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Podcast · Arts & Books
Spooked
by KQED and Snap Studios · English · Arts & Books
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. It is hosted by Glynn Washington. Episodes drop every week on Friday!
- New episodes
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 35 min
- Latest
- 2 Oct 2026
- Language
- English
Latest episode
Earlier episodes 29 most recent
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29 Sep 2026 · 3 min
Season 11 Trailer: The Spooked Field Guide to the Shadow
There was a Book of Shadow once, its pages showed the way. So travelers through the secret lands could not be led astray. They burned the Book of Shadow because the mystery hates the light. And those who ventured after crept unguarded through the Night. Until... now. That which was lost is found. Season 11 starts this Friday, October 2nd!!! Spooked presents, "The Spooked Field Guide to the Shadow." Brand new episodes will drop weekly, all of October. Uncover new chapters with us. Be afraid.
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E253 · 25 Sep 2026 · 33 min
Green Demon - Classic
When Austin’s dad starts having night terrors, the family thinks it’s just nightmares -- but Austin thinks something else is going on. He soon discovers that there is an actual demon plaguing his father… and Austin must confront it.
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E252 · 18 Sep 2026 · 33 min
Kū's Legacy
Joe Punohu is a ghost tour guide in Waikiki, Hawaiʻi. He spends his nights telling visitors about the spirits and dark history of the islands. But one night, one of those stories hits too close to home… and doesn’t let Joe go.
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E251 · 11 Sep 2026 · 36 min
The Intruders - Classic
If you are feeling unnerved, if you have a sinking feeling that something is not right, take our advice, turn and run. Do not go back and investigate.
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E250 · 4 Sep 2026 · 38 min
La Pesca
Giulia’s new apartment is in one of the oldest buildings in La Spezia, a seaside city in northwest Italy. The building has seen so much history, it’s practically coming out of the walls…
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E249 · 28 Aug 2026 · 29 min
Smells Like Teen Spirits - Classic
They say that evil forces will sometimes prey on the smartest people in the room. That means, of course, the teenagers.
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E248 · 21 Aug 2026 · 37 min
The Bride
In a strange new city, Alyssa finds a friend — and something else she was never meant to see.
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E247 · 14 Aug 2026 · 29 min
Keep It Pono - Classic
If you live in Hawaii, you know that if you see the ancient Night Marchers of the King’s Guard, you bow in reverence. And you don’t look them in the eye, under any circumstances. But Obake, Dee, and Joe Bones? They haven’t learned this lesson… yet.
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E246 · 7 Aug 2026 · 29 min
37 Seconds - Classic
Stephanie Arnold is pregnant with her second child and she’s really excited. Until the premonitions begin.
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E245 · 31 Jul 2026 · 47 min
Island Ride
There’s a jumbie in a jalopy and the spirits are flowing during happy hour on St. Thomas. Plus, young Lopaka meets a mysterious girl hanging by an abandoned pickup in Maui.
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E244 · 24 Jul 2026 · 34 min
Iconic - Classic
You know the most haunted places. The houses, the castles, the hotels. And you know the most haunted objects. The mirrors, the necklaces, the dolls. In this episode, we take you to the Stanley Hotel and introduce you to Robert the Doll.
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E243 · 17 Jul 2026 · 35 min
Scarebnb
Katie gets a little more history than she bargained for when she books a historic vacation rental for a trip to Gettysburg with her dad.
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E242 · 10 Jul 2026 · 33 min
The Iron Gate - Classic
An American soldier takes over an empty house in Baghdad and encounters the one threat he is powerless against.
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E241 · 3 Jul 2026 · 30 min
Kualoa Ranch
Seashell is a tour guide at Kualoa Ranch, a nature reserve on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu. The land there is rich with history—and that history wants to be known.
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E240 · 26 Jun 2026 · 35 min
Holy Ghost - Classic
When evil takes hold, some people duck and cover, some people run for their lives, but others pick up a cross and fight back.
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E239 · 23 Jun 2026 · 31 min
When Doves Cry
An ecologist in Maine fears she will be criticized because she “communicates with animals.” Then a tiny, collared dove told her he could read her mind.
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E238 · 19 Jun 2026 · 34 min
Stomping Ground
Malachi and his husband Jeremiah are heading to the Green Corn Ceremony: an ancestral Native American gathering filled with food and dance. It’s also a night when spirits come near, delivering messages to those ready to hear.
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E237 · 12 Jun 2026 · 38 min
The Summoning - Classic
Spirits, seances and dollhouses. This is The Summoning.
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E236 · 9 Jun 2026 · 43 min
Old Gods of Appalachia - Part 3
The people of Bower County have had just about enough of Polly Barrow and the boys, and decide to do something about it.
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E235 · 5 Jun 2026 · 34 min
Old Gods of Appalachia - Part 2
Polly Barrow and her boys make another special delivery, this time to the Underwoods of Oak Mountain. Discoveries are made.
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E234 · 2 Jun 2026 · 58 min
Old Gods of Appalachia - Part 1
In the early decades of the 20th century, unions are on the rise in coal country. Those who toil beneath the dark earth balk under the yoke of the Barrow family’s rule, and something must be done.
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E233 · 29 May 2026 · 27 min
Night at the Aquarium - Classic
On Kevin’s night shift at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, things get wet, wild, and very very weird.
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E232 · 22 May 2026 · 40 min
Band-Aid Bandit
Maria thinks she’s landed the perfect gig, driving a friendly stranger from downtown Baltimore out to a Park ‘n’ Ride outside of the city. It’s the easiest hundred bucks she’s ever made. But she soon learns that there’s more to this job than she bargained for. Plus, a story about why the chicken really crosses the road.
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E231 · 15 May 2026 · 34 min
Isabelle - Classic
Betsy keeps seeing a young girl at night in her room. She stands at the end of Betsy’s bed and stares at her. She comes back, over and over: night after night; year after year. Betsy knows she wants something, but she has to figure out what.
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E230 · 8 May 2026 · 28 min
The Banker - Classic
When Antonio and his sister Anita were growing up in Texas, their family didn’t have much money. That’s why they were so excited to move into their very own home, even if it was a little run-down. It turns out, the home already had an occupant.
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E229 · 1 May 2026 · 36 min
'Till Death Do Us Part
It’s the 1970s in Beverly, a small town in Jamaica where everyone knows everything about each other and gossip travels fast. Fifteen-year-old Claudia thinks she’s heard it all… But nothing can prepare her for the stories that start to spread after one of her neighbors passes away.
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E228 · 24 Apr 2026 · 43 min
Hounded - Classic
Some roads are long and some roads wind. Some roads show you things you’d never think you’d find…
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E227 · 17 Apr 2026 · 39 min
Musambwa Island
We all have ancestors... but on a Musambwa Island in Uganda, those ancestors are a little sssuspicious.
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E226 · 10 Apr 2026 · 41 min
The Lighthouse - Classic
The Heceta Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast on the Oregon Coast used to be a lightkeeper’s home–and it has a reputation for being very haunted. So Spooked producer, Zoë Ferrigno, went to investigate.
About Spooked
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. It is hosted by Glynn Washington. Episodes drop every week on Friday!
Spooked is a English arts & books podcast from KQED and Snap Studios. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.
- Publisher
- KQED and Snap Studios
- Language
- English
- Category
- Arts & Books
- New episodes
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 35 min
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
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- © Snap Judgment
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