{"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":"“The Russian Sleep Experiment” Creepypasta, plus 4 TRUE Horrors!","slug":"the-russian-sleep-experiment-creepypasta-plus-4-true-horrors","published_at":"2026-06-28T00:31:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827/the-russian-sleep-experiment-creepypasta-plus-4-true-horrors","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-darkness-paranormal-true-crime-stories-475827","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/russiansleepexperiment","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72723549/wd20260627b_russiansleepexperiment_adfreepatronspod.mp3","summary":"Five prisoners are kept awake for fifteen days in a sealed chamber — and what the researchers find when they open the door no longer wants to be set free. A blockbuster film series trails a string of real-life deaths its cast can't explain. On the back roads of Maryland, a half-goat figure waits for teenagers who wander too far. And one ordinary night in El Paso, a couple walks out of their home — dishes still in the sink, cat unfed — and is never seen again. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/russiansleepexperiment/ READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3rr9mhjx FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Russian Sleep Experiment *** The Poltergeist Film Curse *** The Goat-Man of Maryland *** The Patterson Family Disappearance *** The Legend of the Leprechaun CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:06.939 = Show Open 00:01:55.409 = The Poltergeist Curse 00:06:21.074 = The Goatman of Prince George’s County 00:14:07.417 = The Lore of the Leprechaun *** 00:16:55.345 = Vanishing of the Pattersons 00:27:39.437 = The Russian Sleep Experiment *** 00:43:05.653 = 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: “The Russian Sleep Experiment”: http://bit.ly/36mHCc9 \"Leprechaun: One Of The Most Famous And Powerful Creatures Of The Irish Faerie Folk\" (link no longer available) “The El Paso Vanishing (What Happened To The Pattersons?)”: http://bit.ly/2JHq3cW…","meta_description":"Five prisoners are kept awake for fifteen days in a sealed chamber — and what the researchers find when they open the door no longer wants to be set free.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2627,"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/the-russian-sleep-experiment-creepypasta-plus-4-true-horrors/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/the-russian-sleep-experiment-creepypasta-plus-4-true-horrors.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}