Our Family Santa Animatronic Has One Rule
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: My parents own a Santa animatronic – I think it tried to kill us! *** (Originally aired December 18, 2018)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My parents own a Santa animatronic. |
| 0:06.4 | I think it tried to kill us. |
| 0:08.9 | Now, I know what you might be thinking. |
| 0:12.2 | This story already sounds like a kid's overactive imagination during a season that relies |
| 0:17.1 | on the magic of imagination. |
| 0:19.6 | I don't mean to oversell it either. |
| 0:21.6 | This wasn't some decades-long haunting where it terrorized us every Christmas. |
| 0:26.9 | This was a single incident, but one that my brother and I would never forget. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome, weirdos, I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 0:50.3 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange |
| 0:56.3 | and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. |
| 1:03.6 | Coming up in this episode, it's a Christmas time creepypasta by James Kernick called |
| 1:10.0 | Better Watch Out, Better Not Cry. |
| 1:13.1 | Now, bolt your doors. |
| 1:15.7 | Lock your windows. |
| 1:17.3 | Turn off your lights and come with me into the weird darkness. |
| 1:21.7 | Music Let me give you some backstory first to paint a better picture. |
| 1:43.9 | My parents have always owned a Santa animatronic that we kept inside our house during the |
| 1:49.8 | Christmas season. |
| 1:51.4 | I assume my mom inherited him from my grandparents, as they sold the home we grew up in |
| 1:56.6 | to my mother and father. |
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