Penpal ~ Part I

The NoSleep Podcast

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Performing Arts, Science Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Fiction

4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Nosleep Podcast is proud to present the first part of our Halloween Trilogy to celebrate Halloween Week!

The six tales told by Dathan Auerbach (Redditor 1000Vultures) have had a phenomonal effect on Reddit.com’s Nosleep forum. To celebrate this series, we are releasing a special extended two-part set of recordings that feature all six stories.

Part I features the first three stories:

Footsteps

Balloons

Boxes

All stories are narrated by Sammy Raynor (Redditor sammysimplicity)

Part II of the series will feature the final three stories and will be released in the coming weeks.

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0:00.0	The No Sleep Podcast is proud to present Part 1 of a special two-part extended edition,
0:19.6	featuring the epic series of stories written by the Redditor known as 1,000 Vultures.
0:28.8	To lead you on the journey, the author himself will introduce you to his series entitled PEN-POW.
0:43.8	Hi, my name is Nathan Hauerbach. On the author of a series of six stories posted on No Sleep that I've
0:49.7	come to title PEN-POW. For this special two-part extended edition of the No Sleep Podcast,
0:55.9	I will be introducing each story to give you some background that will hopefully help you
0:59.7	understand a little bit more about why I wrote them. In Part 1, the first three stories in this
1:05.2	series will be presented. Each story is narrated by Sammy Rainor.
1:17.7	The first story in the series is entitled Footsteps. I've never had to tell this story with
1:23.1	enough detail to actually explain it all the way, but it's true, and it happened when I was about
1:27.9	six years old. In a quiet room, if you press your ear against a pillow, you can hear your heartbeat.
1:43.3	As a kid, the muffled rhythmic beads sounded like soft footsteps on a carpeted floor,
1:48.4	and so, as a kid almost every night, just as I was about to drift off to sleep, I would hear
1:53.6	these footsteps and would be ripped back into consciousness, terrified. For my entire childhood,
2:00.0	I lived with my mother in a fairly nice neighborhood that was in a transitional phase.
2:05.0	People are of lower economic means we're gradually moving in, and my mother and I were two of these
2:09.2	people. We lived in the kind of house you see being transported in two pieces on the interstate,
2:14.7	but my mom took good care of it. There were a lot of woods surrounding the neighborhood that I
2:19.4	would play in and explore during the day, but at night, as things often do as a kid, they took on
2:24.5	a more sinister feeling. This coupled with the fact that due to the nature of our house,
2:30.1	there was a fairly large crawl space underneath filled my mind with imaginary monsters
2:34.4	and inescapable scenarios which would consume my thoughts when I was awoken by the footsteps.
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