For the Dark Hours, when you dare not close your eyes, it's the No Sleep Podcast.

Featuring stories from reddit.com's No Sleep Forum.

Sleep. Join us as the sleepless hours tick pass.

Our first tale is entitled Jack's Back, written by Linda Groth and read by David Cummings.

I first got into contact with Jack, my former landlord, a little over a year ago when I answered

his newspaper ad.

I was in a rush to move as I had just broken up with my significant other, whom I shared

an apartment with, and Jack was renting out the furnished basement of his house.

The location was good and the price was a steal, so I moved in with a few boxes of personal

items four days later.

Jack was the eternal bachelor interested in nothing but cars, certainly not interior decorating

or even basic upkeep for that matter, and when he got up to go to work at 5 a.m., he

would often wake me up, since I am a very light sleeper.

However, as the months passed by, I got accustomed to waking up early.

I cannot tell you the exact moment I realized that something wasn't right.

For a number of days, a thought slowly crept into my conscious mind and settled.

I hadn't heard very much noise from upstairs lately.

There was the occasional creek or bang, like in all older houses, but the heavy footsteps

that I woke up to and sometimes heard during the evening had seemed to disappear completely.

Perhaps Jack was sick, I thought.

Perhaps he hadn't worked in a few days, perhaps he worked different hours.

The man was a real loner and kept to himself, so it honestly didn't seem strange to me.

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