Don't Fall Asleep

Don't Fall Asleep

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Don't Fall Asleep episodes

  • Blackwood

    Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying.
    Broadcasting live from the darkest shadows of an ancient copse, I will be your guide through the witching hours!
    Tonight, we’ll meet a merchant looking to turn a particularly good profit. To that end, he has hired two men to escort him to a small village in the woods which has recently become famous for a certain product that can only be found near the village. As night begins to fall, they find a particularly unsettling road through the woods lies ahead of them… and who knows what else!
    This story is called “Blackwood”, and was written by A.G. Hilton...
    Link to "Nightside Tales", written by A.G. Hilton: https://shorturl.at/pFKRY

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    27 min
  • Something Ran in Front of my Truck Late One Night...

    Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying.

    Broadcasting live from the side of a country road not on any maps, I will be your guide through the witching hours!
    Tonight, we’ll hear the story of a man working at a logging company, who will heed his coworkers warnings a bit more closely after tonight! There are more than enough troubles one could run into while driving along a country road—wash outs, downed trees, hairpin turns, no cell service... and now...this!
    This story is called Something ran in front of my truck late one night. I barely escaped with my life.
    And was written by JLGoodwin 1990
    Link to the story: https://shorturl.at/dBMU4
    Link to the JL's other work: https://www.reddit.com/user/JLGoodwin1990/

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    44 min
  • DOWN WITH THE SHIP

    Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying.
    Broadcasting live from a rapidly sinking passenger ship, I will be your guide through the witching hours!
    Tonight, we’ll meet a maintenance worker aboard an ill-fated cruise ship, who decides that, no matter the cost, he deserves to survive the sinking of the boat. The only problem is that even if he is able to get off the sinking ship, he’s still out in open ocean. Faaaar from land, floating above miles and miles of dark water and shrouded in a dense fog bank which doesn’t seem to be lifting...
    This story is called “Down with the Ship”, and was written by A.G. Hilton...
    Link to "Nightside Tales", written by A.G. Hilton: https://shorturl.at/pFKRY

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    47 min
  • I Found an Abandoned Mine Shaft While Working as a PARK RANGER

    Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying.

    Broadcasting live from an abandoned mine shaft, I will be your guide through the witching hours!
    Tonight, we’ll take a trip through an old mine, and we won’t end up where you think we will! Our protagonist for tonight is an Arizona park ranger who loves to check out the natural desert beauty once the sun sets. But when a dust storm uncovers the opening to an old mine, our park ranger and a few associates decide to go in and check things out. That’s just the beginning of the long and unpredictable evening that lies ahead. This story is called I Found an Abandoned Mine While Working As a Park Ranger, and was written by Grant Butler
    Link to the story: https://shorturl.at/pHI01
    Link to The Heroin Heiress: https://www.amazon.com/Heroin-Heiress-Grant-Butler/dp/1949759385

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    36 min
  • The Emergency Broadcast Alert Did Something to My Town

    Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying.

    Broadcasting live from an INsecure bunker in the back of a diner, I will be your guide through the witching hours!
    Tonight, we’ll go ahead and end the world! Yes, I know, I’ve been getting requests to go ahead and pull the plug while we’re ahead for years and years. Don’t get too excited, we have to start small. Our scene fades in from black over a picturesque town in the mountains. What could go wrong? Things are so slow here, that everyone in town is discussing an upcoming emergency broadcast system test like it’s big news! And maybe… it’s bigger news than they think.
    This story is called : The Emergency Broadcast Test did something to the people in my town.
    And was written by: u/JLGoodwin1990
    Link to the story: https://shorturl.at/sAHT0
    Link to the JL's other work: https://www.reddit.com/user/JLGoodwin1990/

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    1 hr 10 min
  • The THING in the LAKE -AND- I Made a Deal with a Crossroads DEMON

    Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying.

    Broadcasting live from a leaky boat on a bottomless lake, I will be your guide through the witching hours!

    Tonight, we’ll have ourselves a little DOUBLE FEATURE! It’s been a little while since we had one of those, hasn’t it? As our scene fades in, we find ourselves in a still and quiet wood, on the banks of an ancient lake. There’s something unusual about the smell carried on the wind, and the still waters seem to thrum with an ancient power, and the shoreline drops down into a dark depth which seems to have no bottom... This story is called "Don't go near the old lake. It's bottomless", and was written by Karlal

    Link to "Don't Go Near the Old Lake...": https://shorturl.at/pHOY5

    Link to "My Best Friend's Medication...": https://shorturl.at/uzJNS

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    41 min
  • We Broke Into an Egyptian Theater to go Ghost Hunting... I WISH WE HADN'T

    Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying.


    Broadcasting live from theater 13, I will be your guide through the witching hours!


    Tonight, we’ll dive back into a haunted location! Ahhhh, yes. Every year around this time. a fresh group of friends has the hankering to go somewhere they shouldn’t! Maybe it’s a holiday down to camp crystal lake, or their friends’ house down on elm street, heh heh. This ghost hunting group of friends has in mind to visit an old Egyptian theater in Coos Bay Oregon, with a bit of a reputation of the spectral kind! Will our unlucky protagonists strike out again? Or will they be truly unlucky, and FIND what they’re looking for?

    This story is called : We broke into the Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay to go ghost hunting. I wish we never had.

    And was written by: u/JLGoodwin1990

    Link to the story: https://tinyurl.com/mvfpdj739
    Link to the JL's other work: https://www.reddit.com/user/JLGoodwin1990/

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    47 min
  • I INHERITED A LIGHTHOUSE IN THE WOODS... There Are Things Worse Than Monsters Here

    Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying.


    Broadcasting live from the top of a derelict lighthouse as a storm rolls in, I will be your guide through the witching hours!


    Tonight, we’ll get a bit mixed up in some family drama! Oh, don’t look so glum—there'll be GHOSTS and MONSTERS of course! Ha! One fateful day, a letter arrives in the post for our protagonist, summoning him back home to the house beside the lighthouse where he grew up. But not all is well on the home front, as something has happened to his father, and he’s received an omen of quite ILL portent. A storm is brewing, dear listeners. Let us follow it and see where it takes us….


    This story is called “I inherited a Lighthouse in the Woods”, and was written by J.G. Martin

    J.G.'s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jgmartin

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    1 hr 2 min
  • The Fall of the House of Usher

    0:00 Introduction from Midnight Host
    01:31 Story begins
    56:45 Closing from Midnight Host
    Denizens of the night; welcome to another episode of the macabre-- the terrifying!
    Broadcasting live from inside a mansion entirely consumed by malevolence, I will be your guide through the witching hours!
    Tonight, we’ll revisit a classic which is experiencing some renewed interest! It is the story of a man who visits his friend, only to find both the friend and his home have fallen on... hard times, to say the least. There is a,--as of this recording-- upcoming series on Netflix based on this story and produced by Mike Flanagan, who is exceptional at adapting classics to the modern screen. But to truly understand any adaptation, we must be familiar with the source. So let us call upon the House of Usher ourselves...
    This story is called The Fall of the House of Usher, and was written by none other than Edgar Allan Poe

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    59 min
  • A Strange Man Told Me When I'll Die... HE'S TELLING THE TRUTH

    Denizens of the night; welcome to another episode of the macabre-- the terrifying!

    Broadcasting live from inside a giant doomsday clock, I will be your guide through the witching hours!
    Tonight, we’ll dip our toes back into the macabre, as we discover a new superpower...of sorts. Our protagonist meets someone who reveals to him the hour of his death! But that’s only the beginning, as our leading man decides he’d like to have that power for himself... this story is called:
    A Strange Man Told Me When I'm Going to Die. I'm Afraid He's Telling the Truth.
    And was written by HorrorJunkie123.
    Our scene opens on a beautiful sunny day in the park, where two people are sitting amicably on a bench…and one of them is about to die.
    Link to the story: https://shorturl.at/bwGU4
    Read more from HorrorJunkie here: https://www.reddit.com/user/HorrorJunkie123/

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    16 min

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In search of a SPINE-CHILLING podcast to keep you up at night? Then tune that dial to "Don't Fall Asleep"! In each episode, we'll hear short horror stories from the popular subreddit NoSleep, and…