As the sunlight fades to darkness, the frame franget ends creeping to your mind.

It's time to give into your fear.

Because tonight, there will be no sleep.

Brace yourself for the no sleep podcast.

That dirty feeling I described washed over me 100-fold stronger than any time I touched a purse.

I remember the way he crawled into my window like some desperate beast of a human.

A little pasta half hour I heard it. The tail-tailed drip of water cascading off of wet body and onto the floor.

He wanted not just to be able to reward tucks, but he also wanted to be able to punish him.

She began to hand me paper after paper filled with her nonsensical diagrams and numbers.

It's episode 18 of season 4. Welcome to the show. I'm your host David Cummings.

We have six tails for you this week featuring stories about chilling children, sinister shapes, and hunted hunters.

With December almost upon us, we're entering into the holiday season. I hope all of our American listeners enjoyed a fun and festive Thanksgiving.

With your tummies full of turkey and stuffing, we'll try to go easy on you this week.

Just a reminder that we'll have our yearly Christmas episode coming up in a few weeks.

So even in the midst of all the candy canes and elves and reindeer, remember that the holiday season can still have room for some scary stories each week.

And, well, that's all I have to say this week. So pass the cranberries and let's start the show.

In our first tail, we meet a man who has a unique way of experiencing his body.

As we learn from author Em Grayson, this man imagines odd tendrils which grow from his back.

Fancyful to be sure, but he soon realizes that they might not reside solely in his mind.

The narrator David Alt reads the tale for us and we find out what happens when the man feels a tug.

I'm not really sure how to explain it to you. It's like trying to explain the color blue to a person blind from birth.

So I hope you'll be able to follow along and understand as best you can.

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