Moonlit Shadows: Creepy Sleep Stories

In the winter of 1989, a quiet man becomes caretaker of Larkin Springs, a fading railroad resort high in the snowy mountains of northern California. The lawyer who hires him says he doesn't need to check cabin nineteen, because nobody goes in there. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

Ray Corbin runs the only gas station, café and motel in Ironwood Junction, population fourteen, the last stop before a scorching California desert. In July of 1979, three friendly travelers stop for gas and water and ask about a shortcut over the mountains, and Ray tells them not to take it. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In the early 1970s, Gil Navarro hosts a late-night radio show in a sleepy orange-grove town in the California hills. Every night around one o'clock, a woman named Nora calls the request line from the record shop where she works late and asks for the same slow old song. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In the winter of 1994, Nate works night security at an aging casino on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe. Every night at two in the morning, the desk phone rings, and a calm, polite man says the same thing: "She won't be coming in tomorrow. Family emergency." Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In 1987, Sam takes the night shift at the Desert Rose Motor Lodge, a faded 1950s motel far from the lights of the Las Vegas Strip. The owner gives him one rule: between eleven o'clock and twenty to twelve, never leave the desk, and never go out to the car that pulls up front. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In the spring of 1983, a quiet, divorced ranger takes the job nobody else wants: opening a remote guard station at the end of Thimble Road, high in the mountains. Someone has left the blankets folded and a logbook written in careful pencil, and every night after midnight, a voice calls up the road: "Hello? Is somebody there?" Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In the winter of 1996, Owen becomes the caretaker in Tamarack, a tiny snowbound mining town at the bottom of a deep canyon in northern Nevada, where only eleven people stay for the winter. Every evening at exactly six-thirty, he hears harness bells and creaking wheels coming down the closed canyon ro

In the fall of 2009, a carpenter is hired to restore the last cottage on Sporting Row in Silver Hollow, a windswept silver-mining ghost town in the Nevada hills. A woman named Josie was murdered there in 1871, and the town has kept her legend burning ever since. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In November 1991, a grieving widower takes a job as winter caretaker at Larkspur Cabins, a row of empty log cabins on the shore of a deep, cold Montana lake. On still nights, out on the water, he hears the slow creak of oars, going out and coming back in. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories

In the third summer of a long drought, the water at a small Lake Mead marina is dropping faster than anyone has ever seen, and sunken boats and a drowned town rise out of the mud. Every evening, an old man named Walt sits at the end of the fuel dock, writing down exactly how far the water fell. Find more creepy sleep stories on the Moonlit Shadows YouTube channel: youtube.com/@moonlitshadows.stories