Through the murky darkness of the night, when fear banishes sleep, it's the no-sleep

podcast.

Born from the nightmares of Reddit.com's no-sleep forum, and featuring tales from

Reddit's authors of horror, we present you with tales intended to frighten and disturb

and keep you awake as the night slowly creeps past.

Your first tale is entitled, You Never Smile.

The disciplined routine of a military academy is not easy to disrupt, until a dark presence

shows it's not there to follow orders.

This tale was written by Thomas Burr and is read by Max Glassby.

It all started when I was 20 years old, living in suburban North Carolina.

I was an officer in my ROTC unit, and got offered the chance to participate as a cadre

at a summer leadership class for high school students at the Citadel Military Academy.

Of course, trying to prove myself to the colonel, I obliged and took the job.

We packed up all the more things, took a truck trailer combo down to the academy and began

to move in.

That's when it started getting strange for me.

I was in my room around 2am in my barracks, when I heard footsteps outside.

I knew I was the only one on that floor and looked in my doorway, only to see the light

from the opposite room disappear.

Confused and thinking that someone had gotten the wrong assignment, I decided to go see

who was there, forgetting about the footsteps.

Knocking on the door, I heard nothing.

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