Scary Horror Stories by Dr. NoSleep
Welcome to Dr. NoSleep™, the home of diabolical horror stories, creepypastas, and original scary tales. Each episode features professional human narration, immersive sound design, and human-written horror fiction—no AI, no shortcuts. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1 PM EST. Follow now and enable notifications to stay up to date on the darkest stories on the Internet. For advertising opportunities, book directly through Gumball.fm. * * * OWNERSHIP DISCLAIMER: This podcast is not associated with The NoSleep Podcast or its host in any way. The creators of Dr. NoSleep remain anonymous. CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This podcast contains explicit content not limited to i...
I’m by Myself on a Lifeboat, but I’m Not Alone
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A ship catches fire in the middle of the North Atlantic, leaving one sailor stranded alone in a lifeboat with almost no food, barely any water, and something in the corner that won’t stop staring at him. Each night, shadows circle the boat, footsteps cross the roof, and scorched fingers scratch at the hatch from outside. As a violent storm closes in, he’s forced to confront what really ha...
I Rented a Remote Cabin in the Woods. The Owner Left Me a Strange List of Rules | Part 3
Tariq books a remote cabin for his annual friends’ getaway. The place seems strange, but harmless, until one bedroom becomes a blood-soaked mess and the owner’s rule binder finally explains why. Some rules sound ridiculous. Others sound impossible. But one line matters more than all the rest: if a rule is broken, they have until dawn to make it right… or face something worse than death.
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I Rented a Remote Cabin in the Woods. The Owner Left Me a Strange List of Rules | Part 2
Tariq books a remote cabin for his annual friends’ getaway. The place seems strange, but harmless, until one bedroom becomes a blood-soaked mess and the owner’s rule binder finally explains why. Some rules sound ridiculous. Others sound impossible. But one line matters more than all the rest: if a rule is broken, they have until dawn to make it right… or face something worse than death.
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I Rented a Remote Cabin in the Woods. The Owner Left Me a Strange List of Rules | Part 1
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Tariq books a remote cabin for his annual friends’ getaway. The place seems strange, but harmless, until one bedroom becomes a blood-soaked mess and the owner’s rule binder finally explains why. Some rules sound ridiculous. Others sound impossible. But one line matters more than all the rest: if a rule is broken, they have until dawn to make it right… or face something worse than death.
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[BONUS] I Hijack Bodies
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A neuroscientist discovers a way to enter another person’s mind and experience their life through their eyes. He’s secretly done it to twelve people without consequences—until one of them suddenly dies while he’s connected. Soon, his former subjects begin showing up at his house, convinced they’re him.
Writer: Matt Doggett
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I Woke Up Driving in Hell
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Everyone on My Shift Resets at Midnight Except Me
Bruce works in a windowless office with no clocks, no calendars, and no memory of the last time he slept. His job is simple: stare at endless columns of numbers, find the hidden pattern, and type whatever answer appears in his head. But every night at midnight, all of his coworkers stop working, put their hands to their heads, and scream for five straight minutes. Bruce screams too, but he's the only one pretending.
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The Half-Faced Man Behind the Trees
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Casey is just a kid when he hears a laughing man peering from behind a tree: half a face, one bloodshot eye, and a filthy finger silently calling him closer. His mother stops him before he reaches the tree, and the man vanishes. Then years later, that same maniacal laugh returns—this time luring his best friend into the woods. In a trance, his friend reluctantly follows the man...
I Took a Job at a Century-Old Hotel With a Strict List of Rules | Part 2
On his first night working alone at a historic hotel, Trevor is handed a list of bizarre rules he assumes are nothing more than new-guy hazing. Then one mistake turns the quiet building into something impossible, and the guests begin changing in terrifying ways. By midnight, Trevor realizes the rules were never meant to protect the hotel—they were meant to keep something from getting out.
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I Took a Job at a Century-Old Hotel With a Strict List of Rules | Part 1
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On his first night working alone at a historic hotel, Trevor is handed a list of bizarre rules he assumes are nothing more than new-guy hazing. Then one mistake turns the quiet building into something impossible, and the guests begin changing in terrifying ways. By midnight, Trevor realizes the rules were never meant to protect the hotel—they were meant to keep something from getting out.
I Wanted to Become a Famous Killer. Then I Met a Real One.
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For years, Asher has imagined the documentary they’ll make about his crimes. The question isn’t whether he wants to become a killer—it’s whether he’s capable of becoming one.
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I’m a Paranormal Investigator. This Is the One Recording I’ll Never Release | Part 3
Paranormal investigator Duncan Crowley possesses a recording so dangerous that he believes playing it could end the world. When his former partner steals it and auctions it to a room filled with killers, cultists, and creatures wearing human faces, Duncan is forced to reveal what really happened during his team’s final investigation. But the recording isn’t merely evidence of an ancient evil—it’s the key to waking something that has been hiding inside him ever since.
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I’m a Paranormal Investigator. This Is the One Recording I’ll Never Release | Part 2
Paranormal investigator Duncan Crowley possesses a recording so dangerous that he believes playing it could end the world. When his former partner steals it and auctions it to a room filled with killers, cultists, and creatures wearing human faces, Duncan is forced to reveal what really happened during his team’s final investigation. But the recording isn’t merely evidence of an ancient evil—it’s the key to waking something that has been hiding inside him ever since.
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I’m a Paranormal Investigator. This Is the One Recording I’ll Never Release | Part 1
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Paranormal investigator Duncan Crowley possesses a recording so dangerous that he believes playing it could end the world. When his former partner steals it and auctions it to a room filled with killers, cultists, and creatures wearing human faces, Duncan is forced to reveal what really happened during his team’s final investigation. But the recording isn’t merely evidence of an ancient evil—it’s the key to waking something that h...
We Took a Drug Called Stardust—It Hatched Something Inside Us
In the 1980s, a mysterious drug called Stardust promised users the chance to experience impossible worlds and entirely new lives. But when one man’s body begins changing from the inside out, it becomes clear that Stardust isn’t creating hallucinations—it’s bringing something back.
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My Dad Left Me His Cabin in the Woods. The Basement Door's Nailed Shut.
A midnight call shatters Jude’s world with news of his father’s death, pulling him back into the family pain he thought he’d buried long ago. Drawn to a remote cabin his father secretly owned, Jude uncovers a letter that was never meant for him — and realizes some doors in his family were never meant to be opened.
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I Work the Night Shift at a Diner. There's a Customer No One Else Can See
Most nights at the diner are the same: loud teens, greasy food, and aching feet. Then she appeared in Booth Six — beautiful, charming, and completely invisible to everyone but me.
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Author: Jake Bible
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I’m a Night Guard at a Museum. The Olmec Heads Started Speaking to Me | Part 2
A lonely night guard at a storm-battered anthropology museum hears stories whispered from the ancient artifacts—but one voice, buried inside a colossal Olmec head, is louder and darker than all the rest. As the “thunder” outside grows closer, Alberto realizes it isn’t a storm at all…it’s the body of an ancient stone god coming to reclaim its head.
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I’m a Night Guard at a Museum. The Olmec Heads Started Speaking to Me | Part 1
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I Own a Remote Cabin Outside Area 51. Big Mistake...
A washed-up Vegas hustler thinks he’s found the perfect tourist trap when he wins a remote cabin just outside Area 51—but the crews keep quitting, the walls keep making noises, and something is moving beneath the floor. When a pizza delivery kid is dragged into the basement by clawed gray hands, Billy “Big Brass” Williams realizes his alien-themed rental might be sitting on top of the real thing.
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[BONUS] Our Alien Overlords Are Wonderful and Benevolent
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10 Rules for Surviving the Night Shift at a Haunted Lighthouse | Part 3
Alone on the night shift at a haunted lighthouse, Auggie must follow ten unbreakable rules to survive the ghosts, the hungry fog, and the deadly secrets that lurk after midnight. hen his obnoxious boss Jimbo and a group of drunk friends break the most important rule and get trapped inside, the long night turns into a brutal fight for survival where every voice lies, every light deceives, and only one can make it to dawn.
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10 Rules for Surviving the Night Shift at a Haunted Lighthouse | Part 2
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Author: Jake Bible
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[BONUS] I Built a Pillow Fort for the Girl I Babysit… And She Vanished Inside
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A babysitting job turns into a nightmare when a harmless pillow fort opens into a dark tunnel that should not exist. Now Ben has to find Mia before whatever is crawling through the cushions finds them both.
Author: James Gullickson
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There’s a Strange Door in Our Basement That I’ve Seen Before
When a message from a long-lost friend arrives in the middle of the night, Dan is pulled back toward something he and his old friends swore never to speak of again. But as buried fear starts creeping into his home, he realizes the past may not be finished with them after all.
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My Family Bought an AI-Powered Home. Now It Won’t Let Us Leave
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I Bought a Haunted Office Building—There’s a Killer in the Backrooms
A missing employee leads a ruthless CEO and his sister into an abandoned office building where the hallways shift, the dead still work, and something wearing a cheap zombie mask is waiting for its next boss. But inside this cursed corporate maze, firing someone may be impossible — and quitting may be deadly.
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[BONUS] I Went to a Plastic Surgeon Who Promised to Make Me One of a Kind
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I Heard My Son Screaming in the Woods
A father and son camping trip turns into a nightmare when something in the woods starts calling from the dark. But the deeper Terry runs, the clearer it becomes that the monster chasing him may not be the one he should fear most.
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I Hid in My Storm Shelter During the Tornado. But I Wasn’t Alone...
When a teenage girl hides in her family’s storm shelter during a tornado, she realizes she isn’t alone — and the stranger inside knows far too much about her. But as the storm traps them underground, the real danger isn’t outside the door… it’s locked in there with her.
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The Police Chase That Never Ends
After a brutal bank robbery goes sideways, two brothers tear down a backroad with a cop car gaining on them — even though they know that officer should be dead. But the longer the chase goes on, the more it feels less like an escape… and more like a punishment that never ends.
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[BONUS] The Last Radio Show in America
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I Found Evidence of a Secret American Ritual. No One Will Talk About It... | Part 2
In 1985, America held a lottery no one was allowed to talk about — and the people chosen were not winners. Decades later, one forgotten ribbon leads to a secret the whole country buried: every day is a gift, but someone had to pay for it.
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I Found Evidence of a Secret American Ritual. No One Will Talk About It... | Part 1
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In 1985, America held a lottery no one was allowed to talk about — and the people chosen were not winners. Decades later, one forgotten ribbon leads to a secret the whole country buried: every day is a gift, but someone had to pay for it.
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3 Radioshack Horror Stories
For years, RadioShack promised it had everything you needed to stay connected. But in these three terrifying stories, the signals coming through the wires are not from anyone who should still be alive.
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[BONUS] I Found a Strange Door In Our Basement That Wasn’t There Before
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Mr. Mystery’s Marvelous Magic Set For Aspiring Magicians
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I Met a Girl Beneath an Underpass. I Never Should Have Taken Her Home
After picking up his old friend from prison, the narrator takes a shortcut beneath an overpass and finds a strange young woman waiting in the cold. What begins as a simple act of kindness soon turns into a night he may never fully escape.
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I Locked Myself in a Motel Room. Then the Phone Started Ringing
A paranoid motel guest barricades himself inside his room, convinced the creatures hunting him have finally tracked him down. But when a mysterious voice on the phone tells him a package has already been delivered, he’s forced to decide whether he’s been given a way to survive—or pushed into the final stage of their trap.
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