WALKING SAM: The 7-Foot Shadow Figure Blamed for Multiple Deaths
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
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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.
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: 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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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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Originally aired: January 23, 2018
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/WalkingSam
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| 0:00.0 | Do you like my horrorable humor episodes called Mind of Marler? |
| 0:05.9 | If so, and you'd like more, it now has its very own podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Comedic creeps, sarcastic scares, frivolous freights, macabre madness. |
| 0:15.1 | Every week I dive into strange history, twisted true crime, and paranormal weirdness. |
| 0:19.9 | All the stuff he'd expect from me on weird Darkness, but delivered with dark comedy, satire, |
| 0:25.0 | and just the right amount of absurdity. |
| 0:27.5 | Monsters, myths, mysteries, mirth, and more every Monday with Mind of Marler. |
| 0:32.4 | I like alliteration, can you tell? |
| 0:34.3 | You can find a list of where you can subscribe to the podcast at weirddarkness.com |
| 0:38.5 | under the menu tab for podcasts. |
| 0:43.5 | Sprawled out, over approximately 3,470 square miles of desert and prairie badlands in the U.S. |
| 0:51.4 | State of South Dakota is the Oglala Lakota Native American Reservation, |
| 0:56.1 | known as the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. |
| 0:59.4 | The area is imbued with a rather dark history, such as being the location of the infamous |
| 1:04.6 | 1890 battle at Wounded Knee, where U.S. soldiers mercilessly massacred hundreds of Lakota Sioux, including scores of |
| 1:13.2 | women and children and a bloody assault. |
| 1:16.2 | Here is also a place of natural splendor and surreal views of hills, plateaus, and prairies, |
| 1:23.3 | as well as many legends, myths, and mysteries, inhabited by the native people, a diverse |
| 1:29.7 | array of flora and fauna, and by some accounts, a supernatural denizen from beyond our understanding. |
| 1:37.2 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Welcome, Weirdo's. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 1:55.0 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, Legends, lore, The Strange and Bizar, Crime, Conspiracy, Mysterious, |
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