
Tear Jerker: The father in "Can You Hear the Birds Singing?" is flat broke for many years with his young daughter.
Unfortunately, it seems to be falling into this again, with season 11 being one of the least well-recieved.
Averted, when it won back a ton of detractors with the acclaimed return-to-form seasons 7-8.
Seasonal Rot: The podcast has been accused of succumbing to this around seasons 5-6, with one redditor describing the stories from those seasons as "less about well-written, scary stories and turned into vaguely supernatural stories usually about how ghosts are helpful". Redditor 1000vultures, the author of the most wide known story outside the Nosleep fandom, "Penpal", wrote some other stories for the website, but none of them are remembered or discussed as much as "Penpal" is. One-Hit Wonder: The authors of massive Nosleep hits such as "The Showers" and "Box Fort" quit Reddit shortly after publishing their stories, so their one famous story is all they are known for. He does one day and finds out that his roommate's dead, rotting, zombified mom makes him have sex with her while she bites his penis. In "One Condition", the narrator's roommate tells him to never go into his bedroom. The descriptions of Fritz's house in "Life of the Party" are pretty gross. It is revealed that there was a homeless man living in the walls of the house, watching her, and died while sexually asphyxiating himself while watching her sleep. The NoSleep Podcast celebrates its 500th episode with a special volume of Sleepless Decompositions This episode features the wraparound story: Epiphany of. Holes keeping being drilled in the walls of her bedroom, her things keep disappearing, and she hears strange sounds at night. Nausea Fuel: The basic premise of "Holes" is that the narrator is living with her grandparents. In fact, the story he appears in his actually more hilarious than scary. Creepy Awesome: Eric the ghost from "Not Now, Eric" was loved by listeners of the podcast for his bizarre actions and funny moments. The other side found it gross, not scary, and not deserving of a spot on a horror fiction Podcast. One side found it a heartwarming, slightly haunting love story that was something the podcast needed to break up all the horror. The later inclusion of a trigger warning was in itself a matter of contention among listeners. Broken Base: Stories involving rape naturally tend to be controversial. This scene has no effect on the rest of the story and is not mentioned again. Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: After several bizzare events happening at the DMV, the narrator's friend in "DMV" goes to the hospital and a nurse gives him the same medication three times in a row with the same dialogue.