Pet Cemetery

Spooked

KQED and Snap Studios

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

4.6 • 15.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When Ray was a kid, he took care of all the animals in his neighborhood… even after they were gone.

Thanks, Ray, for sharing your story with us! Ray’s podcast, What’s Ray Saying, returns next week! Enter a world of Southern-baked personal narratives and Black American history. New episodes drop November 8, 2023.

Original score by Lauryn Newson, produced by Chris Hambrick, artwork by Teo Ducot

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0:00.0	Everyone's in a great while, even in the darkest hour, a light appears.
0:21.3	You're listening to Spoot.
0:23.6	Stay tuned.
0:27.6	From KQED and PRX, you've crossed over to Spoot. So, I'm a college student constantly on the point of broke, pass broke.
0:53.0	By living in this house in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
0:54.6	with some fellas, we have a house dog.
0:57.7	Beema.
0:59.1	The bea's a great dog, truly.
1:01.8	Just sometimes he likes to hang out in front of our place. One day some
1:09.0	overzealous officers that hand me a ticket for an unleashed dog. Really? Really though?
1:16.5	So as broke as I am, as absurd as this is. I passed the house collection plate, pay their ticket, and go on living my life.
1:27.0	And one day, there's a note on the door, it says, an officer stopped by, ask if I can come over to the police station, half
1:35.1	a block away.
1:36.9	And forgetting my blackness, I go in to see if I can be of any assistance.
1:43.0	Oh, you're the one with the dog.
1:47.0	That's me.
1:51.0	And as I'm talking to the officer behind the desk, I don't notice.
1:56.0	The two officers sneaking up behind me.
1:58.0	I don't notice until they slam me on the desk.
2:01.0	What the hell?
2:02.0	They chucked handcuffs over my wrist. You want to resist?
2:05.6	You want to resist? They slammed me into their waiting police cruiser, drive through the
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