History Podcast / TheNoSleepPodcast

* WhamLine: In "Jack in the Box": [[spoiler: "DON'T EAT IT."]]

The Nosleep Podcast is a podcast dedicated to horror fiction, originating from a [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] named [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/ r/nosleep]]. It features stories of various topics all based around the horror genre.

Early seasons adapted stories from r/nosleep and other horror subreddits such as [[https://www.reddit.com/r/libraryofshadows/ r/libraryofshadows]]. Later seasons feature original stories.

The podcast is currently on its fifteenth season. Each season consists of 25 episodes (except for the first season, which has 18), including some bonus episodes.

The Nosleep Podcast is a podcast dedicated to horror fiction, originating from a [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] named /r/Nosleep. It features stories of various topics all based around the horror genre.

The Nosleep Podcast is a podcast dedicated to horror fiction, originating from a subreddit named /r/Nosleep. It features stories of various topics all based around the horror genre.

The show is hosted by ''[[http://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/david-cummings David Cummings]]'' who introduces each tale. There are a number of narrators that contribute regularly to the podcast as well as some illustrators and a composer. Many of the stories, due to their themes, are NSFW.

* ''Literature/TheSmilingMan''
* ''WebOriginal/WhatHappensWhenTheStarsGoOut''

The podcast is currently on it's fifteenth season. Each season consists of 25 episodes (except for the first season, which has 18), including some bonus episodes.

** Anton Scheller's signature is stories about forbidden places or things and his character's interactions with them.

** Confirmed in "Forget-Me-Not", where aliens have taken over the world and cause people to think everything is perfectly normal and happy while the world decays around them from no one keeping it up.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The eponymous house from "The Crawling House on Black Pond Road" [[spoiler: has a gignatic insect nest covering the bottom of it's foundation]].

* BigStormEpisode: "Dust", "Hide and Seek", "You May See Some People", "Midnight Storms", "Shelter from the Storm", "A Message in a Very Old Bottle", "Never Give Directions to Strangers", "It Came with the Storm", "Head in the Clouds", and "The Reason Why I Lock the Door During a Storm"

** The narrator's daughter is taken by the ghosts of the dead(?) children in "The House of Painted Doors, but it is implied that she is happy, wherever she is.

** The narrator of "Forget Me Not" is able to free her boyfriend from the alien's manipulate visions but is unable to save herself.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The house, with it's dark paneling, self-closing doors, and low ceilings in "Stairs of Dark Oak".

** In "Christina Took Things", we are given a graphic description of ''a woman getting an involuntarily abortion with a shovel''.

* BodyInABreadbox: The narrator of "I've Been Intimate With a Ghost" has the the "woman in white" that is haunting him stuff herself into his backpack in order to smuggle herself onto his campsite.

** Gertie from "American Whitehair" is [[spoiler: Entombed alive in a wall, left to starve or burn to death, whichever comes first.]]

** The bodies found inside the abandoned bar in "Georgie's" belong to people who were [[spoiler: Dismembered while they were still alive and then seen together.]].

** This is the twist at the end of [[spoiler: "My Friend's Mother" and "My Last Time Babysitting".

* EyeScream: "They Were Looking Back At Me" is about one of the narrator's friends[[spoiler: cutting out one of his other friend's eyes and keeping them in a box in his room.]]

* FantasyKitchenSink: "A Seaside British Pub" and it's sequel - the titular pub's clientele includes a banshee, a were-eel and a succubus, and its proprietor is a sorcerer.

** The narrator and his girlfriend of "Bird Flu" both catch parasitic worms from eating eggs and both almost die. The narrator than says that you might want to be wary the next time an egg farm is closed due to Bird flu, as it might be something else...

* FreakyFridayFlip: Features heavily in the plots of "Fresh Luck To It's Owner" and "Bounce".

** The poor narrator of "EATOIN" works at a suicide hotline and is constantly harassed by a mysterious caller saying that he is going to die if he doesn't get out of the building he works at. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted, as the last call saves the narrator's life from a murderer trying to break into the building]].

** "Fresh Luck to It's Owner" concerns a watch that causes back-to-back wearers to switch bodies.

* HauntedHouse: With it's mysterious sounds, dark figures appearing on security cameras, and apparitions, the house in "Stranger in the Night" plays this straight at first. [[spoiler: Ultimately averted when it is revealed that it wasn't ghosts at all, but rather homeless people breaking in.]]

** The creature in the narrator's daughter's room in "The Thing in the Nursery" makes an unsettling "chhh" noise that frightens the narrator.

* HollywoodAutism: Hannah, the little girl from "Poor Little Babysitter" is described as having autism, but she has the effects of many different mental illnesses, such as tourette's and down's syndrome.

* {{Hypocrite}}: This is the reason that the narrator of "Just $3 a Day Can Save a Child's Life" is stalking his friend: the friend preaches about giving to charity, the narrator gives away most of his possessions, and then the friend reveals she barely gives any money to charity At all.

* ParanormalRomance: "The Open Secret of East Hall"

* PlagueOfGoodFortune: Occurs in "Good Luck" and "Fresh Luck To It's Owner". Both protagonists encounter something that promises to give them good luck. What happens to them is anything but, but the logic is "things could be much worse".

* PoliceAreUseless: To an absurd degree, as are medical services - to the point where the doctors at a hospital in "Fresh Luck to It's Owner" ''tell the narrator the address of the nearest pawn shop so he can pawn his car'' to pay for an operation.

* RandomEventsPlot: "Ash Hollow", "Search and Rescue" and "The Things They Left Behind" consist entirely of short stories where the only common theme is a certain character that appears in each story.

* RealAfterAll: "The Curtis's Dragon" is about a preschool teacher reading a story from one of her students. In it, the student describers her unhappy home life and how her only friend is a dragon. In the end, the dragon is fed up with the abuse and ill-treatment of his friend and mauls everyone else in the family to death. The teacher founds out later that the girl who wrote the story's family has died. How? By being mauled by a mysterious, large creature...

** The narrator of "My Best Friend's Grandmother" spends quite a bit of time discussing her best friend's grandmother's backyard, with it's tall, menacing trees, mysterious shadows, and broken bottles. In the end, it has no bearing on the story whatsoever

* SirSwearsALot: Most of the characters in most of the stories. Take a shot Everytime a character says "fuck" and you'll be dead by the end of the episode.
* SlasherSmile: Not surprisingly, the antagonist of "The Smiling Man' sports a pretty unsettling one.

* StalkerWithACrush: The villain in "Just £3 a Month Can Save a Child's Life l" denies he is this despite acting like one. The one in "I Couldn't Resist You" is a bit more open about it.

** "The Holes in My Teeth" takes this trope and cranks it up to eleven. Basically the whole plot is a creepy old woman breaking into the narrator's home and pulling all his teeth out with rusty dental equipment

* VillainProtagonist: The narrators of "I Couldn't Resist You", "I'm No Angel", [[spoiler: "She Was Just a Child"]], [[spoiler: "A Hunt in Pennsylvania"]], [[spoiler: "Just £3 a Month Can Save a Child's Life"]], and [[spoiler: "Method Acting"]].

* ''{{WebOriginal/Psychosis}}''

* ''WebOriginal/TheSmilingMan''

* HeroWithBadPublicity: In "The Melancholy of Herbert Solomon", Herbert is practically a carbon-copy of [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kreuger]], being a deformed outsider who was burned alive by an angry town when their children are taken from them, only to have him rise from the dead as the abductions continue. Except not only was he never the culprit, even after dying a cruel and unjust death, he only frightened the townspeople in order to get them to chase him to the location of the missing kids. Centuries later, there are poems in the local area about how Herbert Solomon was a child murderer, but the narrator sees him appear to pull his friend's daughter out of the river.

* LongTitle: "The Strangest Security Tape I've Ever Seen" and "The First Person to Surgically Remove Their Own Brain", to name a few.
** Anton Scheller seems to be the most guilty of this, with titles such as "My Grandfather Knows Why We Run From the Dark" and "Always Act as if Somebody is Watching You".
** As the podcast wore on, titles got longer and longer, as the Nosleep subreddit got more popular and writers needed to come up with titles that would interest readers rather than just one-or-two word ones.

* ExcitedShowTitle: "Say Cheese!"

* HornyDevils: The narrator of In My Line of Work and The Executrix is a succubus, according to WordOfGod.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Magic in "The Yule Tithe" turns the narrator into a hare, a fish, a rook, and a deer to help her get away from fairy hunters.
** The narrator of "Driftwood" is turned into a deer for a short period of time before turning back.

** "Eggs", a failry innocent sounding story, is about a deranged old woman going on a shooting spree in a grocery store.

** [[UpToEleven Taken up to eleven]] in "Why I Didn't Shower For 21 Years", where an old, invalid woman escapes a hospital, travels sixty miles without a car, breaks into a house, and scares the narrator while he's in his shower.

** [[UpToEleven Taken up to eleven]] with Christina from "Jesus Camp". She kills two deer, a squirrel, a dog, and a fox and does disgusting things with their corpses.

** [[UpToEleven By far the most confusing story is]] "The Showers". Did the narrator's teacher tell the whole story? What was the empty, bare room above the tunnel? Why did the tunnel dip down the three feet in some places? Why was the door to the room a suburban front door? What is the room below ground, anyway? What is the thick gunk that leaks out of the showers? Why were the children below ground? Why was their hair never cut and they were never washed? What caused the whimpering coming fro the room? Who was the voice outside the entrance to the tunnels if the narrator's friend was across the clearing? The author of the story quit Reddit after publishing it, so we may never know...

** [[UpToEleven Take up to eleven]] in "5.5", "Nobody" and "Clinical Trial", where the reader (or in this case, listener) actually serves as the story's protagonist.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: "The Wilson Ranch Incident", "The Warren", and "Borrasca" have pretty substantial casts.

[[AC:Works and authors]]

* Creator/CKWalker (also a voice actor)

* Creator/WilliamDalphin

* DefiniteArticleTitle: "The Stairs and the Doorway", "The Midnight Man", "The Cornfield", "The Neighbors Upstairs", "The Smiling Man", "The Djinn Bottle", "The Figure in the Nursery", "The..."

* AffectionateParody: "American Whitehair" is a retelling of {{Creator/Edgar Allen Poe}}'s "The Cask of Amontillado", set on a college campus.

* InfantImmortality: Averted hideously in "The Ice Cream Man", where eleven children die from eating poisoned ice cream.
** Averted In "The Devil's Breath", where the aforementioned drug is apparently so powerful that it causes users to lose their will. This amounts to a drug dealer using the drug to make a father kill his own son after he can't pay him.

!!Works/Authors featured on the Nosleep Podcast with their own pages include:

* Creator/CKWalker

* ADayInTheLimelight: Matthew Bradford, who up until then had only been in about ten stories, was given the starring role in the season seven finale, [[{{Literature/Borrasca}} "Borrasca"]], often regarded as the best episode of the series.

* TheBusCameBack:
** James Cleveland disappeared from the podcast during season three, but came back early on in season six and resumed his position as a regular narrator.
** Sammy Raynor left the podcast at the end of the first season, but came back for the fourth. By the end of the fifth, he had left again.

* ''{{Literature/The Claverhouse Emails}}''

* ''{{Literature/Pen Pal}}''
* ''{{Literature/The Strangest Security Tape Ive Ever Seen}}''
* ''{{WebOriginal/Search And Rescue Woods}}''
* {{Creator/CK Walker}}

* ''{{WebOriginal/The Smiling Man}}''
* {{Creator/William Dalphin}}
* ''{{WebOriginal/What Happens When The Stars Go Out}}''

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The endings of [[spoiler: "He Howls at the Moon", "The Monsters are Already Here", "My Grandmother's Doll", "The Room That Echoed", "The Dry Man", "Dust", "Gristle", "Dead Milk", "Row Boat", "Soft Teeth", "The Name Eater", "500 Yards", "How to Summon the Butter Street Hitchhiker", and "Best Left Buried".]].

The podcast is currently on it's thirteen season. Each season consists of 25 episodes (except for the first season, which has 18), including some bonus episodes.