"The Other Side of the Door"

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**"The Other Side of the Door"** is the sixth tale in the tenth episode of the fourteenth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a woman stops in a town where vampires comes out at night. Written by Alex Gaskin, it has a runtime of 37:00 and was performed by Addison Peacock, Mary Murphy, Mike DelGaudio, Jessica McEvoy, and Dan Zappulla. It is the 1759th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Ann Ingersoll is driving home across the state from her father's funeral. Unfortunately, her car breaks down on the side of the road. Luckily, the sheriff of a nearby town, Ben Donehue, comes by and offers to drive her there. He drops her off at a diner owned by Judy Porter, but has to leave after he gets a call on his radio about an animal being ripped apart on a local farm.

Judy offers Ann a room in her house for the night while her car is being fixed, which she eagerly accepts. Sometime later, a local woman named Bethany barges in screaming about vampires that supposedly come out in the town at night and how they killed her son. She leaves soon after. Ann assumes she was joking, but Judy doesn't deny the strange outburst.

That night over dinner, Judy claims her husband was killed and her daughter injured by the vampires. Ann is confused at everyone's insistence that the town is overrun with supernatural beings. They argue for a few minutes about it before Judy says she won't let Ann leave the house until the morning. This agitates her, which is only exacerbated further when Judy reveals she drugged the tea Ann had been drinking so she would sleep through the night. Despite this, she manages to convince her to go upstairs to her room and not listen to anything she hears from outside.

Early that morning, Ann goes downstairs to get a glass of water but hears Ben's voice coming from the other side of the front door, trying to tell her Judy is insane and means her harm. They talk for a few minutes, with the sheriff citing evidence that the vampires in the town are just a local superstition. He also claims that Judy murdered her husband herself.

The pair are interrupted by Judy, who has come downstairs with a gun. She says the vampires can perfectly mimic the voices of others. The two argue with Ann back and forth for several minutes, trying to convince her to stay inside or open the door. However, "Ben" slips up when he mentions Ann returning home from her father's funeral, something she never told the real Ben during their ride into town.

The thing outside screeches in anger and begins banging on the door to be let in, but goes away after a while. Relieved that she made the right decision, Ann and Judy sit down for tea again. Ann drinks her cup but begins feeling woozy. Judy says when her daughter was injured by the vampires they developed a taste for her family's blood. In order to get the creatures to leave her loved ones alone, Judy drugs people that stay in her house and throw them outside to be fed upon.

Ann weakly attempts to get away, but is unable to and passes out. Judy apologetically drags her out into the yard before shutting and locking the door behind her. The vampires come out and begin to feed.

## Cast

Addison Peacock as Ann Ingersoll

Mary Murphy as Judy Porter

Mike DelGaudio as Ben Donehue/vampire impersonating Ben Donehue

Jessica McEvoy as Bethany

Dan Zappulla as the cop on the radio