The Fog - Classic

Summary

Spooked Podcast – "The Fog - Classic" (September 19, 2025)

Main Theme / Purpose

This episode of Spooked, hosted by Glynn Washington, centers on a chilling supernatural encounter in the rural Australian town of Yungabarra. Recounted firsthand by Blair, the story explores how a mysterious fog, an abandoned farmhouse, and ghostly voices intertwine in a night of fear, confusion, and near-tragedy. The episode taps into universal anxieties—claustrophobia, parental protection, and the spectral imprint of grief—to produce a haunting narrative about being lured by forces beyond understanding.

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Key Discussion Points and Story Breakdown

1. Glynn’s Personal Fear and Introduction to the Tale

• Claustrophobia and Caves in Vietnam

  • Glynn Washington shares his lifelong claustrophobia and recounts an incident in Vietnam where he refused, then reluctantly entered, war-time tunnels.
  • The feeling of suffocation and panic he experienced sets the emotional tone for Blair's impending encounter in the dark (03:57–06:33).
  • Quote (Glynn, 06:33):
    “When my time comes. Scatter my ashes. Shoot me into space...but please, please, please, please don’t put me in the ground now.”

• Transition to Rural Australia

  • Glynn introduces Blair’s family vacations in Yungabarra, emphasizing the area's isolation, foggy climate, and history—particularly the old farmhouse locals claimed was one of the settlement's first buildings (06:33–08:36).

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2. Setting the Scene: The Walk Home Through the Fog

• Blair’s Background and Journey

  • Blair visits friends Alex and Olivia for games, losing track of time until 11:30 PM.
  • Faces a long, dark walk back to the family cabin, with deepening cold and approaching fog—creating both physical and emotional unease (08:36–12:45).
  • Quote (Blair, 08:36):
    “It was cold. I was really cold, and I only had, like, a really thin jumper on, so I was...shivering a lot.”

• Atmospheric Shift and Isolation

  • As Blair starts up the zigzag driveway, heavy fog rolls in, blocking out all light—evoking a sense of helplessness and disorientation.
  • Quote (Blair, 12:02):
    “All I could see in front of me was white. Like there was...I was in the middle of what seemed like a cloud, and I just could not see anything.”

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3. The Encounter: Light in the Darkness

• Sighting the Lantern

  • Paralyzed with indecision, Blair suddenly sees an amber flame approaching—a kerosene lantern, seeming to be carried by his mum (16:52–17:33).
  • Relieved, he follows the voice and light, believing rescue is at hand. The lantern’s pace synchronizes eerily with his own movements.
  • Quote (Blair, 17:43):
    “I heard her say, ‘Son, is that you? Come here out of the fog. Just follow my light.’ I breathed a sigh of relief.”

• The Wrong House

  • The figure with the lantern leads Blair toward a house—but it’s not the family cabin, it’s the abandoned farmhouse.
  • As he approaches, the light disappears inside, leaving him in silence (19:33–20:28).

• The Voice Changes

  • At the doorstep, the reassuring “mum” voice morphs into an unfamiliar British woman’s accent:
    Quote (Blair, 20:35):
    “‘Nasty weather out there.’... it turned into a very old style British accent.”

  • Realizing the deception, Blair is overwhelmed by fear, especially as the voice now insists he come inside, calling with increasing urgency:
    Quote (Blair, 20:35):
    “‘Where are you going, my son? Come back here.’ Like in a demanding voice. It was very, very demanding.”

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4. The Escape and Aftermath

• Flight, Grave, and Supernatural Pursuit

  • Blair flees, tripping over a tombstone—realizing it marks perhaps the fate of the lost son from the farmhouse legend.
  • He is then surrounded by multiple small amber lights, which close in, trapping him in a tightening circle (21:00–22:30).
  • Blair bursts through a gap, runs blindly, and smacks headlong into a wall, blacking out.

• Father’s Rescue

  • Blair’s dad hears the collision, finds him, and brings him inside. The next day, the lingering terror remains.
  • The dad confirms seeing a similar distant kerosene light by the farmhouse (25:00).

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5. Context and Local Legend

• Alex and Olivia Reveal the Tradition

  • Blair’s friends share the farmhouse’s tragic history:
    • Ann, an early settler, lost her son one foggy night.
    • She searched with a lantern and called out—her son died lost in the fog, found later at the pond below the cliff.
    • Ann’s spirit is now believed to haunt the area, eternally searching, inexorably calling any lost soul “her son.”
  • Quote (Blair, 31:09):
    “Olivia told me that Anne was the thing that I heard and that kerosene lamp was hers and she was stuck in like a loop doing that, searching for her son. So she thought that I was her son.”

• Blair’s Reflection

  • Expresses a mix of sympathy and terror, realizing how lucky he was not to enter the house.
  • Vows never to return to that place, recognizing that the ghostly encounter was more than a residual haunt—it felt willful, intentional, and nearly fatal (33:00–33:55).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Glynn Washington (On Claustrophobia and Mortality)
  “Scatter my ashes, shoot me into space...but please, please, please, please don’t put me in the ground now.” (06:33)

• Blair (Describing the Rising Fear and Isolation):
  “All I could see in front of me was white...I couldn’t see the street lights.” (12:02)
  “I was stunned. I was frozen.” (12:45)

• Blair (Relief Turning to Dread):
  “I heard her say, ‘Son, is that you? Come here out of the fog. Just follow my light.’” (17:43)
  “This light had made me follow it to this abandoned farmhouse. Then a voice that no longer sounded like my mum...said, ‘Nasty weather out there.’” (20:28–20:35)

• Blair (Realization and Escape):
  “I knew I wasn’t going to set a foot inside that house...I ran down the steps and...heard that British accent yell at me going, ‘Where are you going, my son? Come back here.’” (20:35–21:10)

• Blair (Aftermath and Local Lore):
  “She definitely thought I was her son. And what I tripped on, that would have been the son’s grave.” (31:09)
  “It felt like Ann or whatever it was, was trying to reach out to me...She was definitely trying to get me to come into the house.” (33:23)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Glynn’s Claustrophobia Story: 03:57–06:33
• Introduction to Yungabarra and Blair: 06:33–08:36
• Blair’s Walk and Fog Descending: 08:36–12:45
• Amber Light and Maternal Voice Appears: 16:52–17:43
• Led to the Abandoned Farmhouse: 19:33–20:28
• Voice Shifts, Demands Entry: 20:35–21:10
• Flight, Lights Surround, Blair Escapes: 21:10–22:30
• Dad’s Rescue and Confirmation of Light: 25:00–25:55
• Friends Reveal the Legend of Ann: 29:08–33:23
• Blair’s Reflection and Vow: 33:23–33:55

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Conclusion: Tone and Final Thoughts

Spooked delivers a gripping, atmospheric ghost story that explores more than just fear—it asks about the lingering pain of loss, the dangers of empathy with the unknown, and the terror of being singled out by forces beyond rational explanation. Blair’s chilling brush with the specter of Yungabarra blends classic haunted-house elements with fresh, emotional storytelling.

Host’s Take-Home Message:
“If a voice ever called to me from deep in the darkness, it’s gonna have to mind its own business.” – Glynn Washington (33:55)

Mood:
Reflective, eerie, and empathetic—balancing supernatural horror with human tragedy.

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Credits

• Storyteller: Blair
• Host: Glynn Washington
• Story produced by Greta Weber with an original score by Loren Newsome

Spooked is produced by Snap Judgment and KQED/PRX.

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If you love ghost stories that linger in the mind, “The Fog” is not to be missed.

Transcript

[Lynn Washington]

Darkness fall throughout the land. The midnight hour is close at hand. You're listening to Spooked. Stay tuned. Did you ever sit with and talk to someone who passed away? Not a ghost, not a specter, but someone flesh and blood, who actually checked out. End of story. But then somehow the doctors, the electric padd, whatever, they return and they've been there and back again. There's a podcast called Our Paranormal Afterlife where a man, Simon Brown, he speaks to people who've been to the other side. And these people, they have a lot to say. Near death, past lives, folks who flatline and come back with the recollection of what they've seen burning on their tongues. Some say they saw heaven. Some say they saw something else entirely. Our Paranormal Afterlife Simon asks what happened? If you're ready to listen, pull up a chair wherever you get your podcast. And yes, after you hear a regular person say with basal, prepare to see the world a little bit differently. Our Paranormal Afterlife.

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[Lynn Washington]

Okay, so I'm claustrophobic. Have been since I was teeny. Tiny tight spaces for me are the stuff of nightmare. Which is why on a recent trip to Vietnam with my family, I keep refusing our guide when he invites me to explore the caves to see for myself where the Viet Cong hid, where they lived, where they fought during the Vietnam War. Or as he calls it, the war of American aggression. I tell this nice man, this smiling man, I tell him that as a corn fed Michigander, there is no way, no power on God's green earth that is going to squeeze me into a tiny underground hand dug sliver of a cave constructed for someone half my size. No way. Then my boy, my son, he says he'll do it. And look at his split. He hops down into the hole of the earth and he disappears. Pride. Shame. Pride. And I think, wow, wow, if he can do it, I think, how bad can it really be? So I crawl down after him, trying to follow him down this tiny space. Bent over, hands forward, hands forward, boy. I make the first turn. Pitch blackness. Black like there has never been light. Black like there is no such thing as light. The dirt walls of this tomb, they press on my shoulders from each side. And I can't even scream. I can't move. I can't breathe. I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't. On my knees, I flee, crawling backwards back and out into the open air. Open sky, tourists taking pictures, kids eating popsicles. A beautiful sunny day. I look around and 100ft away, my boy pops out from underneath the ground, laughing. Laughing.

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[Lynn Washington]

It's great, right? Right? My name is Lynn Washington. I'm saying this right now, begging to whomever might be listening when my time comes. Scatter my ashes. Shoot me into space. Do whatever you have to do, but please, please, please, please don' the ground now. Now. Today we're going down under to Australia. The original Upside down cake. We're Going to a tiny rural town called Yongabarra. It's inland, it's chilly, it's foggy. And our storyteller, Blair, he'd go there with his parents on vacation. They'd stay in an old cabin surrounded by bushland, red earth, towering eucalyptus trees, and out in the wilderness. Behind their cabin was an old farmhouse, and the locals said it was one of the very first buildings built in Yongabara. But I'm gonna let Blair tell you more about that. Spooked. Spooked. Spooked. Spooked.

[Blair]

The farmhouse, it was about 506 meters away from the cabin that we stayed in. It was a lot older. It had paint peeling off it. The corrugated tin roof was rusting, all the steps were rotten, and it was in a desolate state. The driveway leading up to both of the houses, it went in a zigzag, zigzag direction, going up and along the side of it, there was a cliff with a pond at the bottom. Only a small cliff. It was a normal trip. It was one of the usual ones it would take. I was about 13 at the time, so I was a bit older. That night. I was with my friend Alex and his sister Olivia. They were my childhood friends. They lived there full time, and I was just at their house in town. We were playing video games, you know, playing some board games. I think we had a pretty big game of Monopoly that night. It was getting late. It was about 11:30, and I decided I better get back to the cabin. I'm sure my parents were worrying about me. So I was walking along the streets of Yungerborough and I made my way back to the cavern. It was cold. I was really cold, and I only had, like, a really thin jumper on, so I was, like, shivering a lot. I thought to myself, I should have gotten a bigger jumper or I should have left earlier. It was my fault, and I should have done something beforehand and thought about it a bit more, But I was cold and I was walking along. The town was dead quiet. There was no traffic, and I managed to work my way through the little streets of the town to finally find the driveway, the start of this somewhat steep incline of a zigzag dirt road back to the cavern. But at the foot of the entrance was the driveway. It had no street lights. It was pitch black. It looked ominous. Yarngaburra is one of the only few places in northern Queensland that gets fog because it gets cold at winter. So when the fog, very light fog at first started to roll in, it started to scare me. I started to think, something's going to happen or something's going on. So it started to form all around the street, and that's when the lights became a bit dimmer from the street lights from the main road, and that's when the heavier fog came in. Then it started to get really, really heavy. I could no longer see my feet.

[Blair (continuation/narration)]

Below me, and all I could see in front of me was white. Like there was. I was in the middle of what seemed like a cloud, and I just could not see anything. There was. I couldn't see the street lights. And that's when. It's when the heavier fog, fog that I've, like, I've never seen. And I. And I thought to myself, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I felt. I felt stuck. My torch was useless. It was. There was nothing that it was doing. It was definitely not giving me any headway. In front of me, the fog was just so thick that I just couldn't see.

[Blair]

I was stunned. Like, I was. I was frozen. For the first time, I could try and find my way behind me and go. Maybe go back to Olivia's and Alex's place, but there was so many corners and so many streets that I couldn't really do that. That didn't seem feasible. But yet to try and get up my driveway, there was that small cliff with a pond at the bottom, and it was definitely high enough for you to fall in and really hurt yourself. So my first thought was to actually just sit down where I was and do the right thing and just wait. It.

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[Blair]

It was very surreal, like for the options, because I had none.

[Blair (continuation/narration)]

I sat down very briefly and that's when I saw that little flickering amber light in the distance.

[Blair]

It was a flame, so it was an old style, like kerosene or gasoline lantern in the distance. So I saw it start to come.

[Blair (continuation/narration)]

Down the driveway and it made it to about halfway on the driveway.

[Blair]

It was my mum.

[Blair (continuation/narration)]

I heard her say, son, is that you? Come here out of the fog. Just follow my light. I breathed a sigh of relief. I honestly thought, cool, I'm out of here, you know, I'm going back home and it's all good. If I walk very slowly, I can just follow the light and I can follow my mum's voice and work my way up the zigzag of the driveway. So I was walking very slowly each step, each step, one by one. And the land would move at the same pace that I was kind of moving. It took about 2, 3 minutes to get up the driveway. And I saw it walk up some steps because it went higher, it leveled up. And when I saw the light climb up the steps, I stopped. I stopped and thought, oh, the house is right there. And I heard a creaky door, like a very old rusted door open. And I followed her light. But then when it went inside the house, after the door had opened, it went out. So I called out, I said, mum, can you turn the light back on? I'm not at the cabin yet. You know, I'm not at the house. Can you turn it back on? Dead silence. All I could hear was like crickets chirping and frogs, you know, it was just dead. So I followed in the direction path of where I saw the light. And that's when I hit the wooden guardrail. I was like, okay, I'm back at the house. Until I got onto the doorstep and realised I definitely wasn't.

[Blair]

So what was in front of me was that old desolate, abandoned farmhouse that was next to the cabin. Instantly my knees just fell.

[Blair (continuation/narration)]

Like I felt like I was about to fall over. Like my. Like my legs couldn't support me anymore.

[Blair]

This light had made me follow it to this abandoned farmhouse.

[Blair (continuation/narration)]

Then a voice that no longer sounded like my mum and instead it had a very British accent. She said, nasty weather out there. It was, it was like a mother's voice had a very strong British accent. Beforehand, she had an Australian accent. She sounded like my mum. And then it turned into a very old style British accent. And it was, it was very. It was a young, she wasn't old. It wasn't croaky. It was a very clean, smooth sentence. And I realized that it was not my mum. This voice had transferred somehow from my mum's voice to this other person's voice. And it was coming from inside the house. The door of the house was open and it was creaking in the wind. I saw no one in the house. There was no lights in the house. And I was stuck. I was frozen to the ground. I could not move. This is something that's trying to lure me and get me. That's what I thought. I just thought it was trying to get me. I thought to myself, you know, I could either turn around and go back into the field and try and find my house because it was to the right of me. So I thought maybe if I ran to the right, I could somehow find my house, or I could go inside the house I was at and that option was ruled out straight away. I knew I wasn't going to set a foot inside that house that I was standing on. So I thought, okay, I'm going to leave. So I ran down the steps and as I was running I heard that British accent yell at me going, where are you going, my son? Come back here. Like in a demanding voice. It was very, very demanding. It was just, son, where are you going? Come back here. Like she was yelling and I didn't, I didn't look back, I just ran, I ran for it. And I was running to the right and I just, I fell over. Something hit my foot and all up my knee and it was huge rock. I thought it was just a huge rock I had ran into. And I fell flat onto my face and got cuts all up my hand. And I realised I turned around and it wasn't a rock, but it was a tombstone. I couldn't see much on the tombstone, it was only a little, I think it said something about a mother and father on there. And I saw that, turned around, saw that tombstone and I screamed. I absolutely screamed. So I got up and that when six little amber lights that looked similar to the one I saw beforehand started to surround me and they were slowly, slowly in a circle shape, just coming together, closing me in in the middle. I saw a gap between two of them and ran for it. So I sprinted through the gap of one of these lights, running again, not looking back again, just looking in front of me. And that's when I ran into a wall and blacked out. And I remember my dad, he came over. Apparently he heard something smack into the wall. So he came over, he got me, picked me up and, and he just took me inside. I don't remember going to sleep. I don't remember going into the bedroom that I had. I just, I think I just passed out from exhaustion or from just fear. I knew the next morning we were leaving early because that was our last night there. So I woke up and I didn't quite remember what happened yet. So I thought, oh, I better get ready, we better get going. And that's when, you know, mum and dad said that we're gonna spend like an extra half a day here. That's when I realized that something had happened last night and it was not good at all. My dad, he heard the loud smack because I smacked onto the wall that was directly adjacent to my parents bedroom. So he heard me just thumping into the wall and he heard that thump and he went out to see what it was and he saw me there on the ground. So he picked me up and put me back inside. He told me that he saw one little gasoline kerosene light out in the distance near the farmhouse. So he saw one of the things that I saw.

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[Blair (continuation/narration)]

Alex and Olivia, they, they, they both came over that morning and we went out onto the. The patio and we sat out there and I could just see the old desolate other farmhouse in the distance. And they told me about, like I told them what happened. And that's when, you know, both Olivia and Alex started to tell me. They said that it was one of the first buildings built and in the early 20th century. Ann was a mum who lived there. She had a son. And one night during winter, her son was downtown and he was playing with some friends around 10 o', clock, I think, Olivia said, and he realized that it was getting late and so did Ann and started to worry because it was getting late. So she actually got up and went near the driveway and that's when her son was like, okay, well, I'm going to go home. So he started to go home and he got to the driveway and that's apparently when heavy fog came in. Now, Ann had a kerosene lamp and she was carrying it and she heard footsteps. She didn't see her son. She apparently heard footsteps. So she said, son, is that you? Follow my light and my voice. And that's what I heard. And so her son tried to follow the light and Ann's voice. So Anne managed to walk all the way back to her house and she turned on her house's light and there was still all just heavy fog. And that's when she realized that her son wasn't there with her, like she was by herself. So she ran back out there with the kerosene lamp going, you know, son, where are you? Where are you? Come here out of the fog. And there was no reply. She sat down and she didn't know what to do. She honestly had no clue what to do. Now, the next morning, she got up, she went looking, she went searching, she went looking downtown. She went up and down everywhere searching for her son. It wasn't until she was walking back to her house that she found him at the bottom of the pond, gone. Just passed away from falling down the cliff and hitting his head. So Olivia told me that Anne was the thing that I heard and that kerosene lamp was hers and she was stuck in like a loop doing that, searching for her son. So she thought that I was her son. She mistakes them. Whether or not it's a mistake or she knows and she's trying to trap someone. That's what I don't know. But she definitely thought I was her son. And what I tripped on, that would have been the son's grave. When they told me that, I realized that I was lucky. My first thought was that I am never, ever stepping back there. I'm never, ever going back. And I still haven't, and I'm not going to for as long as I live because I realized how lucky I was. She was definitely trying to get me to come into the house. Like, I felt like she was trying to get me to go inside. But what she would have done after that, I don't really know. And I don't want to know when this happened. It felt like Ann or whatever it was, was, was trying to reach out to me. It wasn't just something that happened. It's like she was trying to reach out and just lure me, like she had a will to do that. But I did feel sorry for her because it's. It's just sad that she lost a son. That was probably the worst moment of her life. And that's where she's stuck in that loop. It probably is her hell.

[Lynn Washington]

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