{"podcast":{"title":"Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories","slug":"weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","podcast_index_feed_id":475827,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://weirddarkness.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a1570d70b941e8f0e16b68380622d72f.jpg","author":"Darren Marlar","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Award-winning podcast of true stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, true crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained -- seven days a week! Hosted by professional voice actor Darren Marlar, named one of the “Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T14:17:16.106491+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827"},"episode":{"title":"I’m A Police Officer And I Forced A Sane Man Into An Asylum | And More Fictional Horror Tales!","slug":"i-m-a-police-officer-and-i-forced-a-sane-man-into-an-asylum-and-more-fictional-horror-tales","published_at":"2026-06-13T00:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/i-m-a-police-officer-and-i-forced-a-sane-man-into-an-asylum-and-more-fictional-horror-tales","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/imapoliceofficer/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72506597/wd20260612_imapoliceofficer.mp3","summary":"A candlemaker guards one dying flame through the night while ravenous things in the dark demand the soul of a frozen stranger. An old woman stares through a second-floor window with no ledge to stand on, and the shadow man behind her inches closer with every passing night. And a small-town officer commits a man to a psychiatric hold for claiming a five-year-old suicide was really a murder — until the same vision starts playing out in front of his own eyes. FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I have three stories in this episode for you! Andrew Pendragon pens the tale, “Candles” to start things off. Weirdo Family member Randy Hogan shares a fictional tale called “Old Woman in the Window”. And then our final story is from S.F. Barkley called “I’m a Cop And I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn’t Crazy”. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:10.223 = Chandler’s Candles 00:19:35.808 = The Old Woman in the Window 00:24:35.615 = I’m A Cop And I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn’t Crazy, Part 1 *** 01:03:09.029 = I’m A Cop And I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn’t Crazy, Part 2 *** 01:29:19.732 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I’m a Cop And I Institutionalized Someone I Knew Wasn’t Crazy” by S.F. Barkley: https://sfbarkley.com/ , https://www.reddit.com/user/Barkles52/ “Candles” by Andrew Pendragon: https://www.creepypasta.com/candles/ “The Old Woman in the Window” by Weird family member, Randy Hoga…","meta_description":"A candlemaker guards one dying flame through the night while ravenous things in the dark demand the soul of a frozen stranger. An old woman stares through…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5450,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/episodes/i-m-a-police-officer-and-i-forced-a-sane-man-into-an-asylum-and-more-fictional-horror-tales/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/i-m-a-police-officer-and-i-forced-a-sane-man-into-an-asylum-and-more-fictional-horror-tales.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}