Night Dancers

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In a quiet Ugandan village, Jocelyn waits for her older siblings to sneak back from a forbidden disco, only to hear a sinister night dancer casting enchantments outside her home. When illness strikes her brother, Jocelyn’s family decides to take matters into their own hands.

This story comes to us from our evil-twin, Spooked. You can listen to Spooked on any podcast platform! If you want more supernatural fun, check out Spooked on YouTube.

Thank you so much, Jocelyn, for sharing your family’s story.

Produced by Anne Ford, original score by Clay Xavier, scouted and narrated by Lulu Jemimah, artwork by Teo Ducot.

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0:00.0	Snap Studios
0:04.3	Welcome to Snap Judgment
0:13.3	and Wisconsin
0:14.5	and today
0:16.1	we're featuring story from our evil twin podcast, Spook.
0:22.0	Spook starts now. Now, sometimes the shadow passes you by, and sometimes it does not.
1:02.0	We begin in Uganda, only a few dozen miles from the big city of Kampala.
1:07.2	There lies a village.
1:09.5	In that village lives a was a particular legend.
1:12.9	From our storyteller Jocelyn, that legend became very, very real.
1:21.3	Spooned.
1:25.3	It is a big village, not very far from the city.
1:36.8	The houses, the mad houses.
1:41.0	We usually have a main house, which is the big house.
1:45.7	Then for the boys that have grown and have married, they build their houses around the main house.
1:52.8	In the compound, we have dogs, we have cats, we have chicken, we have goat.
2:00.4	Besides that, there are these gardens where we plant spinach.
2:07.5	Jocelyn grew up in the village as the youngest of 20 children.
2:12.0	Her family's house was small, with one bedroom for the boys, another for the girls, and a third for her dad and step-mom.
2:21.0	Her own mother wasn't around.
2:24.0	My father cared for us.
2:26.8	He would provide for us.
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