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Spooked

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

4.615.9K Ratings

Overview

Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Be afraid. Created in the dark of night, by the creators of Snap Judgment in partnership with KQED & PRX. It is hosted by Glynn Washington. Episodes drop every week on Friday! Spooked is available for free on ALL podcast platforms. Featuring brand NEW stories -- along with episodes previously available only by subscription. For Luminary subscribers, previously released episodes are still on Luminary.

195 Episodes

Run!

Catherine is headed to her first ever archaeological dig with her college. She’s as happy as can be, living out her dream of being a real-life Indiana Jones. But when she wakes up in the middle of the night and sees a ghostly figure standing over her, watching her sleep, she starts to wonder if her lifelong dream is actually a nightmare.

Published: 4 July 2025

Miss Withers

Twin brothers move to an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Oregon with their renegade dad. He’s wild and unpredictable, but that’s not going to stop Miss Withers from giving the boys an afterlife lesson.

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2025

"Past Life Detective" from Snap Judgment

Detective Bob Snow never could have imagined that the toughest case of his entire career, would be an investigation into his own past… life.

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

The Lady

Stacy knows that her daughter, Mabry, is seeing “a lady” in her room at night. But she doesn’t know just how terrifying that lady is.

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025

Peek-a-boo

Gerald carved his name in concrete behind the house. And now, he keeps trying to say hi to the new family that moved into the house. The problem? Gerald’s dead.

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2025

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.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025

Disembodied Busybodies

Pushy roommates are the worst. Katherine’s are stubborn and demanding… but they’re also dead and disembodied. And she doesn’t know how to get rid of them.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025

Boxes

Ghosts come and go as they please. Sometimes they stick around. Often, you’re stuck with them whether you like it or not… unless you do something to get them out.

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025

Spirit of the Mountain

In Yauco, the mountain is alive. It knows you. It is aware of you. And when you pass, it will not let you leave unforgotten.

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

Mirror, Mirror

If you received an omen of your own death, would you heed it? Or push it aside as a hallucination or a paranoid, passing fancy?

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025

Lady with the Baby

Dave and Vicki love their dad’s new house. It’s by far the nicest one he’s ever lived in. But underneath the beauty, something lurks…

Transcribed - Published: 2 May 2025

40 Days

A man in a dark suit with red suitcases shows up just as the door to the spirit realm is closing.

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2025

Where's My Son?

Dawn has a gift. She can see people who aren’t there. And then, one night, a spirit comes to her and threatens to take Dawn’s son away if she doesn’t help her. Dawn has to decide if her gift is actually a curse.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

Room 10E

Rebecca moves into the dorms at the Fashion Institute and her roommates' outfits go missing. Everyone is mystified, but the answer… is terrifying.

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

"The Long Road Home" from Otherworld

During a three-month trip across Mexico, a Scottish student named Simon and his friend were returning from a beach party when they accidentally ran over something with their car. They got out and realized it was some kind of large black creature. But as they walked closer and it began to stand up, they realized this creature was unlike anything they had ever seen before... The night only got stranger as they got back in the car and tried to drive back to the hotel along the long dirt road that was supposed to be a shortcut.

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Husky

When a dark shadow keeps appearing around Milton’s house, he knows what he must do… fight to protect one of the people he loves most in the world.

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

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.

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

Duality from Snap Judgment

When Tameer gets hit in the head as a kid, he inherits an entire new lifetime of memories.

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

"Duality" from Snap Judgment

When Tameer gets hit in the head as a kid, he inherits an entire new lifetime of memories.

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

Girls and Ghosts

We’ve learned here at Spooked that secrets and curses can often lead to unexpected visitors. Some are friends and some… are foe.

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025

The Empty Chair

Max’s mom is a seamstress. Most nights, she stays up late working. The buzz of her sewing machine can be heard all throughout the house. Max is used to the sound, and when he wakes up in the night, he likes knowing that his mom is there… But then one night he discovers that she may not be alone.

Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2025

Uneasy Rider

On a dark dark night, in a dark dark town, on a dark dark street, there stood a dark dark figure in the dark dark shadows, waiting.

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025

Hello from the Other Side

Some ghosts roam space and time. Some just want a friend. Others hope you'll cross over to the other side.

Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2025

Florence in the Machine Pt. 2

We hear from Jane, the ICU nurse, again. This time, she’s battling paranormal forces… inside one of the hospital’s medication-dispensing machines. Part two of a two-part story.

Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2025

Florence in the Machine

Jane is a nurse in the ICU at a major hospital. She’s seen it all; she’s unflappable. That is, until her new patient Maggie comes on the ward and starts telling Jane she can see everyone in the hospital who’s just died. Part one of a two-part story.

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025

Florence in the Machine Pt. 1

Jane is a nurse in the ICU at a major hospital. She’s seen it all; she’s unflappable. That is, until her new patient Maggie comes on the ward and starts telling Jane she can see everyone in the hospital who’s just died. Part one of a two-part story.

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025

Dancing Shadows

Issac Murdoch is from Serpent River First Nation and is Ojibwe, belonging to the Fish Clan. When picking rice as a young man, he encounters a fierce storm that blends the boundary between this world and the next.

Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2025

The Kids Aren't Alright

It’s said that kids are more sensitive to spirits than adults, that they can see them, even talk to them. But how can kids protect themselves from forces they can’t see or control?

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

Night Dancers

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.

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Gettysburg Ghost

Every season, we say the same thing: don’t taunt ghosts. Don’t make fun of them, don’t tease them, and whatever you do, don’t make a joke about bringing them home with you, because they might just end up making your life a waking nightmare.

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

Spirits in the Sky

Choogie has been visiting old structures on the reservation looking for evidence of spirits ever since he could drive, but there is one place he’s never been ready to visit until now at age 20, the old churchyard. The building was torn down decades ago, but he was told by a church elder that what he’s looking for, it’s still there. He just has to turn the doorknob.

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

Dead or Alive?

As long as we’ve been making Spooked, we have understood that ghosts are the lingering, earthbound spirits of the dead. But our storyteller, Aislinn, is here to prove us wrong: perhaps the living can also haunt us.

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025

The Deer Stand - Classic

Dan is a hunter. His favorite place in the world is his deer stand: a platform 20 feet up in an ancient tree. One day, Dan is sitting up in the tree when he sees something that changes his life forever.

Transcribed - Published: 27 December 2024

Three Elves on the Shelf

Lorena and her family are on vacation in Huasca, Mexico, where she buys three cute elf figurines at, “El Museo de los Duendes,” the Museum of the Elves. Apparently, these creatures can grant you wishes. But you gotta be careful what you wish for...

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2024

The Home Alone Curse

The "Home Alone" Curse is all too real. The big-budget movie is in peril, and only one actor can save it. Not Macaulay Culkin. Not Joe Pesci. It's the goofball cop, Larry Hankin, with one iconic glazed donut.

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2024

Cabin 4

Have you ever had that instant connection with someone where you know you are somehow part of their story? When Connie meets “Geneva” at an old retreat center in California their lives start to become "entangled."

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2024

Dearly Departed

Dearly departed, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called Spooked. Most of the ghosties and ghoulies we meet on this show have sinister agendas. But sometimes, spirits reach through the veil to send tender messages: I’m here; I miss you; remember me.

Transcribed - Published: 29 November 2024

The White Hand

Katia thinks that the dated wallpaper is the worst thing the last tenant’s left behind in her family’s new home. She’s in for a big surprise.

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024

Cedar Hills

15-year-old Couita and her family move into a rental house in Cedar Hills, Texas. As soon as her Dad leaves on a work trip, a stranger moves in to keep them company.

Transcribed - Published: 15 November 2024

The Blue Lady

Castles are the stuff of fairy tales, of happily-ever-afters, right? Well, things are not so rosy at Sharon Rectory in misty Ireland.

Transcribed - Published: 8 November 2024

This Olde House

Rich is renovating an old house in the town of Wells, in Somerset, England. It has history dating back to the 15th century… and not all of it has stayed in the past.

Transcribed - Published: 30 October 2024

Uncle Charlie

Todd receives a box with photographs from his grandmother who had recently passed away. Skimming through the photos, Todd finds a picture of a man in WWII army attire. Immediately, he has flashbacks of childhood memories he long forgotten.

Transcribed - Published: 25 October 2024

Night of the Living Bed

Reena lives in Jammu, India. She prays every night before going to sleep. But one night her bed has other plans.

Transcribed - Published: 18 October 2024

Mother of Bunafu

David travels to the small village of Bunafu in Uganda to visit his family. One morning, he’s awakened by people celebrating a marriage. To his surprise, his mother is the new bride. And the groom? None other than the village spirit.

Transcribed - Published: 11 October 2024

Spooked LIVE: Glynn Washington x John Blake

Glynn's brother pays him a visit. And Journalist, John Blake, shares his family story about a ghost that sought forgiveness from beyond the grave.

Transcribed - Published: 4 October 2024

Piper from the Past

When bagpiper Steve moved to York, England, he joined a local pipe band. Little did he know that he’d have a piper from the past join him from the other side.

Transcribed - Published: 27 September 2024

The Haunted Haunted House

Aspiring filmmaker Chase finds the perfect place to shoot his horror film... the Arx Mortis Haunted House. But beware: inside this Halloween attraction, not all of the scares are fake.

Transcribed - Published: 20 September 2024

Northern Frights

As an engineer, Forrest is used to being able to solve problems and find solutions. But while working in the remote North Slope of Alaska, he learns that there are things in this world that just can’t be explained.

Transcribed - Published: 13 September 2024

Paint It Black

When you put brush to canvas you expect to create something that exists outside of yourself. But what if that something is completely evil?

Transcribed - Published: 6 September 2024

Deliver Me From Evil

Marianne is a typical teenager. She’s having growing pains, throwing temper tantrums, and feeling different from all her peers. Except Marianne might actually be very different from everyone around her because she might actually be possessed.

Transcribed - Published: 30 August 2024

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