“It felt like there was somebody there,” said Matt, of his haunted Victorian flat in Birmingham, England. It was like someone was breathing.
“When I was working in my classroom in the evenings, sometimes I would be overwhelmed with a feeling of melancholy and sadness,” said Kristen, a Los Gatos teacher. It wasn’t from her; she got the feeling that something — maybe a “smoky shadow” — was watching her.
These are just some of the stories in “Spooked,” the Snap Judgment podcast hosted by the bristly-voiced Glynn Washington. Now the show, which specializes in scary stories from everyday people, all underscored with eerie, pulse-quickening soundscapes, appears in person on a double whammy of eldritch dates: It’s October, and it’s Friday the 13th.
的停在奥克兰的Fox Theater, coproduced by KQED, presents ghoulish tales from Louisiana-born comedian Jen Kober, motivational speaker and storyteller Ray Christian and CNN writer John Blake.