As the sunlight fades to darkness and the frightful tails creep into your mind, it's

time to give in to your fear because tonight there will be no sleep.

Brace yourself for the no-sleep podcast.

Yes, my little ghosts and goblins, it's Halloween and instead of candy I have a bonus

episode of the no-sleep podcast for everyone. Welcome to the show. I'm your host David Cummings.

The Halloween episode this year is our longest episode ever. We have over two hours of

frightening tales for your thrilling and chilling evening. So grab some fun-sized candy,

turn down the lights and settle in as we get right on with the show. Our first tale describes

a haunting but unlike the usual things and places that can be haunted, the item in this story is

rather unique. Narrator James Cleveland reads for us the tale by author David Birx as he describes

the nightmare he discovered in the snapshot.

When you think about something being haunted, there's always a handful of objects

intrinsically tied to the idea. Off the top of my head, let's see, there's dilapidated houses,

hospitals and graveyards, the always spooky haunted car. I'm sure most of you have heard

of a haunted painting or ghostly radios tuned to the desperate message of some long forgotten

spirit. Modern trends have even led to tales of haunted computers and possessed cell phones.

More important than the object, however, is the story behind its acquisition.

Nobody simply goes to sleep in their peaceful little suburban shack, only to wake up in a haunted

mansion. It seems ludicrous to imagine buying a new car with a ghostly passenger tagging along

in the back seat. Even in the twists involving haunted technology, you can almost guarantee the

protagonist acquired the item second hand. Imagine my surprise then at finding a haunted

photograph of my family, a photograph that had for the past 15 years been just another snapshot

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