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"0600 Stockport"

Illustration by Lukasz Godlewski

**"0600 Stockport"** is the first tale in the ninth episode of the fifth season of the Nosleep Podcast. In it, a security officer watches a creature on a train. Written by Catriona Richards, it has a runtime of 10:40 and was performed by David Ault. It is the 534th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A security officer, Reynolds, is charged with watching CCTV footage of train cars as they travel around London to look for violations of rail policy. One route in particular, the 0600 train from Stockport to Sheffield, has numerous tunnels that plunge the cars into near pitch blackness as they travel through them.

Reynolds begins a seemingly normal shift by watching footage of the 0600 train recorded at dawn a few days previously. There are five passengers spread among four cars: a hungover man in Carriage A, an old man in Carriage B, two businessmen in Carriage C, and a young woman listening to music through headphones in Carriage E.

Nothing unusual happens for the first forty-five minutes of footage. The train enters a long tunnel and the emergency lights fail to turn on. Fifteen minutes later, it exits. Reynolds notices an arm curled around a seat a few rows in front of the woman. At first, he thinks he forgot to account for a passenger, but realizes this impossible. The woman fails to notice the arm as she is looking out the window.

The owner of the arm, a grotesques creature with oddly-bent limbs and sharp teeth, pulls itself from behind the chair and begins crawling down the aisle towards the woman. Though it periodically taps its hands or feet against the floor, she still doesn't look up. It vaults on top of a seat a few rows in front and begins tapping on the window.

The creature jumps the last few rows to sit on top of the seat directly facing the woman. She finally looks down to change the track on her MP3 player. The creature leans back and positions itself so it's staring directly at her. She looks up, sees it, and opens her mouth to scream. Just as the creature prepares to spring, the train enters another tunnel, plunging the cars into darkness again.

Fifteen minutes later, when the train exits, Carriage E is empty with no sign of the woman, her MP3 player, or the creature. Reynolds spends the rest of the journey flipping through the other cars looking for any evidence of what he witnessed, only to find nothing. He makes a copy of the tape and checks the report to see if Carriage E was damaged to see how the creature could've gotten in, but there is none found.

Reynolds shows the tape to his boss and is fired for supposedly editing the footage for attention. He warns listeners that if they decide to ride the London trains, they should be wary when travelling alone even in broad daylight.
"The Nightmare"

**"The Nightmare"** is the third tale in the first episode of the seventh season of The Nosleep Podcast. Written by Harlan Guthrie, it has a running time of 12:40 and was originally read by Brian Mansi and Erika Sanderson. It is the 766th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Edward is wracked with sleep paralysis. He will wake up in the middle of the night unable to move or close his eyes, and be subjected to hallucinations only he can see. One in particular frightens him the most, involving a dark figure that appears in the corner of his room and slowly walks towards his bed.

Meanwhile, he is trying to balance a social life at his office. He occasionally goes out for drinks with a coworker, Eric, and he has a crush on another coworker named Jenny. One night, in a drunken haze, he admits his feelings for Jenny to Eric. Eric invites Jenny to drinks with them the next time they go out and quickly leaves, forcing Edward to be alone with her. The pair hit it off beautifully, and she returns to his apartment that night, where they make love before both dozing off.

Edward wakes up in the middle of the night to the worst case of sleep paralysis he's ever had, with the figure getting so close to the bed he can practically see its face.

When he wakes up in the morning, he finds a scared, trembling Jenny in the living room, where she tells him she saw someone in his room the previous night. Edward realizes that he has never been dreaming at all.

## Cast

Brian Mansi as Edward

Erika Sanderson as Jenny
"The Woman Made of Glass"

**"The Woman Made of Glass"** is the first tale in eighteenth episode of the seventh Season of the NoSleep Podcast. Written by Lindsay Moore, it has a runtime of 16:30 and was originally performed by Nikolle Doolin, David Cummings, Corinne Sanders, and Kyle Akers. It is the 857th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A ballerina at a college gets a part in the musical her school is putting on. Over time, she begins to notice another student, Adam, appearing at rehearsals and watching her. Adam stops her one day and says that he wants her to star in a movie he is making, called "The Woman Made of Glass". She would portray a dancer made of glass that torments the protagonist until he goes crazy. Though she initially refuses, she agrees to do it for $2000.

The ballerina meets Adam at a small room on campus with the walls painted green. He says she is going to dance in front of the walls so he can green-screen her into the film later. Adam's assistant, Kelly, helps the ballerina get into a strange costume consisting of thousands of glittering rhinestones. After putting it on, Adam takes out his camera and tells her to start dancing.

An unspecified amount of time later, the ballerina stops dancing. She looks down at her feet and notices that they are bleeding heavily. Adam is gone and Kelly tells her she has been dancing for over eight hours. The ballerina leaves, shaken.

A few weeks later, she gets an email from Adam, saying the film is complete and asking her to come see it. She cannot, however, due to a scheduling conflict with the musical.

What exactly happens next is unclear, but later the dancer learns there was a massacre at the screening of the film. People trampled and beat each other to death, stabbed, broke bones, and injured each other, and generally went crazy. Through reports she can find, the dancer learns that something was wrong with her character in the movie.

She goes and speaks to a survivor, Kyle, and he tells her that she was on the screen, but that it "wasn't really [her]" before going on to say the film was "disturbing, beautiful, and ghastly".

The ballerina says that Adam was last seen standing in the middle of the carnage watching the movie before disappearing. He is never seen again. When the police check the projector to take the film in for evidence, it is found to be missing.

## Cast

Nikolle Doolin as the ballerina

David Cummings as Adam

Corinne Sanders as Kelly

Kyle Akers as Kyle
"Collecting Clocks"

**"Collecting Clocks"** is the second tale in the tenth episode of the sixth season of the Nosleep podcast. In it, a man regrets being inherited his father's clock. Written by Michael Blake, it has a runtime of 18:15 and was performed by Mike DelGaudio and Corinne Sanders. It is the 675th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man's father passes away and leaves him an antique German wall clock. The man is displeased at this, as his father was obsessed with collecting clocks and filled the house with them. The constant ticking made the man develop a hatred of them.

He begrudgingly takes it and installs it on the wall in his spare room. He tries to sleep, but the loud ticking floats down the hall. In the morning, he puts the clock in the garage and heads to work. When he returns in the evening, he finds that someone has placed the clock on his kitchen counter. His cat, Schrödinger, is inspecting it and seems afraid. The man decides to take the clock back into the spare room.

A he gets ready for bed, the ticking follows him around the house. He has a nightmare of being crushed to death in the gears of a giant clock. The next morning, he throws the clock in the garbage and searches for Schrödinger, who has gone missing. Begrudgingly, he heads to work. When he returns, he finds the clock sitting on the kitchen counter again, ticking even louder than before. The man takes it to a firepit behind his house and burns it until there's nothing but ash. He goes to bed heartsick, missing his cat.

The next morning, he hears the ticking coming from downstairs again. The weekly maid he hired, Jeanine, arrives and comments on the clock. He goes back to bed and tells her to come in before she's done. However, the day passes and the man never hears her leave. He picks up the clock and notices it's warmth and slight pulse, like there's a heart inside it.

The weekend passes, filled with nightmares of being chased through a dark forest. Sunday morning, two policemen arrive, investigating Jeanine's disappearance. The man claims to know nothing as they search the house. The first detective finds Schrödinger's collar on the kitchen floor and asks if it was typical of Jeanine to leave things lying around. They leave, but not before asking the man to keep in touch.

Half-crazed from the ticking, he goes on a walk in town and spots a pocket watch in a shop window. He buys it and takes it home. The ticking of the watch drowns out part of the German clock's constant sound.

Six months pass. The police never solve Jeanine's disappearance and Schrödinger remains missing. However, the man has managed to amass quite a collection of clocks, which he is proud of.

## Cast

Mike DelGaudio as the man

Corinne Sanders as Jeanine

David Cummings as the cop
"They Still Haven't Found Stevie"

**"They Still Haven't Found Stevie"** is the first tale in the sixteenth episode of the thirteenth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, one half of a pair of brothers goes missing. Written by Scott Weisser, it has a runtime of 9:27 and was performed by Nikolle Doolin, Mike DelGaudio, Elie Hirschman, and Erika Sanderson It is the 1630th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

This story is told in the third person. Nikolle Doolin serves as the narrator.

A couple, Greg and Cheryl, have a pair of sons, Tommy and Stevie. The brother are best friends and play together constantly. One night, Greg and Cheryl hear them talking to someone in their room late at night. When questioned the next morning, Tommy claims they were talking to their imaginary friend, Charlie.

Over the next few months, the brothers continue to talk to Charlie nightly. They play imaginary games with him and even give him his own stocking during Christmas. However, Stevie starts showing signs of being afraid of Charlie. Tommy seems apprehensive as well, but tries not to show it.

One day, the brothers go on a walk in the woods, with Cheryl's insistence that they return before dinner. However, only Tommy returns. a search party is called and the entire forest is searched, but no trace of Stevie is found. Tommy is mute on what happened in the woods and refuses to tell anyone what happened. During a round of intensive questioning by police, Greg yells at the officers to leave his son alone and says he had nothing to do with his brother's disappearance.

That night, Greg enters Tommy's room and tells him that Charlie sometimes needs a sacrifice to stay in the woods, revealing that Charlie has been around since his childhood. Tommy seems to understand, but is terrified.

## Cast

Nikolle Doolin as the narrator

Mike DelGaudio as Greg

Elie Hirschman as Tommy

Erika Sanderson as Cheryl/Stevie
Alex Beal

**Alex Beal** is a retired narrator on The Nosleep Podcast. He made his debut in S1E01's "The Midnight Man". His final appearance was in S4E20's "The Wilson Ranch Incident". Main character narrations are bolded.

## Appearances

* **Season 1**
	+ **Episode 1**
		- **"The Midnight Man"**
	+ **Episode 3**
		- **"Don't Ever Turn it Off"**
* **Season 4**
	+ **Episode 14**
		- **"A Campfire Story"**
	+ **Episode 16**
		- **"A Helping Hand"**
	+ **Episode 20**
		- "The Wilson Ranch Incident"
"Halloween in the Suburbs"

### Narrator(s)

Dan Zappulla, Nichole Goodnight, Jeff Clement, Matthew Bradford, and Jessica McEvoy

### Next

"Pork n' Stuff"

**"Halloween in the Suburbs"** is the second tale in the nineteenth episode of the thirteenth season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a father is disturbed by a fellow trick-or-treater and their chaperone. Written by Manen Lyset, it has a runtime of 18:08 and was performed by Dan Zappulla, Nichole Goodnight, Jeff Clement, Matthew Bradford, and Jessica McEvoy. It is the 1651st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Mike takes his daughter, Ellie, out trick-or-treating in the suburb they live in. While they visit the houses, he becomes aware of an ordinary-looking man leading a child in a ghost costume. The father describes the man as a "suburban dad, but too perfect", as if everything about him was made to look exactly like a generic man. The man speaks in a robotic, strained voice about vauge things like "the game", "the weather" and "the house".

Mike tries to avoid the man as much as possible but him and the ghost appear to be on the same route. A few times, he notices the man's hair start to slip and the skin of his forehead bunching up, as if he's wearing some kind of elaborate skintight costume. Thoroughly creeped out and not wanting to be around the man anymore, he convinces Ellie to head home.

Back at home, Mike meets up with his husband, Derek. They put Ellie to bed and are relaxing in the living room when they hear a knock on the door. Derek answers and gives candy to a child in a ghost costume. Mike sees the woman the child is with, and realizes she looks like a facsimile of a too-perfect suburban mom. She speaks in the same robotic, vague voice as the man from earlier. The ghost and the woman leave the porch after getting candy and head off into the night.

Mike reveals that the next morning, two bodies were found brutally murdered and skinned inside their homes in the neighborhood.

## Cast

Dan Zappulla as Mike

Nichole Goodnight as Ellie

Jeff Clement as the suburban dad/suburban mom

Matthew Bradford as Derek

Jessica McEvoy as the child in the ghost costume
"A Horrible Game"

**"A Horrible Game"** is the third tale in the twelfth episode of the first season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, an office worker and her friends take part in a game to see who can outlast hallucinations in their office building. Written by Lexie X, it has a runtime of 14:33 and was performed by Christina Scholz. It is the 49th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A girl is an intern in an office on the 33rd floor of her office building. The workers have a running joke that the office is haunted, and the narrator corroborates this by explaining how she experiences unexplainable shifts in reality and sees movement out of the corner of her eye when there's no one there. She and fellow interns Steve and Jake decide to investigate the phenomena that they've all experienced. The narrator investigates the science, Steve other similar experiences, and Jake a history of the building. The narrator discovers that changes in some air systems can cause hallucinations and feelings of uneasiness, and is relieved that her fears are unfounded.

The three of them decide to see who can last longer when the air system is making these things happen, and so when the rest of the office is out at a corporate meeting they mess with the air system until achieving the feeling of uneasiness. At first all seems normal, except for a strange thump across the hall. This escalates to several voices and figures appearing.

Eventually the narrator and Jake run, and Jake reveals things get worse as the less people there are. In the silent realisation that Steve is still there.
"Jack in the Box"

**"Jack in the Box"** is the first tale in the twenty-fifth episode of the second season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man has a strange encounter in a drive-through window. Written by Graham McBride, it has a runtime of 10:20 and was performed by David Cummings and Jinny Sanders. It is the 182nd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A college student and his friends, after a night of wild partying, decide to head to the fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box before heading home. The student pulls up to the microphone and hears the woman at the window repeating the same canned greeting over and over. He interrupts her with the order, and pulls up after noticing her voice sounds timid and scared.

At the window, as the student's friends pay for the food, he notices that the woman looks exceedingly scared. When he asks if she's alright, she suddenly gives a false smile and asks him to drive to the delivery area. At the next window, the same woman appears and hands him the food. She looks frightened again and the student notices that no sound is coming from inside the restaurant. When the woman scratches behind her ear, he notices that her thumbnail is missing. She gives another false smile, thanks him for visiting, and shuts the window.

The student's friends devour the food on the way back to their apartment. The next morning, the student gets out of bed and finds one of the bags sitting on the hall floor with the receipt inside. Written on it in a shaky hand is the words "DON'T EAT IT".

## Cast

David Cummings as the student

Jinny Sanders as the woman
"I Was Never a Cat Person"

**"I Was Never a Cat Person"** is the third tale in the twenty-second episode of the third season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a woman struggles to feed her newly-acquired cat. Written by Ann Drenner, It has a runtime of 11:30 and was performed by L. Bentley in her first appearance on the podcast. It is the 316th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A woman works as a construction manager in an urban renovation project. One day, a coworker comes into her office claiming that someone threw a cat from a car into the space between a fence and a concrete wall. Though the woman hates cats and is extrmley allergic, she agrees to go take a look.

The woman is instantly enraptured by the cat with its snow-white fur and piercing green eyes. She calls animal control but they are unable to pick the cat up, since it is a very late Friday afternoon. Not wanting to leave it behind at the construction site, she takes it back to her apartment.

She names the cat Id and comes to admire his beauty and affection. The woman's occasional relationship with her boyfriend becomes more heated and argumentative. She find solace in Id's purring and petting.

After having Id for a short period of time, the woman realizes the cat won't eat any of the pet food she's bought for him. Remembering that some cats have dietary issues, she feeds him raw chicken, which he likes. A month passes and the woman and her boyfriend fight more. Id begins throwing up the chicken, refuses to eat it, and silently stares at her while she attempts to find something else to sustain him.

The woman cycles through other meats and food, such as beef, turkey, fish, rabbit, and eggs, but whatever she tries Id stops eating it after a couple days and continues to stare. She eventually feels guilty and doesn't eat in front of the cat, refusing to go to work and lying in bed with him for hours on end staring into his eyes.

Her boyfriend calls a week later, saying he wants to patch things up. He arrives at the apartment with ingredients to make dinner. The woman sees him as an intrusion into her and Id's home, and the cat responds by weaving angrily around his legs. Getting the message, she stabs her boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife as Id meows happily. She prepares to harvest the flesh so her and Id can have dinner.
"He Didn't Leave Alone"

### Narrator(s)

Mary Murphy, Erin Lillis, Addison Peacock, Nichole Goodnight, and Jessica McEvoy

### Next

"Reunion Hospital"

**"He Didn't Leave Alone"** is the first tale in the eleventh episode of the fourteenth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a nun begins seeing a strange girl in her hospital. Written by S.H. Cooper, it has a runtime of 14:20 and was performed by Mary Murphy, Erin Lillis, Addison Peacock, Nichole Goodnight, and Jessica McEvoy. It is the 1760th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Birdy works as a nun and nurse at a Christian hospital. Since she is a new hire, she is forced to take the night shift with an older worker named Sister Mary Rose. She works on the old-folks hospice floor of the building and enjoys it.

One night while alone in the office, Birdy sees a little girl in blue overalls walking down the hallway. She calls to her that she can't be in this section, but the girl ignores her. She gets up to confront her, only to find her gone when she checks. Shaken, she returns to the office and calls the night security, but there is no little girl missing from any floor.

Sister Mary Rose returns and sends Birdy to check on a high-risk patient, Mr. McCaffer. Arriving in his room, she changes his bedpan is about to leave when she hears several little girls whisper the word "soon". She runs back to the office and tells Sister Mary Rose, but she says that hallucinations are common in the hospital late at night.

A few hours pass. Sister Mary Rose leaves to get dinner while Birdy sets out on her rounds. All through the halls she thinks she hears running feet and giggling. In Mr. McCaffer's room she finds three little girls standing next to his bed, holding hands, all chanting the word "soon". Birdy halfheartedly tells them to leave, but they turn to her and smile instead, revealing skull-like faces. They begin chanting words Mr. McCaffer supposedly said to them. His heart monitor spikes before flatlining. She flees the room, screaming.

Birdy takes a few days off and has Sister Mary Rose cover for her. After researching, she learns that Mr. McCaffer was a child murderer that abducted and killed four girls. She is happy he didn't escape punishment for his crimes, even after death.

## Cast

Mary Murphy as Birdy

Erin Lillis as Sister Mary Rose

Addison Peacock, Nichole Goodnight, and Jessica McEvoy as the three little girls
"Up From the Wishing Well"

**"Up From the Wishing Well"** is the only tale in the first bonus episode of the seventh season of The Nosleep Podcast. in it, a woman takes her daughter to a wishing well. Written by D.G. Collins, it has a running time of 3:30 and war originally read by Erika Sanderson. It is the 763rd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A single mother takes her daughter on a walk in the woods. The pair stumble upon an old wishing well. The mother tells her daughter about how she threw a coin in to ask for her. The daughter is delighted and asks if she wished for anything else. The mother reveals she wished for the daughter to get better a few weeks after she was born, as she was sick and near death. The daughter then asks if her father wished for anything.

In a private monologue, the mother reveals that her husband didn't run away as many people think, but that she was forced to sacrifice him to the well if she wanted her daughter to live. It is apparent that there is a creature in the well that grants wishes, and that it demanded a higher price to save the daughter's life.

That night, the mother hears moaning near the front door and realizes that when she gave her daughter a coin, her daughter wished for her father to come back.
"Jessie's Collection"

**"Jessie's Collection"** is the first tale in the twenty-second episode of the third season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a girl tests out her strange powers. Written by Amanda Lewis, it has a runtime of 12:55 and was performed by Peter Lewis. It is the 314th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

This tale is told in the third person perspective. Peter Lewis serves as the narrator.

Jessie is an outcast among her classmates for her strange behavior and dark demeanor. One day, she watches the kids on the playground have fun and silently curses them, such as making a boy trip or another girl catch her hair on a branch. She revels in her classmates' pain because they ignore her and think she's weird, although she secretly likes it that way.

Jessie constantly has a feeling of anger and unease burning inside her, but is usually able to control it. One time, however, she was unable to keep in inside. Her mother's pet cat violently scratched her, causing her to clap her hands around its head. A flash of light erupted suddenly and the cat was gone, replaced with a glass cat-shaped charm. She put it on a ribbon and put it around her neck. Later that day, she tried the same with a butterfly, getting a similarly-shaped charm in response.

On this particular day, the feeling of anger is higher than it has ever been before. Barely making it through the day, Jessie manages to make it onto the bus to go home before she finally decides she needs to sustain her feelings. A classmate, Kate, gets off on the same stop as her. Jessie stalks Kate and lures her closer with a fake story about a dropped pencil before clapping her head as well, transforming her into a glass charm.

Jessie notices that Kate has lived through the ordeal and is now trapped inside the charm. She takes it back to her room and into her closet, where she keeps her thousands of other charms, and hangs it up on a special hook. Looking at it with admiration, she decides she enjoyed the feeling so much she's going to use her powers more often.
"The Thing in the Walls"

**"The Thing in the Walls"** is the first tale in the eighth episode of the second season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a boy has a frightening encounter at his friend's house. Written by Jonathan Sheeran, it has a runtime of 9:50 and was performed by Chris Eddleman. It is the 101st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Jon has frequent sleepovers with his best friend Josh. Though he always has fun at them, over the years he begins to notice that they never spend the night at Josh's house. Though his friend tries to talk him out of it, he manages to convince him to let him stay over.

As night begins to fall, Josh gets nervous and asks Jon if he's sure he wants to stay there, but he insists. Once it's completely dark out, Josh puts on a movie at the loudest volume setting. A few minutes later, frequent bangs and scratches erupt from the wall behind the bed. Jon notices that Josh's fists are clenched and that he's doing his best to ignore the sounds.

As soon as the movie ends, a high-pitched, sickeningly-sweet voice whispers from the wall, calling Josh's name and asking if he wants to play again. Terrified, he puts on another movie, which causes the voice to silence with an exasperated sigh.

Around 2:00 AM, Jon leaves Josh's room to use the bathroom. As he's finishing up, he hears the voice from the wall coming from the dark hallway outside, asking if he'll be his friend. He sees a short, squat creature with sharp fangs and yellow eyes. Jon screams and Josh's parents run upstairs, convincing him that he had a nightmare. He asks his friend to corroborate his story, but he doesn't say anything.

Angry at being betrayed, Jon breaks ties with Josh and refuse to speak to him. They drift apart. Ten years later, he gets a call in the middle of the night. Josh sobs that the voice and the yellow eyes left the wall and are following him wherever he goes. He doesn't know what to do. Still angry, Jon hangs up.

A few days later, he gets a call from Josh's mother, who tells him that he committed suicide. Guilt-ridden and angry at himself for holding the grudge for so long, Jon falls into a depression. Late one night, he gets a text from Josh's number that asks how thick the walls in his house are.
"The Mystery of William Wilson"

**"The Mystery of William Wilson"** is the fifth tale in the seventeenth episode of the eleventh season of The Nosleep Podcast. The story is concerns two detectives interviewing a man about his missing ex-boyfriend. It contains several references to the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Written by Troy H. Gardner, it has a runtime of 29:50 and was read by Kyle Akers, David Ault, and Jessica McEvoy. Jesse Cornett provides an uncredited background performance as the protagonist's love interest. It is the 1376th tale overall on the podcast.

The story was later followed up with a sequel in S13E15, with "The Mystery of Orville's Portraits".

## Summary

A man, William Wilson, lives a private life in a small town in New England. His home is small and comfortable; he is especially proud of a large mural on his wall showing the god Pluto. One night, he is visited by two detectives: Aguste Dupin and his assistant, Miss Usher. They explain they were hired by a missing man's parents to find their son, at which point they bring up William's former lover, also named William Wilson.

William explains that him and Wilson met on the first week of college, at a party. They gave each other their respective nicknames so as not to get confused. William describes Wilson when he first met him as slightly ugly, overweight and with no fashion sense. Despite this, they start a relationship. Wilson is openly gay, William is not and begs him not to tell anyone. William's parents are strict conservatives and would find their affair deplorable.

The relationship lasts about a year before William leaves college, dissatisfied with university life. He accepts a position at a conservative research facility. Wilson, heartbroken over the breakup, tells everyone he knows about the relationship. William is shunned by his parents and loses his job at the facility.

A few years later, Wilson, who is passing through the area where William lives, unexpectedly drops by, looking for a place to stay. He has cleaned himself up so much William thinks he looks like him. The two reconnect over the weekend before Wilson leaves. William explains to the detectives that's the last time he saw him.

Dupin and Usher reveal that they're not here to look for Wilson, but were actually hired by William's parents to find *him.* William then reveals that after losing the job and being disowned by his parents, he moved away and changed his name. Picking up on a clue from earlier, Dupin walks over and punches through the mural of Pluto, revealing Wilson's decayed body behind. William murdered Wilson and interred his body in the wall after his visit.

Usher then reveals that the pair were actually long-lost brothers, both adopted by families named Wilson and both named William. Upon learning of his incest, William is driven crazy. As he is taken away, he realizes that this means the circle of his life can close, and is content.

## Cast

Kyle Akers as William

David Ault as Dupin

Jessica McEvoy as Miss Usher

Jesse Cornett as Wilson (uncredited)
"Can I Have More?"

Illustration by Hasani Walker

**"Can I Have More?"** is the sixth tale in the eighteenth episode of the thirteenth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a woman is visited by a malevolent trick-or-treater. Written by Blair Daniels, it has a runtime of 14:19 and was performed by Sarah Ruth Thomas and Erika Sanderson. It is the 1647th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Eliza begrudgingly hands out candy on Halloween despite hating the holiday. In the first round of trick-or-treaters she notices a strange boy in a devil costume who asks if he can have more. She gives him extra candy and he leaves.

An hour later, more kids come to her door. She notices the strange boy has returned, this time dressed as a ninja. He once again asks for more and she gives him extra candy again. Another hour passes and a third group of trick-or-treaters arrive. Though she doesn't realize the boy is there at first, she recognizes his voice from underneath a werewolf mask. He asks for more, but she claims she doesn't have any more candy before shutting the door on him.

As the night wears on, Eliza becomes uneasy. She remembers Halloween five years ago when she got in a fight with her boyfriend at his house. Speeding out of the driveway in a huff, she accidentally ran over and killed a boy in a werewolf costume. Terrified, she drove away and was never caught.

All the lights suddenly go out in her house and the boy appears, taking off the mask to reveal his mangled, bloody face beneath. When he asks for more, she says she has nothing left to give but her life. He says that will be enough and prepares to kill her.

## Cast

Sarah Ruth Thomas as Eliza

Erika Sanderson as the boy in the werewolf costume
"Eight Little Lies"

**"Eight Little Lies"** is the first tale in the second episode of the thirteenth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, two lovers tell each other dark secrets. Written by Alison Cybe, it has a runtime of 13:20 and was performed by Nichole Goodnight and Jessica McEvoy. It is the 1556th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Two lovers, Carly and Emily, lay in bed after making love. Emily says they should play a game called "Eight Little Lies", where you're supposed to tell secrets you've never told anyone. Emily starts by saying that she was raised in the woods by her aunt after her parents died when she was young. Carly, though uncomfortable with the game, reveals that she ran away from home when she was a teenager for three days.

As Emily tells more secrets about her life in the woods with her aunt, Carly grows increasingly uncomfortable. Emily's actions seem strange and she appears to be looking at her longingly. Carly reveals that she only went up to talk to Emily for the first time after she got drunk. Emily notices a faded tatoo on her arm and asks about its meaning. Carly reveals she used to have her brother's name tattooed on her arm before removing it, finding it too gruesome, but felt that she always carried him in her heart.

Emily then sings the whole "Eight Little Lies" nursery rhyme her aunt taught her, revealing it to be about a spider paralyzing and eating its prey. Emily lulls Carly to sleep after shooting her with a neurotoxin before shifting into a spider-like creature, expressing her excitement at being able to eat her and keep her part of her forever.

## Cast

Nichole Goodnight as Carly

Jessica McEvoy as Emily
"Carol's Christmas Cookies"

**"Carol's Christmas Cookies"** is the fourth tale in the seventeenth episode of the fifteenth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a woman's coworker brings in strange cookies. Written by Penny Tailsup, it has a runtime of 18:30 and was performed by Wafiyyah White, Tanja Milojevic, Jeff Clement, Erin Lillis, and Mick Wingert. It is the 1944th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Paige arrives at her office a few days before Christmas for the annual potluck. The boss, Dale, doesn't allow the workers to stop and eat, so they are forced to eat while they work. Paige hopes to start her shift in peace but is interrupted by a buzz at the door. She admits her coworker Carol, her only friend in the office.

Carol has brought gingerbread men that are frosted to look like everyone in the office. The two chat for a few minutes before Paige asks where hers is. Carol reveals she hasn't made one for her before placing them all on everyone's desks. She is disappointed but doesn't let her know. Carol hands her a cookie shaped like Dale and says she isn't coming in today. As she hugs Paige goodbye, she tells her to have a merry Christmas.

Soon, all the others arrive and begin working. They are puzzled by the cookies and put them aside. A nosy coworker, Patti, comes over to Paige's desk just as she gets off the phone with a caller and asks where the cookies came from. Paige says Carol left them. Patti informs her Carol was fired the previous day and is suspicious.

Though Paige asks her not to tell Dale, she begins walking towards Dale's office. Just then another worker, Robert, begins screaming. Everyone looks over to see he has bitten the arm off his cookie and his own arm has been severed.

The office erupts in a panic, but Paige is suddenly captured in a haze of hunger. She begins eating the cookie decorated like Dale and Dale begins yelling. Everyone else in the office begins feverishly eating the cookies despite their injuries. Screams and exsanguinating noises fill the air.

Sometime later, Paige comes out of her haze to see a scene of bloody carnage with no survivors. She stumbles down the stairs and out to her car before seeing an envelope sitting on her windshield. Opening it, she finds a note from Carol.

Carol's note thanks her for being her only friend, and that there is a gingerbread model of the office in her apartment that will cause the building to collapse when smashed and make it look like an accident. Also included is a cookie that looks like Carol, with one last request that she "make it quick".

Paige bites the head off the cookie quickly. She describes it tasting like gingerbread and death.

## Cast

Wafiyyah White as Paige

Tanja Milojevic as Carol

Erin Lillis as Patti

Jeff Clement as the caller

Mick Wingert as Robert
"Pet Sitting"

**"Pet Sitting"** is the third tale in the eighteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Nosleep Podcast. It concerns a teenager pet sitting for a strange woman in his neighborhood. Written by Joe Sullivan, it has a runtime of 18:05 and was read by Atticus Jackson and Nikolle Doolin. It is the 1379th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A teenager, Johnny, is being hounded by his mother to get a job. He eventually hears that an elderly neighbor, Mrs. Elsick, needs someone to watch her dog for her while she leaves for a weekend. Mrs. Elsick has a reputation of being creepy, yelling at kids when they play on her lawn and having her adult son keep watch from the window to make sure no one is doing so.

Johnny arrives at the house late at night. Mrs. Elsick's house is cluttered and dirty. She shows him around, eventually taking him upstairs to a room with a dog flap in it. She tells him to slide the dog's food through the flap. Under no circumstances is he to open the door. The dog is to be fed four times a day

After Mrs. Elsick leaves, Johnny hangs around the house, watching TV. Noticing a feeding time is coming up, he dumps a can into a plastic bowl and carries it upstairs. Using a broom handle, he pushes the bowl through. A large weight is thrown against the door and barking is heard, followed by the dog messily devouring the wood. Shaken, Johnny goes downstairs and falls asleep.

He wakes up with a black lab licking his face. At first he thinks it's the dog from upstairs, but realizes the door is still locked. He decides to take the lab for a walk. On his way back, he looks in an upstairs window and sees a dark, shaggy outline.

Upstairs, Johnny pushes the bowl through the flap, but the dog grabs the broom handle and begins pulling on it. The lab whines and runs downstairs, Johnny right behind after the door crashes open.

As he's fumbling with the front door key, he sees Mrs. Elsick's son, shaggy-haired and crawling on all fours, making his way down the stairs. He barks like a dog and bites him. Kicking him back, Johnny locks the front door and runs off into the night with the lab.

## Cast

Atticus Jackson as Johnny

Nikolle Doolin as Mrs. Elsick
"The Roommate I Only Saw Once"

**"The Roommate I Only Saw Once"** is the first tale in the 22nd episode of the 8th season of The Nosleep Podcast. Written by Nathan Anderson, it has a runtime of 14:00 and was read by Dan Zappulla and Jessica McEvoy. It is the 1008th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A student at a college called Wharton has a dorm room, number 295, all to himself. He rarely spends time in it, rather spending most of his off-class hours in his girlfriend's room down the hall. One day, while returning from class, he sees his downstairs neighbor, Jessica, standing in front of his door looking angry. She tells him to keep it down in his room, something he is puzzled by as he doesn't have a roommate and couldn't have been making the noises himself. Going inside, he finds nothing disturbed.

They exchange numbers and he receives text from her the next day, telling him that the noises are even worse than the previous day. Returning after class, he once again finds nothing wrong. Determined to find the cause of the noises, he sets up an old cell phone with a security feed and a motion-detection app near a corner of his room.

The next day during class he receives a notification saying a motion has been detected. Returning, he is dismayed to find the phone had been knocked on its side. The clip shows the bottom half of a pair of jeans with bare feat entering the room after picking the lock. The footsteps are so loud it rattles the floor. The feed cuts out just as he hears himself coming up the stairs to check the room.

Annoyed, the student sets a camera on a stand to make sure he gets a shot of the intruder's face. When he returns from class that day, he finds his doorknob crushed. Inside, the room has been trashed. The camera is gone and the stand has been knocked over. Checking the snapshots the camera took, he only sees a black blur with two white points for eyes.

The student moves out to an off-campus apartment and the school gives him a discount on his remaining tuition. Two more students move into the room and leave soon after. Jessica moves out as well.

One day, months after graduating, the student receives an invite to join a Facebook group titled "Wharton 295".

## Cast

Dan Zappulla as the student

Jessica McEvoy as Jessica
"Monster in the Forest"

**"Monster in the Forest"** is the second tale in the sixteenth episode of the second season of the Nosleep Podcast. In it, a man digs holes for work. Written by A. Rice, it has a runtime of 12:10 and was performed by David Cummings. It is the 142nd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man and his wife live from paycheck to paycheck, barely able to keep their children fed. The man is suddenly laid off from his job and he begins looking for other work. He answers a Craigslist ad claiming to pay over $1000 a week. The placer of the ad, an old man, tells him he needs a worker to come dig holes in a large plot of land he owns outside of town.

The old man reveals that he thinks there's a monster in the forest at night and that the holes need to be at least four feet wide and nine feet deep so the monster can fall in and be caught. The man agrees to the job with the stipulation that he be paid first before doing any work. The old man also says that it will take at least three days to dig a hole and that he can't use machinery or the trees will be damaged.

The man arrives at the property and finds an envelope taped to the front door, with his day's pay and instructions to dig the first hole deep inside the forest. He borrows some shovels from the old man's shed and walks ten minutes inside. Due to the trees being so close together and the ground being so rough, the man digs for ten hours and removes half of the dirt needed. When he returns the next day he finds the rest of the money and a complementary note from the old man telling him he did a good job on his hole.

Things go on like this for the next two months. The man spends five days a week digging two holes and then rests for the weekend. He never sees the old man in person. Due to the increased inflow of cash, the man is able to provide for his family and even begin a savings account. He occasionally checks his already-dug holes, but finds that the old man is doing nothing with them.

The man arrives at work one day to find a second note and paycheck. Another man arrives and he realizes the old man has hired another worker because he needs another 120 holes and wants them completed as fast as possible. He is saddened by his reduced responsibility.

A few weeks later, the man's wife is diagnosed with cancer. Most of his paycheck goes towards her medical bills. With the number of holes rapidly dwindling, the man worries what will happen after there are no more to dig. One day, the man finishes his hole early and sees the other worker has almost completed his. The man pulls up the ladder and leaves the other worker trapped to die before filling it in two weeks later. He muses that the real monster in the forest is himself, and that the old man is a fool for believing that he will be caught in his own trap.
"My Best Friend's Grandmother"

**"My Best Friend's Grandmother"** is the second tale in the ninth episode of the first season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a girl has a strange experience at her best friend's grandmother's house. Written by Allison Stuart, it has a runtime of 5:36 and was performed by Wendy Corrigan. It is the 35th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A girl has a best friend that she attends grade school with. The friend's grandmother lives on the same street as the girl and the pair usually walks to her house after school to play. The grandmother will sometimes buy them books or make them snacks.

The girl doesn't go over to the friend's house very often because her parents live far away and constantly fight. The friend finds solace in living with her grandmother, who is much more loving and caring. Eventually, she moves in with her full time. Things go well for a few months.

Gradually, the girl notices that she sees the grandmother less and less. The friend always insists that they play outside. Whenever the girl asks to play inside, the friend says her grandmother is tired and doesn't want to be disturbed. Sometimes the girl hears the grandmother calling to the friend from the house.

One day, the girl has to use the bathroom and insists that it's an emergency. The friend begrudgingly agrees and takes her inside. After she finishes, the girl notices that the grandmother's bedroom door is open, and can see her lying in the bed.

A few days later, the friend doesn't show up at school. The girl's mother picks her up and informs her that she won't be going to the grandmother's house anymore. It is reveled the grandmother died three weeks previously and that the friend was living in the house with her corpse because she didn't want to go back to her parents. The friend and her family move away and the girl never sees her again.

The girl is shaken by the facts of the story and recalls that when she went inside to use the bathroom, despite the fact that grandmother had been dead for weeks, she saw her smiling at her from the bed.
"Joe Made a Choice"

**"Joe Made a Choice"** is the first tale in the eighteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Nosleep Podcast. It concerns a father having to choose which clone is his real daughter. Written by Lucretia Vastea, it has a runtime of 21:30 and was read by Graham Rowat, Mick Wingert, and Nichole Goodnight. It is the 1377th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

This story is written in third person. Graham Rowat serves as the narrator.

A security guard, Joe, struggles through his long workdays so he can come home, sleep next to his wife, Jane, and kiss their daughter, Josie, goodnight.

On one such night he goes to kiss her only to have her claim there is a monster under her bed. Checking, he finds a clone of her, claiming there is a monster on top of her bed, mirroring the classic creepypasta.

He designates them Josie 1 and Josie 2. They both insist they are the real Josie and the other is an imposter. He asks them basic questions, such as what their birthdays are, and checks their birthmarks and injuries. Both respond identically and look identical in every way.

To prove she is the real deal, Josie 1 claims she knows about the time she was dropped on her head when she was a baby. Josie 2 counters with a story of her own about Joe and Jane receiving bad news when she was still a fetus.

Overwhelmed, Joe begs the girls to stop talking. They look at each other and then each threaten that if he doesn't chose them, they will reveal one of his dark secrets to Jane. These include a mistress he had when him and Jane were newlyweds, the homeless man he ran over and left for dead on the side of the road one night, and the time he worked for a porn site that took videos of rapes.

Unable to deal with it anymore, Joe hangs himself in the master bathroom. The girls smile and go back to hiding under the bed. The narration reveals the real Josie was asleep in bed with Jane the whole time.

## Cast

Graham Rowat as the narrator

Mick Wingert as Joe

Nichole Goodnight as Josie 1/Josie 2