in the closet. What happens next changes her life forever.

Thank you, Tiyi Schippers, for sharing your story with us! You can find more of her creepy tales on YouTube.

Original score by Leon Morimoto, produced by Anne Ford

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 14 - Episode 45

Transcript

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0:00.0

My brother. Sloppy. That's about any kind of standard. If a corner needs cut and he's

0:27.7

going to cut that corner, except for one weird thing. Aquariums. This guy, Mr. Slipshive, Mr.

0:38.0

Drini, is super meticulous about his aquariums. Temperatures calibrate it within half a degree.

0:44.5

PH levels check, read check, salinity monitor. He loves aquariums, often keeping four or

0:51.8

five enormous tanks at a time. Saltwater, fresh water, even brackish tanks, mimicking areas that

0:59.7

turn fresh and saltwater together. Every tank, a work of art. Brightly colored fish swimming

1:08.4

through fluorescent coral, seaweed, floating plants, ground cover, this riot of life. He says he's trying

1:18.4

to create the perfect ecosystem. Look at him, bent over his reverse osmosis water dual filtration

1:27.9

machine, like a proud papa. You see, he loves these fish, like he birken himself, some even swim

1:38.0

into his hand, as he strokes their belly. It's wild. And that's why, helping him clean his

1:48.7

prized fresh water tank. I ask him, why? Why? Why are you going to put this crazy ugly

1:56.8

Oscar fish into the tank? This glorious, beautiful tank. You know it's aggressive. You know it's

2:02.8

going to eat all the pretty fish. He looks at me, almost like he's sad. And he says, no,

2:16.9

there is no perfect ecosystem without a killer.

2:23.1

This week on Snap, in celebration of the season, for featuring supernatural stories from an

2:37.0

evil twin podcast, spooked, spooked art. Now.

3:07.0

Each and every aquarium is its own contained world. And one of the best aquariums is in Monterey,

3:30.9

Bay, California. Years ago, Kevin Wright, he worked as a security guard there. But it was years

3:39.1

before that, when he was just a little kid, when he fell in love with the place, under the very first

3:45.6

visit, spooked.

4:03.1

I was a little giddy. The light bouncing off the fish and the kelp, seeing octopus glide across

4:12.3

the windows, almost like it was flying underwater. You get the sense that you're swimming in the ocean.

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