Hush - Classic

Summary

Spooked – "Hush: Classic" (Nov 14, 2025)

Episode Overview

This episode of Spooked, hosted by Glynn Washington, delves into the haunting power of secrets and the supernatural. True to the show’s format, it features firsthand accounts of eerie, unexplainable experiences—one a chilling haunting in a Texas home, the other a bittersweet visitation from a beloved grandmother. Both stories explore what happens when families decide to protect (or burden) each other with things unsaid, and whether silence can truly shield us from things that go bump in the night.

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Key Stories and Discussion Points

1. Jennifer's Story: The House on Libby’s Land (06:41–25:03)

Premise:
Jennifer and her family move into a Texas home with a dark past: a teenage girl named Libby once died mysteriously on the property. Hoping to protect their children, Jennifer and her husband keep the details secret—only to discover the past refuses to stay buried.

Main Discussion Points

• The Decision to Withhold the House's History
  • Jennifer explains choosing not to tell her daughter Taylor about the death that occurred on their property.
  • “We decided because she was so little, I didn’t think it would serve a purpose other than scare her ... we just wouldn’t mention it.” (Jennifer, 07:56)
• First Signs of Trouble
  • Loud crashes in the night (family portrait knocked over), unexplained noises.
  • “We heard just the loudest crash, like there was a window shattering ... our family photo, it just has fallen face forward ... and it smashed.” (Taylor, 08:36)
• The Woman with No Feet: Child's Encounter
  • Jennifer’s son Joseph, unaware of the house's history, sees a floating woman with long blonde hair and no feet.
  • “Mommy, there’s a lady in the living room ... she had no feet ... she was just floating.” (Taylor, 10:10)
  • Jennifer connects Joseph's description to Libby.
  • “He had not heard anything about the situation there. He knew nothing of it.” (Jennifer, 10:19)
• Escalation: Physical Haunting
  • Taylor, as a teenager, experiences physical pressure, gasping sounds, and visions of a shadowy presence:
  • “I hear this deep gasp for air ... like someone was dying ... then I see this black, shadowy, smoke-like mass ... it wasn’t Casper, your friendly ghost. ... This was a ghost who wanted your attention to torment you a little.” (Taylor, 11:55)
• Overheard Secrets
  • Taylor overhears her parents mention suicide and realizes there’s a secret about the house:
  • “‘Oh, you know, it was a suicide. ... What are you guys talking about?’ ‘Don’t worry about it. They’re just telling a story.’” (Taylor, 13:02)
• Vivid Visitation
  • Jennifer herself sees a tangible apparition—Libby, with childlike features and a piercing stare.
  • “She was hovering over me, kind of like the way a skydiver hovers as they’re descending ... very vividly. She wasn’t in spirit form. She was very much flesh and blood.” (Jennifer, 13:36)
• Family Discovers the Truth
  • Taylor, during recovery from surgery, researches Libby's death and uncovers her obituary—Libby died mysteriously, found under a saddle in a barn fire, possibly suicide or a cover-up.
  • “I had her name, and I knew that she had died by fire, and I knew that she was the one. That she was the one causing all these problems, that this restlessness and this anger was coming from her.” (Taylor, 20:50)
  • At a later family dinner, Taylor finally confronts her parents, and her father admits to knocking down the barn, hoping it would bring peace.
  • “‘He felt like that would keep everything at rest. He felt like that would ... cleanse it. But it didn’t. It really didn’t.’” (Taylor, 22:55)
  • Jennifer expresses regret over keeping the secret. “Maybe not telling the kids wasn’t the best decision. ... Maybe we should have explained it ... so that it would give them ... understanding.” (Jennifer, 23:35)
• Aftermath
  • The family moves out, but the disturbances persist whenever they return briefly to the property.
  • “Heard a bang ... as he was walking through the house, it just got louder to the point where it was deafening and he just bolted out of there. So I think whatever’s there wants to be left alone.” (Jennifer, 24:10)

Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• “The less I said, the more I saw those images... but I never told.” (Host Glynn Washington, 04:39)
• “Mommy, there’s a lady in the living room ... she had no feet.” (Taylor, 10:10)
• “This wasn’t Casper, your friendly ghost ... this was a ghost who wanted your attention to torment you a little.” (Taylor, 11:55)
• “She was hovering over me ... very vividly. ... She was very much flesh and blood.” (Jennifer, 13:36)
• “Maybe not telling the kids wasn’t the best decision.” (Jennifer, 23:35)

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2. Maria Foster’s Story: Grandmother's Love Knows No Bounds (26:31–41:48)

Premise:
Maria Foster recounts growing up in a family where her mother longed desperately for a male grandchild. After years of disappointment—and her mother’s untimely death—Maria’s son begins exhibiting signs that perhaps his grandmother never left.

Main Discussion Points

• Generational Pressure & Longing
  • Maria describes her mother’s fixation on grandchildren—specifically, on having a grandson—and how it shaped family dynamics.
  • “All of her sisters had lots of children ... the pressure was always on to have boys ... My father, he always disparaged her for saying, you only gave me women.” (Maria, 26:31)
• Bittersweet Fulfillment
  • Maria grows apart from her mother but, unexpectedly, becomes pregnant with a boy later in life.
  • “‘Now she has not seen me in two years...I’m pregnant.’ ‘Oh, I knew it. ... You looked a little heavy.’” (Maria, 32:41)
  • Her mother is ecstatic, and bonds deeply with her grandson, Zachary, for three brief years before dying young.
• Surprising Visitation
  • After the grandmother’s death, Maria, her sister, and Zachary are eating a family meal when Zachary, only three, repeats a phrase the grandmother used to say, in Spanish:
  • “Nun cavoy tener nietos.” (“I’m never going to have grandchildren.”) (Zachary via Maria, 34:23)
• Chilling Accuracy and Familiar Gestures
  • When questioned, Zachary insists his grandmother speaks to him at night and repeats her words and gestures with uncanny accuracy.
  • “Tuku, tuku, no tengas mi ados. Soy yo, abuela,” (“Don’t be afraid. It’s me, grandma.”) (Zachary via Maria, 34:23)
• Supernatural Manifestation
  • The family lights a candle to comfort or communicate with the grandmother’s spirit. Overnight, the large candle (safely placed in the sink) explodes into countless pieces—something Maria can’t explain.
  • “I look, the candle ... has exploded into a million pieces ... it was on top of the microwave, the counter, the floor ... everywhere.” (Maria, 39:10)
• Parting Message
  • Zachary later reports his grandmother doesn’t like the light—the candle kept her awake—then says she told him she can’t visit anymore, but warns him to be careful with the glass.
  • “‘Di se, mi abuela que no le gusta la luz.’ (‘My grandma says she doesn’t like the light.’)...‘No cuidado con el vidrio. No te cortes.’ (‘Careful with the glass. Don’t cut your feet.’)” (Zachary via Maria, 40:57)

Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• “She left too early ... her love for that boy child was greater than all the universe.” (Maria, 40:24)
• “My grandma says she doesn’t like the light. ... she said, tuku, tuku, I love you, but I can’t visit you anymore. ... No cuidado con el vidrio. No te cortes.” (Zachary/Maria, 40:57)

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Episode Reflections & Themes

• The Cost and Futility of Secrets
  • Both stories grapple with whether keeping secrets (to protect children or ease suffering) actually helps—or whether it gives power to what is hidden.
  • The supernatural serves as a metaphor (and sometimes literal force) for unfinished business, whether it’s a child’s shocking insight or an angry spirit that refuses to be ignored.
• Family Ties that Bind ... and Haunt
  • The episode poignantly shows love, longing, and the ghosts of emotional wounds passed between generations.

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Memorable Moments

• The shared, unspoken knowledge between Taylor and her parents—breaking up only after years of hauntings.
• Zachary’s innocent, matter-of-fact channelling of his deceased grandmother’s idioms and gestures, bringing his mother and aunt simultaneously comfort and fear.
• The candle, meant to bring closure, instead shattering mysteriously as if responding to the spirit’s presence.

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Segment Timestamps

• Introduction & Host Reflection: 00:00–06:41
• Story 1: Jennifer & Taylor – Haunted by Libby: 06:41–25:03
  • Family moves in / Decision to keep secret: 06:41–08:15
  • First strange events: 08:15–11:55
  • Taylor’s teenage encounter: 11:55–13:36
  • Jennifer’s vivid vision: 13:36–15:14
  • Taylor’s investigation & discovery: 20:19–23:28
  • Family confrontation & aftermath: 23:28–25:03
• Story 2: Maria Foster – Grandma’s Ghost: 26:31–41:48
  • Family background & pressure: 26:31–32:41
  • Grandson’s birth & grandmother’s passing: 32:41–34:23
  • Ghostly phrases and visitation: 34:23–40:24
  • Candle incident and final messages: 40:24–41:48

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Final Takeaways

From Jennifer’s haunted Texas home to Maria’s mystical experience with her son, "Hush – Classic" is a potent reminder that secrets and love alike can linger, echoing across generations—and perhaps beyond the grave. Whether these are the products of memory, longing, guilt, or something truly supernatural, the stories warn: what you don’t know just might hurt you, and sometimes what you’re desperate to keep silent returns in the night demanding to be heard.

Transcript

[Host/Announcer]

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[Host/Announcer]

When I was very, very young, I saw something that no child should ever see. Something, in fact, no person should ever experience. And I knew as little as I was. I knew almost instantly that I had to pretend I didn't see what I saw. And I had never held a secret before. I did not want to hold this one. Because the less I said the more I saw those images, the more that horrible scene crystallized in my mind. But I never told. Even when my grandmother asked me. And my grandmother's eyes burned hot from my lies. Even then, I never told. I never said what I saw. I didn't know who I was protecting with my silence or why. And now, decades later, the only thing I do know is that they didn't deserve it. From Snapdashment's underground lair. My name is Glenn Washington. Keep your own secrets, not someone else's. Spook starts now. Have you ever heard them say, what you don't know can't hurt you? Well, our first story caused me to reconsider such received wisdom. We begin with Jennifer.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

As a parent, you always want to protect your Kids, looking back, maybe, you know, it is best to just be forthcoming and not try to protect them. When we first bought the house, I was aware that there had been a death at the home because my husband actually went to school with a young lady that passed away there, Libby. They were friends, and he would go pick her up at her house, which became our house. And they were close for a while. I did feel a little hesitant to move in because of the story he had told me. He was aware that she had passed. And there was always something kind of mysterious about her death. She died in the barn behind the home. But he did knock the barn down completely, and it was. He said, it's not part of the home. We remodeled the home, extended extensively, so it felt like a new home Initially. Taylor, my oldest daughter, was our only child. When we purchased the home, we decided because she was so little, I didn't think it would serve a purpose other than scare her if we. If we mentioned anything about the history of the home, we just wouldn't mention it or bring it up.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And at first, when Jennifer and her family moved in, things were peaceful, normal, quiet. But that didn't last too long. One night, after about two years of living in the house, the family was asleep. This is Taylor, Jennifer's daughter. She was about 7 at the time.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

We heard just the loudest crash, like there was a window shattering. And my father immediately gets up. He grabs his gun because we're in Texas. And he starts searching the house because he thinks there's an intruder. He thinks someone's breaking in. And he looks around, and he can't find a single thing. And the next morning when he wakes up, he notices that a family portrait of ours is missing from the shelf. So he goes over to see where it is, and he sees that our family photo, it just has fallen face forward, so you couldn't see our faces. Like someone had just pushed it over, face forward, and it smashed.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

That's when we were first made aware that something wasn't quite right there.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But still, Jennifer and her husband agreed. They wouldn't indicate to Taylor that anything was wrong. And when they had another child, Joseph, they decided they would keep the secret from him, too.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

It was just a normal afternoon. We were just hanging out, and I.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

Was not feeling too good. I was napping in our bedroom.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's when Joseph came running into Jennifer's.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

Room and woke me up and was crying.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

And he was very shaken. And he said, mommy, Mommy, there's a lady in the living room.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

He said that there was a woman and she had no feet. She had long blonde, curly hair. And she was just floating across the house and that she turned her head.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

Very sharply and just gazed at him. So he closed his eyes and started to cry. And when he opened them, she. She was gone. I felt pretty darn terrified after that, to be honest with you. That did shake me up. So I knew for sure that he was talking about Libby when he described what he saw in the living room. And he had not heard anything about the situation there. He knew nothing of it. We had never brought it up.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But still, Jennifer didn't say anything. She kept quiet. Year after year after year, as her kids got older, they felt more and more that something or someone was in the house with them.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

I've heard voices. I've heard knocking on the wall, banging on the wall.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

Like someone was just banging with their fist as hard as they possibly could against the wall.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But still, Jennifer didn't tell Taylor and her brother that she believed Libby was haunting the place. That she believed that what the kids didn't know was. Couldn't hurt them. And then when Taylor was a teenager.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

I was laying in my bed and I was facing the wall, and all of a sudden I feel this pressure on top of me. And I was still wide awake. And I feel this pressure and I'm just. I'm terrified. I don't know, I just can sense that something is in the room with me. And all of a sudden I just hear this deep gasp for air. It sounded like, like someone was like dying, like taking their last dying breath. But it just happened once. And then I turn my body and I see this black, shadowy smoke like mask just kind of implode into itself. And then it kind of just sucks down into the ground and completely vanishes. This wasn't Casper, your friendly ghost actions. This was a ghost who wanted your attention to torment you a little.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Taylor decided she would keep this experience to herself. She worried that if she said something, her parents wouldn't believe her or they would just ignore her.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

They were in the kitchen talking about it, and I had been in the other room watching cartoons. And I walk, as I walk in, and I don't think they realized it. They were saying, oh, you know, it was a suicide. And Chepis, he knew her. Chepis is my dad. That's his nickname. And I was like, what are you guys talking about? Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. They're just telling a story.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But Taylor was pretty sure her parents weren't just telling a story they knew something about the house, about the haunting.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

And then middle of the night, dead asleep. And I awoke just suddenly and she was hovering over me, kind of like the way a skydiver hovers as they're descending. And I could see her very vividly. She wasn't in spirit form. She was very much flesh and blood. And she was looking at me very intently. And she had these just locks of very, very dense, curly blonde hair. And she was very young looking like a very young looking adolescent, almost childlike. And she was wearing a very flowy blue and white dress. And she was just staring at me. I felt a piercing look towards me. It wasn't friendly by any means. And I started screaming and my husband turned on the lights and she went away.

[Host/Announcer]

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[Poetry Reader/Commercial Voice]

What?

[Host/Announcer]

Wow. Give and get. Timeless holiday staples that last this season with quints. Go to quints.com spooked for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada, too. That's Q U I nce.com spooked free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com spooked support for spooked comes from.

[Sponsor Representative (Rainbow Grocery)]

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[Host/Announcer]

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[Sponsor Representative (The RealReal)]

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

Thoughtful gifts.

[Sponsor Representative (The RealReal)]

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[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

I was extremely shaken when I told my husband what I saw. He was like, he was in shock. And that's when he said, you just described Libby. Our kids did start to ask questions about who this lady was. As a parent. You mean you always want to protect your kids? You know, there was a part of me that didn't necessarily want them to feel, you know, scared or spooked.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

I do feel that I was always seeking that truth about why my house was haunted.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

But you know, in the end, I mean, the truth usually surfaces anyway. So.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

One summer, Taylor had surgery on her leg. And she was lying in bed. Her doctor had put her on bed.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

Rest in my bed all day in this room alone on the other side of the house from everyone else. I would keep the shutters closed. I was just kind of always in the dark.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Lying in the dark. All Taylor could think about was the ghost in her house. Who was she? Now that she had a lot of time on her hands, she decided she would try to find out.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

I found a newspaper archive of newspaper issues from way back in the 60s. And I was spending just hours and hours searching and searching until finally I got to an obituary page. And I remember seeing her name for the first time. And there was almost this relief to it. I remember it saying, libby died on this date by fire. The fire occurred in a storage room and the back of the property where they kept. They had horses on the property. They kept saddles, they kept feed, they kept different hay. The circumstances surrounding her death were very mysterious. When she was found, she was found with a saddle on top of her body, and there had been a fire around her. And some speculated it was suicide, and some speculated it was a cover up, that she had overdosed on some sort of drug. It just felt like this one weird piece of the puzzle just fit right in. And I had her name, and I knew that she had died by fire, and I knew that she was the one. That she was the one causing all these problems, that this restlessness and this anger was coming from her.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Taylor held onto this information for three she didn't say a thing to her brother, her mom, or her dad. And then one night at dinner with family friends at their favorite restaurant, she finally had the guts to bring it up. And so she asked. And her dad broke down and told her about Libby, his friend, and about how when he first bought the house, he had knocked down the barn where she died.

[Taylor (Jennifer's Daughter)]

He felt like he couldn't keep it. He felt like there was too much. There was just something there that he. That he didn't want around. So he had them knock down the walls and he had them take out the slab foundation, cover it with dirt. And he felt like there it was, done and buried. He didn't have to worry about it. And he felt like that would keep everything at rest. He felt like that would. Then it would kind of cleanse it. But it didn't. It really didn't.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

I didn't realize that she knew as much as she knew.

[Maria Foster (Story Participant)]

So when did you discover that she.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Knew as much as she knew?

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

When you Told me just now, I think we're keeping a few secrets here in this family, but maybe not telling the kids wasn't the best decision. It was, you know, good intentions on our part. But maybe we should have explained to it, you know, on their terms so that it would give them an understanding and a perspective of maybe why things were happening the way they were happening.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The family has since put the home up for sale, and they've moved to a different house.

[Jennifer (Story Participant)]

You know, we left a few things there, and it hasn't been sold yet. Just as recently as a few weeks ago, my son Joseph went to the house to get shoes, and he went in, went to grab the shoes and heard a bang. Like somebody just kind of banging on the wall, but light. And then as he was walking through the house, it just got louder and louder to the point where it was deafening and he just bolted out of there. So I think whatever's there wants to be left alone.

[Host/Announcer]

Thank you, Jennifer and Taylor, for sharing your story. Folks, these wonderful women are Spooked listeners. We are so grateful they shared their supernatural experience with us because mysteries abound. And if you have a ghost story in your back pocket, don't keep it to yourself. No. Share it with the world. Let us [e-mail] now in just a moment. Some relatives don't know how to let go. Spooked. Now then, when Maria Foster was only three years old, her family moved to Los Angeles. But Maria grew up listening to those stories all about her mother's childhood in the Mexican Sierra Mountains. Spooked.

[Maria Foster (Story Participant)]

All of her sisters had lots of children. Everybody had six or seven children. My own grandmother had 12, for heaven's sakes. My mom only had two girls. And the pressure was always on to have boys and have boys and have boys. And because she did not have boys, then some, somehow she was minimized. My father, he always disparaged her for saying, you only gave me women. You know, what good are they? Viejas, he would call them. They only gave me broads. I need sons. My mom, she just couldn't have babies anymore. So then my father moved on. And sure enough, with this next relationship, boom, he has a boy and sends my mother a Polaroid of this boy. I was 12. And he sends this Polaroid. And mom shows, look, your father had a son. And she's crying and crying and crying. She's crying in the bedroom. She's crying in the kitchen. She's just crying. And I'm like, well, what the hell am I? What am I, chopped Liver. We were too poor, so I couldn't have the traditional quinceanera with all the escorts and dresses and party and what have you. But that's when my mother sat me down. Okay, you're 15 now. You are available now to be married. And I'm like, what? I'm in junior high school. What are you talking about? I was supposed to marry a good Mexican man, and I was supposed to have children. That was my duty more than anything. She wanted to have grandchildren. And more than just children, she wanted to have a boy grandchild. And it just. It must have been eating at her. And so we had a whole bunch of people at a party. I distinctly remember we were at someone's house. I'm playing guitar, we're singing. People are singing together. There's food and drinks. And then my mom's sitting in the corner there, and all of a sudden I hear her wail, I'm never gonna have grandchildren. What? And I'm looking at her like it was like that moment where the guitar goes on tune and the string rings. What did you say? And she looked at me so forlorn, so sad. I'm like, okay, song's over. I'm out of here.

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[Maria Foster (Story Participant)]

My sister and I were dating. We're going out, we're going dancing, we're going to the clubs. And we'd be getting dressed up to go and do our disco thing. And she'd be sitting on the sofa all morose. Nun Cavalleta. There they go again. Or she'd be muttering in the kitchen, Nun Cavalleta, as she'd be closing the door, you know, Cavalleto. She'd slap her head. I'm like, oh my God, what a fixation. I turned 29 and then I just discovered very late on that I was very pregnant. I was four and a half months pregnant. And I called my mother. I did. Who else do I call him in a daze? And I go, mom. Now she has not seen me in two years. Okay? She hasn't seen me since I'm 28, because by now she's moved back to Mexico and she's living happily ever after over there. And I call Her. Up I go, mom, I'm pregnant. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. The last time I saw you, you looked a little heavy. I knew you were pregnant. And I'm thinking to myself, okay, she's lost her mind. I haven't seen her in two years. How could she possibly know? But she knows there's no talking her out of it, and she's going to tell the whole world. And she did. Oh, Maria's pregnant. Finally. Glory hallelujah. She. I thought I would never see the day. I didn't want to know the gender of the baby because I had all of these boy girl issues. So when the baby was born, and I hear the doctor said it's a boy, I remember saying, oh, thank God. And then I said, oh, my God, I can't believe I just said that. So, yes, I had a boy. And he's beautiful.

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[Maria Foster (Story Participant)]

Zachary James is his name. And as soon as mom could bust through that hospital room door, she did. She lifted him up. Not like Simba in the Lion King, but darn close she lifted him up. I have a photograph. And just looks at him like the most precious thing she's ever laid her eyes on. She has this angelic glow about her. And it was him and his grandma. I mean, he sang songs about his grandma. He played games with her. And then when she really got sick, her whole thing was, well, tell Zachary that I love him. She was just so young. She was only 53 when she passed. She only got those three short years with Zach. She didn't see Zachary go to his first day of school. She didn't see Zachary in his Halloween costumes. She wasn't there for any of the Christmases. She wasn't. She just wasn't there. After mom passed, my sister and I would talk on the phone and cry. It was just the two of us. We felt like orphans. And Friday night, she came over. We were having dinner, and it was myself, my sister, and my son Zach. And he's still in his high chair because he's only three. I know. We served in tomatadas instead of enchiladas. My mom would make us entomatadas with tomato sauce because we wouldn't eat it. We didn't like chili when we were little, so we just had entomatadas, which was the fried tortilla with the tomato sauce and some pepper and tons of cheese. So we were remembering mom, and we're having entomatadas, and we're eating, and all of a sudden, Zachary says in Spanish, nun Cabolla Tenerner nietos. I'm never gonna have grandchildren. And we just stopped dead. I look at my sister and we look at the baby and I asked him, what did you say? And he says, nun cavoy tener nietos. And I just looked at my sister and I'm like, who else said that? The baby couldn't have known. He couldn't have known. I go, who told you that? Oh, Miguela, when did you see your vuela? Oh, Elanoche, at night. So what does she say? And he extends his. Both his little arms and he says. She says, tuco, Tuco, no tengas mi ados. So yo vuela, which means Tukutuku is her baby. Talk to her. Don't be afraid. It's me, grandma. He's using her words. She's. He's only three and he's using her language and her gestures, the way he's expressing himself and putting out his little arms, explaining, tukutuku, I love you. And then we start to start whispering, my sister and I, and her eyes are bugging out of her head. She stopped. Literally, she was like taking a piece of food. And the baby says, no caviar tonietos. And she stops with a fork halfway to her mouth. What should we do? I don't know. Should we have a mass? It's Friday night, Tony. Where are we going to eat a mass? Maybe if we get a candle. Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Let's get a candle. So we pack up the baby, forget the dinner, we go to the supermarket and it's this whole 12 foot section of nothing but the holy candles with Jesus and Mary and Guadalupe. And I happen to like cobalt blue glass. So I picked a really beautiful blue glass candle and we took it home and we set it. Not in the dining room table, but I had a little cubby. And so that night when we went to bed, we said our prayers. And in the morning we got up and. And I look, the candle is about 18 inches tall and it is in what, about a two foot little cubby hole. It has fallen over on its side. Oh my God. How could it knock down? Maybe there was a tremor. Maybe there was an earthquake. How could that possibly happen? I'm trying to figure out the physics of the candle falling over on its side. And then I'm realizing, well, if the candle fell over, you know what, what a danger. I'm gonna burn the house. We're all gonna die in our sleep. You know, I'm already being visited by a dead person to say, I hope this isn't an omen. My mind's racing, so I'm like, okay, so tonight. Tonight I'm going to put this thing in water. So we put the candle again in the. In the. This time I put it in the kitchen sink. So I figure if it falls over, at least it'll fall in the water and there's no danger to the house. And then we go to bed and we pray and we pray. And I'm praying really ardently now. Oh, dear God. I don't know what's going on. I don't know if that's my mother. I don't know what's going on. If it's my mother. Why is she here? Does she need something? Does she need us to pray for her? You know, help me figure this out because you're scaring me. In the morning, I got up and I went to check the candle. That was my priority. The thing had exploded into a million pieces. A million pieces. Not like it fell over and cracked into two or three. It exploded. There was glass everywhere. On the sink, on the kitchen counters, on the breakfast counter, on the floor. It was on top of the microwave. It was everywhere, everywhere. And then I hear my sister coming down and she said, what happened? And I'm. I'm stuttering. I'm telling her, I don't know. I don't know. It's August. It's hot. The water shouldn't have been cold. The candle heat from the glass. I'm trying to figure out the physics.

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Of.

[Maria Foster (Story Participant)]

Couldn'T have caused the explosion. I don't understand. I think her love for that boy child was greater than all the universe. And she. She left too early. She got really sick very quickly and she just left before she had time to be with him. And here comes the pitter patter of Zachary James. Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, coming down the stairs. And he says, di se, mi vuela que no le gusta la luz, for.

[Host/Announcer]

The love of God.

[Maria Foster (Story Participant)]

My grandma says she doesn't like the light. Oh, my God. My heart drops again. She's still here. I said, why not? She said, it doesn't let her sleep. Oh, my God. We've done it wrong. We've done it wrong. I've done something terribly wrong. What else did she say? She said, tuku, Tucu, I love you, but I can't visit you anymore. Was that it? No cuidado con el bidrio. Note Cortes. Careful with the glass. Don't cut your feet.

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Thank you, Maria Foster, for sharing your story with Spooked Now Maria is also a Spooked listener. We want to hear your stories. Find us online spoofpodcast.org and let somebody know. Now you know, right? You can feel it, huh? Like there's a power, a magic guiding these stories demanding they be heard. Submit to that power. And if if you dig amazing storytelling of the non supernatural variety, get the amazing Snap Judgment podcast. It will blow your mind, I promise. The keepers of the Spooked Flame include Mark Ristage, Anna Sussman, Eliza Smith, Shayna Shealy, Jodie Collie Teodecott. The original King Song for Spooked is by Pat Mesiti Miller. The amazing team that wrote, performed and produced this original score you're hearing right now for this episode includes Pat Mesiti Miller, Renzo Gorio and Leon Morimoto. And when you feel that cold wind when you hear that soft whisper, alluring, tempting, beguiling you, promising you not to worry, it'll be okay this time Guess this once Reject their lies Never ever never never ever never ever ever Turn out the lights.

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