WALKING SAM: The 7-Foot Shadow Figure Blamed for Multiple Deaths

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

A faceless, 7-foot shadow figure has been stalking the desolate Pine Ridge Reservation for generations, appearing on dark roads and whispering commands that drive young people to take their own lives.
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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IN THIS EPISODE: An 11-year-old boy experiences the extraterrestrial in his own back yard. *** Floating white mist, pink orbs, ghosts, and more – and they all reside in Fiddletown, California. *** Charles E. Peck was killed instantly in a horrible 2008 Metrolink commercial train accident, but before anyone knew he was dead, his family members received 35 calls from his phone for several hours following the disaster. *** A museum has hung a chair from the ceiling, specifically to keep people from sitting in it. Not because they are afraid it will break – but because they are afraid the chair will kill you. *** If you spend the night amongst the dead in a graveyard, don’t be surprised if something supernatural happens to you. (I Spent The Night In a Graveyard) *** An old man regrets not obeying his wife’s dying wish. (The Stubborn Piano) *** Over 200 lobotomies were performed at the Ridges Asylum – without anesthesia or an operating room. Is it any wonder why it’s now considered to be haunted? (The Ridges Asylum) *** A Vietnam veteran has his first paranormal investigation in a Nevada town with a population of more dead souls than alive. (Marine Protectors) *** In a quiet Virginia cemetery is a peculiar tomb that has mystified visitors for nearly two hundred years. Who is buried there? No one seems to know. (The Grave of the Female Stranger) *** Demons hitchhiking, reports of a mysterious entity, strange suicides… they all have been seen and experienced on a certain Indian reservation in South Dakota. (Walking Sam)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
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SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“UFO In My Front Yard” by Blake Lacy: (link no longer available)
“Haunted Fiddletown” by paranormal investigator Paul Dale Roberts: (link no longer available)
“This Man Kept Calling His Loved Ones… Even Though He’d Been Dead For Hours” by Erin McCann:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/35ja28pf
“The Deathly Stoop Chair of Thomas Busby”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p89pwvy
“Walking Sam” by Brent Swancer: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckzeu7n
“I Spent a Night In a Graveyard” by Michael McKean: (link no longer available)
“The Stubborn Piano” by J. Mason Brewer: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p93vjfs
“The Ridges Asylum” by Shannon E. Brown: (link no longer available)
“Marine Protectors” by Pam Ennis – submitted directly to Weird Darkness
“The Grave of the Female Stranger” by Orrin Grey: http://ow.ly/NkQS30mMhhZ
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Originally aired: January 23, 2018
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/WalkingSam