A Mother Knows

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

4.6 • 15.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We all know it’s good to be a little scared of your parents. But TK has a whole other list of reasons to be terrified of his mom.

Thank you kindly, TK, for sharing your story with us. We also want to thank Laura at the Paranormal Scholar for helping us find this amazing story.

Produced by Anne Ford and Eliza Smith. Original score by Richard Haig. Artwork by Teo Ducot.

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0:00.0	Snap Studios.
0:07.0	There's no way I can pay you back, but my plan is to show you that I understand.
0:17.0	Listen to Spoot.
0:19.0	Stay tuned. From KQED and PRX you've crossed over to spoot. You've seen it. Hopefully you felt it. The mother's love for her child,
0:47.0	here it in her voice, witness it in her gaze. Even now, even grown, watch a big strong severe man lean into his mother's touch.
1:00.0	Tender, soft like a blessing, a wish that nothing ever harm her baby.
1:07.0	Fierce enough to beat back a world of darkness, face an army of demons, but what if the night comes not for you but for her?
1:20.0	My name is in Washington not all of us are protected.
1:27.0	Spook starts now. No. Oh, Now then, we all know it's important to be a little scared of your parents.
1:53.0	Gotta show not respect, right? We all know it's important to be a little scared of your parents.
2:03.0	Gotta show them that respect, right?
2:05.0	Wow.
2:07.0	Our storyteller today has a whole other set of reasons
2:10.0	to be scared of his mama.
2:12.0	Spooked.
2:14.0	My name is T.K. I'm from a small city called Waxau, North Carolina.
2:25.0	When T.K. was a kid in Waxau, he sometimes butted heads with his mom.
2:31.0	I remember we had a argument I was in elementary age. She told me to go to
2:37.0	my room so I went to my room and I shut the door and like being just a kid I'm just thinking all kinds of bad stuff
2:44.4	and cussing her out my mind.
2:46.8	And of course I'm not going to do it to her face.
2:50.0	I turned around, she was standing at my door. The door was shut now. Like I turned around, she was standing at the door with her arms holding staring at me.
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