“HOMICIDAL SLEEPWALKING” and 4 More Terrifying True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: A man begins to see and experience strange things around the house as he cares for his elderly grandmother. 
(The Other Company) *** What does uncontrollable laughing, the Chupacabra, rampant crime, witch burnings, and dancing to exhaustion all have in common? They are all examples of what experts call “mass hysteria”. (Strange Stories of Mass Hysteria) *** Weirdo family member and U.S. veteran Joe Akins shares a personal experience with the paranormal and extraterrestrial! (UFO's & Demonic Shadow Figures) *** Another Weird Darkness fan, Mathew R., sent us a short story about what happened to him while visiting the Watseka Wonder House (The Watseka Wonder) *** At least 68 cases of sleepwalking murder have reached a courtroom, giving a jury the unenviable task of deciding whether a murder committed while asleep means criminal responsibility for the unfortunate sleepwalker. (Homicidal Sleepwalking)
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Homicidal Sleepwalking” by Fiona Guy for Crime Traveller: http://bit.ly/2nhu93j
“The Other Company” by Marc Eulo Boni for Ghost Attic: http://bit.ly/2lN5UcS
“Strange Stories of Mass Hysteria” by Doug MacGowan for Historic Mysteries: http://bit.ly/2lIJ8mp
“UFO's & Demonic Shadow Figures” by Joe Akins for Weird Darkness
“The Watseka Wonder” by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings: http://bit.ly/2nOK1dE, with a short paragraph at the end from Weirdo family member Mathew R.
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| 0:00.0 | Stories and content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended |
| 0:04.8 | for mature audiences only. |
| 0:06.8 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:11.5 | In the middle of the night in May 1997 in Toronto, Canada, 23-year-old Kenneth Parks got in his car and drove to his parents in law's home 14 miles away. He stabbed his mother-in-law's home 14 miles away. |
| 0:23.7 | He stabbed his mother-in-law to death and assaulted his father-in-law who survived the attack. |
| 0:30.0 | Parks then drove to the police station and told them he thought he had killed people because |
| 0:34.7 | there was blood on his hands. |
| 0:37.0 | His defense? |
| 0:38.4 | He committed the heinous crime while sleepwalking. I'm Darren Marler and this is weird darkness. Welcome weirdos, I'm |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 0:59.0 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, |
| 1:07.0 | conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. |
| 1:14.3 | Coming up in this episode, a man begins to see and experience |
| 1:19.2 | strange things around the house as he cares for his elderly grandmother. |
| 1:25.3 | What does uncontrollable laughing, the chupacabra, rampant crime, witch burnings, and dancing |
| 1:32.4 | to exhaustion all have in common. They are all examples |
| 1:36.5 | of what experts call mass hysteria. Weirdo family member and US veteran Joe Aikens shares a personal experience with the |
| 1:46.2 | paranormal and extraterrestrial. |
| 1:50.0 | Another weird darkness listener, Matthew R, sent us a short story about what happened to him |
| 1:55.0 | while visiting the Watsika Wonder House. |
| 1:58.9 | First up, at least 68 cases of sleepwalking murder have reached courtrooms. |
| 2:04.8 | Giving juries the unenviable task of deciding whether a murder committed while asleep |
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