Spooked

Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked

Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told first-hand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Spooked challenges skeptics of the supernatural, daring listeners to confront the unknown. These stories demand listeners question their own map of reality.

Be afraid.

Listen to Spooked on Luminary

All of the newest episodes of Spooked are now available on Luminary.

The Spooked Team

Glynn Washington

Host

Before creating the Snap Judgment radio show, Glynn worked as an educator, diplomat, community activist, actor, political strategist, fist-shaker, mountain-hollerer, and foot stomper.

Glynn composed music for the Kunst Stoff dance performances in San Francisco, rocked live spoken word poetry in Detroit, joined a band in Indonesia, wrote several screenplays, painted a daring series of self portraits, released a blues album, and thinks his stories are best served with cocktails.

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Mark Ristich

Executive Producer

Mark Ristich founded Snap Judgment with Glynn. Mark records, writes, edits and produces for Snap Judgment and has no other interests.

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Eliza Smith

Lead Producer

Eliza Smith has been working in public radio for 15 years. She has been a reporter, a DJ, a radio playwright, and a producer. She is the lead producer of Spooked.

Leon Morimoto

Sound Designer

Leon Morimoto is a California native, born in San Jose, and is of Japanese and Chicano descent. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Audio Engineering with a focus on Post-Production. He’s been producing music since 2001 and had a presence during the advent of the internet beat scene under the moniker JOOB 森本. Leon casually composes disjointed rhythms from non-musical sounds and applies them to bottom-heavy music in the Hip Hop tradition. He also gets out a kick out of collecting old things. Current preoccupations include (but are not limited to) Jazz, contemporary cultural arts, local indigenous history, and pondering the cosmos in between scoring stories.

Chris Hambrick

Producer

Chris Hambrick is an Oakland-based media producer and wordsmith. She produces scary stories for Spooked, hosts The Tracklist on KGPC and the podcast White Rabbit Story Hour. She’s a contributor to KALW, KQED and facilitates for the national oral history project StoryCorps. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you can catch her on the Mortified, LitCrawl or Moth stages.

Annie Nguyen

Producer

Before Spooked, Annie reported on political loopholes with City Bureau. At Invisible Institute, Annie worked on stories about police accountability as an investigative journalism fellow. She freelanced for a hot minute in Chicago and prior to that, Annie interned at WBEZ where she worked on Making Oprah and Nerdette. She also interned at MPR and WGBH. In her spare time, Annie eats boba flavored ice cream and reads magical realism books in the park, sometimes at the same time.

Renzo Gorrio

Sound Designer

Renzo Gorrio is a San Francisco based producer, musician, and sound designer. Gorrio and his family immigrated from Peru to the U.S. in ’84, moving to Miami, Florida where he grew up. As a teenager, he began to play in bands and also explore electronic music and sound engineering. Gorrio studied music and sound engineering at Miami Dade College and continued with his sound engineering studies at SAE Miami. In 2010 he moved to the Bay Area and joined Snap Judgment in 2011. In March 2019 Gorrio established Nebleena Media, a label for releasing music, video, art, and software. Over the last few years, Gorrio has collaborated with other local musicians to create and perform new original scores to iconic films such as Fantasia, Akira, and Mad Max: Fury Road. These Performances have been part of SF IndieFest and Another Hole in the Head film festivals. His solo project, “Hydroplane,” has been billed alongside acts such as Telefon Tel Aviv, Legowelt, Machinedrum, Cylob, Daedelus and The Flashbulb. His latest full-length release, “Panda,” can be found on Schematic Records.

Lauryn Newson

Sound Designer

Lauryn is a Sound Designer for Spooked.

Pat Mesiti-Miller

Sound Designer

Pat Mesiti-Miller produces that signature Snap Judgment sound. He is a phonetic fanatic, sonic sensationalist, and vinyl visionary. As a freelance Sound Engineer and artist, Pat has produced audio content for commercials, films, music records, and engineered a live comedy show for multiple seasons. Bringing the boom bap to snap, Pat produces and engineers with a beat. He heads his own hip hop production studio where he writes, records, and mixes original music. He makes beats, makes jokes, and makes a mean eggplant parmesan.

Teo Ducot

Graphic Artist

Teo is the graphic artist and video editor for Snap Judgment and Spooked. They were born and raised in San Diego to Filipinx immigrant parents. Teo traded palm trees for redwoods to receive a degree in Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. After college, Teo moved to Oakland where they worked as a bike mechanic and documentary filmmaker before landing at Snap.

Marisa Dodge

Digital Producer

Marisa is the Digital Producer for Snap Judgment and Spooked. She worked on the Digital Team at CBS Radio and has voiced dozens of commercials – selling you the likes of a grand slam breakfast, wholesale discounts, and blue jeans. When Marisa first moved to the Bay Area, she reported for The Pacifica Evening News at KPFA Radio. Marisa was on the Marketing Team at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she was the podcast promotion lead, and helped to produce over 80 events/year. She appreciated the institution’s photo and wine archives, equally. She was the Director of her college’s radio station, producing a weekly French music show called Le Meilleur Radio.