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Part of the appeal of this story to Washington is hearing a real person tell their own story. The skinwalker phenomena often comes up in Native American cultures — and people are reluctant to share with outsiders, he says. “Oftentimes when someone tells a story on ‘Spooked,’ at the end of the process you can see almost a burden being lifted, a weight gone from this person,” he says, “because it's like the stories that you can't tell anybody else. Tell us.” There’s never any doubt that what people describe on the podcast feels utterly real to them, no matter how outlandish it may sound to the audience. Listeners must balance these two opposite ideas in their heads simultaneously, he says.