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The Welcome to the No Sleep Podcast, 2026 holiday hiatus episode, Volume 1.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2026. After a busy holiday season,

we've chosen to go dark for the week after Christmas. And yes, we're usually dark with our

tails, but in this case it means we've turned off the office lights and put a closed-for-the-holidays sign on the door.

Even we sleepless need some rest.

But, as always, we're not going to leave you Sond's sleepless stories.

We're sharing with you two tales that were a part of our sleepless universe platform the past few seasons.

So please enjoy these stories for your horror entertainment with our very best wishes.

It's our hope that this year will be full of all the best kind of fictional horror for you

and very little real horror.

Raise a cup of kindness yet for the tales of a sleepless kind.

In our first tale, we meet a couple dealing with a devastating loss.

It's understandable that they'd want to make a new

start in a new home, anything to leave their past trauma behind them. But a new home doesn't always

mean a brand new home. And in this tale, shared with us by author Jamie Francis Janassian,

the couple soon realized that their fixer-upper needs fixing in more ways than a new coat of paint. Most of the work is needed downstairs. Performing

this tale are Nicole Doolin, Nicole Goodnight, Atticus Jackson, Mike Delgado, and Dan Zapula.

So let's hear the woman explain why she says, my family is refusing to leave the basement.

... They've been down there too long.

I keep telling them they just need to come upstairs.

To leave that cramped, dark room of packed dirt and come into the light.

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