Soul Cycle

Spooked

KQED and Snap Studios

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

4.6 • 16.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Everybody kicks ass in Lee’s Spin Class but Cycle 23 is out of this world. And the purrfect storm brings a mysterious cat to a house that is under a spiritual attack.

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0:00.0	Do you enjoy the bath, she asked?
0:10.0	A gleam upon her eye.
0:15.0	Oh, the water's good and hot. I noted with a sigh.
0:26.3	It tasted nicely salted, but then it began to boil.
0:32.8	I saw carrots in the bathtub, and onions fried in oil. I tried to scramble out, but my limbs stay stuck like glue.
0:42.2	She tackled.
0:44.5	Won't you join me for a hearty bowl of stew?
0:52.7	You've crossed over to Spooked.
0:57.8	Stay tuned. For the new people, the good people who work here at Spook, it must feel as if they have arrived in the middle of a long-running argument.
1:29.7	It's one of the first things I insist upon is not a ghost story.
1:35.4	Not a demonstration of research chops or ability to create a particular sound.
1:43.2	No, first, first, I want to go to lunch.
1:48.0	And the veteran spooks you start to groaning, I don't care, I don't.
1:55.0	Take this new person up the street not far.
1:59.0	To Oakland's Chinatown, down 12th Street, off Broadway, to a nondescript
2:04.6	restaurant is called Spices 3.
2:06.6	And inside, the good folk, they hand us the laminated menu,
2:10.6	I don't need to see the menu.
2:12.6	This is nominally a Cessuan restaurant.
2:20.8	It's known for a galactic level of spiciness.
2:24.0	Think like mounds and mounds of peppers spicy, but I insist.
2:28.8	Order whatever you want.
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