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"The Order of Lake Swain"

**"The Order of Lake Swain"** is the seventh tale in the eighteenth episode of the thirteenth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, an initaion ritual goes terribly wrong. Written by L.R. Cole, it has a runtime of 13:57 and was performed by Atticus Jackson. It is the 1648th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A teenager, Reggie, hopes to join a group of popular kids named the Dirty Dozen. In order to join the group, you must complete an initiation ritual where you put a large firecracker in a jack-o-lantern before throwing it into a high above the air into a lake.

Another boy, Billy, joins Reggie and the Dirty Dozen by the lake late at night in hopes of joining. Reggie successfully throws his pumpkin, but Billy unknowingly chose a rotten one and accidentally punches his hand through. The firecracker explodes, blowing off his hand and sending the debris into the lake.

In his hysterics, Billy falls down the shore of the lake and lands in the water. A dark, almost sentient wave suddenly appears in the water and drags him under the surface. The police are never able to locate his body and Reggie is haunted the image of Billy being dragged to his death.
"Spencer's Last Prank"

**"Spencer's Last Prank"** is the first tale in the seventeenth episode of the eight season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a teenager tries to solve his coworker's disappearance. Written by Rona Vaselaar, it has a runtime of 15:40 and was performed by Matthew Bradford and Addsion Peacock. It is the 981st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A teenager, Conner, works at a clothing store during the summer. He is annoyed by the antics of his coworker, Spencer, who constantly plays pranks such as hiding in the clothing racks and prank calling the store during his off days. Their manager, Kelly, tries to control his jokes.

One night, Conner and Spencer work the closing shift together. Around 4:00, Spencer heads to the back to use the bathroom. Hours pass and he doesn't return. Conner figures he skipped out on work and goes out back to throw cardboard boxes in the recycling compactor. He turns the machine on, smokes a cigarette, and closes up.

Spencer fails to show up for his next few shifts. A week later, his mother reports him missing after he doesn't answer his phone. The police search for leads but are unable to figure out what happened to him. Conner gives his statement and Kelly checks the security cameras at the rear of the store.

A few days later, Kelly calls Conner over to her apartment to show him something. She explains she viewed the security tapes and that the police want to talk to him before saying what happened was an accident and isn't his fault.

In the tape, Spencer sneaks to the back of the store and hides in the recycling compactor with the intention of jumping out to scare Conner. Conner watches himself appear on the screen and turn on the compactor without opening it to check, as is his habit. Spencer's screams are drowned out by the whirring of the machinery. Conner leaves the apartment in a daze.

The police speak to him the next day and clear him of the crime. However, Spencer's mother blames him for his death and yells at him at the supermarket whenever she sees him. Conner is haunted by nightmares of Spencer's mangled, flattened corpse crawling out of the compactor and claiming it is his fault.

## Cast

Matthew Bradford as Conner

Addison Peacock as Kelly
"Eater"

Illustration by Lukasz Godlewski

**"Eater"** is the first tale in the twenty-second episode of the fourth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a girl discovers a strange ability. Written by Myra Beth Doughty, it has a runtime of 15:55 and was performed by Rebecca Peason. It is the 468th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Molly begins to notice a dark, humanoid shadow standing in the corner of her room every night. She is terrified of it spends most of the time she should be sleeping hiding under the covers. Though she calls for her parents, it disappears every time they come in.

One night, she wakes up to see the shadow standing over her. A sudden feeling of intense hunger hits. Without thinking, she grabs the shadow and begins taking bites out of it. It squirms in her grasp and tries to get away, but she keeps eating until it stops moving. Though it has no taste, its texture is soft and moist, like cake. Eventually, she finishes the shadow and goes to sleep. It never appears in her room again.

Years pass and Molly notices she gets a strong feeling of hunger whenever she does scary things with her friends, such as going to horror movies, haunted houses, or hayrides. They tease her about the sounds her stomach makes whenever they do the activities. The girl mostly writes it off as a quirk.

When she is seventeen, one of Molly's friends has a sleepover to celebrate her birthday. One of the friends invited to the party brings along a Ouija board. Molly sits out while the others fool around with the device. After an hour or so, she notices she is getting hungry again.

She goes upstairs to get chips, only to come back down and see a dark, humanoid shadow standing over the girls, pushing the planchette. They apparently can't see it. Molly is wracked with a sudden, intense hunger so hard her teeth hurt. She grabs the shadow and drags it behind the couch, where it struggles as she eats it alive. She finally realizes that the shadow she ate when she was younger wasn't a dream. The last word it managed to spell out before she caught it was "EATER".

A few more years pass and Molly accepts her ability, eating more shadows and specters that cause people harm, some of which flee and scream at the sight of her. A friend of hers asks her to visit her new house, as she feels there's something watching her every time she's inside. As night falls, Molly realizes she's very hungry again.
"The Deer Gods"

**"The Deer Gods"** is the sixth tale in the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a hunter searches for his missing friend. Written by Andrew Harmon, it has a runtime of 35:50 and was performed by David Cummings. It is the 452nd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Two hunters, O'Donnell and Wilson, rent a cabin deep in the woods to hunt for deer. On the second night of their stay, as the sun sets, Wilson still fails to bag a buck. He tells O'Donnell to go back to the cabin and wait for him until he manages to shoot one.

O'Donnell returns to the cabin and is dismayed to see that the power has gone out, spoiling the meat in the fridge and causing the beer to go warm. Nevertheless, he drinks a couple and waits for his friend to return. However, night falls and hours pass with no sign of him.

Suddenly, a deer appears in a window across the room. Just as O'Donnell reaches for his gun, it disappears. He goes to the window and sees it staring at him from a blackberry bush ten feet away. Minutes later, a crash comes from the other room. Investigating, he finds Wilson's GPS along with some brown fur stuck to the window frame.

Determined to find his friend, O'Donnell grabs his gun and locks up the cabin before venturing in the direction of Wilson's tree stand. Along the way numerous deer heads poke out of the bushes and stare at him. In addition, they continuously call and whine to each other as if they're trying to speak.

Eventually, he arrives at the stand and finds a pool of blood along with a few broken arrows. O'Donnell investigates the bushes and finds a trail leading away from the direction of the cabin. Figuring that Wilson must have accidentally crawled the wrong way in his injured state, he begins following the path of broken branches.

Along the way, more deer heads appear an stare at him, continuing their strange calls. After about ten minutes, one massive head with seemingly dead eyes appears right in front of him. The calls increase in intensity. Terrified, O'Donnell turns to run but slips at the top of an embankment and tumbles down, knocking himself out.

When he awakens, he finds himself suspended from a tall tree upside-down by one leg. Wilson is hung beside him, naked and gutted. Below sit emaciated, thin humanoid figures with deer heads, staring at him. At least thirty or forty can be seen around the tree. A few minutes later, just as the creatures begin to reach for him, calls of a search party come through the trees. The creatures retreat as he gets the attention of the rescuers. Shortly after, he blacks out.

The next day, O' Donnell awakens in the hospital. A nurse informs him that the owner of the cabin got a call from Wilson, delirious and panicking, which was how the pair were able to be located. A detective is on the way to take his statement. He grimly wonders how he can tell the truth when it is obvious nobody will believe him.
"The Tappan Zee Bridge"

**"The Tappan Zee Bridge"** is the fourth tale in the twenty-first episode of the eleventh season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a couple is stranded on a condemned bridge. Written by Alexis Bristowe and Henry Galley, it has a runtime of 13:50 and was performed by Addison Peacock, David Ault, Armen Taylor, and Nichole Goodnight. It is the 1395th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Two online lovers, Izzy and Cliff, finally arrange to meet in person for the first time in Izzy's home state of New York. Cliff is from England and is excited to experience his first American Halloween. They leave the airport and begin driving to Izzy's apartment.

Their car's GPS instructs them to turn onto the Tappan Zee Bridge. They do so, and then a radio DJ comes on with music and a report of a mysterious fog rolling into the area near the bridge. Izzy and Cliff exchange awkward but cute conversation. Eventually, the fog rolls in completely and they get stuck in a traffic jam.

Unfortunately, the cars in front of them don't seem to be moving or even powered on. Getting out to check, they discover that all the cars are the exact make and model of their own. They all even has the same license plate. The DJ comes on again and begins speaking several cryptic lines before being cut off by static.

Izzy suddenly remembers the Tappan Zee Bridge closed the previous year and that they shouldn't be have been able to drive onto it. They decide to walk off, but find that they can't locate their way back to the end of the bridge through the maze of cars. Looking over the side, they see thousands of clones of themselves floating facedown in the foggy water. Izzy and Cliff try and crawl along the outer railing but slip and fall, presumably to their deaths.

## Cast

Addison Peacock as Izzy

David Ault as Cliff

Armen Taylor as the radio DJ

Nichole Goodnight as the GPS
"Red Christmas"

**"Red Christmas"** is the fifth tale in the fifteenth episode of the third season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a student sees a strange man in the woods behind his house. Written by Anton Scheller, it has a runtime of 8:05 and was performed by Barnabas Deimos. It is the 273rd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Carl is sitting in his living room a few days after Christmas when he sees a man walking slowly along a thin path in the forest behind his house. He is stark naked with dried blood on his face and chest. Though there is several feet of snow on the ground and his limbs are turning blue, he continues to walk, humming "Last Christmas" to himself.

Carl calls the police and goes outside, assuming the man to be an escaped mental patient from the clinic a few blocks away. He stands in front of the man on the path, asking him if he is okay. Though the man ignores Carl's questions and pleas for him to come inside at first, after a few minutes he claims that he has been a "bad boy" and that he's going to die today. At a loss for words, Carl steps to the side as the man continues through the snow down the path. His back is covered in blood, red welts, and holes in the flesh.

The police arrive soon after and drag the man to an ambulance. He protests, saying that he's been a bad boy and needs to be punished, and that the officers will be punished too. Just as they get him into the cab, he begins humming again.

The next day, Carl sees on the news that the bodies of three men were found in a hut in the woods behind his house. Two of them died from hypothermia and another died from blood loss. Also found inside was an assortment of BDSM gear and tools, all covered in blood. Scratched on the wall of the hut is the message "That's what happens to naughty boys".
"Lightning Changed My Brother"

Illustration by Audrey McEvoy

**"Lightning Changed My Brother"** is the fourth tale in the twenty-first episode of the fifteenth season of the Nosleep Podcast. In it, a teen's brother begins acting strange after being struck by lightning. Written by Mr. Michael Squid, it has a runtime of 10.00 and was performed by Kyle Akers and Jeff Clement. It is the 1966th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Michael and his brother Bill are bringing groceries in during a thunderstorm when their dog runs into the field behind their house. Bill runs out and coaxes the dog back towards the house before he is struck by lightning and collapses. Michael calls 911 and gives his brother CPR until the paramedics arrive and take him away.

At the hospital, the doctors inform the family that Bill has survived mostly unscathed. Their mother makes a joke at him, but Bill doesn't seem to understand. When she says "just kidding", he smiles, but the smile seems fake. Michael visits him in the hospital a few times, reminding him of his crush and other details about his life. Bill plays along, but Michael thinks he's lying about remembering things.

The doctors say amnesia may be common in lightning strike victims and advise Bill to keep a memory journal. Michael is convinced Bill is learning everything from scratch, like how to open a door or hold a pencil. He hears his brother have coughing fits in his room at night and notes his vacant eyes and fake smile.

One night, Michael sneaks into Bill's room while he's in the shower. He finds the memory journal and opens it, only to find notes written in an unknown language, bizarre patterns, and meticulous drawings of bloody organs. He hears Bill returning to the room and hides in the closet. Bill picks up the journal and begins writing in it, his face going slack with only the branching burns scars on his skin moving. He shuts the journal and stares at Michael through the crack in the door, breathing heavily. Their mother calls them down for dinner and he smiles before leaving.

Michael realizes no one will believe him if he tells what he saw and is terrified of what the thing that has replaced Bill is planning. He saw a decayed pile of innards in the closet, matching them with the drawings and the retching noises coming from the room every night. He worries the thing is removing them to make room to grow inside Bill's body.

## Cast

Kyle Akers as Michael

Jeff Clement as Bill
"The Forbidden Third Floor"

**"The Forbidden Third Floor"** is the third tale in the seventh episode of the third season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a girl and her brother explore their aunt's mansion. Written by Isabelle Jenner, it has a runtime of 11:50 and was performed by Marmalade Hanna. It is the 221st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Siblings Isabelle and Kyle visit their Aunt Susan with their parents. Susan lives in a large country mansion that has been in their family for generations. The children are strongly warned to never go up to the third floor, but are not told why.

One evening while playing hide and seek, Isabelle hides near a small pet cemetery. Looking up, she sees a strange, pale girl looking at her from one of the windows on the third floor. At dinner, she asks her aunt about the girl. Her father and Susan exchange worried glances and become panicked before brushing her off, telling her it was probably just a trick of the light.

That night, Isabelle convinces Kyle to go up to the forbidden area with her. They sneak to the third floor hallway and walk to the door at the end, peering through the lock. Inside, they see a pale girl with long black hair mutilating herself with a pair of scissors. The girl gets up and opens the door, asking if they want to play with her.

The siblings decline and begin running away, causing the girl to screech and chase after them. They fall down the stairs and injure themselves, having to go to the hospital.

A few weeks later, Susan visits and explains that the girl upstairs is her and Isabelle's father's deceased sister, Alice. Alice was a disturbed child that would kill family pets and force her siblings to play games with her that would lead to injury. Eventually, she was sent to a mental institution where she committed suicide. Shortly afterwards, messages written in blood began appearing around the mansion. Isabelle and Kyle's grandmother would wake up every morning with scratch marks all over her body and eventually committed suicide.

Isabelle asks why Alice wanted to harm them. Susan says that she is seeking vengeance against the family that abandoned her, but is confined to the third floor. She tells them to never visit the mansion again, because the next time they go, Alice will be sure to finish the job.
"I Can Always Hear The Screaming When It Rains"

Illustration by Lukasz Godlewski

**"I Can Always Hear the Screaming When It Rains"** is the fourth tale in the third episode of the sixth season of the Nosleep Podcast. In it, a girl begins hearing screaming whenever it rains. Written by Rona Vaselaar, it has a runtime of 17:15 and was performed by Jessica McEvoy and Nichole Goodnight. It is the 637th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Laura lives on a large farm with her parents and five siblings. Rain is frequent in their region, and Laura explains that her family always hears distant screaming whenever it rains. They never thought it strange and assumed that it was like that everywhere. However, Laura is still scared of the screams, as they sound very forlorn and lost.

One rainy night, when she's eight, her oldest sister Samantha who is visiting from college enters her room and asks her if she ever thought the screaming was strange. She explains it's not a normal sound, that when it rains at her college there is no screaming. Laura is terrified and unable to provide an answer. Samantha leaves the room and never comes back to visit again, much to their parents' disappointment. Laura is scared of the screaming from then on.

A decade later, Laura is preparing to leave for college herself. She is alone in the house one rainy afternoon and the screaming begins again. However, it sounds much louder and forceful. She realizes this bout of screaming is meant for her. She slips on a jacket and grabs a knife before heading out into the storm.

She follows the direction of the screams for over an hour, eventually ending up at a river that runs far behind the house. As she looks, the water changes from regular blue to a sickly green and becomes filled with thousands of screaming people, rushing by and getting washed down the current.

A particular girl has managed to grab onto a tree root and is holding her hand out to Laura in desperation. Laura thinks she looks slightly familiar and tries to help her. She tries to reach the girl's hand but slips, sliding down the embankment and almost into the water. She jams the knife into the dirt just in time to stop herself and climbs back up. When she looks again, the bodies remain rushing by but the girl is gone.

Laura returns to the house and demands an explanation when her parents arrive home. They reveal the screaming in the river is meant as a lure for all the family members, and that the girl in the water was her oldest sibling, Raina, who got pulled in.

## Cast

Jessica McEvoy as Laura

Nichole Goodnight as Samantha
"Ten Miles Outside Vaughn"

Illustration by Mark Pelham

**"Ten Miles Outside Vaughn"** is the third tale in the first episode of the eleventh season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a couple picks up a strange boy on the roadside. Written by Irene Bassett, it has a runtime of 20:45 and was performed by Graham Rowat, Armen Taylor, Erika Sanderson, and Jesse Cornett. It is the 1296th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A couple, Carl and George, go on a road trip after getting some time off from their hectic schedules. They drive through the New Mexico desert late at night and almost have an argument after George goes to check his work email. The radio suddenly emits a burst of static and it starts to rain. They see a flash of candlelight by a fence before they spot a little boy in a yellow raincoat walking by the roadside.

George stops the car and questions the boy, who says his name is Mikey. Mikey's hands are covered in cigarette burns and lacerations. He says he's trying to escape from a bad man that drives a black van that took him. The couple tell him to get in the car and begin driving towards the nearest town, Vaughn, where Mikey says he lives.

On the way, Carl questions the boy on things he likes, like football teams or ice cream flavors. A pair of headlights suddenly appear in the rearview mirror. As the pair continue talking, George notices the car following them is a black van. Without warning, the van rams the car and drives it off the road, causing it to crash through a guardrail and come to a stop in a ditch.

Carl and George are slightly bruised but unharmed. When they check the backseat, they find Mikey missing with only his raincoat left behind. Any evidence of the rainstorm has also disappeared, leaving a dry landscape. They search around the car for him before deciding to walk into Vaughn to get help.

Hours later, they arrive at dawn and get the attention of a man in overalls. They explain their situation to him. He says that it's impossible, because Mikey was a boy that was tortured and murdered by a strange man that lived in the desert three months ago. After his black van's brake lines were cut, he died in an accident. Searching his house, the police found Mikey's corpse. The man says that strange things happen in the desert that just can't be explained.

The couple is shaken by the news. The man agrees to drive them back to their car so they can tow it. When they arrive back at the scene, Carl checks the backseat and finds the raincoat missing.

## Cast

Graham Rowat as Carl

Armen Taylor as George

Erika Sanderson as Mikey

Jesse Cornett as the man in overalls
"How to Summon the Butter Street Hitchhiker"

**"How to Summon the Butter Street Hitchhiker"** is the second tale in the sixth episode of the twelfth season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man attempts to summon a ghost to answer a question. Written by Chris Hicks, it has a runtime of 22:23 and was performed by Atticus Jackson and Mark Berry. It is the 1453rd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man is aware of an urban legend around his hometown, known as the Butter Street Hitchhiker. At the end of Butter Street is a large ravine with a deep pool that has caused many accidents, Drivers fail to see the end of the road and crash their cars into the water before drowning. According to the legend, the hitchhiker died in one of these incidents. A series of tasks must be completed (picking up the hitchhiker, driving him to his destination, not getting anything wrong) before he will answer a question truthfully, no matter what it is.

The man begins the ritual by starting his car at exactly midnight and driving around before heading onto Butter Street at 3:00 AM. After flashing his lights and rolling the windows up and down, the hitchhiker appears in his backseat. The rules state one is not to look at the hitchhiker until they drop them off, so he doesn't. He can tell, however, that the hitchhiker is wearing vintage 90's clothing and is a black man.

A scripted conversation between the two starts, as the man knows attempting to ignore the hitchhiker will only lead to trouble. Following the hitchhiker's instructions, the man begins to notice that there are no other cars or lights on the road. The hitchhiker talks about how he's going to his girlfriend's house and that she's the love of his life.

At 3:30, the man pulls over and lets the hitchhiker out as instructed by the legend. The hitchhiker asks the man if he has any questions. The man mistakenly asks two ("Is she happy? Does she blame me?"), causing him to panic. The hitchhiker answers both questions anyway, saying that whoever the man is talking about is not happy and *does* blame him. The man then gets his first good look at the hitchhiker and is shocked to see that he has no facial features except for two black pits for eyes that reflect the stars in the night sky. The hitchhiker walks off and leaves the man alone.

The man is crestfallen by the hitchhiker's answer. He plans to drive his car into the ravine and wonders if the Butter Street Hitchhiker manifests itself as a different one of the many accident victims every time. He tells the listeners what he's wearing in case they ever decide to try the legend to see if his theory is correct.

## Cast

Atticus Jackson as the man

Mark Berry as the hitchhiker
"The Turtles"

**"The Turtles"** is the fourth tale in the thirteenth episode of the twelfth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a man tries to convince his friend to come home from a bar. Written by Kevin R. Doyle, it has a runtime of 27:00 and was performed by Mike DelGaudio, Mick Wingert, and Alexis Bristowe. It is the 1491st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man, Billy, receives a call from the wife of his old college roommate, Todd, asking him to go out and look for her husband, as he hasn't been home in three days. Billy manages to track Todd down to a seedy bar in the middle of nowhere, where Todd has been holed up drinking. Billy thinks there's something off about the bar, but decides to put it in the back of his mind as he talks.

Todd says he has discovered the Turtles. Billy is confused at first, but then recalls that it was a story that Todd used to tell often when they were in college. In it, a professor is giving a lecture on the nature of reality before an elderly woman in the audience berates him for lying. She claims their reality lays on the back of four elephants, which rest on top of the back of a giant turtle. However, Billy currently can't remember the rest of the story.

A waitress comes over to take Billy's order and he notices there's something off about her appearance: she looks one-dimensional whenever he's not looking right at her. Shaken, he listens to Todd as he continues to talk. He claims that he has been thinking about the Turtles story a lot and has come to the conclusion that there are millions of recursive realities and that there can never be one in which he is truly happy.

Shaken by Todd's words, Billy notices that none of the bar's other patrons seem animated or alive, only going through the motions of being perceptible as background characters in the story of reality. Billy attempts to leave the bar, only to find that he cannot. He remembers the rest of the turtle story: when the professor asked the woman what the turtle our reality is floated on, she claimed that there are turtles all the way down, millions of recursive realities, all just as equal as the last.

## Cast

Mike DelGaudio as Billy

Mick Wingert as Todd

Alexis Bristowe as the waitress
Ash Millman

**Ash Millman** is a narrator on the Nosleep Podcast. She made her debut in S18E12, with "Seeing Double". Main character narrations are bolded.

## Narration Appearances

* **Season 18**
	+ **Episode 12**
		- "Seeing Double"
	+ **Episode 14**
		- "Patient 4B"
	+ **Episode 16**
		- "There's Something Wrong with Aunty Beth"
	+ **Episode 18: Halloween 2022**
		- **"It Comes from the Moors"**
	+ **Episode 21**
		- "Tabula Rose City"
	+ **Bonus Episode #3: S18E26: Christmas 2022**
		- **"The Caroler"**
	+ **Bonus Episode #6: Suddenly Shocking, Vol. 16**
		- **"Knocking"**
* **This Book Will Kill You**
	+ **Episode 7**
		- "Part 7"
* **Sleepless Decompositions**
	+ **Volume 11**
		- "There is a Colour That Runs Through Us All"
	+ **Volume 13**
		- "Whispering Wax"
"Restricted Caller"

**"Restricted Caller"** is the fifth tale in the sixteenth episode of the second season of the Nosleep Podcast. In it, a woman starts receiving threatening calls. Written by J.A. Medrano, it has a runtime of 7:50 and was performed by Jessica Prokuski and Evan Howard. It is the 145th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A woman moves into a new apartment that is much nicer than the asking price would suggest. When she asks the broker why it's so cheap, he mumbles something about the previous owner leaving in a hurry. Not wanting to turn down a good deal, she accepts.

On her first night in the apartment, she receives a phone call from a raspy voice who tells her to get out. Though shaken, she brushes it off as a prank. When the voice calls back the second night, she tries to talk with it, but it hangs up. On the third night, the voice practically yells at her.

Terrified, the woman lays awake the fourth night to try and record the call. After a few hours, she hears the front door being forced open and footsteps coming towards her bedroom. She grabs a baseball bat from her closet and hits the intruder as he walks in, knocking him out.

After the police are notified and an investigation is launched, the woman is called down to the station by a detective. He tells her the man that broke into her apartment wasn't the caller. When she asks who it was, he reveals that the broker failed to tell her that the woman who owned the apartment before her was murdered inside it a few months previously. The intruder's fingerprints match the murderer's. The detective reveals the calls were coming from the dead woman's cell phone, and that she was probably trying to warn her from beyond the grave.

## Cast

Jessica Prokuski as the woman

Evan Howard as the detective/voice on the phone
"Apartment 1702"

**"Apartment 1702"** is the fourth tale in the thirteenth episode of the second season of the Nosleep podcast. In it, a group of boys explore a supposedly haunted apartment. Written by Stephen Yiu, it has a runtime of 6:45 and was performed by Chris Eddleman. It is the 126th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A boy and his family plan to move out of their apartment building soon. The building's residents hold a going-away party for them in the ground-floor swimming area. The boy and his friends, Brett and Adam, decide to go up to Adam's apartment to get an inflatable raft.

There are two sets of elevators in the building: the public ones that open into the hallways outside the apartments, and the private ones that open directly inside the apartments. The three friends take one of the private elevators up to Adam's apartment, 1802, without incident.

The boy and Brett enter the elevator to go down as Adam shuts off the lights. However, the doors suddenly close on their own. The two tell Adam that is must be a malfunction and tell him to go down to the pool. Suddenly, the car descends and opens into apartment 1702, an abandoned unit that no one has lived in for a decade.

It is pitch black inside the apartment. The boy jams his finger on the first floor button, but nothing happens. The two suddenly become aware of a scraping, dragging noise coming from somewhere inside. The sounds continue, stop for a moment, then rapidly become louder as whatever's making the noise begins hurtling towards the elevator.

The doors suddenly clang shut just as a heavy weight is thrown against them. The elevator descends to the first floor where the boy and Brett find Adam waiting, furious as to why they went down without him. The boy says he was unable to get an explanation from anyone about what occurred and concludes that something evil must have taken up residence in the empty apartment.

## Notes

* In the original text post, Adam and Brett 's names are placeholder letters "A" and "B".
"Death in the Family"

**"Death in the Family"** is the second tale in the eighteenth episode of the thirteenth season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a woman is stalked after her father dies. Written by Joe Sullivan, it has a runtime of 17:57 and was performed by Addison Peacock, Jeff Clement, Nikolle Doolin, and Dan Zappulla. It is the 1643rd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Julia is heartbroken over the recent death of her father. In a strained relationship with her drug-addicted mother, she found comfort in going to the movies with him at the theater which he owned. To comfort herself, she still goes to there a few times a week.

One day, while alone at a movie, she sees a stranger with a green parka and dark glasses sitting a few rows behind, staring at her. She becomes unnerved and leaves, telling her father's former assistant who now owns the theater, Rodney, about the figure. He agrees to keep an eye out for them. Over the next few months, the stranger appears at the same movies as her sporadically, sometimes leaving notes with her name on them. Opening them, she finds pleas to talk to her and confessions of missing her.

On Christmas Eve, Julia attends a screening before she plans to head to her Aunt Kathy's house for dinner. She greets Rodney in the lobby, who informs her that he hasn't seen the figure for quite some time. While the movie plays, she notices the stranger sitting a few rows behind her again. She escapes the theater with the stranger in pursuit. After being alerted, Rodney searches the theater but is unable to find the figure.

Julia heads to her aunt's house, where her uncle informs her that her mother was found dead a few hours before. Rushing to the scene, she finds the police and paramedics, in addition to Kathy. A medical examiner reveals she has been dead for weeks and hands Julia the suicide note. Reading it, she discovers that some sentences are identical to ones found on the stranger's notes. She notices an old green parka hanging over the arm of a chair.

## Cast

Addison Peacock as Julia

Jeff Clement as Rodney

Nikolle Doolin as Aunt Kathy

Dan Zappulla as the medical examiner
"9004"

**"9004"** is the second tale in the twenty-second episode of the second season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, student deals with a harassing stalker. Written by Afia Gyennin, it has a runtime of 16:30 and was performed by Jörn Meyer. It is the 171st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A student lives with his mother while he attends college. One day while he's leaving for classes, he mentions that he has a late choir rehearsal that night. His mother insists on meeting him at a campus parking lot and driving him home instead of him taking the bus.

That night, the student gets a call from his mother telling him that she's on her way and to walk to the parking lot across campus from the hall the choir practice was in. He begins his walk. Just after starting out, he receives a text from an unknown number that reads "Pink Blossom Tree". He ignores it until a second message is received, this one reading "Athabasca Hall".

The student thinks it's a wrong number and texts back saying so, but receives a reply almost immediately saying that they don't, followed by two more texts: "Green Awning" and "Neon Yellow and Puppy". At that moment, the student walks by a green awning and passes a woman in a neon-yellow jacket walking a puppy.

Creeped out, the student walks past the dorm entrances with numbers above them, receiving each set of numbers from the text as he walks past. He wonders how the number is getting his location and texting him the places he walks. Thinking it might be a prank, he enters the student center to walk towards the parking lot there instead and calls a technologically-savvy friend to ask him if he's doing it, but he denies it.

The number continues texting him locations as he walks down the stairs and out into the parking lot. It then texts him the number on a sign next to him that would be impossible to read if the texter wasn't standing more than a few feet away, and the lot is empty.

The number then begins texting a countdown, causing the student to panic. Just as it reaches four, he sees his mother pull into the lot. He jumps in the car and she begins driving away, much to his relief. Just as they reach a stoplight, he receives another message, saying "Red Light. Green Light. Have a Good Night". The number never contacts him again.
"A Dream My Mother Had"

**"A Dream My Mother Had"** is the first tale in the ninth episode of the first season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man explains a dream his mother used to have. Written by Richard Walker, it has a runtime of 4:52 and was performed by David Cummings. It is the 34th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man explains a dream his mother used to have as a child. In it, she is outside an old house at dusk desperately trying to find her way in. She looks behind her occasionally to see a few trees and darkness beyond. She feels a great need to get inside the house as if something in the darkness is coming after her.

Eventually the door opens and she runs inside, shutting it quickly behind her. The house is dark and silent. A staircase sits in front of her. At the top to the left is the closed door of a room with light inside it. Climbing the stairs, she sees the shadow of two feet appear under the crack. She runs down the stairs and looks behind her to the see the source, but the blinding light from the room only allows her to see a featureless shadow. It is at this point she wakes up.

The mother has the dream for a while before it eventually fades. Years pass and she begins having the dream as she nears death. She tells her son that she's not going to turn away from the figure from the lighted room. The next morning, she dies.

The man sits next to his daughter, who is bedridden with a severe fever. He hears her mumble about an old house, a staircase, and a lighted room. He whispers at her to turn and run when she hears the door open.
"Victoria's Road"

**"Victoria's Road"** is the third tale in the eighteenth episode of the twefth season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a girl and her friend attempt to summon a ghost. Written by Blair Daniels, it has a runtime of 18:20 and was performed by Jessica McEvoy, Addison Peacock, Mike DelGaudio, and Nikolle Doolin. It is the 1516th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Two friends, Hannah and Mira, decide to attempt to summon a ghost that supposedly haunts a remote road near their town. She wears a purple dress and you must follow a specific set of instructions if you want her to answer any question that you have, which she must answer truthfully.

Setting out at 12:45 AM, they follow the first two instructions easily, starting the ritual when they're the only car on the road and keeping the radio tuned to station 102.2. The other two rules state that they must not stop the car for any reason besides the woman in the purple dress and must not attempt to turn around no matter what. They discuss what question they are going to ask the woman. Mira says she's going to ask if a girl at their school likes her. Hannah says she's going to ask if her reclusive father is ever going to come home.

A deer darts in front of the car, almost hitting the hood, but the pair continue. After a few minutes, Hannah unexpectedly receives a call from her father, who sounds much more cheerful than usual and asks if he can come home so they can eat dinner at a local diner. Hannah is about to turn around before Mira points out that Hannah's phone is off and she almost turned around. Shaken, they continue driving.

Suddenly, a figure darts in front of the car, which Hannah hits and runs over. Getting out to check, she discovers what appears to be the corpse of a girl before it grabs her ankle and drags her under the car. Mira jumps out and pulls Hannah out of the creature's grasp before they flee into the forest, the car roaring behind them.

They run into the woman in the purple dress. Hannah desperately asks her how to get out of there, to which the woman sniffs that that's the only question anyone asks her before pointing the way to a residential street. They make their way there and call the police.

The police are unable to locate Hannah's car and the pair are shaken by the experience. However, it gave Hannah the courage to talk to her father and Mira successfully asks out the girl she was wondering about.

## Cast

Jessica McEvoy as Hannah

Addison Peacock as Mira

Mike DelGaudio as Hannah's father

Nikolle Doolin as the woman in the purple dress
"Don't Use Elevators"

**"Don't Use Elevators"** is the first tale in the twentieth episode of the ninth season of The Nosleep Podcast. Written by Matt Dymerski, it has a runtime of 15:30 and was read by Jesse Cornett, David Cummings, Erika Sanderson, and Elie Hirshman. It is the 1122nd tale overall.

## About

An American visits his aunt who lives in an apartment building in the middle of a bustling city in Spain. One afternoon, he gets on the elevator to go up. He is joined by a British man, a small boy, an old woman, two teenagers, and a young man with glasses. All press the button for their respective floors.

The elevator goes past the American's floor and he protests, but before anything can be done a snapping sound and something falling down the shaft is heard. Everyone realizes the breaks in the elevator have failed and they are hanging freely. The Brit steps across the car and opens the doors, revealing grimy walls. They are stuck between floors.

Even slight movements causes the car to shift uncontrollably and the occupants to sway. The old woman tries to get the boy to come across the car to her, but he cannot talk to strangers. The American asks everyone if they know the boy, to which all reply no. He manages to get him to walk towards him, but a sudden shift causes the boy to fall through the open door.

Everyone is left in shocked silence for a few minutes before the Brit gets an idea. He asks everyone what their respective floors are, to which everyone is able to respond except the man in glasses. The American realizes with horror that the bespectacled man was the boy's father and caused the his death by not walking across the car to claim him.

The man tries to protest, but the rest of the group, outraged, gang up and throw him to his death into the shaft. Two hours later, the group is rescued.

As the American leaves, he is approached by the man's wife, who is also the mother of the boy. She asks him what events lead up to her husband's death. He realizes he has three options: he can lie and tell her he didn't see, lie and say that he died trying to save his son, or tell the truth and say he allowed his son to be killed and the group murdered him. He is unable to remember which he told her, but whatever the case, her reaction is a calm "I understand".

## Cast

Jesse Cornett as the American

David Cummings as the Brit

Erika Sanderson as the old woman/man's wife

Elie Hirschman as the two teenagers/man with glasses
"My First House"

"My First House" is the first tale in the second episode of the first season of The Nosleep Podcast. It concerns a man moving to a new house and being terrorized by an unseen visitor. Written by an anonymous redditor, it has a runtime of 11:04 and was originally performed by David Cummings. It is the 3rd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A student inherits his mother's childhood home in the middle of the woods from his grandparents. He finds this strange, as no one mentioned the house before. After graduating, he moves in alone.

He spends the first few days cleaning. While exploring the attic, he finds some of his mother's old toys and her diary from when she lived there. As he goes to bed that night, he notices an odd, musky smell hanging around the house.

The next day, he goes to the barn to clean it out, but finds it empty except for some cigarette butts in the corner. He cleans the butts up and notices his car keys are missing. He explores the attic more and notices there are less toys than before. Back in the barn, he discovers more cigarette butts and a doll lying on the ladder leading up to the loft. He unknowingly leaves his flashlight inside.

Afterwards, the student settles down to read his mother's diary. The first few entries detail a brother of hers named James, something the student finds odd as his mother never mentioned having a brother. He hears creaking in the attic but finds nothing when he investigates.

Reading more of the diary, he is disturbed to learn of James' increasingly erratic behavior of tantrums and self-harm, leading to an attempt on his father's life before running off into the woods. Over the next few weeks, the family finds dead animals on the property and messages carved into trees.

The diary ends, and the student is frightened. He hears a knock at the door and finds his car keys lying on the porch, mangled and bent. He notices it is rapidly getting dark and barricades himself in his room. The creaking in the house becomes louder, and he is horrified to see a dark shape pass by the keyhole outside the door.

He waits until the next afternoon to leave the house, retrieving his flashlight from the barn under a pile of cigarette butts. He runs into town and calls his parents, asking them to pick him up. The next week, he goes back to the house to collect his things. The diary is missing, and his mother still claims to not have a brother, chastising him for having such an active imagination.
Brian Mansi

**Brian Mansi** was a narrator on The Nosleep Podcast. He made his debut in S4E01's "Beneath". His final appearance was in Season 10's Old Time Radio installment, with "There's Something in Room 306". Main character narrations are bolded.

## Appearances

* **Season 4**
	+ **Episode 1**
		- **"Beneath"**
	+ **Episode 4**
		- **"The Queen's Guard"**
	+ **Episode 10**
		- "The Divorce Papers"
	+ **Episode 11**
		- "For the Glory of God"
	+ **Bonus Episode #2: Halloween 2014**
		- "A Halloween Partnership"
	+ **Episode 20**
		- "The Wilson Ranch Incident"
	+ **Episode 25**
		- "Copper Canyon"
* **Season 7**
	+ **Episode 1**
		- **"The Nightmare"**
	+ **Episode 5**
		- "A Seaside British Pub"
	+ **Episode 10: 5th Anniversary**
		- **"Is Anyone Else Feeling Thirsty?"**
* **Season 9**
	+ **Episode 15**
		- "I Bought a Murder House"
	+ **Episode 17**
		- **"The Tunnels"**
* **Season 10**
	+ **Bonus Episode #1: 2017 'British Christmas'**
		- "Carve and Colour"
		- "Coming Home for Christmas"
		- "She"
	+ **Episode 11**
		- **"His Life's Work"**
	+ **Episode 12**
		- "He Who Listens for Wishes"
	+ **Episode 13**
		- "The Little Man"
	+ **Bonus Episode #4**
		- "Escape the Dungeon"
	+ **Episode 25**
		- "Return to a Seaside British Pub"
	+ **Bonus Episode #5: Old Time Radio, Vol. 6**
		- "There's Something in Room 306"