“The Russian Sleep Experiment” Creepypasta, plus 4 TRUE Horrors!

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.

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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

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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
“Maryland’s Goat-Man Is Half Man, Half Goat, and Out For Blood”: http://bit.ly/2pEciVw
“The Poltergeist Curse?”: http://bit.ly/36oH857
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Originally aired: July 22, 2018
Weird Darkness travels from a cursed Hollywood film set to a Maryland goat-monster, the cobbler-fairies of Irish legend, a vanished El Paso couple, and a blood-soaked Soviet sleep laboratory where the test subjects no longer wanted to be set free.It opens with the deaths that shadow the Poltergeist films, beginning with Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne Freeling from the original 1982 release through both sequels and died at twelve in San Diego in February 1986 during surgery for a bowel obstruction later traced to a congenital intestinal flaw. Dominique Dunne, who played older sister Dana Freeling, was strangled in 1982 by John Sweeney outside her Hollywood home, and Sweeney served just three years and seven months. Julian Beck, the gaunt preacher Kane of Poltergeist II,...