Peek-a-boo

Speaker 1 Locked inside this prison scary,

Speaker 2 racked with filth and vermin wary.

Speaker 5 Knew I heard him sneaking right outside my gated door.

Speaker 8 I snatched my hand out quickly, just as I had tried before.

Speaker 3 This time I caught him creeping, hoping he could find me sleeping.

Speaker 11 Oh, I gave him such a beating as he'd never had before.

Speaker 10 And when he cried for mercy, I just beat him all the more.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 10 I never saw the letter he had slipped beside my door.

Speaker 10 So the chance to walk in freedom was the chance that I foreswore.

Speaker 3 Now, trapped inside this cell is where I'll rock

Speaker 3 forevermore.

Speaker 3 You're listening to spoot.

Speaker 3 Stay.

Speaker 5 Okay, so it hasn't even happened yet, but I'm already tripping.

Speaker 13 Been sitting with my baby girl recently as she prepares her applications to colleges.

Speaker 13 We even visited a few places, looked at dorms, meal plans, student-faculty ratios, and soon she's going to pick a school.

Speaker 1 I'm going to load up a car and take her to live somewhere else.

Speaker 2 I'll meet her new roommate, help her put stuff on the wall, make some dad jokes, and as I turn away from her,

Speaker 1 I will try my very best not to weep.

Speaker 14 At least, try to wait till I get back into the car before losing my mind.

Speaker 5 But I am so proud of her.

Speaker 17 So happy for her.

Speaker 13 She is made of magic, and I'm the luckiest girl dad of them all.

Speaker 1 Already I'm seeing things that I want to send with her.

Speaker 18 The complete eight-volume expanse book series.

Speaker 2 We share a love of sci-fi, she and I.

Speaker 14 This locket I found at a Japanese flea market before she was born.

Speaker 5 That painting of us all together.

Speaker 14 So many things I want her to take to remain a part of her.

Speaker 14 The love, the laughter, the eye rolls, the baits, the smell, sometimes good,

Speaker 5 sometimes very bad, coming from my kitchen.

Speaker 5 I hope

Speaker 5 I have been a good father to her.

Speaker 5 I know

Speaker 13 she's the very best of me. I want her to carry my sometimes joy, my shared whimsy, this love of words and arts and music and story.

Speaker 13 But

Speaker 13 some of me,

Speaker 16 I pray she leaves behind forever because

Speaker 14 I see monsters.

Speaker 14 Several years ago, as new adults, before kids, before mortgages, before 401ks, before all of it, my cousins and I flew from various parts of the country, gathered in Los Angeles, and we hugged and we laughed and we wept and we cried and we vowed that the insanity we had all experienced would stop with us.

Speaker 15 That this cycle would not become our baby's birthright.

Speaker 7 I made that promise and I meant every word.

Speaker 7 But now I'm older

Speaker 14 and I've learned that even the very best of intentions are built of sand.

Speaker 2 I've even offered myself an olive branch, a bit of forgiveness.

Speaker 2 I've come to accept that if you witness a murder before your fifth birthday, If you are locked in a closet filled with demons as a child, that this darkness becomes twisted inside your DNA, that this darkness colors every interaction I have, every step, every thought.

Speaker 5 And yeah,

Speaker 10 that background has its own gifts.

Speaker 2 Because the doors to shadowlands do not simply swing open to those who have lived a life of happiness and joy.

Speaker 17 These gates are only pried open through pain

Speaker 14 and loss.

Speaker 2 and sorrow.

Speaker 14 My grandmother once told me that the witch sight can skip a generation.

Speaker 16 I want to skip all my generations because the price is far too high.

Speaker 2 I want that my children's children's children do not see the shadow figure in the corner.

Speaker 16 I want that they do not hear the scream from the dark forest, but wanting is not enough.

Speaker 18 I imagined that I could simply hide that part of myself from her.

Speaker 2 Shield her from this consuming pit of madness, but but I'd have to be some kind of new fool to imagine she doesn't know me better than anyone ever has.

Speaker 7 She's held my hand even as I've held hers.

Speaker 15 So I wonder, and I hope, and I pray that I have held back enough of my own darkness, enough,

Speaker 15 just enough,

Speaker 7 so that when she is packed off for school and finally turns away from me,

Speaker 7 I beg the universe

Speaker 16 that she can step away from this shadow

Speaker 16 and she can walk

Speaker 16 in the light.

Speaker 1 Legacy, legacy, legacy. What do you leave behind?

Speaker 1 What do they carry?

Speaker 2 Susan and her husband had just bought their first house. They're excited to move in with their three kids, Ben, Christina, and Stephanie.

Speaker 1 They get to make it into a home.

Speaker 20 It is a ranch-style house, three bedrooms on about an acre and a third. It had a huge backyard with big mature trees and a circle drive, and it just seemed perfect.

Speaker 20 We just considered it to be the perfect house for our family.

Speaker 20 One of the things that we noticed right after we moved in was that in the concrete patio in the back, the name Gerald Thompson was carved into the concrete.

Speaker 20 And so we just thought that was really sweet that someone felt so personal about the house that they had carved their name into the concrete.

Speaker 20 After a few months in the house, the children were at school

Speaker 20 and I was all alone alone, and the house was nice and quiet.

Speaker 20 I was sitting in my easy chair, and I was embroidering. That's my favorite thing to do.

Speaker 20 There was a feeling of eyes on me, just a feeling of

Speaker 20 holy cow, I'm not alone. Someone is in this house with me.

Speaker 20 But I just brushed it off as just my imagination, just something that I was feeling for no good reason.

Speaker 21 My name is Christina and I am the middle child of three children.

Speaker 22 My name is Ben and I'm the oldest.

Speaker 12 My name is Stephanie and I am the youngest member of the family. I was around four,

Speaker 12 approaching five years old at the time.

Speaker 12 And then the house was still new and very exciting.

Speaker 22 The yard was big. It had lots of trees and lots of things to run and do and explore.
So as a 10-year-old boy, I was really excited moving into this house.

Speaker 12 In my parents' master suite in the back of the house, there was a tiny little bathroom. And I just thought it was so exciting to sneak back into their tiny little bathroom.

Speaker 12 And there was a huge mirror over the sink.

Speaker 12 I was looking in the mirror and saw the figure out of the corner of my eye.

Speaker 22 One morning when I was mowing the lawn, I started to get kind of a creepy feeling like someone was watching me and they were very careful to stay hidden.

Speaker 21 I was sleeping on my side

Speaker 21 and all of a sudden I felt something

Speaker 21 touch the top of my head.

Speaker 21 It was like a finger touch.

Speaker 12 It was just a sort of a shrouded figure.

Speaker 22 I thought I saw someone peeking out from behind the mimosa tree and I turned and did a double take and looked at it and it just disappeared.

Speaker 21 I slept with my little sister, so I kind of rolled over to see if it was her but she was asleep

Speaker 12 and so I thought okay well maybe it was just my imagination and I rolled back onto my side and I thought it was just something that you know if I were to look at it it would go away.

Speaker 12 It would be sort of in my imagination

Speaker 12 and I look at the figure and it's there

Speaker 12 in the mirror. It continues to stay there.

Speaker 21 And almost immediately felt that finger touch on the top of my head again.

Speaker 21 And this time,

Speaker 21 it moved from the top of my head, down my cheek, down my neck,

Speaker 21 down my shoulder, my arm, all the way down to my toes.

Speaker 22 As I approached the side of the lawn and I continued mowing around the tree, the shadowy figure jumped out.

Speaker 21 I was frozen and my heart was racing and I just could barely breathe.

Speaker 12 It scared me pretty badly. It was this just very terrifying feeling that came over me.

Speaker 22 It scared me so bad that I jumped off the riding lawnmower. And as I jumped off the mower and I looked directly at it, it just disappeared like there wasn't anything there.

Speaker 12 I was frozen for a minute and did not know what to do.

Speaker 22 So, I walked over to the tree and I looked around. There were no signs of any person there.
There's no signs of any animals or anything.

Speaker 22 And

Speaker 12 I ran and told my mom that I felt like I had seen something in the mirror.

Speaker 22 There was uncertainty as to what I'm seeing. Am I crazy? And really not knowing how to talk about it to anyone either.

Speaker 12 And she pretty quickly brushed it off and told me it was nothing.

Speaker 20 I just brushed it off, I didn't think much about it. And several months later, probably we've probably been in the house for a year.

Speaker 20 I was dusting in the den

Speaker 20 and I felt something watching me.

Speaker 20 I looked to the area between the kitchen and the dining room.

Speaker 20 I saw a boy, an older teenage boy, standing there just looking at me.

Speaker 20 He had brown hair and

Speaker 20 green eyes.

Speaker 20 He had reddish eyebrows and several pimples on his face. He had

Speaker 20 kind of a 60s-looking white button-down shirt.

Speaker 20 It was short-sleeved,

Speaker 11 blue jeans, high-waisted, and he had a little brown leather belt.

Speaker 20 I could see through him.

Speaker 20 He wasn't like clear or anything like that. There was definite presence to him, but fuzzily you could see what was behind him.

Speaker 20 I was not scared, but I was startled by his presence in the room.

Speaker 20 He looks at me and he

Speaker 20 just very slowly turns

Speaker 20 and then just is no longer there.

Speaker 20 I just stand there thinking to myself,

Speaker 20 holy cow, my husband's never going to believe this, so I'm not going to tell him.

Speaker 20 I also didn't tell my children about this because I did not want to frighten them.

Speaker 12 Christine and I loved to go ride our bikes out in the driveway. We had this cool circle drive area

Speaker 12 and there are windows all across the front of our house and we're just playing and having a great time. As I'm driving in front of the house, I keep seeing something

Speaker 12 behind me every time I pass by the window.

Speaker 12 At some point, as I'm passing through, I stop my bike and Christina and I are talking and I look in the window and sure enough I see in the window my reflection and I see

Speaker 12 the reflection of someone standing behind me.

Speaker 21 It was a little boy, I would say

Speaker 21 maybe 12-13 years old. He was wearing a white t-shirt and he was wearing blue jeans.

Speaker 21 It startled me because no one had been there and I jerked my head around to see who was there.

Speaker 21 And there was no one standing behind me.

Speaker 21 So I turned back around to look in the window, and it was gone. Gone, gone, gone, gone.

Speaker 12 And I was frozen in fear and shaking. I look at Christina and I say,

Speaker 12 I keep seeing something behind me in the window. Every time we pass by, I can see something in the reflection.
And she just stared at me and her face goes pale.

Speaker 21 And I said, yeah, I've been seeing that same figure too.

Speaker 21 Stephanie and I, we just began to confide in each other about the things that we had been experiencing. But we never really said anything to Ben about it.

Speaker 12 We almost didn't want to have any validation outside of the two of us. We didn't want to alarm our parents, make them think that we were crazy, or just making up silly stories.

Speaker 21 So, Stephanie and I were trying to figure out what were we going to call

Speaker 21 this little boy that we kept seeing, what were we going to call him? And

Speaker 21 we kind of remembered the name that was carved in the concrete in our backyard, Gerald Thompson. And

Speaker 21 we decided, you know,

Speaker 20 that's probably who this is.

Speaker 21 And so,

Speaker 21 after that, that, his name was Gerald.

Speaker 20 We were at a Christmas party at the home of one of our friends in our Sunday school. Her name was Tony.

Speaker 20 As we were visiting at the party, Tony asked me where we lived. She had lived in Bartlesville her entire life, and I had only lived here about four years.

Speaker 20 And I told her where we lived, and she said, oh, I think one of my friends that I went to school with lived in that house. And I said, Oh, really? And she said, Yeah, I think he did.

Speaker 20 And she pulled down her yearbook.

Speaker 20 And she said, Yeah, yeah, he did. Here is his picture right here.

Speaker 20 I just about painted. It was an in-memorial photograph in the yearbook.
It was the boy that I saw in my house. He had the acne, the pimples.

Speaker 20 And when I saw his name was Gerald Thompson, I felt the blood rush to my face and I felt like I had shrunk away and was watching everything from the other end of a tunnel.

Speaker 20 She was explaining to me what happened to him and I listened, but my mind just kind of went on overdrive and I felt like I couldn't hear and could barely even see anything because my heart was racing.

Speaker 20 When he was in high school, one day, he had a really, really bad headache and he laid down his head on his desk.

Speaker 20 He had a brain aneurysm and he died.

Speaker 20 I did not say a word to Tony about how this put so many pieces of this puzzle together because I felt like I was kind of a bad Christian for having seen these things and having experienced these things.

Speaker 20 But I knew then that everything that I was seeing and everything that I was experiencing was not a fluke and it was all 100%

Speaker 20 real.

Speaker 20 And my husband, he patted me on the leg and said, is everything okay? You've kind of been quiet. And I said, oh, no, no, I was just thinking about everything that happened tonight.

Speaker 20 The first conversation that I had with my husband about seeing Gerald and knowing who he was was not too long after that Christmas party.

Speaker 20 Well, he argued with me about it and didn't want me to tell anybody about it.

Speaker 20 After I realized that this was a real person, I definitely felt more of a motherly relationship to the spirit of this child.

Speaker 20 I talked to Gerald while I was folding laundry. I would just try to talk calmly to him and say, you know, what's going on? How are you doing? Come on in and let's have a conversation.

Speaker 20 I literally said things like that out loud to him because

Speaker 20 I wanted him to feel welcome and to feel

Speaker 20 wanted,

Speaker 20 and I was hoping that he would talk to me to have a friend.

Speaker 20 Gerald was very selective when he would appear to me. I was always in that room alone when he would be around.

Speaker 20 He would just appear there, just a still figure, and very rarely would he walk toward me or away from me.

Speaker 20 He never spoke, he never said a word.

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Speaker 20 There was just a feeling of very profound sadness.

Speaker 20 It worried me as a mother that there was a child

Speaker 20 because he felt

Speaker 20 because he felt like a child who needed someone. That was the feeling that I got, that he was a child looking for his mother.

Speaker 20 When you're a mother and a wife, you don't have a lot of things that you feel like are only yours.

Speaker 20 And I kind of felt like it was my own little secret. It was almost a special thing that I had that nobody else had.

Speaker 20 I never mentioned it to the children for all the years that they lived there, including after they moved out.

Speaker 22 I had been moved out of the house probably 10 years. At this point, my sisters and I have all married and we have children of our own.

Speaker 12 We were back visiting my parents. I was in the bathroom with my youngest daughter, and she was four years old at the time.

Speaker 12 And I was in the bathroom with her doing her hair in the morning. My sister was in there as well, putting her makeup on.

Speaker 12 And I had my daughter standing on a little stool in front of me. And just out of the blue, she said, Mommy, who is that person standing behind us in the mirror?

Speaker 12 My blood ran cold.

Speaker 12 I said,

Speaker 12 Well, there's no one behind us. I don't see anyone in the mirror.
And she said, Mommy, look in the mirror. There's someone standing right behind us.

Speaker 12 And I looked at Christina and she looked at me.

Speaker 12 And we did not know what to say. I kind of felt almost tears in my eyes because I was overwhelmed by it.

Speaker 12 I just tried to reassure her. I said, I don't see anyone in there.
I think it's okay. You know, I think maybe you're just seeing things.

Speaker 12 The next visit we had,

Speaker 12 we were all visiting my parents. Ben was there, Christina was there.
We were sitting in the living room chatting, and my middle daughter came walking down the long hall into the living room.

Speaker 12 She looked very upset, and she kind of came to me teary-eyed and I said, sweetheart, what's wrong? And she said, why does that man keep jumping out from that corner every time I come down the hall?

Speaker 12 And

Speaker 12 Ben and I just looked at each other.

Speaker 12 I did not know what to tell her.

Speaker 12 And it was very difficult for me to calm her down and to tell her, I think maybe, sweetheart, you may just be seeing things. There's nothing there.

Speaker 12 I had not expected my children to ever have any experiences in the home. That had not crossed my mind that I should protect them from anything going on in the house.

Speaker 12 It really took me back to

Speaker 12 when I was a little girl in the home, around four years old, and experiencing those same types of things.

Speaker 12 It felt validating in some ways, but not in a good way.

Speaker 12 It was Thanksgiving just a few years back.

Speaker 12 We were staying at a large cabin in Louisiana, and

Speaker 12 it was late at night, and we were all just up visiting. We started talking about our experiences in the house.

Speaker 12 And, you know, as an adult, you're removed from the situation.

Speaker 12 It was extremely interesting to me, especially to hear from Ben.

Speaker 12 It was just crazy to hear about his experiences.

Speaker 12 There was a tree that he liked to hang out in and jump from. There were also trees he would stand at and kind of watch us.

Speaker 12 That was something none of us had really ever shared, but we all had the same experience in the yard with that.

Speaker 22 I asked Stephanie, what did he look like to you?

Speaker 12 I said, it's to me when I see it, it's this figure wearing a white shirt and jeans. And just his, his eyes got just huge.
I was like, yes, the white shirt.

Speaker 22 And the hair raised on my arms, because I had never told anyone that.

Speaker 22 My older sister, Christina,

Speaker 22 She also experienced this thing around the mimosa tree. And as a test, I said, well, which mimosa tree?

Speaker 22 And out of the five that are in our yard, she identified the right one.

Speaker 22 At that point, we realized how much we had kept from each other because we had a sense that maybe we were crazy or someone else wouldn't understand.

Speaker 19 I,

Speaker 22 for whatever reason, had become convinced that this wasn't a problem with the house, a problem with the yard. This was something that was attached to me.
That

Speaker 22 this would be something that would follow me around, that I would never be free of it.

Speaker 12 I graduated high school there and I went off to college. And I remember being so scared, every new apartment that I would go to, even every dorm room.

Speaker 12 I remember waiting for that feeling to come, being scared of something happening.

Speaker 21 And what Stephanie said,

Speaker 21 but never anywhere have I ever felt that except in that home that we grew up in.

Speaker 21 It was just kind of a

Speaker 21 release in a way of just being able to have those conversations with them and know it was real, it happened,

Speaker 21 and

Speaker 21 I'm not a crazy person.

Speaker 20 It never entered my mind that it might backfire that I had not said anything to the children about it. That really hadn't ever crossed my mind.
I really had just hoped that I was the only one.

Speaker 20 I think he

Speaker 20 was

Speaker 20 different

Speaker 20 with me than he was with them. I think he was much more mischievous with them.
The quintessential bratty teenage boy

Speaker 20 and just more of a presence that kind of needed a mommy when he was around me. That was the feeling that I always got around him.

Speaker 20 Maybe it was wrong that I didn't talk to them about it. I really don't know.

Speaker 20 Rather than me trying to brush it off, thinking that I was protecting them from being frightened when it looks like what I was doing was

Speaker 20 just acting as though I did not believe them.

Speaker 20 But you just do the best you can until you know to do better and then you try to do better.

Speaker 12 I think that she probably did the right thing because I feel like, as a kid, if she had come to me and said,

Speaker 12 Yes, Stephanie, I see it too,

Speaker 12 I think that I would have just been more frightened.

Speaker 12 Even having my kids have experiences, I think your default mode as the parent is to try to dismiss anything that you can't explain to your kids that you feel like you don't don't have any control of, you have no power to stop it.

Speaker 12 I think it's easy to just dismiss that.

Speaker 20 We moved out of the house about five and a half years ago. My husband didn't want to fix up that house.
He wanted to move instead of fixing up that house.

Speaker 20 There was so much chaos going on in the house that I didn't think so much about Gerald at all. In fact, when we were getting ready to move, I hadn't seen him in a long time.

Speaker 20 But the house had always had a peculiar sweet smell to it. It wasn't particularly pleasant or unpleasant.
It was just a peculiar sweet smell to it. That smell ramped up tremendously, and

Speaker 20 I got the emotional sense that Gerald may have felt that we were abandoning him as we left.

Speaker 20 I would have sold the house long ago, except my husband still has things in it.

Speaker 20 I don't know what keeps him from selling the house, but maybe the kids can kick in with some information as to why they think daddy's hanging on to that house.

Speaker 20 Even though we've been out for five and a half years, I still go to the house at least once a week.

Speaker 20 It is beginning to fade now. That smell is finally beginning to fade.

Speaker 20 Several months ago, I went to the house and just sat in the house for an hour or something. And I just literally talked out loud to Gerald.

Speaker 20 I said, You know, I haven't seen you in a long time. I hope you're doing okay.

Speaker 20 Can you at least let me see you to see how you're doing? I'm sorry he left, and we didn't even say goodbye.

Speaker 20 And

Speaker 20 there was nothing.

Speaker 20 I didn't feel his presence. I actually cried because I felt like he was gone.
And I should be happy about that. If there's nobody there,

Speaker 20 he would be lonely. So I don't know if he felt like there was something that I could be for him or if

Speaker 20 he just needed some kind of comfort. I hope I was able to do that for him.

Speaker 20 If he is still there, I just want him to know that he wasn't abandoned, that this was just a process that adults go through in moving, and that it wasn't an intentional abandonment.

Speaker 1 Big love to all of you, Susan, Ben, Christina, and Stephanie, and a shout out to Gerald, the family ghost from all of us here at the Spooked.

Speaker 5 The original score was by Renzo Gorio.

Speaker 8 The piece was produced by Zoe Ferrigno and Chris Hambrick with assistance from Greta Weber.

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Speaker 18 This book was created by the team that always leaves more breadcrumbs behind in the dark forest.

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Speaker 13 When a door is opened, when the veil is drawn aside and the invitation extended, understand.

Speaker 2 That even here, you have the choice to turn back around from whence you came, to never retrace the steps that brought you to this rip in the fabric,

Speaker 15 the space between here and there.

Speaker 2 But if you proceed forward,

Speaker 2 know that the old rules are forgotten in this new place, all of them, all of them,

Speaker 2 except for just one.

Speaker 14 When you cross over,

Speaker 7 even then,

Speaker 7 never,

Speaker 7 ever,

Speaker 7 never, ever, never, never, ever, never, ever, never

Speaker 7 turn out

Speaker 7 the lies.

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