CROPSEY: From Urban Legend To Serial Predator – The Boogeyman Comes To Life
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicate
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.
DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
IN THIS EPISODE: A young girl is serenaded by a ghostly boy. (The Ghost of Allan) *** Strange and terrifying things begin to happen after two children play with a Ouija board in a 200-year-old house that used to be a funeral home. (My Brothers’ Strange Visitors) *** Is it possible that Dracula wasn’t a vampire after all? (Dracula – Not a Vampire) *** California diners flock to an establishment for good food, good wine, and spirits…especially the ghostly kind. (The Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery) *** Once, "Cropsey" was just an urban legend, the boogeyman of Staten Island – but now, he is real. (Cropsey Comes To Life)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:00:48.196 = Show Open
00:02:28.255 = Cropsey: The Boogeyman Comes To Life
00:06:11.705 = Dracula, Not A Vampire?
00:10:31.107 = The Ghost of Allan
00:19:02.378 = My Brother’s Strange Visitors
00:24:45.648 = The Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery
00:29:55.014 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Ghost of Allan” by Weirdo family member Sheila Pugh: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/n6nvzdcu
“My Brother’s Strange Visitors” by Carli for MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/kjb5vusk
“Dracula – Not a Vampire” by A. Sutherland for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4y2h9mvz
“The Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery” by Jim Hunt: (website no longer exists)
“Cropsey Comes to Life” posted at The LineUp: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/8rw7286w
=====
(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)
= = = = =
"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
= = = = =
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.
=====
Originally aired: September, 2019
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cropsey
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing. |
| 0:05.4 | I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen. |
| 0:07.9 | A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that. |
| 0:14.2 | For materials, tool hire, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot. |
| 0:19.0 | Like Teralis porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square meter. |
| 0:22.4 | Love it. |
| 0:23.1 | All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%. |
| 0:25.9 | So now you can keep up with the Joneses. |
| 0:28.0 | And the Evanses. |
| 0:29.2 | And the Bertels. |
| 0:30.1 | Now there's a new way to share weird darkness with the weirdos in your life. |
| 0:34.2 | It's a skill on your Amazon Echo device. Just say, play weird darkness, and you'll |
| 0:38.8 | immediately start hearing the newest episode. With your Amazon Echo or smart device, you can let me keep |
| 0:43.9 | you company all day and all night. And it's easy to tell your friends how to tune in, too. Just tell |
| 0:49.4 | your Amazon device, play Weird Darkness to start listening. |
| 0:53.2 | Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third-party agencies outside of my control. device, play Weird Darkness to start listening. only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 1:21.6 | A LaSalle college student parked his car off Susquehanna Road and began to hike across a vacant lot in the drizzling rain. |
| 1:26.6 | The unnamed young man, various newspaper reports |
| 1:30.0 | put his age between 18 and 26, was a peeping tom, and was en route to spy on the inmates |
| 1:37.7 | of the nearby Good Shepherd home, the Catholic residents for wayward girls. But what he found, as he walked across the overgrown lot that night, |
| 1:48.1 | would destroy any interest that he had in looking in young girls' windows. |
| 1:53.9 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Welcome, Weirdo's. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Darren Marlar, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Darren Marlar and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.