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Freaky Folklore

WALKING SAM - This Native American Legend Will Make You Never Walk Alone Again

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7991 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Walking Sam is a seven-foot-tall shadow figure from Lakota folklore who stalks the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, appearing to vulnerable youth and whispering that they should take their own lives, carrying the souls of his previous victims beneath his outstretched arms. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/   Follow Carman Carrion!    https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en   https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion   Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY   Please Review Us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184   Music and sound effects used in the Freaky Folklore Podcast have or may have been provided/created by:  CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ Jinglepunks: https://jinglepunks.com/ Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/ Dark Music: https://soundcloud.com/darknessprevailspodcast Soundstripe: https:// Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, Little Psychos? I'm Investigator Slater, host of the Psychopedia podcast. Psychopedia is a true crime

0:06.6

podcast delivering raw, real, and absolutely gripping episodes every single week. I dig deep to uncover

0:13.6

fascinating details of heinous true crime cases while exploring criminology and psychology theories.

0:19.0

I take you into the absolute darkest corners of the human psyche, my favorite territory,

0:23.7

and present cases like you've never heard them before.

0:26.4

Follow and listen to Psychopedia everywhere you get your podcasts.

0:30.3

You're driving alone through the desolate highways of South Dakota when your car breaks down,

0:37.0

just outside the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

0:40.8

It's past midnight, and the nearest town is miles away. Your phone has no signal. The wind

0:48.3

howls across the empty plains, carrying with it something that sounds almost like whispers.

0:56.0

As you debate whether to start walking or wait until morning, you notice a figure in the distance.

1:03.0

Impossibly tall, unnaturally thin, it stands motionless at the edge of the road.

1:10.0

Even from hundreds of yards away, you can see

1:13.6

its eyes, two pinpricks of light in the darkness, watching you with ancient hunger.

1:20.6

The figure raises its arms, and beneath them you glimpse shapes swaying in the wind.

1:29.5

Not branches, not cloth.

1:33.0

Bodies.

1:34.5

The whispers grow louder, carrying across the plains with impossible clarity.

1:40.2

You don't belong here.

1:42.0

You never belonged anywhere.

1:45.0

Why keep trying?

1:46.9

Why keep fighting?

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