"The Voices Underneath Us"

### Narrator(s)

Mike DelGaudio, Nichole Goodnight, Nikolle Doolin, Alexis Bristowe, Jeff Clement, Atticus Jackson, Erika Sanderson, Erin Lillis, and Jessica McEvoy

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**"The Voices Underneath Us"** is the second tale in the first episode of the fourteenth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a brother and sister begin hearing voices in their basement. Written by C.K. Walker, it has a runtime of 38:40 and was performed by Mike DelGaudio, Nichole Goodnight, Nikolle Doolin, Alexis Bristowe, Jeff Clement, Atticus Jackson, Erika Sanderson, Erin Lillis, and Jessica McEvoy. It is the 1711st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Siblings Andy and Leddie move into an old house after their mother and father get a divorce. Included is a large basement that Leddie uses as a play area. Andy sometimes struggles in school and has a somewhat strained relationship with his mother.

Leddie tells Andy she has been hearing disembodied voices coming from underneath the basement floor. Although he is skeptical at first, he eventually asks her to let him known whenever they come up. One night, she wakes him up at 2:00 AM. Going down to the basement, he hears some kind of argument between two men.

From then on, Andy is able to hear the voices too. There are muted conversations, people wondering where they are, screams, arguments, and even a murder once. The voices under the floor never respond to anything that the siblings say. Andy becomes convinced the anomaly is dangerous after Leddie reveals they have been talking to her and orders her to never speak to them.

Andy's grades begin to slip after he becomes obsessed with the voices, eventually cumulating in his mother sending him to live with his father until the end of the semester. He tries to tell her about the basement and provides several voices he recorded with his cell phone, but she thinks he just got the sound bytes from a gangster movie. As he prepares to leave, he promises Leddie he'll call her every night and tells her to ignore the voices.

During his first visit back home, Leddie reveals the voices have been speaking to her, saying that her brother abandoned her and that they are friends. An argument springs up between the two, eventually leading their mother to send them outside.

Andy goes for a walk in the woods, passing a silent man standing in a clearing. He comes across a girl digging in the dirt and asks what she's doing. She says she's searching for the place underneath. He tells her all about the voices in the basement, to which she responds that Leddie is in danger. Every time he goes back to visit, he goes to see the digging girl for more information. Eventually, the man standing in the clearing disappears.

Andy forgets to call Leddie one night, which proves to be a fatal mistake. She goes missing and no one is able to find her. Going down into the basement, he hears her voice coming from underneath the floor. She despairingly tells him that he forgot to call and she thought he abandoned her, so she went into the basement and got under somehow. Andy goes into the woods to find the digging girl. She says that the underneath people can find a way to the surface somehow. When he asks if she came from the underground, she laughs and runs away.

Years pass. Andy never tells anyone about what happened to Leddie. The house is abandoned and him and his mother move, but he comes back every week to talk to his sister. Her age never changes and she always sounds scared. He eventually buys the house. A few more decades pass and Andy becomes old enough to make Leddie think that she's talking to their father, not her brother. Now fully convinced he abandoned her, she tearfully leaves the area under the basement despite his pleas.

Andy is never able to find his sister again. He sells the house and moves, depressed that he allowed her to slip through his fingers.

## Cast

Mike DelGaudio as Andy

Nichole Goodnight as Leddie

Nikolle Doolin as Andy and Leddie's mother

Alexis Bristowe as the digging girl

Jeff Clement, Atticus Jackson, Erika Sanderson, Erin Lillis, and Jessica McEvoy as the underneath people