Snap Studios.

They told me that

they told me that the weird things, the strange things, the things that made me hide,

scared in the closet, those things they told me were normal. Turns out they weren't normal at all. You're listening to Spoot. Stay tuned. From K K-QED and PRX, you've crossed over to Spoot. As a little boy, there are some things that we don't.

As a little boy, I was told that there are some things that we don't talk about outside the house.

Like what? Like things that ain't nobody's business. Like what? Like what? Like things left alone. Like what? Like what? I wanted to ask

again but I sensed that question time was over. Still, I didn't know the difference

between what I could mention outside the confines of our four walls and those things I was forbidden to say.

So I kept quiet about everything, turning it all into a secret telling no one ever and for some things

I'm sure that was for the best

keeping it between those four walls but for others.

My name is Van Washington. Some secrets become monsters just because no one else

knows. Spook starts now. Oh, Now, when you're a little kid, and you feel lonely, sometimes you're a little kid and you feel lonely, sometimes you talk to yourself, sometimes you

speak to an imaginary friend and sometimes that friend even speaks back.

And when Sarah was a kid, Sarah, well, she had to make a very hard choice.

Spooked.

I'm about six years old.

I'm on the floor of my room, laying on my stomach,

with my papers and markers spread out in front of me and I'm enjoying

the pleasure of making big swirls and spirals appear. To the right of me is the old bureau that my clothes are in and that I sometimes

climb on when my parents aren't looking. I don't have any brothers or sisters, and I've learned how to entertain myself, which is what I'm doing right now.

I'm in the middle of a particularly complicated swirl.

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