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"The Garden Gnome"

Illustration by Jen Tracy

**"The Garden Gnome"** is the third tale in the sixteenth episode of the thirteenth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a woman inherits her great-aunt's house. Written by Kenneth Kohl, it has a runtime of 28:02 and was performed by Sarah Ruth Thomas and Jeff Clement. It is the 1632nd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

Juliet inherits her great aunt's home after her death and moves in. She arrives to find the yard overgrown with grass and weeds. In a patch in the front lawn, she finds a grotesque garden gnome wearing a red hat and smoking a pipe.

Realizing she doesn't own a lawn mower, Juliet buys one off of Craigslist from a single man that lives in town named Jim. When he delivers the machine, they strike up a conversation about the gnome. Jim tells her several myths and legends about gnomes, like how some of them are helpful and protective of houses, and how others are antagonistic and torment people. Charmed by his words, she offers him a glass of lemonade. Jim agrees, but only if he's able to give her the mower for free and she agrees to him mowing her lawn for her. She accepts.

Later that night, Juliet is making dinner when she notices the gnome is now sitting in the backyard rather than the front. When she checks again a few minutes later, it's gone. Juliet goes outside and inspects the yard, only to find it now sitting by a hedge in the side yard. Convinced someone is playing a joke on her, she goes back inside.

When Jim comes over the next morning to finish the lawn, Juliet tells him about the gnome. Jim offers more lore and they begin chatting. He stays for dinner that night. While getting ready for bed, Juliet finds the gnome even closer to the house than the previous day.

Juliet and Jim go on a date. After she returns late that night, she hears someone pounding furiously on her front door. When she opens it, she finds the gnome sitting on the welcome mat. She slams the door shut and runs upstairs to call Jim for help, who says he'll be right over. The banging comes from her back door as well. He arrives a few minutes later and she lets him in as the assault on the house continues.

Jim finds the gnome sitting on the front porch. He grabs it and Juliet follows him out into the driveway. As he smashes it on the concrete, the clay breaks apart to reveal a small, humanoid skeleton inside.

## Cast

Sarah Ruth Thomas as Juliet

Jeff Clement as Jim
"My Friend from College"

**"My Friend from College"** is the fourth tale in the seventeenth episode of the sixth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man investigates the death of his friend. Written by Lauren Munera, it has a runtime of 10:50 and was performed by David Cummings and Corinne Sanders. It is the 714th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

E.J. receives a phone call in the middle of the night from a friend he had in college, Sabrina. She says she is somehow outside his house and that she doesn't know how she got there. E.J. tells her to wait as he goes downstairs. Sabrina says she entered the house and knocked over a vase before sitting on the couch. However, when he gets to the living room, no one is there. Sabrina suddenly says his name before the call is cut off. Putting the incident up to sleepwalking, he goes back to bed.

The next morning, the police arrive and inform E.J. that Sabrina died the previous night after she fell down the stairs in her home, apparently while talking to him. They give him a transcript of the conversation and ask him to explain what happened, but he is unable to. At the funeral, Sabrina's husband and the other mourners ask him as well, but he has no answer. Her death is ruled as a tragic accident.

A month later, E.J. is sleeping in bed when he suddenly hears someone pounding on his front door. A few minutes later, something breaks downstairs. Grabbing his bat, he goes down only to see Sabrina sitting on the living room couch. She calls his name and runs towards him, but she disappears completely after he blinks. E.J. concludes that she must have somehow warped into the future a month ago and had the misfortune to be at the top of her staircase when she came back out.

## Cast

David Cummings as E.J.

Corinne Sanders as Sabrina
"Patron Saint of the Lost"

**"Patron Saint of the Lost"** is the first tale in the eleventh episode of the thirteenth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a woman tries to get her mother's ring back. Written by M.J. Pack, it has a runtime of 14:36 and was performed by Jessica McEvoy, Erin Lillis, and Mick Wingert. It is the 1602nd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A woman works at a bar and is barely able to pay the bills each month. During one particularly rough patch she is forced to sell her deceased mother's wedding ring to a pawnshop, much to her dismay. After seeing how sad she is over the loss, the female cashier agrees to pay her double the normal amount and will sell her back the ring if she continues to make payments on it in a timely manner.

Over the next few months, the woman picks up more shifts and could be able to buy back the ring completely, but puts it off every time, not wanting to spend the extra money. One week, she accidentally misses the payment by a single day and calls the shop, only for a male cashier to inform her the ring was put up for sale and immediately disappeared.

Distraught over the loss, the woman remembers when she used to wish on stars when she was little and prays that she will be able to get her ring back. The next morning, she wakes up to find it sitting on her bedside table. Though ecstatic, she wonders where it came from. Over the next few weeks, there is a different piece of jewelry on her nightstand when she wakes up. She is unsure where they are coming from or what to do.

One night, while returning home from work later than usual, she sees a dark figure in her bedroom window. She calls the police and the officers find the female cashier from a year ago hiding under her bed. It is revealed that she became obsessed with the woman and has been breaking into her home during the night to lay under her bed while she sleeps and leave her gifts from the pawnshop. While she is being dragged away by the officers, she tells the woman that she used to wish on stars too, and wished that someone like her would come into her life.

The woman wonders how the cashier knew she was wishing on stars, as she never said this out loud.

## Cast

Jessica McEvoy as the woman

Erin Lillis as the female cashier

Mick Wingert as the male cashier
"Gamer"

**"Gamer"** is the first tale in the fifteenth episode of the fifth season of the Nosleep Podcast. In it, two boys play a deadly arcade game. Written by R.D. Ovenfriend, it has a runtime of 18:17 and was performed by Jeff Clement, Jesse Cornett, and David Cummings. It is the 566th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A boy frequents an arcade in his local mall, with all the latest games. However, it is rumored that the arcade's owner, Stanley, has a secret back room where he keeps consoles that haven't been released yet or feature graphic sex and violence. If he singles you out and takes you to the back room, you can play them.

The boy waits to be chosen, but it isn't until he is alone in the arcade one afternoon before Stanley approaches and offers. He goes into the room where another boy, Ian, is waiting. Ian eagerly tells him he can't wait to play the new flight simulator game.

Ian is placed in one room, while the boy is placed in the other. Against the adjoining wall is a seat with a harness, a helmet with a visor, a joystick, and a basic console. After strapping the boy in, Stanley leaves. He realizes he and Ian can talk through microphones in the helmets.

A robotic voice comes on, explaining that player one must pull the trigger before a timer appears, counting down from fifteen. The two are confused by the directions. Ian presses the button and the boy is shocked by a current. The timer restarts and he presses the button again, shocking the boy harder. Though they yell for Stanley to come and turn off the machine, he fails to answer them.

The boy pleads with Ian to not press the button again. He does so, the timer runs out, and the controls switch. The boy shocks Ian a few times. It is clear the currents are increasing in pain and severity. Ian begs to switch controls back so they can alternate between shocks. However, the boy doesn't believe he will switch once given back control and proceeds to tearfully electrocute him with stronger currents as he screams and the timer resets countless times . Eventually, Ian stops speaking through the microphone.

After several minutes, the harness releases and the boy flees the room, encountering Stanley. He tries to get away, but Stanley opens the other door to reveal Ian, alive. He explains the game was a simulation put out by a psychology group as a test to see if violent video games affect morality. He gives him ten dollars and says if he gossips to his friends about the back room without revealing the test, he will receive ten additional dollars.

The boy is scarred by the experience. The next day at school, he tells his friend Paul about the back room. He never tells his mother about the incident.

## Cast

Jeff Clement as the boy

Jesse Cornett as Ian

David Cummings as Stanley/Paul
"The Thing in the Yard"

**"The Thing in the Yard"** is the fourth tale in the twelfth episode of the seventh season of the NoSleep Podcast. In it, a girl's babysitting job goes terribly wrong. Written by Lindsay Moore, it has a runtime of 12:25 and was performed by Corinne Sanders, Jessica McEvoy, Erika Sanderson, and David Cummings. It is the 826th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A girl gets a call from her friend, Anna, who begs her to fill in for her babysitting job so she won't miss rehearsal for their school play. Anna hopes to go to a college with a major film and TV program so she can become a famous actress. The girl reluctantly agrees.

She arrives at the couple's house and is left with the care of their eight-year-old daughter, Emma. The pair have a quiet evening before Emma goes up to her room, only to come back down quickly and say there's a monster outside her window. The girl goes upstairs to check and sees a tall, gangly creature standing in the backyard. It quickly walks out of sight.

The TV suddenly flips on and a deep voice says "We are coming". The creature appears at the living room window and taps on it before walking around the house, scratching on the siding. The girl hides Emma in a closet before grabbing a fireplace poker and heading outside. She smashes the creature's legs and hits it hard on the face.

Lights suddenly flood the yard and a group of people appear, holding cameras and boom mikes. A producer yells at her that it's all a joke. Anna stands off to the side, crying. A man helps the girl to her feet and explains that they are a group of college students filming a prank show for their local station. The family and Emma were actors. Anna set her up to be scared by someone dressed as a monster with the hopes of impressing the students.

The actor dressed as the creature was wearing stilts, which broke when the girl hit them. She then hit him hard on the head, sending him into a coma that he never wakes up from. The actor's family tries to sue the girl, but eventually sues the college instead. She is cleared of all blame as she was acting in perceived self-defense.

Anna refuses to speak to her and says she ruined her chances at attending the college. The girl says that she has begun thinking there's something in her backyard, but that it's always gone whenever she checks.

## Cast

Corinne Sanders as the girl

Jessica McEvoy as Anna

Erika Sanderson as Emma/the producer

David Cummings as the voice on the TV
"Snow"

**"Snow"** is the first tale in the eighteenth episode of the second season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man gets in an accident and goes to a snowbound cabin for help. Written by Claverhouse, it has a runtime of 18:40 and was performed by James Cleveland. It is the 152nd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man goes for a drive in a violent snowstorm despite warnings from friends and family. His car breaks down a few miles past a small house. The man treks to the house to ask for help, passing two snowmen in the front yard. When he enters, he finds the interior decorated for Christmas with a fire burning in the fireplace. However, the house appears to be deserted. Entering the kitchen, he finds a broken plate on the floor, which he cleans up. On the mantelpiece, he sees a photograph containing two young children and a severe-looking father.

The man waits for hours, but no one returns to the house. He accidentally falls sleep on the couch and ends up spending the night. The snow doesn't let up for the entire next day. The man spends another night, cooking food in the kitchen and trying to tidy up what he can.

The next day, the snow has stopped but the sheer volume prevents him from going anywhere. Exploring around the house, he passes the snowmen and enters a shed in the backyard, finding several rusty tools and missing spot on the board, as if one of them had been taken. He heads back inside and starts a fire in the fireplace, finding a crayon drawing among the kindling. It shows two tearful children standing outside the house, next to a large, dark figure holding a thick piece of rope.

Another night passes. In the morning, the man decides to trek to town, leaving some money and a note of explanation on the kitchen table. On his way out, he stumbles across a hand sticking out of the snow. When he digs it up, he finds the corpse of the man from the mantlepiece photo holding a whip.

Turning back to the snowmen, he digs them up to reveal the corpses of the two children, tied to poles. Piecing the story together, he realizes that the children must have broken the plate in the kitchen. The father tied them to the poles to whip and punish them, but tripped and cracked his head open on a rock. The children, unable to escape their bonds, were buried under the snow and died of hypothermia.

The man is traumatized by the event and the fact that the children may have still been alive when he first came to the house. He says that a part of him will always remain in that snowy garden.
"Pete the Moonshiner"

**"Pete the Moonshiner"** is the first tale in the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a boy is told a disturbing legend by some friends. Written by R.D. Ovenfriend, it has a runtime of 9:25 and was performed by Peter Lewis. It is the 435th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A boy frequently visits his friends, a pair of siblings named Walter and Tom. They live in a large, old farmhouse. The trio stay up late during the night telling scary stories. The one the boy likes the most is of "Pete the Moonshiner".

Pete the Moonshiner was an inbred moonshine distiller that lived in a rundown shack not far from the farmhouse back in the 1920s. A family lived in the house at the same time: a couple, their son, and their daughter. One night, the son is asleep in his room when he hears glass break downstairs and heavy boots on the stairs. He locks his door and Pete knocks, telling him to let him in. The son refuses.

Pete travels to the father's room and brutally tortures him for an hour before killing him. He comes back and tells the boy to open up. He once again refuses, the stink of moonshine even stronger. Pete travels to the mother's room and tortures her for two hours before killing her. He comes back one more time, now overpoweringly smelling like moonshine, and asks the son to let him in. He refuses once more. Pete travels to the sister's room and tortures her for three hours before killing her. He then leaves.

The authorities arrive soon after and discover the corpses. Pete tied them to their beds and cut holes in their belly buttons, pulling out their organs inch by inch until they died. He is caught soon after and executed, the police burning his shack down. Walter says the boy lived in the very room they are in and that he was taken away to a mental institution for the rest of his life.

The boy loves the story and likes hearing it each time. Sometimes he thinks he can smell moonshine and wakes up with a pain in his stomach. Walter and Tom go along with the game and say that it must be Pete's ghost coming into the house to try and kill them during the night. The brothers move away after a while and the boy never sees them again.

Years pass and he attends college. One morning, while in lab, he smells ether and realizes it smells exactly like the "moonshine" from his childhood visits to the brothers. Connecting the pain in his stomach every time he woke up, he realizes Pete the Moonshiner never existed and that Walter and Tom had been drugging and raping him while he slept.
"Don't Lie to Your Kids"

**"Don't Lie to Your Kids"** is the third tale in the seventh episode of the sixth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a woman remembers a disturbing childhood memory. Written by Andrew Best, it has a runtime of 5:20 and was performed by Erika Sanderson. It is the 661st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A girl is afraid of a monster that lives in the attic of her house. The entrance to the attic lies in the ceiling directly above her bed. Most nights she wakes up to see it staring at her through the crack in the trapdoor, breathing heavily. Whenever she calls for her parents, it disappears back inside before they arrive

Her parents don't believe her and think it's all a figment of her imagination. They take her to a therapist, who asks what the monster looks like. She describes it as having a long neck, a small head, and one glaring red eye. The therapy goes nowhere.

The girl manages to combat the monster by hiding under her covers all night. The monster eventually gets bored and goes back into the ceiling. Whenever she has to go to the bathroom, she squirts at the monster with a water gun, causing it to hiss and retreat. Enentually, it stops coming around.

Years pass and the girl grows up. She visits her parents one day and remembers the monster. She goes up into the attic to find a camcorder sitting in the center of the room. She puts the tape in the player downstairs only to see footage of herself as a child sleeping.
"Find Her"

**"Find Her"** is the third tale in the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of the Nosleep podcast. In it, a man searches his house for his missing girlfriend. Written by Brad Blackwell, it has a runtime of 13:05 and was performed by David Cummings. It is the 411th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man and his girlfriend, Amanda, return to their house for a quiet evening at home. They cook dinner and watch some television before deciding to go upstairs to bed. The man lays in bed reading a book while Amanda goes to take a bath.

Just as he settles in with the book, her hears a knock at the front door. He begrudgingly goes downstairs to check, only to find no one there when he opens it. He closes and locks it before deciding to head into the kitchen for a snack. He finds the window above the sink open, something he finds odd as he's never opened that window before. He closes it.

The man goes back upstairs to check on Amanda, only to find her missing. A note sits on top of his book, which reads *"She's in the house...find her."* The man frantically searches the house for her, calling her name and checking every room, but is unable to locate where she is. After searching for his phone and wallet and discovering they are missing, he hears a faint dripping noise coming from somewhere.

The man checks the bathroom at first, but finds the sink has been turned off. Checking under the bed, he finds several drops of blood dripping from the underside of the mattress onto the floor below. Pulling it apart, he finds Amanda's body tucked inside. Another note sits on her stomach, which reads *'But where am I?"* The man runs screaming out of the house to get help.
"A Debt to the Dead"

**"A Debt to the Dead"** is the fourth tale in the sixteenth episode of the first season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a man partners in a science project with a strange man. Written by Douglas Bramlett, it has a runtime of 10:00 and was performed by David Cummings. It is the 64th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A medical student takes a biology class where in every lab they must dissect a cadaver. A quiet, strange student named Cliff is assigned as his partner. Though Cliff is terrible at the classwork, he always excels in lab.

One of the first corpses they dissect is a woman with a bullet hole in her head. Cliff says this woman's boyfriend broke up with her. Shortly afterwards, she fell and hit her head. Sick with a combination of the headache from the injury and the heartache of the breakup, she shot herself. The student dismisses all these claims. He gets a C while Cliff gets an A.

During the next lab, Cliff inspects the body carefully, caressing it and listening for a dead heartbeat. He says this man dropped some cigarette ashes on his lap and swerved his car, getting in fatal accident. The student writes down everything Cliff says in lab from there on out, always getting high marks.

A few months later, the pair are called into the professor's office and asked if they are cheating by talking to workers at the local morgue. The student interrogates Cliff, who won't reveal how he knows these things but says it is his duty to get the dead's stories out, as they can't tell them themselves. As the semester winds down, Cliff begins failing all his classes except lab and telling of things that happened to the corpses when they were alive he couldn't possibly know.

Their last cadaver is of a man with a broken neck. There are strange lacerations all over his body and his penis is discolored. Cliff examines the corpse and begins crying, explaining that the man was a child molester that hung himself so the police couldn't catch him, but regrets doing so because he wanted to be famous. His victims' voices apparently lie within him.

The student tells Cliff to silence the voice of the man and not tell anyone what he can see so the victims can be laid to rest. Cliff refuses and says it's his debt to the dead to tell what he knows. The student angrily crushes his skull with a metal tray and arranges the scene to make it look like he slipped and hit his head on the examining table.
"The Highway Dancer"

**"The Highway Dancer"** is the third tale in the seventh episode of the seventh season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, an invalid woman imagines a monster. Written by C.M. Scandreth, it has a runtime of 16:40 and was performed by Erika Sanderson, Nikolle Doolin, and Alexis Bristowe. It is the 797th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A girl, Allie, has been confined to a wheelchair since birth. However, she has always wanted to be a ballet dancer. With no possible way to achieve this, she settles on daydreaming. Anytime she's in a car, she imagines an adult version of herself in a ballet costume, jumping, skipping, and dancing among the traffic and power lines. It makes trips easier for her.

One day, she is angry about something and imagines the dancer jumping around gracelessly. After her mother tells her that she won't be allowed to have dessert, she sends the dancer down on the hood of a nearby car. It suddenly explodes, erupting in flames and killing the passengers. Smiling evilly, it demands her to crash another vehicle. It almost makes a van swerve into oncoming traffic. When the pull into a gas station, Allie binds the dancer to a fuel pump with imaginary chains. As they drive away, the dancer cries out that if she ever thinks of her again, she'll be free.

Years pass. Allie grows up and plans to marry her girlfriend, Madison. She concludes the dancer from her childhood was imaginary and the car exploding just a coincidence. While out driving with Madison one day, she spots the dancer in her rearview mirror, feet bloody and damaged. It curses her for leaving it behind all those years ago and crashes into traffic, destroying vehicles in its wake. Allie's feet begin to bleed in tandem with the dancer's. Without warning, it lands on the roof of their car, causing it to crash violently.

Allie is disabled even more in the wreck then she already was. Madison slips into a coma and dies a few days later. She is deathly afraid of getting back on the road, fearing the dancer will attack her again. Some weeks later, still confined to the hospital, she comes up with a plan.

Remembering that her feet were damaged along with the dancer's, she locks herself in a bathroom and amputates them. The dancer pleads with her to stop but is unsuccessful, causing it to fall. Whenever Allie is near a road, she forces it to dance painfully on its stumps as it cries out in agony.

## Cast

Erika Sanderson as Allie

Nikolle Doolin as the dancer

Alexis Bristowe as Madison
"Winter Memories"

**"Winter Memories"** is the first tale in the nineteenth episode of the second season of The Nolseep Podcast. In it, a teen's attempt to prank his friends goes terribly wrong. Written by Anton Scheller, it has a runtime of 15:10 and was performed by David Cummings. It is the 155th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A teenager and his friends, Mark, Steve, and Greg, love praying pranks on one another. As winter approaches, the teen has his best idea yet: he'll take his friends up to his parent's ski lodge in the mountains and leave them there, hiding a camera so he can record them huddling for warmth.

On the drive up to the lodge on Sunday, it snows the entire time. The friends get comfortable and stay for a few hours before the teen leaves to "go get firewood". He actually gets in the car and drives down the mountain, ecstatic that his prank worked. He plans to return to the cabin the next day to pick them up.

However, the snow on the mountain doesn't let up, and the teen realizes his friends have very little food up there. Four days pass and the snow doesn't stop, making him unable to drive up the mountain to get them. The teen waits for correspondence from his friends, but gets nothing. He finally receives a frightening call from Mark on Thursday, who claims he'll pay for his actions. He takes this as a sign that the trio made their way down the mountain and prepares for Christmas.

On Friday, he's called to the hospital by the police, where Greg and Steve and their families wait. They reveal that Mark left the cabin on Thursday to walk down the mountain to get help and never returned. The remaining two friends then walked down the mountain the next morning and almost froze to death. Greg and Steve beg the cops not to press charges against the teen, to which they agree and call the whole incident a tragic accident.

Two weeks later, they find Mark's body fifty feet from the lodge, torn apart and missing an arm. The police assume he got lost in the woods and died of hypothermia. The death destroys the three remaining friends and they drift apart.

A few months later, the teen heads up to the lodge to clean it out to get ready for his parents to sell it. He finds his forgotten hidden camera and a few bones lying in a corner. Terrified, he watches the tapes.

The footage shows the four days Mark, Steve, and Greg were stuck in the cabin. For the first three days, the trio become irritable from the lack of water and food and argue constantly. On Thursday morning, Mark dies and the remaining two throw his body outside. That night, they drag his body back in, tear off his arm, and eat it. They then throw his body back outside, and leave the next morning to head down the mountain.

The teen realizes the phone call he received from Mark was impossible, as he was already dead by that point. He confronts Greg and Steve about it, and they reveal they got similar calls. A few days later, Greg dies in a car accident. A week later, Steve falls off his fifth-story balcony to his death. The teen is terrified that he is going to die next.
"It's a Match"

**"It's a Match"** is the third tale in the tenth episode of the eleventh season of The Nosleep Podcast. Written by M.J. Pack, it has a runtime of 21:30 and was read by Mary Murphy, Addison Peacock, and Armen Taylor. It is the 1338th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A woman, Rebecca, is drowning her sorrows over a breakup with her boyfriend of three years, Ryan. Her friend Stevie listens to her complain about how he wasted the prime years of her life by leading her on with false promises.

Rebecca gets an idea that she will set Ryan up with a fake Tinder account and make the users think he's gay, therefore leading to embarrassing phone calls and texts. Using his Facebook password from when she helped him set up an account, she swipes right on every guy she comes across. Stevie sharply objects against the catfishing and tries to get her to stop. When Rebecca refuses, she storms off.

Eventually, Rebecca settles on a user with a Pablo Picasso profile picture to start a relationship with. The user, identifying himself as Robert, states that he's an artist and is always dissatisfied with the world. Though his messages creep her out, Rebecca plays along as Ryan, reacting to everything he says with double entendres and sexual advances. When Robert reveals he wants to torture and butcher Ryan to create his 'masterpiece', she momentarily considers calling the whole thing off, but her anger over the breakup convinces her to accept, although she believes it to be a joke.

When Robert texts Ryan's address and says he's right outside his apartment, Rebecca is alarmed and tries to tell him to leave. Moments later, she receives a picture of Ryan's bloody, dismembered body. Robert reveals he realizes that Rebecca isn't who she says she is and offers to show her how to create art such as his. With a combination of anger at Ryan, the want of a real relationship, and slight psychosis, she accepts. The story ends with her preparing for her first date with Robert.

## Cast

Mary Murphy as Rebecca

Addison Peacock as Stevie

Armen Taylor as Robert
"The Night Lily"

### Narrator(s)

Jessica McEvoy, Mike DelGaudio, Addison Peacock, Alexis Bristowe, Kyle Akers, Dan Zappulla, and Mick Wingert

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"Pet Sitting"

**"The Night Lily"** is the second tale in the eighteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Nosleep Podcast. It concerns a group of friends trying to figure out the circumstances behind their friend's death. Written by Olivia White, it has a runtime of 40:20 and was read by Jessica McEvoy, Mike DelGaudio, Addison Peacock, Alexis Bristowe, Kyle Akers, Dan Zappulla, and Mick Wingert. It is the 1378th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A college student, Lily, goes to a detective, Chambers, to tell him she knows the solution to her friend's death a few months ago. Though he is skeptical, he agrees to listen.

Lily, along with her friends Dia, Guy, Maggie, and Chesney, go to meet their other friend, Andrew, in the gym on campus. Andrew claimed to have something cool to show them. Though the gym is usually closed at night, the group breaks in and makes their way to the basketball court.

There, they find Andrew, dead, tied to the backboard of one of the nets. His body has been weaved together with straw, giving him a scarecrow-like appearance. His chest suddenly bursts open and a dove that was inside flies out and through a window. The police are called. Maggie, who was his girlfriend, remains in a depressed, psychotic state for weeks afterwards.

A few weeks later, Maggie calls the entire group to a mall food court, where she tells them she thinks she knows who killed Andrew. As Chesney and Guy go off to get drinks, she reveals that her and Andrew discovered that the school's custodian, Mr. Borden, was spying on girls in the locker room. She thinks Andrew may have blackmailed him and been killed in retaliation.

After they eat, Dia feels faint and collapses to the floor. She is taken to the hospital. Late that night, in the hallway, Lily tries to flirt with Guy, but is harshly rejected. They hear a scream coming from the room and rush in, only to find Dia in bed, pointing out the window. Maggie is hanging right outside, tied to a post, dead, hanging from the roof four stories above.

Back in the present, Lily confesses that she killed her friends. Chambers doesn't believe her and is about to reprimanded her when a deputy, Philips comes in and says there's a dead body in the parking lot outside. When Chambers leaves, Lily speaks to an unseen figure, saying that she did everything it asked, including falsely confessing that she killed Andrew and Maggie. The figure attacks her and apperantly leaves. Returning to the room, Chambers finds Lily and calls for an ambulance.

## Cast

Jessica McEvoy as Lily

Mike DelGaudio as Chambers

Addison Peacock as Maggie

Alexis Bristowe as Dia

Kyle Akers as Guy

Dan Zappulla as Chesney

Mick Wingert as Phillips
"Chuck Came Back Wrong"

**"Chuck Came Back Wrong"** is the third tale in the twenty-first episode of the eighth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, a boy notices a friend acting strangely. Written by Marshal Bannana, it has a runtime of 14:35 and was performed by Atticus Jackson and Elie Hirschman. It is the 1005th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A boy and his friends sometimes meet at an abandoned gasworks factory to play tag or hide-and-seek. While playing there one day, one of his classmates, Chuck, screams suddenly that everyone needs to run away. Caught in the heat of the moment, the children scatter and rush back to the neighborhood in a group.

Chuck is waiting for them at the entrance when they get back, somehow having reached the spot before them. The boy instantly notices that something is wrong. A meaty, putrid smell wafts off Chuck and he appears to be covered in water. For the entire weekend, he doesn't speak to anyone.

As the next week passes, kids in the class report on Chuck's disturbing actions. One boy says he saw him jump off a quarry ledge and land in the water with his knees bending the wrong way, only to swim up and get out like nothing happened. A girl, Michelle, says she saw him bite into the corpse of a dead kitten. Whenever he speaks, his voice seems deeper and thicker than it should be.

During one lunch period, Chuck spits in a boy's milk with vicious, yellow saliva. Someone manages to spill the milk before he can drink it. Other things become apparent, like how his clothes are always damp, his eyes have a deep bluish tint, and the back of his head bulges whenever he speaks.

While waking to school one day, the boy is picked up by Chuck's mother, who says that he's not her son anymore. She can't get him to bathe and he bites her whenever she tries to put him in the tub. She finds loose teeth all around the house. The boy says he'll come up with a plan to take care of him.

After she drops him off, he begins walking to class only to see Chuck leading Michelle's little sister, Tammy, in the direction of the gasworks. The boy runs over and manages to convince him to take him there instead. Tammy runs back to the school and they set off.

The boy lures Chuck to an abandoned well on the lot and pushes him in. He begins yelling and screeching in an inhuman tone, limbs rotating at impossible angles as he tries to scale the walls, but is unsuccessful. Eventually, he sinks below the surface and out of sight.

The children are banned from playing in the factory. The boy wonders if Chuck was mutated or replaced by something that lived in the gasworks, and questions what it was that the real Chuck told everyone to run from that day.

## Cast

Atticus Jackson as the boy

Elie Hirschman as Chuck
Faces

## Episode Chronology

**"Faces"** is the fourteenth episode of Season 2 of *The Good Doctor*. It is the thirty-second episode overall, and aired on February 4, 2019.

## Synopsis

Dr. Andrews tries to convince a grieving family to donate their teenage daughter's face to another young girl whose face was horribly disfigured in an accident.

## Plot

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## Cast

* Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez
* Antonia Thomas as Dr. Claire Browne
* Tamlyn Tomita as Allegra Aoki
* Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park
* Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick
* Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim
* Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo (credit only)
* Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews
* Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman
* Bronwen Smith as Lori
* Kurt Evans as Dean
* Lilli Birdsell as Shannon Tindle

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Shows A-Z - good doctor, the on abc" - TheFutonCritic.com
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "The Good Doctor - Episode 2.14 - Faces - Press Release" - SpoilerTV
3. ↑ ‘The Bachelor,’ ‘The Neighborhood,’ ‘The Passage,’ all other shows hold: Monday final ratings - TV By The Numbers
"Strangers in a Graveyard"

**"Strangers in a Graveyard"** is the third tale in the sixteenth episode of the first season of the Nosleep Podcast. In it, a man and his girlfriend are hunted by killers. Written by Matt Dymerski, it has a runtime of 7:35 and was performed by Max Glaspey. It is the 63rd tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A man and his girlfriend decide to have a creative date where they watch a scary movie on a laptop in a graveyard at midnight. The pair manage to locate an ancient, nearly abandoned one deep in the backwoods. They follow a road towards it, but decide to stop three miles from the graveyard and walk the rest of the way there through swampland.

After getting settled in, the couple begins to watch the movie. Ten minutes later, a red pickup truck slowly drives by the graveyard on the country road. It shortly returns, going the other way and parking. The headlights fall on the couple for a second before shutting off.

Creeped out, they decide to go back to their car. They sneak past the truck in the darkness, but don't see any signs of the occupants. The man worries that they are following them. Just as they pass the vehicle, they hear a scream followed by a gunshot. Convinced that the occupants won't let them leave now that they've seen them, the couple runs two miles before they see the headlights behind them in the distance.

The couple dives into the muddy undergrowth beside the road and hide as the truck slowly passes. After not hearing anything for an hour, they briefly consider walking again before deciding the gunshot was serious and that they are still in danger. They decide to remain in the hiding spot.

Hours pass. The couple convince themselves they're being ridiculous and almost get out to start walking when the truck passes by them again with the lights off, shining a flashlight through the window to look through the underbrush. After it disappears again, the couple wait until noon the next day to begin walking back to civilization.
"The Stray Bones Trap"

Illustration by Mark Pelham

**"The Stray Bones Trap"** is the fourth tale in the fourth episode of the twelfth season of The Nosleep Podcast. In it, a murdered woman tries to stop a would-be serial killer burying animals near her grave. Written by Chris Kuriata, it has a runtime of 25:30 and was performed by Mary Murphy. It is the 1445th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

The narrator of the story is a murdered woman who was killed many years ago. Abused by her parents, she stole their car and tried to drive away but crashed into a billboard, fatally injuring herself. A man drove by, removed her from the car, raped her in the backseat, finished her off, and buried her in his backyard.

The woman lays there for many years, sentient and able to move her bones slightly. She can tell that her killer moved away but she's certain he's killed other people besides her. Eventually, she begins to feel life returning to the yard above her: she hears children's laughter, barbeques, and people walking around, leading her to guess a family has moved in.

A few more years pass and she begins to notice that someone is digging holes in the yard and dumping dead animals inside. She comes to the alarming conclusion that another killer is on the loose. A few weeks pass before one evening the killer dumps a live dog in the ground and fills the hole up. She can feel the animal's terror and hear its whining, leading her to try and put a stop to it once and for all.

Moving for the first time in years, she manages to pull some of her bones together and remove herself from the ground. She digs the dog up. It is sickly, but alive. Using the bones of all the animals buried in the yard, she constructs a new, monstrous physical form for herself.

She travels into the house and up the parent's room, checking the father's nails, but finds them clean, meaning he isn't the one who's been killing the animals. Going to the teenage son's room, she realizes he is the killer. Using the bones of her new form, she creates a cocoon of bones around him before placing two fangs over his eyes. When he wakes up, the fangs will blind him and he will be forced to break through his victim's bones to escape.

Now no more than a few small bones, the woman travels back outside and notices the dog has left the yard to head back home. She tries to dive back under the ground before realizing she has no bones of her own anymore, as she used them all to make the trap. Finally at peace, she waits for a gust of wind to blow her away so she can be out in the world.
"Salt in the Dark River"

"Salt in the Dark River" is the fourth tale in the seventh episode of the fifth season of The Nosleep Podcast. Written by Brian Martinez, it has a running time of 32:50 and was originally performed by David Ault, Peter Lewis, David Cummings, and Channe Nolen. It is the 525th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

This story is told in the third person. David Ault serves as the narrator.

A man named Douglas lives alone in a house on top of a hill. As he's getting ready for bed, he hears a voice whisper "Tastes like salt." in his ear. He brushes this off as a hallucination until he sees a dead bird lying in his yard. He goes to bed shaken.

Douglas goes to work the next day at his dead-end job as a marketing intern. He is belittled by a coworker named Peter for not showing up for drinks at a bar the previous week. Douglas brushes him off and continues to work, but is plagued by constant reminders of water and salt. At the day's end, he leaves work to return home. A female coworker tries to talk with him in the parking lot, but he brushes her off and starts driving towards home.

Douglas is stopped in a traffic tunnel that goes under a river by a construction worker, saying he has to wait until the team's work is done before proceeding. As he waits, the overhead lights go out, leaving the space in pitch blackness. Douglas turns on his cell phone and sees a rotting, soaking wet man sitting in his backseat. The lights suddenly flick on and he is alone again. Shaken, he returns to his house. That night, he has more hallucinations of the soaking wet man talking about how water tastes like salt.

The next day at work, Peter notices how browbeaten Douglas looks and suggests a treatment involving a sensory deprivation tank. After work, he heads to the clinic and makes an appointment with a receptionist. A doctor takes him into the room with the tank and explains the basics before shutting him inside.

Douglas instantly flashes back to the previous week. The reason he was not at drinks with Peter was because he had gotten in a car accident near a river. The other driver was thrown from the car and lay dying by the river's edge. He begs Douglas to call the police, but Douglas says he already has, even when he hasn't. The driver becomes suspicious and demands that he calls the police. Douglas, not wanting legal trouble, drowns the driver in the river before getting back in his own car and driving away.

As he comes back out of his memory still in the tank, he feels cold hands wrap around his neck and shove him underwater. He presumably drowns.

## Cast

David Aultas the narrator/doctor

Peter Lewisas Douglas

David Cummingsas Peter/drowned man/construction worker

Channe Nolenas female coworker/receptionist
"The Devil's in the Details"

**"The Devil's in the Details"** is the third tale in the seventeenth episode of the tenth season of the Nolseep Podcast. In it, two detectives investigate a grisly murder. Written by J.D. McGregor, it has a runtime of 16:21 and was performed by Mike DelGaudio, Jeff Clement, Nikolle Doolin, and Peter Lewis. It is the 1251st tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A detective, Booth, is called in to investigate a grisly murder in a seedy apartment building. Arriving at the scene, he finds that another detective, Andersen, has also been assigned the case. A poor woman, Martina, is suspected of murdering her two children and then committing suicide. The apartment is almost unbearably hot when he enters. Andersen tells him he already searched the main area and found nothing before warning him of the scene of carnage inside the bedroom.

In the next room, every flat surface is coated in blood. A pentagram in a circle has been carved in the wood next to the bed, inside of which lay several body parts of Martina's two children in addition to a little black book. The rest of the remains lay on the other side of the bed.

Booth theorizes that Martina went crazy after her husband died and snapped. Andersen seems spacey and keeps commenting on the perfection of the blood sprays and the pentagram design. He picks up the book and reads it to Booth, which is a diary that Martina kept. In it, she mentions that "someone" can hear her thoughts and that she shouldn't have let him in. Booth notes that the handwriting in the journal doesn't match the handwriting around the pentagram, theorizing she must have had an accomplice. Andersen searches the rest of the room but finds nothing new. The heat inside the space seems to grow hotter.

Entering the bathroom, Booth finds Martina's body slumped against the wall, having slit her own wrists with a shard of broken mirror glass. Beside her lays a suicide note, in which she calls someone "handsome, but the devil" and says that he locked her in the bathroom so he could kill her children.

Booth leaves the bathroom to show Andersen the note but finds a new detective, Breaston, waiting. He apologizes for being late and claims that he was assigned to work alongside him. Booth asks about Andersen, to which Breaston replies that they are the only two workers on the case, and that there is no detective in the department with that name. Booth notices the room has suddenly lost its intense heat.

## Cast

Mike DelGaudio as Booth

Jeff Clement as Andersen

Nikolle Doolin as Martina

Peter Lewis as Breaston
Abby Howard

## About

**Abby Howard** is an illustrator that is featured on the Nolseep Podcast. She made her illustrating debut in S11E07, with "A Canister from the Ashes".

## Illustrations

* **Season 11**
	+ **Episode 7**
		- "A Canister from the Ashes"
	+ **Episode 14**
		- "E is for Elephant"
	+ **Episode 22: Halloween 2018**
		- "Illustration"
	+ **Bonus Episode #3: Halloween 2018**
		- "Illustration"
* **Season 12**
	+ **Episode 1**
		- "The Cabinet of Dr. Micro"
	+ **Episode 3: Christmas 2018**
		- "Illustration"
	+ **Bonus Episode #2: Christmas 2018**
		- "It Sees You When You're Sleeping"
	+ **Episode 9**
		- "The Pond"
	+ **Episode 17**
		- "The Rider"
	+ **Episode 24**
		- "Sock Monster"
* **Season 13**
	+ **Episode 7**
		- "Secret Beach"
	+ **Episode 19: Halloween 2019**
		- "Halloween"
	+ **Episode 25: Christmas 2019**
		- "Creaks'n'Peaks"
	+ **Bonus Episode #5: Christmas 2019**
		- "Christmas"
"This is My House"

"This is My House" is the second tale in the fourth episode of the first season of The Nosleep Podcast. Written by Erika Blair, it has a running time of 3:08 and was originally read by Isla Schaneul. It is the 11th tale overall on the podcast.

## Summary

A young woman living in an old house is annoyed by a spirit that is haunting her residence. She says that things move when she is not around, water runs from the faucet, and she sees her standing at the end of long hallways, screaming and crying.

Eventually, the woman reaches her breaking point. She reveals that she's tired of dealing with the spirit and that she will chase her with a knife, scream, and do whatever possible to protect her residence. She then reveals that she died in the house a year ago, and that she is the ghost, not the spirit, who is actually an alive person that purchased the house.