The Knock, Knock Ghost from Spooked
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In a boarding house in Chicago, a young girl puts her questions to the universe and the answers are returned in coded messages from the other side. And a boy lost in the forest at the foothills of the Himalayas, sees a light in the distance… but it isn’t there to guide him.
This story comes to us from our evil-twin, Spooked! You can listen to Spooked on any podcast platform, episodes drop weekly. Happy Halloween!
STORIES
Knock Knock
In a boarding house in Chicago, a young girl puts her questions to the universe and the answers are returned in coded messages from the other side.
BIG thanks to Connie Shirakawa for sharing her story with us. Connie is a storyteller in Chicago. You can catch some of her performances on her website.
Produced by Anne Ford, original score by Doug Stuart.
Fire Creature
When you’re lost in the forest at the foothills of the Himalayas, a light in the distance is not always good news.
Thank you, Razdan, for sharing your grandfather’s story with Spooked.
Produced by Erick Yáñez, original score by Clay Xavier, scouted by Aditya Mattoo.
Season 16 - Episode 51
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| 0:04.0 | America is big. |
| 0:14.0 | America is big. |
| 0:18.0 | You know, it's huge. |
| 0:19.0 | See the shining sea big. |
| 0:21.9 | And maybe because of this, this vastness, we'd like to imagine that we can pick up and move from place to place and just start over. |
| 0:31.5 | Brand new, leaving our old life behind. |
| 0:35.0 | No harm, no foul. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, maybe we can leave everything behind. |
| 0:45.0 | Then again, maybe not. Now Now. Now. I'm Now. |
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| 2:01.2 | Sute. comes to us from Connie Chiracalla. Sploot. My parents were both born in California. |
| 2:27.3 | When President Roosevelt put all the Japanese Americans into a concentration camp behind barbed wire, |
| 2:34.6 | my dad spied my mother in the camp. |
| 2:39.3 | She was quite the femme fatal in her day, |
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| 2:47.8 | He chased my mother around, |
| 2:50.2 | and of course she couldn't run very far. |
| 2:53.6 | He asked her to marry him. |
| 2:55.6 | She didn't want to marry this guy. |
| 2:58.6 | She was a graduate of the University of Southern California. |
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