I Know What You Did Next Summer - Classic

Should you heed your dreams if they foretell danger? How can you tell the difference between dreams and what might become reality?

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:03Glynn Washington?

  We like to think that our dreams are just messages to us, from us. Maybe. Then again, maybe not. You're listening to Spooked.

• 0:18Glynn Washington?

  Stay tuned.

• 0:27Glynn Washington?

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• 1:12Glynn Washington?

  If you've got questions, I've got answers. Maybe. And we're just getting started. Spooksters, we are a small team chasing down the big mystery. Your support keeps this flame burning, so come on in. The door is open. Spooked.Supercast.com. That's Spooked.Supercast.com. Spooked Plus. Don't turn out the lights.

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• 2:47Glynn Washington?

  In my dream, it's a red car. Candy apple red. Convertible with the fans. And I'm driving it. Four years old, but I'm driving it, Jack. Made just for me. Zoom past my little brother, past Suzie on the corner. Watch out Suzie! Watch out! Cutie pie. Everybody's looking. Cause I'm sharp, Jack. Sharp! Car gleaming so fast. I'm dreaming so hard.

• 3:17Glynn Washington?

  So vividly that I remember it all these years later. Don't wanna get out the bed. I love this dream car that much, so much. But I hear something.

• 3:30Glynn Washington?

  Pulls me awake. I don't wanna be awake.

• 3:35Glynn Washington?

  I'm on the second floor of the house. And it's early.

• 3:40Glynn Washington?

  Sounds like somebody rustling something. Somebody trying to sneak.

• 3:47Glynn Washington?

  Somebody trying to be real careful.

• 3:50Glynn Washington?

  Somebody outside.

• 3:54Glynn Washington?

  Now I'm scared, scared.

• 3:57Glynn Washington?

  But I crawl over to underneath the window. And I start to raise my head to look slowly.

• 4:05Glynn Washington?

  Slowly, oh no!

• 4:08Glynn Washington?

  Don't let them see you slowly!

• 4:11Glynn Washington?

  When I get the glimpse,

• 4:14Glynn Washington?

  I almost pass out.

• 4:17Glynn Washington?

  It's my pops. In his arms, wrapped in thick plastic, is a candy apple red. Kid's sports car convertible with the fans. The kind you pedal. Maybe I do pass out. I know this car. I know what it feels like. I know what it looks like. I know how the left side door opens, but the right side does not. I know the license plate says "Go Fast." I know there's a fake spare tire in the trunk. I know the horn makes a beep beep sound. I already know everything.

• 4:52Glynn Washington?

  Later that morning, pops asked me if I can guess what he got for me. I said, "I don't know what." I'm a liar, but I want to make him as happy as he's making me. Ripping the amazing thing from my dream and handing it over to me wrapped in plastic. As a little boy, I wonder if this happens often. Later I discover, it does not.

• 5:34Glynn Washington?

  My name is Glynn Washington. Turns out, not all dreams should come true. Spooked Starts. Now.

• 6:12Glynn Washington?

  Now then, our very first storyteller, Jodi Torpey. Jodi discovers that it's hard to run from someone you've already seen coming for you. You don't understand? Well, you will. Spooked.

• 6:34Speaker 02

  There were three of us all together, two work friends and myself. One of my friends had a gift certificate for a hotel in Denver, and we decided that we would take a trip and just have a girls' weekend. Somebody had packed a thermos of Bloody Marys. It was just a party on wheels.

• 6:58Speaker 02

  We were coming from Pueblo, which is about two hours away from Denver. And it's over a mountain pass. I had the best car. It was just a small Volkswagen Beetle. It was the middle of December. The mountain pass was snow-packed. It was a very slow drive. There was full-on blizzard. Fortunately, there weren't many cars on the road, but it did take a while to get to Denver.

• 7:25Speaker 02

  When we arrived in Denver, we got to the hotel. We got settled and we stayed up late talking. And then everyone was ready for bed.

• 7:38Speaker 02

  It's really dark in the room. And my two friends are sharing one of the beds, and I'm in the other bed by myself. I was in a very, very deep sleep.

• 7:52Speaker 02

  The dream that I had was that I was alone in my car. And I was driving down the streets in lower downtown Denver. It was a very deserted area, like a skid row. It's the middle of the night. It was dark. There's nobody else around. No other cars on the road. There's no sound. And I was stopped at a stoplight. And that's when I looked up. And across the street at the diagonal, I see there's a guy standing there. He's blond.

• 8:37Speaker 02

  And he's youngish, probably 29, 30-ish. He's kind of a cute guy. And he's wearing a green army jacket. And he has the collar up. And his hands are in his pockets. And he's staring at me from across the street. I lock eyes with him. And he starts to take a step off the curb and walk toward me in the car.

• 9:09Speaker 02

  I'm frozen, watching him watch me as he's walking across the street. I'm curious, like, is he going to come over and ask me for directions? Or ask if I'm lost, or if I need help? As he came across the street, I just stayed there even though the light had changed. So as he gets close enough to the car, where he's about a foot away from the door, I start to roll down the window, and he pulls a gun out of his pocket. And that's when I wake up from the dream, with my heart kind of pounding.

• 9:53Speaker 02

  I just remember feeling scared, kind of like, oh, grateful. That was just a dream. Nothing bad happened. I just kept it to myself.

• 10:10Speaker 02

  The next morning, we got up, got dressed, went out, had breakfast, and started our big adventure in downtown Denver, to go shopping. And it was all decorated with greenery and big red ribbons, and just a nice Christmas atmosphere. Everybody was in a good mood. The sun was out, it was cold, but it was beautiful. Blue sky, crisp Colorado day. But I just couldn't shake the feeling. I still can see the images very clearly in my mind,

• 10:50Speaker 02

  him standing there at the side of my car and seeing the gun in his hand. I see that over and over again, almost all day. I still don't understand what it means.

• 11:17Glynn Washington?

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• 12:00Glynn Washington?

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• 12:30Speaker 02

  We decided at the end of the day that we'd go out to dinner. And after dinner, we'd try to find a bar and have a few drinks. We started driving around on the downtown streets. We really didn't know where we were going because none of us were familiar with the area at all. The roads were snow-packed, and there was nobody else on the street. There were no other cars, there were no other people. We were on a dark street. I didn't know where we were. And that's when it started to feel familiar. We were stopped at a light.

• 13:11Speaker 02

  It was a very odd feeling because I had the feeling if I looked across the street, I would see that man. Before I saw him, I had the feeling that I was going to see him. And I turned my head, and there he was. Everything was exactly as my dream. The green army jacket, the blonde hair, the collar up, hands in his pocket.

• 13:41Speaker 02

  We locked eyes, just like in my dream. He started walking across the street. And even though my friend that was sitting in the passenger seat said, "Jody, the lights turned green," I couldn't take my eyes off of the man as he was walking toward us. I said, "I know that the lights turned green, but there's the guy from my dream." And she said, "What dream?" I said, "The guy, the guy from my dream. I had this dream. And he's coming over to the car,

• 14:23Speaker 02

  and I want to see what happens next." As he got close to the car, my friend said, "Well, what happens in your dream?" I said, "He pulls a gun out of his pocket."

• 14:42Speaker 02

  And both of my friends screamed, "A gun!" And that was the moment where the reality and the dream world collided. So I stepped on the gas. The light is red. The car fishtails out of there, sliding along on the snow. And I drive out of there as fast as I can. It was nonstop. What was that? "Let's find a bar. We really need a drink now." And my friend's asking me, "Walk us through that.

• 15:26Speaker 02

  What just happened back there?" And I don't have any answers. There is a part of me that wishes I would have found out what happened, so that maybe it would be complete, and I would know, and I wouldn't have to think about it or wonder about it. And I still wonder, what was that?

• 16:15Glynn Washington?

  Thank you Jody for sharing your story with us. Let it serve as a warning to everyone. If you see your dream killer in real life, run! Don't walk, run away! Ain't no time to be cute, figure it out later.

• 16:33Glynn Washington?

  Now...

• 16:35Glynn Washington?

  Solvana. Solvana? Now... She knows a little something about the bad dreams. Spooked.

• 16:50Speaker 03

  I think everything started when I was 13 years old. I used to have these weird dreams. One night, I had a dream where I was crying in my room. And I heard the door of my room opening. And it was my best friend crying too. For some reason, I stood up and just hugged her really hard. She kept muttering "Canela, Canela", that was her dog's name. And then I woke up.

• 17:23Speaker 03

  I don't remember how much time it passed, but one day, my dog was working at the street. So I wanted to check on him. I looked more closely to the street. And after a few seconds, I noticed my best friend's dog there. She was run over by some car.

• 17:46Speaker 03

  So I went to my room and started crying because I don't like when people see me crying. Then a few minutes later, I heard my door opening and I saw her. My best friend Khatnik was crying. And that's when it clicked. My dreams were in fact visions. I never knew which ones were dreams and which ones were going to come true.

• 18:14Speaker 03

  When I was fifteen, I had a really, a really weird dream. I was taking a shower and I put on my pajamas. They were mint colored and with purple spots. Everything seemed normal. So, I got out of the bathroom and in the window, I could see a man's head.

• 18:39Speaker 03

  I thought, "Who is this man? What is he doing there?" The first thing that made me freak out wasn't just the fact that there was a man in my rooftop, but the fact that he was wearing a mask, the Jason mask. I don't think he saw me, but I was scared that the back door was open. So I ran downstairs and when I finally reached the back door, I found it locked. I could see outside. He had now climbed down and was standing on the wall that separates my house from my neighbor. He was looking right at me. Then this man pointed at the floor and as soon as I looked,

• 19:24Speaker 03

  I realized that he was not pointing to the floor, but to my dog's scamp. I was panicking because I knew this man, he would harm him or even kill him.

• 19:39Speaker 03

  I really loved my dog, so I didn't even think it through and grabbed the keys and opened the door.

• 19:47Speaker 03

  So I called him, "Scamp entra, por favor, entra." But he didn't move a paw, nothing. I saw how this man was climbing down to my backyard. The nearer he was, the more desperate I was, to the point that I wanted to cry. So I stepped a foot up to try to pull Scamp by the collar and then this man jumped inside the backyard. As soon as I saw how he grabbed the machete our gardener uses and ran towards me, I knew he was aiming for me and not my dog. When I tried to close the door, he grabbed it and opened it.

• 20:35Speaker 03

  And that's when I felt something sharp in my shoulder. He had cut me with the machiari.

• 20:46Speaker 03

  I wake up and I felt really weird my shoulder. I felt it sore. I was scared because I didn't know if it was going to happen in real life or if it was just a really bad nightmare. But still, I didn't want to take risks. I decided that I didn't want to wear those pajamas with purple spots because if I was wearing those pajamas, I felt like it could happen that night.

• 21:17Speaker 03

  During the day, I grabbed machiari, walked to the living room, and hid the machiari under the stairs. And from that day on, I didn't let my dog sleep outside. I would let him just sleep in the hallway. If my dog wasn't in the backyard, then he wouldn't be able to manipulate me to open the door.

• 21:41Speaker 03

  But after I had the vision of my death, I stopped having more dreams. Not even a short dream. And it was way more scary because if I didn't have dreams, then it means that I won't have a future.

• 22:00Speaker 03

  Two or three months after that, it felt like someone was watching us from the distance. My brother noticed this too. I remember that one day, we were returning home and one of my neighbors told me that we should be careful when we had to go out of the house. Someone had been walking through the streets repeatedly and my neighbor didn't recognize this person.

• 22:27Speaker 03

  It was just scary and I was nervous because if this is the person who I think it is, the man from my dream, then he knows where do we live. He knows my house. He knows our routines. He knows when my parents are out of the house. He knows when we are alone.

• 23:10Speaker 03

  Una noche, ya estaba a las 9 de la tarde. Antes de ir hacia arriba, mi padre me pidió que quitara el basur. Entonces abrí la puerta de atrás y metí el basur en el basurero. Cuando estaba a punto de volver a entrar, vi esta figura negra detrás de nuestro carro. Noté que su rostro estaba mirando a través de la ventana. Como si pudiera ver perfectamente la habitación, la cocina y el camino.

• 23:48Speaker 03

  Si él estaba mirando a través de la ventana, entonces puede ser él.

• 23:53Speaker 03

  Entonces, corrió hacia dentro y le dije a mi padre. Cuando salió hacia afuera, apagó la luz de la jardín de atrás y no pudo ver nada. Estaba desaparecido.

• 24:12Speaker 03

  Después de ese evento, estaba muy estresada. No podía quedarme sola sin temer. Siempre miraba a través de la ventana. Quería saber si había alguien mirando mi casa.

• 24:26Speaker 03

  Finalmente, tuve mi 16º cumpleaños, pero no estaba muy feliz porque mi perro se despertó muy cansado, no quería moverse, ni siquiera quería comer. Mi hermano y yo estábamos tratando de aliviar a mi perro, pero nada pasó. Y al final del día, mis padres lo llevaron a la cama. El día siguiente, nuestros padres nos despertaron temprano y nos dijeron que el gato había muerto.

• 24:58Speaker 03

  Todos se lloraron. No quería creerlo. Lo había tenido desde que tenía cinco años. No podía imaginar una vida sin él, en realidad. Pero después de un mes, estaba cerrando las puertas y vi la corriente de mi perro. Y luego pensé: "Espera, la visión no va a pasar".

• 25:26Speaker 03

  I stopped locking up the door and I returned the machete to its original place.

• 25:34Speaker 03

  I felt like I could live more happily, even though my dog wasn't with me anymore. That meant that I wasn't going to die.

• 25:46Speaker 03

  A few days after I realized this, my mother was in the living room, watching the TV, when all of a sudden I noticed the news footage. The reporter was saying that a woman was kidnapped in her house. Now she was dead, and this man was the culprit. The footage was black and white from a security camera in my neighborhood. It looked like the man was trying to break the lock. After some minutes of venturing, he came out with a girl, and he dragged her to his car.

• 26:31Speaker 03

  And you could see that he was wearing the Jason's mask. Just by seeing the mask, I knew it was him.

• 26:40Speaker 03

  In the footage, they didn't give him a name. They just called him the masked man. His victims were young girls. I panicked. I felt like the earth was so heavy, and I wanted to cry because I had... I thought I had got rid of him, but then all of a sudden, he reappeared again.

• 27:07Speaker 03

  It was almost two weeks after the news footage when my mother told us that we were going to adopt another dog. My new dog is called Bijuu. He's a cordy.

• 27:22Speaker 03

  My first dog, Scamp, he was really calm and quiet. But Ju isn't like that. In fact, he barks a lot. Now he sleeps in my room. Scamp wasn't allowed before, but this new dog, we let him sleep inside. And it makes me feel safer when he's around. If this man ever happens to come to the house, my dog would definitely bark.

• 27:54Speaker 03

  After several months, I started wearing the pajamas again. And I still use the pajamas even to this day. This means that I'm not afraid anymore.

• 28:12Speaker 03

  Sometimes I wish I had my visions back again. But maybe it's better this way, so I can experience the future on my own.

• 28:35Glynn Washington?

  Thank you, Silvana, for sharing your story with us. We are so happy to report that Silvana has had no ominous dreams since we produced this story.

• 28:55Glynn Washington?

  Now, congratulations on getting this far. But you know it ain't over. The knowledge you've gained does not come without consequence. Just hearing these stories has opened possibilities and portals in your own life. Be afraid, so I understand.

• 29:14Glynn Washington?

  If you prefer not to battle these dark forces and instead enjoy amazing storytelling under the bright light of day, if so, don't apologize. Check out our sister podcast, Snap Judgment, amazing storytelling with a beat, cinema of sound, wherever you get your podcasts. Get snapped. Spooked was brought to you by the team that stole all of Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs from the forest. Mark Ristich, Anna Sussman, Chief Spookster Eliza Smith, Annie Nguyen, and Natalie Shisha. Our sound team consists of Renzo Goryo and Lauren Newsom. The Spook theme song is by Pat Lassiter Miller. Additional music by Lauren Newsom.

• 29:58Glynn Washington?

  And when you finally go to bed at night, you will be tempted to throw caution to the wind. I wouldn't advise, wouldn't suggest such a thing. Mostly, though, I would just remind you to remember to never, ever, never, never, never, ever, ever turn out the lights.