THE HAT MAN: The Shadow That Spreads From One Family Member To The Next
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime StoriesShow Notes
Witnesses around the world describe the same faceless man in a wide-brimmed hat, and they say once he appears to one person in a house, another family member is often next.ADDITIONAL
ARTICLE ABOUT THE HAT MAN: https://weirddarkness.com/hat-man/
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE ABOUT SHADOW PEOPLE: https://weirddarkness.com/shadow-people/
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HatManAndShadowPeople
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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Is there really such a thing as coincidence? One girl used to think so – but a strange paranormal experience has her now thinking there’s no such thing as happenstance. (More Than a Coincidence) *** Is it possible that the real reason for the USA-Iraq war had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction, and everything to do with the appropriation of other-worldly alien technology? (Saddam Hussein’s Stargate) *** Weirdo family member Heather Circle brings us a terrifying story that starts, innocently enough, with her child’s missing plastic drinking cup. (A Little Pink Sippy Cup) *** Rebecca Schaeffer was destined to be a star. But before she had the chance to make it in Hollywood, she was murdered by an obsessed fan. (Hollywood’s Sweetheart Killed By a Stalker) *** With the internet’s recent obsession with Black Eyed Kids encounters and “Shadow People” visitations, you might not notice another phenomena that’s quickly becoming part of the paranormal pop-culture consciousness: The Hat Man. Reports of the strange “Hat Man”, a mysterious entity dressed in a long-brimmed hat, continue to pour in from all over the world. Who is the Hat Man? What does he want? Why have so many people around the world been visited by this strange entity? (The Hat Man And Shadow People) *** If you’ve ever seen the film “The Wicker Man”, you are familiar with the ending of the burning giant made of wood and the human sacrifice therein. But is it possible that this terrifying idea was not an invention of novelists and screenwriters – but was a very real practice at one time? Or even today? (The History Behind The Wicker Man) *** The life that serial killer Dennis Rader lived on the outside, hid his dark secret inside, which he was so desperate to reveal that he began dropping breadcrumbs to the media. (The Paper Trail of BTK) *** A graveyard is typically a quiet place, but Graceland Cemetery in Chicago seems to be a bit too quiet – which might have something to do with its resident ghosts. (The Deathly Silence of Graceland Cemetery) *** In 1888, London was terror-struck by the grotesque murders of Jack the Ripper, who was shortly about to claim his next-victim: 47-year-old prostitute Annie Chapman. Her dissection at the hands of the madman was nothing short of gruesome. (The Dissection of Annie Chapman) *** Annie Chapman likely got a good look at her killer. At the time, scientists thought they could user her corpse’s eyeballs to identify the attacker. Is something like that possible? Could the last visual image of someone’s life remain burned into the eye even after death? (The Last Thing a Corpse Sees) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:00:48.416 = Show Open 00:04:18.611 = Hat Man And Shadow People 00:17:11.889 = More Than a Coincidence *** 00:21:32.842 = A Little Pink Sippy Cup 00:25:35.809 = Saddam Hussein’s Stargate 00:32:37.481 = Hollywood’s Sweetheart Killed by a Stalker *** 00:46:50.524 = Dissection of Annie Chapman 00:58:21.136 = The Last Thing a Corpse Sees *** 01:04:13.123 = History Behind the Wicker Man 01:09:04.564 = The Paper Trail of BTK 01:15:41.286 = Deathly Silence of Graceland Cemetery *** 01:26:11.798 = Show Close 01:28:28.675 = SONG: “He’s The Hat Man” by Dark Weirdness, https://weirddarkness.com/music *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music,
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