DEMONS THAT FEED ON INTIMACY: The Terrifying True Reality of Incubus and Succubus Attacks
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
For centuries, people across cultures have reported terrifying nocturnal encounters with entities that seem to exist somewhere between nightmare and reality.
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IN THIS EPISODE: Throughout history, countless individuals have awakened in the dead of night to find themselves unable to move, sensing a presence in their room that defies explanation. From medieval monasteries to modern suburban bedrooms, people describe encounters with entities that seduce, terrorize, and feed upon their victims in ways that blur the line between nightmare and reality. These accounts span every culture and continent, from ancient Mesopotamian texts about the demon Lilith to contemporary Reddit posts about beings that attach themselves like parasites to human souls. Tonight's journey explores the disturbing consistency of these testimonies across millennia, and asks why so many unconnected people describe experiencing the exact same phenomena - entities that wait until we're at our most vulnerable, when sleep and waking merge, to make their presence terrifyingly known.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:02:34.344 = Show Open
00:05:34.552 = The Sleep Paralysis Connection
00:20:18.980 = Modern Encounters, Ancient Methods
00:43:26.557 = Breaking The Ancestral Chain
00:53:48.871 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Sex and the Single Succubus”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/sexandthesinglesuccubus
“Temptation To Terror, Seduction To Screams”: https://weirddarkness.com/incubus-succubus/
Church of the Undead episode about sleep paralysis: https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-sleepparalysis/
BOOK: “Sleep Paralysis: Historical, Psychological and Medical Perspectives” by Brian Sharpless: https://amzn.to/46HXtTI
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EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DemonsThatFeedOnIntimacy
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, weirdos. Just wanted to let you know that on the Weird Darkness YouTube channel recently, we've been having fun doing a live chat each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. I set up the YouTube channel to premiere a video at that time, usually the podcast episode for the day, and then during the premiere, we all hang out in the YouTube live chat. Even if you've already heard that day's episode here in the podcast, you're |
| 0:21.2 | still welcome to join us for the YouTube chat. It's every weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central |
| 0:26.0 | time. And sometimes I do it over the weekends, too, because I have no social life whatsoever. |
| 0:31.6 | You can find my channel at weirddarkness.com slash YouTube. That's weirddarkness.com |
| 0:36.3 | slash YouTube. Hey, weirdos, as we get closer to Halloween |
| 0:40.1 | and our 10-year anniversary of this podcast, I'd love to get your opinions on how I'm doing, |
| 0:45.2 | what you like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see more of, what you'd change if you were |
| 0:50.3 | in charge. Well, you get the idea. I have a new Weird Darkness survey on the website so you can send me your opinions. |
| 0:56.4 | And it's completely anonymous, so you can be completely honest. |
| 1:00.2 | This is a new survey, so even if you did give your opinion before, you can do so again, |
| 1:04.9 | and I'd appreciate you doing so. |
| 1:06.8 | Visit Weirddarkness.com slash survey. |
| 1:09.5 | That's Weirddarkness.com slash survey. That's weirddarkness.com slash survey. |
| 1:34.7 | The whole thing started with a 15-year-old kid named John, trying to sleep naked for the first time. |
| 1:40.3 | His friends at school had been talking about it, so he figured he'd give it a shot during summer vacation. |
| 1:45.1 | He locked his door, climbed into bed in the corner of his room with the wall to his right, and fell asleep like any other night. Then he woke up. Not the groggy, confused |
| 1:52.1 | awakening his family was used to seeing from their heavy sleeper son, but completely, unnaturally |
| 1:57.8 | alert. The house was silent, yet one thought kept repeating in his mind. Something |
| 2:04.2 | evil was in the room with him. After 30 seconds of staring into a dark corner, he managed |
| 2:10.5 | to convince himself he was being ridiculous and went back to sleep. A short dream later, screaming |
| 2:17.1 | voices jerked him awake again. The room was |
| 2:19.6 | actually rocking back and forth, and extreme dizziness overwhelmed him. A woman's voice, |
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