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"A Story to Scare My Son"

Illustration by Lukasz Godlewski

**"A Story to Scare My Son"** is the second tale in the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man tells a cautionary tale to his son. Written by R.D. Ovenfriend, it has a runtime of 10:05 and was performed by Peter Lewis. It is the 436th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man notices his son playing games on a public online server and decides to tell him a cautionary tale about internet safety. The son asks for the story to be scary, which the man agrees to. He begins.

A boy named Colby makes friends online with someone named Helper23. They play games together often. Helper23 learns that Colby's birthday is coming up and asks for his home address so he can send him a present. Colby sends him the address willingly. However, soon his guilt and fear grow and he regrets telling Helper23 the information. He decides to tell his parents and come clean.

He waits in bed that night for his parents to come in, but they fail to appear. He hears noises in the house, like settling, his infant brother crying, and other sounds he can't identify. He calls for his father. The father's head peeks from behind the door and says goodnight, his mouth not moving. Colby asks to see his mother. His mother's head appears beside, speaking in an unnatural falsetto. She berates him for telling Helper23 their home address and says he's not really a kid. He broke into the house and murdered both of them so he could spend more time with him.

A fat man in a jacket throws the parents' severed heads into the room and attacks Colby with his knife. Just as he finishes, he hears the baby crying from the nursery. Though he intends to slaughter it, he finds it too cute and decides to take it home to raise it as his own son, naming him William.

The son cries out, yelling that his name is William. The man tousles his hair and says it is. William runs up the stairs crying while his father leans back, thinking that he enjoyed the story.
"A Simple Photo"

**"A Simple Photo"** is the third tale in the third episode of the second season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a woman finds a strange photograph. Written by Mark Copleand, is has a runtime of 2:40 and was performed by Jessica Prokuski. It is the 83rd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A young woman agrees to help her grandmother organize the photos in her albums. After several hours, she comes across a photo dated October 16, 2001, featuring her, her sister, and her father in front of a bathroom mirror. Her father has a severe, blank expression and appears to be staring through the photo at her. She realizes with horror that the date on the picture is impossible, as her father died on October 15, 2001.
"Tales of a New York Subway"

**"Tales of a New York Subway"** is the first tale in the fifth episode of the first season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a woman takes a sinister subway ride. Written by Colin Thomson, it has a runtime of 3:04 and was performed by Jinny Sanders. It is the 15th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A young woman named Laura takes a subway back to her apartment in New York City late one night. When she gets on, there are only three other people in the car: two large suited men sitting on either side of a young girl.

Eventually a scruffy-looking man with stubble and a stained shirt gets on and sits about ten seats away from Laura. She begins to notice that the man will look up at the men, then to the little girl, then to her. Then, to her horror, he begins slowly moving seats towards her. Despite his continued trek towards her, the suited men and the little girl say and do nothing.

Eventually, at the next stop, the man runs over, grabs Laura around her waist, and drags her out of the subway car and into the station. She screams as the doors close and the car rides off. She's about to yell at the man when he reveals that he's a medical student. He says that he works with dead bodies all day, and that he was certain the little girl wasn't alive.
"Mrs. Michaud's House"

### Narrator(s)

Matthew Bradford, Erika Sanderson, Elie Hirschman, Jeff Clement, Erin Lillis, and David Cummings

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"The Missing Radio Hosts"

**"Mrs. Michaud's House"** is the fourth tale in the thirteenth episode of the ninth season of The Nosleep Podcast. It concerns a boy searching an old woman's house for his missing friends. Written by V.R. Gregg, it has a runtime of 31:30 and was read by Matthew Bradford, Elie Hirschman, Erika Sanderson, Jeff Clement, Erin Lillis, and David Cummings. It is the 1091st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Three middle schoolers, Jack, Tyler, and Brandon, are too old to go trick or treating but too young to party. Bored on Halloween, they decide to visit Mrs. Michaud, an old, reclusive woman who lives in a crumbling house in their neighborhood. She is feared by the neighborhood children and they are constantly dared to walk up to her porch.

Brandon is tasked with recording Jack and Tyler as they go up and ring the bell to prove that they did it. Hiding in the bushes, Brandon records Mrs. Michaud opening the door, admitting the boys, and closing the door. He waits for hours, but they don't come out again. Scared, he runs home.

The next morning, he gets a frantic call from Jack's mother, asking if he knows his friends' whereabouts. Realizing they never left Mrs. Michaud's house, he travels back to find them with a pocket knife for protection.

He is admitted into the house by Mrs. Michaud, who tells him that his friends decided to stay the night. He doesn't believe her, but agrees to have tea. While she goes to the kitchen, he attempts to leave, but finds all exterior doors have no handles and there are bars on the windows. Terrified, he eats a cracker before falling unconscious.

Brandon wakes up inside a cramped box. He hears Jack, who is apparently in a similar box nearby. Jack explains Mrs. Michaud lured him and Tyler in with the promise of cookies before drugging them and placing them in boxes, Tyler's voice having gone silent previously.

For an unspecified amount of time, the boys are kept in the boxes. Periodically, Mrs. Michaud opens the boxes, slides in meat, and shuts it. Drugged and delirious, Brandon feverishly eats. After a while, he realizes he can't hear Jack anymore and decides he needs to escape. He wedges his pocket knife in the crack in the door the next time meat is brought and sneaks out.

Finding Mrs. Michaud in the kitchen, Brandon stabs her to death. Looking at the cooking she had been attending, he is horrified to find Jack's body, horribly twisted and contorted to resemble a turkey.

Breaking a window without bars on it, he escapes. Finding his way home, the police are called and discover over thirty children's corpses in the house.

## Cast

Matthew Bradford as Brandon

Elie Hirschman as Jack

Erika Sanderson as Mrs. Michaud

Jeff Clement as Tyler

Erin Lillis as Jack's mother

David Cummings as the police officer
"Wolf in Chains"

Illustration by Emily Cannon

**"Wolf in Chains"** is the third tale in the sixteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man worries that his brother is a werewolf. Written by Dustin Walker, it has a runtime of 17:45 and was performed by David Cummings and Matthew Bradford. It is the 1788th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Don works as a conversation officer with a younger assistant, Jason. Their job is to make sure the local wildlife population stays in check. Don has fatherly feelings for his fellow officer, thinking of him as a son. Jason and his brother Chris go hunting on their days off, still having childish fantasies about werewolves living in the woods outside of town and joking they might catch one.

One night, Don gets a frantic call from Jason, asking him to come over to his house. Once there, he leads him down to the basement, where he has a snarling wolf chained in the walk-in freezer. Jason claims the wolf is his brother. When Don expresses disbelief, he tells the story.

Him and Chris went hunting earlier that evening at Silver Creek, during a full moon. After an hour of traveling along the trails, Chris went off to use the bathroom. Jason walked around for a few minutes before seeing a deer in the distance. He shot at it but missed due to a howling noise that distracted him. Going back to the trail, he found a wolf in the spot where Chris was. Thinking his brother was cursed by the full moon and transformed, he shot it with a tranquillizer before chaining it and taking it back to the house.

Don thinks Jason is delusional, despite his insistence that he can see Chris in the wolf's eyes. After some pleading, Don agrees to spend the night at the house to see Chris change back in the morning. While sleeping, he has a nightmare where he turns into a werewolf.

When the two check the freezer at dawn, they find the wolf unchanged and dead. Don and Jason drive to Silver Creek to look for Chris. Shortly after arriving, they find his dead body under a tree. Jason accidentally shot his brother when aiming at the deer and his mind made up the story to cope. Don hugs him tight as he cries, trying to comfort him by saying it was a werewolf that killed Chris.

## Cast

David Cummings as Don

Matthew Bradford as Jason
"The Tall Man of Briarbell, Missouri"

Illustration by Jörn Heidrath

**"The Tall Man of Briarbell, Missouri"** is the first tale in the twenty-fourth episode of the seventh season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a group of boys wonder if an urban legend is real. Written by C.K. Walker, it has a runtime of 8:35 and was performed by Kyle Akers, Matthew Bradford, Elie Hirschman, and David Cummings. It is the 886th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A boy lives in a small town where an urban legend is popular: the Tall Man. The Tall Man is a man over nine feet tall with a polite smile that supposedly likes to collect sad people, empty buildings, and dreams. After a man that lives in the neighborhood, Mr. Winscot, fails to show up to work for a few days, rumors begin to circulate at school that the Tall Man got him.

The boy and his friend, Tyler, head to their friend Rory's house to hang out. They end up staying too late and the boy has to ride his bike home in the dark. As he rides past Mr. Winscot's house, he sees the Tall Man staring at him, smiling, from a window. He tells everyone at school the next day, but nobody believes him.

That night, he manages to convince Rory and Tyler to go to Mr. Winscot's house with him to see the Tall Man. They see him staring at them from the window above the front door and ride their bikes back home in a panic. However, when they check in the daytime the next few days, they find him not there.

While having a sleepover the next week, the three friends go back to the house to see the Tall Man is no longer smiling, but frowning. Rory suspects that they can only see him during the night because that's when the porch lights come on and shine in the window. They return the next night and prove the theory correct, although Rory notes that the Tall Man looks extremely odd now.

The trio return a few nights later, with Tyler's older brother Matt. Matt walks up to the front door, looks in, and comes running down the driveway in a panic, telling the boys to call the police. It is soon discovered that Mr. Winscot hung himself in the foyer of his house, the shadow from behind the door making it look like his corpse was the Tall Man.

Though the story is popular in town for a while, it gradually fades. However, the boy remembers that the first night he rode by the house alone, he saw Mr. Winsoct eating dinner in the kitchen. In an upstairs window, an extremely tall man was standing there smiling politely.

## Cast

Kyle Akers as the boy

Matthew Bradford as Tyler

Elie Hirschman as Rory

David Cummings as Matt
"Jack's Back"

"Jack's Back" is the first tale in the fourth episode of the first season of The Nosleep Podcast. Written by Linda Groth, it has a running time of 11:20 and was originally read by David Cummings. It is the 10th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man moves into a basement apartment above which his landlord, Jack, lives in the main house. Jack is severely antisocial and has nothing to do but work in a detached garage near the house that the man can see from his window. He is annoyed by the fact that Jack gets up at 5:00 AM every day and wakes him up, but gradually, he gets used to it.

Over the course of several weeks, the man notices that he has stopped hearing noises coming from upstairs. He sees lights on in the garage, and Jack's car is gone in the mornings, but he never sees Jack or hears noises at night.

New noises start soon after. Loud bangs, scraping noises, and sharp rapping. The phone rings, but no one picks it up. The man watches in terror as Jack makes his way out of the house and towards the garage. Something is wrong, but the narrator can't put his finger on it.

He hears screams that night and raps on Jack's door, but no one replies and it is silent for the rest of the night. The next day, the man refuses to leave his apartment and eventually falls asleep. He has a terrible dream of Jack standing over his bed with a cold face when he suddenly wakes up and sees Jack standing next to his bed, mouth open impossibly wide. He screams and wakes up in the morning, hearing a loud thump from upstairs. He finally looks into Jack's kitchen window and sees him dead on the floor. He calls the police.

The police discover that Jack has been dead for weeks, far too long to have caused any of the occurrences. The man reveals that he never returned to the house and that sometimes he still wakes up and sees Jack standing over his bed.
"The Record"

**"The Record"** is the third tale in the thirteenth episode of the fifth season of the Nolseep podcast. In it, a man buys a strange record at a garage sale. Written by Andrew Harmon, it has a runtime of 10:30 and was performed by Mike DelGaudio, It is the 558th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

After his mother buys him a turntable for Christmas a man becomes addicted to buying records. He scrounges at rummage sales and Goodwill to look for used ones he can get for cheap and play through his speakers.

At one garage sale, he finds a stack of old jazz albums which he buys for a few dollars. Inspecting them later at home, he finds a blank record in a black, featureless cardboard sleeve among them that he can't remember buying. He decides to listen to it before he goes to bed. However, when he puts it the needle down, all that emerges is a series of shrieks and high-pitched wails. Distrubed, he lifts the needle and gets in bed.

Hours later, he awakens to hear the needled dropping back onto the record and begin playing. A voice begins talking rapidly, detailing a series of murders they committed. They stabbed their mother to death, bludgeoned their first girlfriend with a knife, and beat their second girlfriend to death with a rock. They admit they love committing murders and laugh unpleasantly.

The man goes to get out of bed when the voice suddenly address him directly. They tell him that they've been following him for a while and that even locking the back window won't help, because they'll have a screwdriver. They then laugh about how easy it was to follow him home from the garage sale. The record shuts off, leaving the man in his dark bedroom.
"All Fours"

**"All Fours"** is the first tale in the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man sees his dog walking on its hind legs. Written by Felix Blackwell, it has a runtime of 5:55 and was performed by Peter Lewis. It is the 841st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A boy's parents decide to spend a weekend on a trip and leave him and his two sisters in the care of a babysitter. The babysitter sleeps in the parent's room while the boy and his sisters decide to have a sleepover in the living room.

In the middle of the night, the boy is awakened by a strange, scraping noise coming from the wooden floor nearby. The house is built in such a way that it has four hallways that form a square. The boy first thinks it's one of his pet dogs, but dismisses it because the movements are so purposeful. He realizes someone is walking around the inside of the house.

As his sisters continue to sleep, the boy grabs a flashlight and walks around the hallways, looking for the source of the noise. He notices a dark shape leaving the sitting room and walk into another hallway. The boy rounds the corner and sees his golden retriever walking upright on its hind legs, stepping awkwardly. When it notices the light, it drops back to all fours and walks up the stairs. The boy goes back to bed and realizes that he had been hearing the noises for over ten minutes, meaning the dog was walking in circles around the house in the dark.

The next morning at breakfast, the babysitter mentions that the dog entered the bedroom and made several growling and whining noises that almost sounded like human speech. Looking back on the incident years later, the man says that the dog never did anything like again and claims that he is now a cat person.
"Wayne Came Back Wrong"

Illustration by Kelly Turnbull

**"Wayne Came Back Wrong"** is the third tale in the fifteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a boy questions his brother's odd behavior. Written by M.J. Pack, it has a runtime of 7:40 and was performed by Kyle Akers, Erin Lillis, and Atticus Jackson. It is the 1783rd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

In 1970, Michael's older brother Wayne enlists in the Vietnam war and travels overseas for his tour. Michael and his mother wait with for a long time but receive no word on his condition or where he is.

Six months later, there is a knock at the door and Wayne is there, dressed in his fatigues. Though their mother begins crying and hugs her son, Michael doesn't think the solider that has returned is his brother. Something is off about his appearance, and he seems like a different person.

The mother prepares a large dinner and the three sit down to eat. Wayne eats almost all the food on the table and demands more. Over the next week or so, Wayne does nothing but eat and fail to act like his normal self. Though Michael tries to tell his mother something is wrong on multiple occasions, she brushes all his concerns off.

Late one evening, Michael wakes up to find Wayne in the kitchen, eating dog food from a bowl on the floor. When he asks what happened to his real brother, Wayne makes a gun with his hand and points it at his temple. He then walks out the front door and into the night.

The next morning, two army officers arrive to inform Michael and his mother that Wayne was killed in action in Vietnam. The mother is broken by the news and can never quite comprehend it, always snapping at her other son whenever he tries to bring the incident up. She concludes they imagined Wayne's return together and remains in a depressed, crazed state until her death.

In 2015, Michael reveals he has woken up the past few mornings to find his fridge door open and cleaned of food. He fears that Wayne is back.

## Cast

Kyle Akers as Michael

Erin Lillis as the mother

Atticus Jackson as Wayne
"The Girl in the Tree"

**"The Girl in the Tree"** is the fifth tale in the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man meets a girl in the Himalayan mountains. Written D.B. Bond, it has a runtime of 13:20 and was performed by David Cummings and Rima Chadda Mycynek. It is the 439th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A writer travels to a small village in the Himalayan mountains for inspiration. He rents a cottage in the village and spends his days writing. One night, while listening to records, he sees a knoll below the cottage with an oak tree on it. The body of a woman is hanging from a noose on the branches, swaying in the wind. The writer goes down to investigate only to see the body is gone. Shortly after, he runs into a girl named Hamida. They strike up a conversation and Hamida says the body is the ghost of her sister who hung herself many years ago. The pair decide to meet up again so the writer can tell her stories.

As the days go by and they talk, they fall in love. Hamida tells the writer about her father's bakery and her life. He notices a beautiful topaz ring she is wearing and she gives it to him. They go down to the river to pick ferns and end up kissing in the grass while a thrush seems to whisper, *"it's not time that's passing by, my friend. It is you and I, it is you and I".*

A few days go by and the writer hasn't seen or heard from Hamida. In the village he notices a boy that looks likes her and learns that he is her brother. He asks for Hamida's whereabouts before he curtly states that she hung herself many years ago from the oak tree.

That night, a thunderstorm hits the village. As the wind cries outside, the writer looks out his window and sees the body hanging from the tree again. The wind whips the body's hair around, so he can't see who it is. He wonders if his experiences with Hamida were all a dream. However, he still has her topaz ring on her finger and thinks he hears a voice from the forest whisper *"It's not time that's passing by, my friend. It is you and I, it is you and I...".*

## Cast

David Cummings as the writer/Hamida's brother

Rima Chadda Mycynek as Hamida
"The Day I Didn't Get on the Bus"

**"The Day I Didn't Get on the Bus"** is the fourth tale in the nineteenth episode of the fifth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a boy narrowly avoids a gruesome fate. Written by Jackson Laughlin, it has a runtime of 14:15 and was performed by Sammy Raynor and David Cummings. It is the 592nd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

One snowy morning, a boy and his brother Bryan stand outside their house, waiting for the school bus. The boy enjoys riding the bus, as his route's driver, Mr. Tom, is a nice man that plays cool songs on the radio, gives out candy, and is generally very nice.

The boy notices the bus is later than usual and asks Bryan about it, but his brother seems unconcerned. Minutes later, it finally pulls up and the door opens. However, Mr. Tom is not in the driver's seat but rather a small, thin man wearing an ill-fitting uniform. He has rotting teeth and thinning hair. There are only four or five kids in the seats, despite the fact they should be packed by this time in the morning.

The new driver smiles unpleasantly and stutters while telling the two to get on the bus. The boy asks where Mr. Tom is. The driver says he called in sick and insists they board. When the boy questions why the bus is so empty, he says they are sick also. Him and Bryan start to get on while the driver smiles, only for their mother to yank them off. She angrily asks the driver who he is and what he's doing. He grins unpleasantly again and speeds off down the road. All three go inside and she phones the police.

It is later revealed that the driver picked up five more kids before driving the bus off a tall bridge into the icy river below, killing himself and all the children inside. Mr. Tom was found stabbed to death inside his home, with the keys to the bus and his uniform missing.

The mother later tells the boy and Bryan that the bus shouldn't have been running at all, as school was cancelled that day due to the heavy snowfall.

## Cast

Sammy Raynor as the boy/Bryan/the mother

David Cummings as the driver
Two-Ply (or Not Two-Ply)

## Episode Chronology

**"Two-Ply (or Not Two-Ply)"** is the sixth episode of Season 2 of *The Good Doctor*. It is the twenty-fourth episode overall, and aired on November 5, 2018.

## Synopsis

Morgan and Shaun's indecision on how to treat a young violinist who visits the ER with an infected finger could affect her future in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Lim, Claire and Park can't figure out if their young patient is really ill or looking for attention.

## Plot

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## Cast

* Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez
* Antonia Thomas as Dr. Claire Browne
* Tamlyn Tomita as Allegra Aoki (credit only)
* Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick
* Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park
* Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim
* Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo
* Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews (credit only)
* Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman
* Caitlin Carmichael as Riley Mulloy
* Sheila Kelley as Debbie Wexler
* Chad Willett as Bruce Mulloy
* Jewel Staite as Stella
* Jennifer Aspen as Iris Bautista

Co-Starring* Teryl Rothery as J.L.
* Demord Dann as EMT
* Adil Zaidi as Nurse Jag Dhanoa

## Multimedia

### Videos

The Good Doctor 2x06 Promo "Two-Ply (or Not Two-Ply)" (HD)The Good Doctor 2x06 Sneak Peek "Two-Ply (or Not Two-Ply)" (HD)
## References

1. ↑ "Final Adjusted TV Ratings for Monday 5th November 2018" - SpoilerTV
2. ↑ http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/good-doctor/listings/
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "The Good Doctor - Episode 2.06 - Two-Ply (or Not Two-Ply) - Press Release" - SpoilerTV
4. ↑ "Upcoming Episode Titles - Various Shows - 18th October 2018" - SpoilerTV
"The Smiling Man" (Season 1 Tale)

## About

**"The Smiling Man"** is the first tale in the twelfth episode of the first season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a group of friends has terrifying experience while driving in the woods. Written by Cedric, it has a runtime of 2:40 and was performed by Max Glaspey. It is the 47th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A group of friends attend a college near dense woods. This forest has winding roads in it that frequently cause accidents. One night, while the group is returning from a party, they spot a man in a hoodie walking along the road. When the driver stops to give him a lift, they see his face, which has a ragged, bloody, wide smile and crazed eyes.

Everyone in the car screams and the speed off, but get lost on the winding roads, seeing the man around every corner, waiting. Eventually they drive out of the woods and vow to never take the forest roads again.
"I Couldn't Resist You"

**"I Couldn't Resist You"** is the third tale in the fifth episode of the first season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man's obsession spirals out of control. Written by Chris Coffman, it has a runtime of 7:30 and was performed by David Cummings. It is the 17th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A depressed, suicidal killer plans to end it all when he spots a teenage girl buying groceries at the store. She smiles at him and lets him go in front of her. From then on, he becomes obsessed, following her home, stalking her every move, watching from afar, and peeking into her room with binoculars.

One night, he finally gets the nerve to sneak into the house. He finds a note saying the girl's parents will be out of town for the weekend and goes upstairs to hide in her bed. She discovers him, hits him with a lamp, and attempts to flee. However, she trips down the stairs and is knocked out.

The man ties her up and takes her into the basement, where he is dismayed to discover how much she cries. He tells her that he hates tears and the sight of them makes him dislike her. He notices all the chemicals and tools in her father's workshop and prepares to spend the whole weekend at the house.
"Blackberry Gap"

**"Blackberry Gap"** is the first tale in the sixth episode of the thirteenth season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man revisits the place his childhood friend disappeared. Written by Luke Kondor, it has a runtime of 15:05 an was performed by David Ault, James Cleveland, and Erika Sanderson. It is the 1576th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man takes his son to visit his childhood neighborhood. While there, he stumbles across the place where an extremely thin wooded area used to run between two rows of houses. There is nothing there now but a blackberry bush.

He recalls visiting the gap with as a child with a friend of his, Jonah. Jonah claimed that it was creepy and cool at the same time, insisting that they walk through it. The man went first, followed by Jonah. The gap was thin with tall bushes blocking out most sunlight and full of litter. As the pair walked down it, they began to feel a rumbling deep in the ground, followed by the walls of the houses closing in on them.

Running to the end of the gap, the man made it out but Jonah was crushed to death by the walls. The gap in between the buildings disappeared, leaving no evidence of its exsistance.

Back in the present, the son accidentally kicks his ball into the street. When the man goes to retrieve it, he sees the gap open again to admit his son before closing rapidly behind him.

## Cast

David Ault as the man

James Cleveland as Jonah

Erika Sanderson as the son
"Forever, a Drug"

**"Forever, a Drug"** is the first tale in the sixth episode of the fourteenth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, A man takes an drug that allows him to live countless lifetimes. Written by Nick Moore, it has a runtime of 17:25 and was performed by Graham Rowat, David Cummings, Peter Lewis, Jesse Cornett, and Mick Wingert. It is the 1735th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Nick is sad after breaking up with his long-term girlfriend, Ruth. He is convinced by his friend, Scott, to visit their drug-addicted acquaintance, Jared. At his apartment, Jared peddles a new pill called "Forever" that has major psychedelic properties. Nick takes the drug and ends up falling asleep.

He wakes up in Jared's apartment the next morning, having apparently not experienced anything. He lives out the rest of his life and dies. He then wakes up in Jared's apartment again. He cleans up his act and has a family. When he dies, he once again wakes up in the same place.

Nick realizes the drug must allow users to live countless lifetimes. Over the course of hundreds of lives, he does everything from living normally to leading a life of crime to getting back together with Ruth countless times. Once in a while he sees a strange old man, always in a different place, who tells him he can't escape "Him" for much longer.

Eventually, Nick's lives start turning for the worse. In every one the world breaks out in wars, diseases, depression, or other major disasters. Finally catching up with the old man at a bar, he tells him to head a city called Samar in the Philippines.

On his next life, he does everything he can to reach Samar, but it apparently does not exist in the mortal realm. After years of searching, he is finally picked up in a car by the old man and driven in the direction of it. He walks for decades before finally coming across a gilded city with a tower in the middle. He enters and finds a large being, who berates him for trying to escape its clutches and abuse the powers. Screaming, he is eaten alive.

Nick wakes up in the hospital with Scott by his side, who tells him that he took Forever, only to vomit it all up and fall into a coma for four days. Ruth is there and she hugs him tightly. They agree to get back together. On his way out, he passes the old man, who reminds him to not let the being get him in its clutches again. He thanks him gratefully.

## Cast

Graham Rowat as Nick

David Cummings as the old man

Peter Lewis as Scott

Jesse Cornett as Jared

Mick Wingert as the being
"Don't Let Your Child See Your Fear"

**"Don't Let Your Child See Your Fear"** is the fourth tale in the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a mother worries about her son's nightmares. Written by Rayne Akhten, it has a runtime of 10:00 and was performed by Jessica McEvoy. It is the 438th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A mother worries about the high fever of her two-year-old son, Jake, as it's nearly at 105°. A few nights into the sickness, he wakes up screaming in the early hours of the morning due to a night terror. Five years pass, with Jake having night terrors at least once a week. Doctors say because he had his first one during a high-stress fever, he will likely suffer from them for the rest of his life.

Jake has trouble in elementary school, being bullied constantly. His teacher Mrs. Petersen, who doesn't like his shy demeanor, either ignores the bullying or outright advocates it. He disrupts the lesson time during one period and is forced to write a two-page paper on the class rules. He turns in an assignment that features him mocking the rules and telling Mrs. Petersen that the boogeyman is going to come and strangle her to death. He is given a failing grade.

That night, Jake has his worst night terror in recent memory. The mother is only able to snap him out of it by putting him under the shower. The next morning, she gets a call from the school secretary that classes have been canceled because Mrs. Petersen was strangled to death in her home the previous night.

The mother stumbles through the day in a daze, thinking about the paper Jake wrote. That night, as she goes to tuck him in, she realizes he's crying. When she asks why, he says it's because something's going to happen that he can't prevent. He cries some more and says he doesn't want her to die.
"Saw an Old Friend"

**"Saw an Old Friend"** is the fourth tale in the sixteenth episode of the seventh season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a group of girl scouts are terrorized in the woods. Written by Ariana Brickhouse, it has a runtime of 13:50 and was performed by Corinne Sanders. It is the 850th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A group of girl scouts head to an isolated campground in the middle of the woods to stay in cabins for a few days. One girl, Ariana, is excited that she's able to stay with her best friend, Zen. Also in their cabin is one of the scout leaders, Mrs. Johnson, and two other girls named Alice and Bree.

On the first night, Mrs. Johnson leaves to go check on the other girls. A scratching noise suddenly starts up on the outer wall, terrifying Alice and Bree, but Zen manages to convince them that it was just a branch. Mrs. Johnson returns a few minutes later and everyone goes to sleep.

Hours later, Ariana is woken up by Zen, who says she hears something outside. A whispering voice begins trailing around the cabin before scratching on the door. The two girls fall asleep and tell no one about what happened the next day. Hoof prints are found in the snow outside, but Mrs. Johnson says it was just a deer.

The next night, their scout leader informs them they will be sleeping alone in the cabin because Mrs. Johnson needs to stay with a girl who has medical problems. Zen wakes the Ariana up in the night again. This time, wheezing and hyena-like laughter come from behind the door. Alice and Bree join them on the floor as another wheezing and laughing voice comes from the other wall. The voices begin vocalizing in broken words before chanting "come with us" over and over.

An hour later, the noises fade. Several girls from the other sites enter the cabin, saying they heard the voices too, and barricade themselves inside. Three creatures return shortly after, clawing at the walls, howling, and laughing. One girl looks out the window and says she saw a skeletal face with sharp teeth peering back at her.

In the morning, all the scouts pile into a counselor's van, with many of them refusing to return to the cabins to get their belongings. Mrs. Johnson goes back only to be confronted by a creature, who smiles at her, steals something out of one of the bags, and dives out the window before running into the forest on all fours.

The girl who saw the creature up close begins to act strangely. On another camping trip she attempts to climb out the window. A few years later, her and a friend drive up to the campground to look for the creatures again, only to never return. Their car is found with slashed tires and footprints all over it. Over fifteen more girls go missing from the site before it is closed down. Ariana wonders what would have happened to them if the creatures would've gotten in.
"Room 401"

**"Room 401"** is the first tale in the eleventh episode of the fourth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a concierge at a hotel is disturbed by a guest's behavior. Written by Andrew Harmon, it has a runtime of 18:20 and was performed by David Cummings. It is the 399th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Andrew works as the night concierge at a large hotel. A rich guest, Franklin, arrives and says that he wants to stay in the hotel for an extended period of time with three rules. First no housekeeping is allowed in his room. Second, no phone calls should be transferred to him unless it is his estranged son. Third, no one can charge his credit card unless he authorizes them to. Franklin explains he's going to call the front desk every week to give them permission to charge his card for the room fee. Him and Andrew bond over their love of the band Hall and Oates, especially the song "Private Eyes".

For the first two weeks, everything goes well. Franklin pays his bill on time and talks with Andrew, always asking him if his son has called. On the third week, Franklin misses his payment for three days. Andrew walks up to the fourth floor to his room, 401, and slips a note under the door asking for payment. He can hear "Private Eyes" playing loudly inside. Back at the desk, Andrew calls Franklin. He picks up on the first ring and explains that he had forgotten about the payment, authorizes the charge to his card, and asks if his son has called. Andrew says no and he seems crushed.

For the next month, this repeats, with Franklin forgetting his payment and Andrew having to walk up to the fourth floor to leave a note, only to go back downstairs to have him answer on the first ring. Every time he goes to 401, he hears "Private Eyes" playing.

Andrew becomes bored and looks Franklin up on the internet one night, only to find nothing. During the next call, Franklin asks why he's researching him. Another week passes and the payment is late again. Now exasperated with the routine, Andrew walks up to the fourth floor and bangs on the door louder than usual, receiving no response. He then tries to enter using his master key, only to find it jammed. "Private Eyes" plays in the background. A dark shape suddenly lurches in front of the keyhole. Andrew runs downstairs and talks his manager into letting him take a week off from work.

A few days in, the manager calls to inform him that Franklin missed another payment; when they broke down the door they found him hanging from the ceiling. The corner puts Franklin's time of death around a month ago, something that Andrew realizes is impossible. The manager informs him he's on the way to pick him up to take him down to the police station for questioning. In the background, he can hear "Private Eyes" playing on the car radio.
"The House That Ate My Sister"

**"The House That Ate My Sister"** is the third tale in the twenty-third episode of the fifth season of the Nolseep Podcast. Written by Caity Reaburn, it as a runtime of 10:35 and was performed by Erika Sanderson. It is the 612th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A girl, June, loves to play with her twin sister April. April is wild and energetic while June is quiet and mellow. When they turn seven, their parents have another daughter, May. The girls' father decide their current home is too small and he looks for a nicer place to live. After a few months of searching, he finds an old house in the country, and the family moves in. To celebrate their new home, he buys the girls two kittens, Wotan and Brunhilde. The father instructs them that they are indoor cats and shouldn't go outside.

On their first day in the house, April asks June to go up to the schoolhouse on the hill with her, which she declines. April gets unnaturally angry and hits her, later apologizing. The girls' parents begin fighting constantly, leading to the father to start spending nights on a coworker' couch. The twins take May up to the schoolhouse to escape the fighting and meet other neighborhood kids who tell them that their house "eats things". One boy without his right arm says he crawled into the carport-basement beneath the house and got it ripped off, only for his parents to later say he'd always been that way.

June reads in a library book that cats are supposed to be hunters, so her and April decide to let Wotan and Brunhilde out when their father is at work. Brunhilde runs into the open door of the carport. April attempts to enter to retrieve her, only to hear a ripping sound and see the door slam shut. The twins can't get it open until their father comes home, who informs him that they never had a cat named Brunhilde. Checking the house, the twins find her bed and food bowl gone. Their mother gets mad at them for making up stories.

April takes it upon herself to rescue Brunhilde. She orders June to take May up to the schoolhouse in case the house tries to eat them all. April enters the carport with a knife and some salt. When the mother comes to collect June and May at dinner, she has no idea who April is. All her possessions disappear from the house. A few days later while the mother is shopping, June puts May and Wotan in the yard and sets fire to the carport. As it burns down, she thinks she hears something inside screaming.

June is put in a hospital for having a psychotic break. The family moves out of the damaged house and the parents later divorce. They never tell May what happened. Years pass and a combination of the pills and grief makes June almost think that April was just a product of her childhood imagination

During a monthly phone call with her sister, May asks June if they ever knew someone named April when they were growing up. She also questions if she had a pet cat named Brunhilde, and wonders what happened to them.
"A Lesson on Applied Narratives"

**"A Lesson on Applied Narratives"** is the fourth tale in the fifth episode of the ninth season of the Nosleep Podcast. Written by Henry Galley, it has a runtime of 21:55 and was read by Erika Sanderson and David Cummings. It is the 1052nd tale overall on the Podcast.

## Summary

A private investigator, Tamara, gives a short monologue about how humans like to apply things that happen in their lives to basic linear narratives, assigning heroes and villains to everyday situations. She gives a previous case of hers as an example.

Lydia Russo hires Tamara to spy on her husband, Patrick, who she suspects of cheating. Tamara catches Patrick having sex with a waitress at a diner and tells Lydia, who is angry and hurt. The aftereffects of this knowledge, Tamara tells, is now known to the public as the infamous "Russo Tragedy".

Lydia makes Patrick his favorite dinner a few nights later, drugging his wine. The drugs knock him unconscious and she drives to a secluded spot in the forest. She douses his head with lighter fluid just as he's waking up, sets him ablaze, and shoots herself in the head.

Patrick, covered in flames and wracked with pain, runs into the woods screaming. The burns deform his face but don't kill him. The police stumble across Lydia and discover she survived the suicide attempt and is in a coma. They falsely assume Patrick shot her and take her to the hospital while he is declared a wanted man.

Patrick, crazed and wanting revenge, finds an axe in the woods and travels to the understaffed hospital where Lydia is being held. He discovers she's kept in a room with four other women, all with bandaged faces. Half-blind from the burns, he can't tell which one is his wife and hacks them all to death just to be sure.

Tamara finds a note Patrick wrote before the incident, asking her to meet him on a bridge at a certain date. She does so and he appears. She berates him for killing the women, saying he could have been cleared. He simply says that since he now looks like a monster, he should start acting like one. While his back is turned, she shoots him in the head and throws his body off the bridge into the river below.

Tamara says that there were no real heroes or villains in the story, just victims and victimizers. She has nightmares of Patrick or Lydia coming back to kill her. She tries to rationalize it by applying a linear narrative to the incident, but can't quite fit the pieces together.

## Cast

Erika Sanderson as Tamara/Lydia

David Cummings as Patrick
"The Aquarium"

Illustration by Lukasz Godlewski

**"The Aquarium"** is the third tale in the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a woman takes a job at an aquarium. Written by T. Ryoko, it has a running time of 11:30 and was originally read by L. Bentley and David Cummings. It is the 449th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A young woman gets a job at an aquarium, working as a night-shift janitor. Along with a coworker named Jared, the two clean the walkways and public spaces.

At her first day on the job, she is told of a murder that occurred at the aquarium a decade earlier. A drunk worker pushed his daughter into the shark tank, where she was eaten alive. The company that runs the aquarium has done everything they can to keep the case under wraps.

Although it is easy work, the woman is annoyed by the fact that large puddles of water will suddenly appear in areas she was sure she has already cleaned. They also appear to be getting closer to her.

Late one night, Jared and the woman are cleaning the "Tube", a large walkway that is surrounded on all sides by the shark tank. It is nearly pitch-black inside. The woman hears something moving in the dark and Jared goes off to check it out.

Alone in the dark, the woman is scared. She continues working until she hears a dripping noise, followed by something moving past her. She turns on her flashlight and is shocked to see a young girl, half-chewed and missing flesh, banging her head so hard against the tank that it cracks and draws blood. She drops her flashlight just as the girl bowls over her and is knocked out. Before she slips into unconsciousness, she sees the ghost disappear into an air vent.

The woman is woken up by paramedics leading her to an ambulance. Jared is found half-submerged in a water-treatment tank, injured but alive. The company fires her and Jared, but the two still keep in touch.

The woman reveals that every night when she goes to bed, she can hear her bathroom faucet dripping. And sometimes, she wakes up to a puddle at the end of her bed.

## Cast

L. Bentleyas the woman

David Cummings as Jared/the boss
"It Wasn't My Stop"

**"It Wasn't My Stop"** is the first tale in the twenty-first episode of the third season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a woman has a strange encounter on the bus. Written by Juan Flores, it has a runtime of 5:35 and was performed by Jessica McEvoy (in her first appearance) and David Cummings. It is the 308th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

After a long day running errands, a woman boards a city bus to head back home. The bus is packed with passengers and people constantly get on and off. The woman notices a man in a business suit sitting near one of the cords that stops the bus, looking around curiously.

As they approach a stop, the man pulls the cord and a few people get off and more get on. The man does this for the next few stops. The woman thinks he's doing it just to be polite at every stop, but then they pass one and the man doesn't pull the cord. There was no one waiting at the missed stop and no one needed to get off at it. This occurs again a number of times, the man always pulling the cord when needed.

The woman at first thinks the man is a regular and must have memorized the bus routes of his fellow passengers, but is unable to come up with a satisfying explanation. She decides to test him and purposefully doesn't do anything as they approach her own stop. The man fails to pull the cord and the bus passes it.

The man pulls the cord at the next stop and woman gets off, teasing him that he got her stop wrong. The man replies in a serious tone that he didn't. Shaken, she walks back in the direction of her house before noticing that a car accident has occurred in front of her usual stop in the minutes between it and the one she got off at. She realizes that if she had gotten off at her usual time, she would have been struck and killed.

## Cast

Jessica McEvoy as the woman

David Cummings as the man