Smells Like Teen Spirits - Classic
Spooked
This episode of 'Spooked' explores two chilling teenage experiences involving supernatural phenomena: a poltergeist at a ski chalet in Mammo
Key takeaways
- Teenagers may be particularly susceptible to paranormal activity due to heightened emotions and vulnerability.
Main topics
- Teenage vulnerability to supernatural phenomena
- Poltergeist activity in a ski chalet
Notable quotes
They say that evil forces will sometimes prey on the smartest people in the room. That means, of course, the teenagers.
Conclusion
These stories reveal how teenage experiences of fear and isolation can intersect with
Transcript preview
Speaker 4 (0:04) They say that a person's home is their castle. Perhaps. Except when you know that something lives inside that castle. Something patient. Something waiting. Something angry. In Snap Judgment's underground lair, you're listening to Spook. Stay. Did you ever hear that you only wear 20 % of the stuff in your closet? Well, it's true, and I decided it was time to clear everything out. But one person's ungood look is another person's treasure. Vinted is a secondhand marketplace app with a mission to make secondhand your first choice. Vinted helps their members find great deals and easily sell the clothes they no longer wear, giving quality items a second life again and again. Whether you're cleaning out pieces you no longer wear or finding unique items at great prices, Vinted makes it simple to refresh your wardrobe, to earn extra cash, and give your clothes a second life. Plus, with no seller fees, you keep what you earn from every sale. 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Speaker 4 (2:36) Later, he looked me dead in the eye and told me that I didn't see him do what I saw him do. Once, I picked up my new high-top Jordans only to discover them drenched in urine. Speaker 2 (2:53) Yeah, yeah. Speaker 4 (2:57) But condoms shoved underneath my pillow where I laid my head to sleep. Speaker 3 (3:05) Then I Speaker 4 (3:09) knew murderers saw myself committing the act. Speaker 4 (3:17) Hot rage pulled from my pores like sweat. I saw myself ending Tommy painfully with my own two hands and smiling while I did it. The thought brought me joy. And if I'm honest, the thought brings me joy even now to think it. And I wonder, I wonder if this impulse, this hate is something that you can leave behind. Start. Speaker 4 (4:26) like to slam doors. They say that poltergeists feed off the energy of young people. They're susceptible. And our first guest certainly was susceptible when he came up against dark... Speaker 2 (4:46) It was 1982. I was 13 years old. My parents had just gotten divorced. So I had a lot of bottled up emotions. And I spent most of the weekends with my aunt and uncle. My Uncle Red and Aunt Lois. Speaker 2 (5:05) My aunt, my uncle, and me and my cousin had the opportunity to get out of town and go to Mammoth Lakes, California, which was a nice ski resort up in the mountains. I didn't know how to ski, but I thought it would be fun. We were driving up through the Sierra Nevada mountains, you know, and there was snow everywhere. Lois and Red were up front talking to each other. I was just sitting in the back seat, and I just started to kind of get this feeling of dread. Speaker 2 (5:35) You have these narrow two-lane roads that kind of twist around inside the mountains. And when you looked off to the left, it was just like a sheer drop, like off a cliff. We'd been driving for more than an hour, and the hood flew open. Speaker 2 (5:53) My Aunt Lois screamed. And my uncle brought the car to a stop. He got out, went to the front, and then he came back into the car. And we were looking at him like, what happened? He goes, I can't explain it. The latch was fine and everything. Nothing was broken. Hood just flew up. That scared us pretty bad. Speaker 2 (6:19) Well, when we got to the ski lodge, it was just in a normal, like, housing complex. It was a two-story condominium, and it had kind of 70s-style shag rug, and the decor was very 70s, kind of out of date. So we spent the first day mostly just settling in, and I helped my cousin set up his Atari. Later on that night, as I was trying to go to sleep, Speaker 2 (6:52) i heard the coat hangers in the closet kind of jingle against each other as if they were blowing in a slight breeze and then i heard the sound of something dragging across that big heavy shag carpet at the foot of the bed and then it just abruptly stopped Speaker 2 (7:17) And then directly after that, maybe about five seconds after that, I heard the telephone receiver on the nightstand next to the bed pick up and fall back down onto the telephone. It made noise. It was a pretty loud noise. It sent shivers up my spine when I heard it hit. And then I built up enough nerve to look over there and turn my head. I was half expecting to see somebody standing there. There was nothing there. Speaker 2 (7:56) I kind of willed myself to go back to sleep. I woke up the next morning. I felt fine. It felt like nothing had happened. Like it had all been my imagination. Me, my aunt, my uncle, we all head out to the ski slopes. We go back to the house. And when we arrive there, things are out of order. All the beds are now made and we didn't make them when we left. My Aunt Lois called the front office and asked them if there was some kind of a room service that was coming in. And they said, no, no, not at all.