Unmasking "The Cracking Man", a Possessed Clown Doll

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Are you afraid of clowns? Maybe you should be. When a “do not open” sign is ignored, a woman finds herself haunted by "The Cracking Man", a frightening clown doll with a noisy presence. In this episode, Greg dates a Christian clown, Dana stumbles into paranormal ASMR, the gang cracks a cursed doll case, and Connor digs up a terrifying true story of possession-by-clown. Get ready to enter the Big Top, because it's time to stoke your coulrophobia! Join the Museum: https://patreon.com/paramuseum Visit Our Website: https://hauntedobjectspodcast.com Subscribe on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/25xf92nx Follow Greg Newkirk Twitter: https://twitter.com/nuekerk Instagram: https://instagram.com/nuekerk Website: https://gregorynewkirk.com Follow Dana Newkirk Twitter: https://twitter.com/weird_dana Instagram: https://instagram.com/weird_dana Follow Connor J. Randall Twitter: https://twitter.com/connorjrandall Instagram: https://instagram.com/connorjrandall SHOW NOTES: - Chiropractic Ghosts: https://tinyurl.com/5dzfn2jt - “Coulrophobia and the Trickster” by Joseph Durwin: https://tinyurl.com/3pbrrrns - Ringling Brothers official “How to Be A Clown”: https://tinyurl.com/54c4tckx - Actual Clown Tryouts: https://tinyurl.com/5e3zdka9 - Fear Survey from Chapman University: https://tinyurl.com/4f8z9sb3 - Why Are We Afraid of Clowns?: https://tinyurl.com/2p8jkjnh - Reader’s Digest Covers Clowns: https://tinyurl.com/5a87888m - Atlas Obscura Clown Sighting Map: https://tinyurl.com/5x47ew3e - The Clown Panic of 2016: https://tinyurl.com/2cwvcycx - The Clown Who Started the Craze - Gags: https://tinyurl.com/vjasd6vd - Learn More About Sleep Paralysis: https://tinyurl.com/bde6yu5p - Emmett Kelly / Weary Willie: https://tinyurl.com/2s4zjbk2 - More on the Kelly Family Story: https://tinyurl.com/wwude726 - Emmett Kelly & Carol Burnett: https://tinyurl.com/2urabcs3 Timestamps: 00:00 - Ever Been To A Chiropractor? 04:50 - Meet The Cracking Man 06:53 - The Letter & Backstory 15:11 - The Dark Side of the Clown 23:00 - Slapstick & Resilience 27:58 - So You Want to Be A Clown? 36:16- The Great Clown Purge of 2016 42:36- The Cracking Man Cuddles 58:24 - Mystery Solved? 1:03:05 - But Wait, There’s More! 01:08:24 - The Clown Classification System 01:12:04- The Bizarre Tale of Weary Willie 01:29:52 - Clown Mode & The Importance of Archetypes Copyright 2023 Planet Weird Hosted by Greg and Dana Newkirk Produced by Connor J Randall Additional Research by Keelin Mathews Photography by Karl Pfeiffer Art by Dustin Williams Theme by Adam Hayman "The Disembodied Voice" by Chuck Fresh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spector Vision Radio
0:03.3	On this episode of the Haunted Objects podcast.
0:09.6	What you might not know is that there's actually a clown classification system.
0:14.3	Most of you, big shocker probably wouldn't know about the clown classification system.
0:20.3	Yeah. probably wouldn't know about the clown classification system.
0:36.7	From deep inside the mysterious archives of the new Kirk Museum of the paranormal, it's the hauntedunted Objects podcast.
0:40.1	You ever been to a chiropractor?
0:42.7	I have never been to a chiropractor.
0:43.8	I'm too scared.
0:45.2	I've never been to one either.
0:46.5	It scares me.
0:48.2	It looks very violent.
0:48.8	It does.
0:54.0	It's very violent on TikTok because there's a huge group of people who love watching and I'm in that group of people
0:55.4	who like to watch people get their bones tortured tortured it's loud the face one is the scariest
1:02.6	one because they like put all this pressure on your face and like pop your sinuses and shit like it
1:07.6	sounds horrifying every time I see one I see the X-ray vision from the Mortal Kombat games.
1:14.2	Uh-huh.
1:14.7	And I just imagine all of their bones cracking and breaking on the inside.
1:18.0	Because that's kind of what it looks and sounds like.
1:20.0	That's scary.
1:21.0	You know what's really scary?
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