Glenn Washington
Appearances
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Granddaddy, granddaddy, you said whatever goes up has got to come down. No, not on New Year's Day, baby. The other time. was the night before Halloween. We're in Detroit. Thousands of fires erupted the moment the sun set over the horizon. The city's rage, blazing orange and red and gold. Devil's night.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Thank you, Chuck, for coming from those woods and bringing your story back with you. If you listeners decide to go exploring, please bring a friend. Original score was by Clay Xavier. It was produced by Greta Webber. Now, spooksters, we walk this path together. Spook season six. Have you told someone, shared these stories with the people in your life?
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Let me ask you, do you have a story of your own, a story no one will believe, a story you might even be afraid to tell? Tell me spook at snap judgment.org because there is nothing better than a spook story from a spook listener. Let us know spook at snap judgment.org. And tell the dark side you spooked with some spooked gear. The t-shirt of your dreams available right now at snapjudgment.org.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
And remember, if you like your storytelling under the bright light of day, get the amazing, stupendous Snap Judgment podcast. It's storytelling with a beat. Spook was created by the team that's drawn toward the dark heart of the forest. Except for Mark Ristich, who still doesn't understand you can't wear flip-flops in the woods.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
And I watched granddaddy get his gun, set up his folding chair on the porch and sit smoking his cigarette, stroking the barrel. I get back up in the house now, baby. Take care of your grandmama. All around us, Detroit burns. And hiding behind the bars on our windows, looking out into the darkness past granddaddy, I see shadows running on the sidewalk.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
There's Anna Sussman, Eliza Smith, Chris Hambrick, Annie Nguyen, Lauren Newsome, Leon Morimoto, Davey Kim, Renzo Gorio, Teo Ducat, Marissa Dodge, Zoe Ferrigno, Tiffany DeLisa, Ann Ford, Doug Stewart, and Isaiah Sims. The Spook theme song is by Pat Massini-Miller. My name is Gunn Washington. Understand, there is always a fork in the road.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Whether you see it or not, whether you are careful or clever or inspired or blind, you only know you have wandered from the path after it is far too late to turn back. So be prepared. Teach your children so they will know the oldest and simplest weapon against the eternal dark. Never Ever. Never, ever, never, ever, never. Ever. Turn out the lights.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Hooded figures wearing Batman, Superman, Donald Duck masks, carrying torches, gasoline containers, some pausing to consider our home. than hearing the cock of his gun barrel before deciding to move on. And if he's gonna stay up to protect us, I'm gonna stay up to protect him. all night long if I have to, and I try. Watching, watching shadows, fires, police cars. I try.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Then first light presses me awake. My face sleep-mashed against the window. I jump up, scared, open the front door and see my granddaddy still sitting sentry on the porch, still holding his shotgun, pulling the dregs from his last cigarettes, his pack of super long menthol cools. You keep your granny safe like I asked you? Yes, sir. Good boy. Granddaddy, weren't you scared?
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Then, for just an instant, his eyes flashed hot. He looks at me like he's seen something else. Someone else. I already paid the fire once, baby. I won't pay it again. Before he says it, I never knew how his sister had passed. I didn't understand that it wasn't an accident.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
I didn't know that someone had meant to burn his black family from their home in the middle of the night and how every person that crawled out of that inferno long ago took something of the flame with them. I didn't understand that he's been battling a different fire for a very long time. Then the burn passes from his eyes and he's almost my grandfather again.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
And I need him back from that place he just went. Granddaddy. Granddaddy, can I have just a little bit of ice cream and put my cornflakes? He looks at me all the way then.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Spookstars. On this spooked road, we know full well that things are never as they seem. That people are often fighting invisible battles against unseen forces. We know all of this. But still... There's a different type of magic to being in the wild that highlights the mystery of everything we do not see. Our next storyteller, Chuck. Chuck comes face to face with his unknown.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
Deep in the Appalachian wilderness, a place called Dismal Falls. Spook.
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"Dismal Falls" from Spooked
They say out of sight is out of mind. But I have wandered countless times to meet with those I cannot see. For they are still in mind to me. You're listening to Spooked. Stay tuned. As a kid, my grandfather had a shotgun. He brought it out twice every year, once as the clock turned over on New Year's Eve. He'd run out to the porch and blast into the sky. Plow, plow, plow, plow, plow, plow.