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Kate Noble says she knew at a young age that her family was dysfunctional. “Many layers of conflict. Maternal, psychiatric dysfunction, absentee father,” Noble recalled. Help came to Noble in the form of a dream. She was three and a half years old. “I remember then having this powerful, lucid dream and encountering this beam of light, who essentially said to me, “This is a rough life, you know, you have been put together some difficult circumstances to thrive to learn. There are some things you

Kimberly Clark Sharp lives in Seattle but she grew up in Kansas. And when she was 22, she had an experience with her father at the DMV that would change her life. It was not something she was prepared for. “We were leaving the building. I collapsed into and through his arms, and hit the sidewalk,” Kim said. A nearby nurse, a good samaritan and the fire department all worked to resuscitate her. Nothing was working. Kim describes hearing someone say, “I’m not getting a pulse!” “I said, ‘of course

Nightmares happen to us all. For people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, nightmares can be debilitating, nightly experiences. “Trauma nightmares are almost [like playing] a video tape of a traumatic event,” says Dr. Murray Raskind. He’s a psychiatrist at the VA Puget Sound hospital in Seattle and a professor in the University of Washington School of Medicine, who’s been researching PTSD treatment since he started working with a support group for African American veterans of the Vietnam War,

Growing up in Taiwan, Dean Huang always knew he wanted to study abroad, especially after visiting cousins that had immigrated to Boston. “It’s just that Taiwan is really small, and I feel like I can maximize my potential and challenge myself to receive a different education.” When he turned 18, Dean was accepted to University of Washington in Seattle, and shortly after that became an American citizen. He was active in a group of fellow Taiwanese immigrants, and also made lots of friends with

This story originally aired on December 16, 2017. To say that Washington State University Cougars have school spirit is a wild understatement, and if you have any in your life, you know they don't hesitate to remind you. Now, Cameron McCoy and many other members of Coug nation have reached a significant milestone in letting their flags fly. Actual flags. Cameron and his accomplices in the Ol' Crimson Booster Club have made it their business to get a Coug to a different city each week during

Where does gelatin meet feminism, in a wrestling ring? Jello Underground, an all-female run jello wrestling tournament. It's part performance, part competition, part declaration of female power and sex positivity. Jello Underground began as a Seattle-based burlesque troupe. According to the show’s producer, Gracie Garnet (that’s her stage name), the hustle it took to choreograph, produce, and run a burlesque show became too strenuous. So the troupe, still wanting to perform, took a step back.

Craig Egan, who lives in Tacoma, stumbled into an obsession kind of by accident. It happened on FaceBook. “A friend of mine posted some graph that had an anti-vax slant to it. At that point I had no idea that this was a thing,” Craig remembers. "Anti-vax," as in people who believe that vaccinations are harmful and oppose giving them to kids. The thought of not vaccinating children in anathema to Craig. In online, anti-vaccination forums, Craig poked and prodded people who believe that

Jenny Shrum is a National Park Biologist in one of the most beautiful places on Earth: San Juan Island. Before coming to the island, she worked on seasonal contracts for years at national parks all over the west. As a biologist, most of those jobs involved monitoring large animals. “I’ve worked with lynx in Colorado and wolverine in Idaho and grizzly bears in Montana, seals in Alaska, Hawksbill turtles in Hawaii,” said Shrum. But, In 2014, she got orders to come to the National Historical Park

In the early 1990s, Gino Jevdjevic was living the typical life of a Yugoslavian popstar. He signed autographs and posed for pictures with fans. He wore his hair in a ponytail and crooned schmaltzy melodies. These days, Gino has a shaved head, a multitude of tattoos and a long, grey-streaked beard. He lives in Seattle, and his music is closer to metal or “Gypsy Punk” than it is to pop. To understand how he got from one version of Gino to Gino 2.0, you have to go back to 1992. ‘War Comes To Us’ At

This week, stories of the unusual things we can’t get enough of. We meet a scientist who is also widely recognized as an artist who paints cats . A musician from Yugoslavia talks about making art during war time . A man makes a one person stand against those who think vaccinations are bad. A scientist finds herself being responsible for keeping a rare butterfly alive . Sound Effect is stories inspired by the place we live. The show is hosted by KNKX's Gabriel Spitzer . The full broadcast version