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4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A man visits prominent members of the Blackfeet Traditional Medicine community. After witnessing an unexplainable force, he learns just how important it is to practice good medicine. And a girl growing up in Mumbai knows money doesn’t grow on trees. But when times get tough, her family house begins to reveal its secrets.

This story comes to us from our evil-twin, Spooked! You can listen to Spooked on any podcast platform, episodes drop weekly.

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Bull Boy

While Dan is at the compound of good friends and prominent members of the Blackfeet Traditional Medicine community, the Heavyrunner family, he learns just how important it is to practice good medicine.

Thanks to Dan SaSuweh Jones for sharing your story with us! Learn more about Dan.

Produced by Chris Hambrick, original score by Leon Morimoto.

Hiding Spot

Growing up in Mumbai, Rashi knew money didn't grow on trees. But when times got really tough and the family was on the brink, their house began to reveal its secrets.

Thank you Rashi for sharing your story with Spooked!

Rashi is a radio DJ on BIG FM India. You can also follow her on Instagram: @rjrashiofficial @biglive @bigfm.jharkhand

Produced by Erick Yáñez. Original score by Lauryn Newson. Scouted by Aditya Mattoo.

Season 16 - Episode 50

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0:00.0	Snap Studios
0:02.0	The start of so many ancient texts tells us plainly that in the beginning was the word. Before everything was the word.
0:24.6	And even those that don't know, they know this.
0:26.6	They know this.
0:29.6	That simple words alone have a power.
0:32.6	Peace be to you.
0:34.6	Walk in the light. You have my blessing.
0:38.7	You are forgiven.
0:40.6	These are powerful words.
0:44.0	But this is a two-sided coin.
0:50.8	When wronged, when humiliated, when threatened, when needing that final revenge, people reach for the last weapon left to them.
0:54.6	The word, I hate you.
0:59.2	Damn you.
1:02.6	Cursing a person.
1:05.4	Caused upon the most ancient of powers and the more purpose we give our words,
1:13.6	the more likely the universe will bend around them.
1:58.1	Spook starts. Now. I'm Curses, curses, we begin in the early 1980s.
2:03.0	For Dan Sasseway Jones, he's living in a scenic national park in Montana.
2:05.4	It's also Blackfeet Indian land.
2:08.2	He's a member of the Panica Nation,
2:09.6	but he's about to get an education in the ways of Blackfeet Medicine Society.
2:14.2	Spoot.
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