"Lawrence Hall"

### Narrator(s)

Mike DelGaudio, Mary Murphy, David Cummings, Matthew Bradford, Nichole Goodnight, Jessica McEvoy, Danielle McRae, and Jeff Clement

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**"Lawrence Hall"** is the second tale in the fourteenth episode of the fifteenth season of the Nolseep podcast. In it, a dorm is attacked by a supernatural force. Written by James Turnbow, it has a runtime of 27:35 and was performed by Mike DelGaudio, Mary Murphy, David Cummings, Matthew Bradford, Nichole Goodnight, Jessica McEvoy, Danielle McRae, and Jeff Clement. It is the 1927th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Jason works as a resident advisor in the largest dorm at a college, Lawrence Hall. Also working with him are two other RAs: Mia and Chris. One night a few days before winter break, a large snowstorm hits the area, with predictions that over four feet will collect by the following morning. Jason receives a message from his boss, Scott, asking him to make sure all the residents get inside before the snow piles up too high.

He hears knocking on the front door and admits two girls who share a room: Sarah and Haylee. They are drunk and admit while laughing they wanted to squeeze in one last trip to a local bar with their friends Kayla and James. Kayla plans to drive home before the snow gets too bad and the two left her at her car in the parking lot. Mia comes out and scolds them for drinking while underage and sends them up to their room.

Concerned that Kayla may be drunk while driving in the dangerous conditions, Jason calls the local police and asks them to check on her car, a blue Honda, while on their nightly rounds. The officer agrees. Just as he heads into his room to go to bed, he thinks he sees something moving in the snow outside.

During the night, Jason is awoken by a message on his pager, with a scared voice saying they are cold. He falls asleep again and wakes up in the morning, writing off the message as a dream. Mia and Chris barge into his room, telling him the snow has piled up dramatically, none of the doors leading outside will open, and that they found a trail of blood in the hallway leading under Sarah and Haylee's door.

The three break down the door and find Sarah dead inside, an empty whiskey bottle shoved down her throat. Haylee is nowhere to be seen. Jason locks the room and attempts to call the police, but all the phones are down. Chris remembers there is an emergency landline phone in the basement where an old dining hall used to be.

Jason, Chris, and Mia head down to the basement, surprised by the chill in the air. Opening the door to the room, they find a bloodstained Haylee breaking the windows, letting snow in, and crying that she is sorry. Mia attempts to talk her down but her and Chris leave to find another way to contact the police. Jason approaches and tries to rationalize the situation. Haylee says something that happened wasn't her fault before shattering the last window, causing cascades of snow to pile into the room.

A bloated, rotting hand reaches out of a snowdrift and drags a screaming Haylee into it. The snow piles on top of Jason and he hears a disembodied voice yelling that "he knew" something. He attempts to apologize for whatever he has done but the snow continues to pile on top of him. He manages to grab the emergency phone and make a brief message of help to a local dispatcher before passing out.

Days later, Jason awakens from his coma in the hospital with Scott as his bedside. Scott sadly informs him that Sarah, Haylee, James, and Kayla are all dead. When asked about the latter, he says that Kayla was drunk after visiting the bar with her friends and passed out in her car before she could drive away. She was buried alive in the snowstorm and died of hypothermia. Jason asks why the police never checked her car like they said they were going to. Scott reveals he got the color and model of Kayla's car wrong and that it was all a tragic accident.

Jason looks out his window at the snow and sees a rotting hand retreating into a snowdrift. Scott asks him if he's ready to leave, but he replies that he thinks his time is up.

## Cast

Mike DelGaudio as Jason

Mary Murphy as Mia

David Cummings as Scott

Matthew Bradford as Chris

Nichole Goodnight as Sarah

Jessica McEvoy as Haylee

Danielle McRae as Kayla

Jeff Clement as the dispatcher