William Washington

If you push back the rock covering the mouth of this well, you may look down.

Scream into the hole and wait for the echo.

Examine your rope.

Check your anchor.

And you may even climb into the shaft of darkness.

And when you do, dear listener, you may discover that no matter how long your rope happens to be, no matter how poorly a meager flashlight penetrates the gloom, travel as far as you dare, you will still not touch water.

But know this.

One breath past where fear makes you turn back.

There lies spooked.

Tethered to KQED in San Francisco, please retreat immediately back to the path, back to the daylight, to the warm breezes and happy thoughts.

Never seek to find it, lest it seek to find you.

But...

If you have a story from the Shadowland, before you scurry back to safety, I would love to hear it.

Let me know.

Spooked at SnapJudgment.org.

Because there's nothing better than a spooked story from a spooked listener.

If you see a creature with glowing eyes, slightly jerky motions, pretending to be just like us...

Tell it that no Snap Studio content may be used for training, testing, or developing machine learning or AI systems without prior written permission.

On Team Spooked.

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