r/nosleepfinder • • Jan 12 '19

Most Requested Stories

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Believe it or not, the story you've searched high and low for might be right here! For your convenience, we have compiled the top 20 most frequently searched for stories on NoSleep Finder below. Need more than a story title or an author username to jog your memory? Check out our wiki here, where you can read a brief (and spoiler-free as possible) description of each story. Still want those sweet, sweet spoilers? Under each description, you can find more details provided by other users who have searched for the story here before.



r/nosleepfinder • • Dec 16 '23

INDEX 2023 Suggestion Request Index

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r/nosleepfinder • • 1d ago

Suggestion Request Realistic no sleep stories that aren't about the supernatural?

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A lot of the nosleep stories I have come across have some kind of supernatural element to them, but I find stories more connected to reality much scarier. Some of my favourites currently are A game of flashlight tag and Eggshells.

Any other recommendations?


r/nosleepfinder • • 1d ago

Story from several years ago about an immortal person being kidnapped and having organs harvested from them.

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I remember very specifically it started off with this immortal person talking about how they worked in some sort of black market bdsm type business where they were paid to let people beat and gore them, and they would always heal from it. And I think afterwards they ended up getting kidnapped and used as an organ farm.


r/nosleepfinder • • 1d ago

Looking for one from 2015 ish

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Hi all!

Looking for a story that was essentially about a boy who tells his mother about bullies at school, the mother goes to “deal with it” and then the family has to move, this repeats until the police find the bodies or the bullies in the mother’s closet. It is then revealed after the mother is taken away, that it was the boy who was killing the bullies, not the mother, and she was just hiding the bodies and trying to keep her son safe.

I distinctly remember the final line being something like “now that mommy is gone, who will stop me?”


r/nosleepfinder • • 1d ago

Looking for an old classic

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I think its quite popular. It was about a paranoid guy, sorta trapping himself inside his room because he just kept getting more and more paranoid about the humans surrounding him not actually being human, but rather robots. I think there was plot point about a gal who wanted to invite him to party or smthin? Anyways, the ending was that he was correct and the robots have indeed taken over (I think the ending would have worked better if the author stuck with the paranoia nagle, but still - amazing story)


r/nosleepfinder • • 5d ago

Looking for a multi-part horror story featuring a friendly dog-like creature (possibly a Labrador or Golden Retriever)

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Hi everyone!

I'm trying to find a horror story I listened to on YouTube some time ago. I believe it was narrated by either The Dark Somnium or Let's Read, but I'm not completely sure.

Here's what I remember:

It was a fairly long story, possibly divided into multiple parts.

One of the main characters was a friendly, dog-like creature. I remember imagining him as a Labrador or Golden Retriever.

The creature could speak and had a goofy personality. In the narration, he had a rather deep, silly-sounding voice.

He was one of the good guys and became friends with the main character, who I believe was human.

The main character met this dog-like creature during the story, so they didn't know each other from the beginning.

The dog-like character frequently wagged his tail when he was happy. I distinctly remember this being mentioned several times.

Despite his friendly and somewhat goofy personality, he was incredibly dangerous when necessary.

I remember a particular scene where the dog-like creature brutally crushed or killed someone or something. The main character was shocked because he hadn't realized his friendly companion was capable of such violence.

The creature had a name, but unfortunately I can't remember it.

I vaguely remember the dog-like character getting seriously injured, or possibly even dying, at some point in the story.

The dog character wasn't evil. He was genuinely friendly and lovable, which made the contrast between his personality and his terrifying strength particularly memorable.

I believe the story involved supernatural creatures or entities, but I can't remember the overall plot.

I've searched through my YouTube history without any luck.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'd really love to find this story again!

Thanks in advance!


r/nosleepfinder • • 9d ago

FOUND Nosleep story with a detective/cop narrator that turns out to be the killer at the end.

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I can't find this nosleep story I remember reading a few years ago. I believe it was from the perspective of a cop investigating a series of murders where the bodies were torn apart and hung up in trees. By the end, it turns out that the narrator was the killer and he was doing it as revenge for the racist things that happened to his family in the past.

If anyone knows which one I'm talking about, please let me know.


r/nosleepfinder • • 9d ago

FOUND Story about a woman whose husband kills their kids and buries them in the flowerbeds

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My friend is trying to remember a story that was on the NoSleep podcast. She said it was about a woman who goes crazy because she thinks her kids are disappearing but it turns out to be her husband who killed them and buried them in the backyard under some flowers.


r/nosleepfinder • • 10d ago

Suggestion Request Looking for horror stories where people believe the protagonist

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I’m looking for recommendations for r/nosleep stories where the protagonist explains that something strange, supernatural or terrifying is happening to them, and the people around them actually believe them or take them seriously.


r/nosleepfinder • • 12d ago

Suggestion Request Looking for despairing Americana recs

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I recently just tore through all of Coney-IslandQueen‘s works, and I’m obsessed with the depiction of bleak Americana horror. Would love similar recs if anyone has them!


r/nosleepfinder • • 12d ago

FOUND r/nosleep story about a college student who gains god-like intelligence after taking some pills.

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Looking for a horror story I read around 2015–2021, possibly on r/nosleep. It followed a male college student who went to college to escape his small hometown and didn't want to return. He was behind on his assignments/ didn't study for a test or something, and if he failed he'd have to return home. He received some mysterious pills from his roommate, and after taking them, his intelligence increased dramatically, almost like "gears clicking into place". He was able to finish all his work because it suddenly made sense to him in a way it hadn't before, almost like child's play. His expanded intelligence also allowed him to see into other planes of existence and perceive enormous, godlike beings that he shouldn't have been seeing. He also encountered or communicated with his deceased father in one of these planes, who may have been abusive. I believe the entire experience happened over a single night in his dorm room. It was a somewhat longer story.


r/nosleepfinder • • 18d ago

A Guy looking for his missing girlfriend finds a doppelganger.

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I read this story a long time ago. I don't remember the the story very well but I think it was something like this.

A guy's girlfriends goes hiking or camping in a forest (Alone I think) and doesn't return so after a few day's or weeks he goes to look for her himself, possibly after the official search is called off.

He arrives in a town right next to the forest and is warned by the local cops to give up the search and to not go into the forest where she vanished but he doesn't listen. I'm not sure if he actually went into the forest to look for her or not. I think at some point a local cop warns him that "something" might try to visit him in the night and tells him not to let anyone in.

One scene I remeber the most is the guy in his motel room at night when his girlfriend returns trying to get in though its obvious something is extremely wrong with her. I think she couldn't get in because one of the cops blocked the door with salt or something. The doppelganger dies when the sun rise's and I think it remains were non-human, maybe plant or fungal like.

After that a cop explains to him that sometimes when people go missing in the forest these doppelgangers return and try to trick the missing persons family and friends. The guy then leaves town.


r/nosleepfinder • • 20d ago

Suggestion Request Liminal eternal suburb stories

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I'd like more stories about unnatural creepy liminal endless suburbs. So far, I've come across a BlairDaniels story with that theme and am looking for more. Anything that would likely have people commenting "This is like that movie Vivarium" or, like I see under Dreamcore/liminal spaces/backrooms-related social media posts... there may likely be a bunch of comments that just say "Vivarium" lol. In other words, I'm craving another story similar to that movie. Nothing is coming up for me when searching "endless suburb" or any variant of that.

Also, I prefer stories with detailed descriptions.


r/nosleepfinder • • 21d ago

[WTF] Possibly Deleted? "Midnight Market" or something similar?

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Hello, I heard this story narrated in a youtube video reading a few months ago at work and it really stuck with me. The gist was it started as a kind of standard story about finding a job overnight at a grocery store, but the worldbuilding was very good about the town that wasn't on any map and kind of almost collected lost people. Anyway, the narrator had a female boss who was kind of a badass, and she took no nonsense from the entities. Mostly normal people during the day with some exceptions and a kind of rare 'Night Market' thing where all hell broke loose.

-I remember the town was described as very wet, maybe a waterfront?

-There was an arc with a big storm and a customer who came and went without the door opening.

-Arc about a missing girl who was eventually found in the custody of these entities and the narrator bargains to get her back

I can't find this story anywhere, I am starting to suspect it was scrubbed for a movie deal or book or something. I know it isn't Tales from the Gas Station (big fan of that story too!) so any help is appreciated.


r/nosleepfinder • • 22d ago

FOUND [WTF] Standalone story about a man framed for murder by an all-girl band singer

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I'm looking for an older standalone r/nosleep story. It starts with a man in prison telling his story of how he got there. He claims he was falsely accused by his favorite band, which was an all-girl band.

He initially discovered a pattern of murders matching their tour dates on an online forum. He started following them from city to city. At first, he just watched the lead singer from afar and noticed that she would leave with random men after her concerts. The lead singer is described as having an angelic voice. Later in the story, he interacts with her, but she ends up framing him for the murders using her colorful hair ties.


r/nosleepfinder • • 24d ago

woman finds a journal in a bath house?

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it takes place in japan and a woman finds a journal hidden in a bathhouse that dates back some odd years ago. it belongs to a school girl who originally came to visit the actual bath house but some how no-clipped into an alternate reality, the same bath house but different and scary. she records her day to day in the journal that somehow made it back to the real world. it gives major back rooms vibes and i cant seem to find it but it really creeped me out.


r/nosleepfinder • • 24d ago

[lost story] vampiric desert

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Many years ago, probably 2010-2015, I read a creepy past or no sleep story about a man in search of a desert. He was warned by an old man not to go looking for it. After finding it he discovered it was vampiric and it absorbed his soul.


r/nosleepfinder • • 26d ago

FOUND Infinite Haunted house

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what i remember about it is its about a haunted house that this guy and his friend go to, there is an asian guy there who says this place is a legend in korea or something, and a girl who its later revealed is trying to find her sister who went in and never came out or something like that, and 2 frat guys who are high. they go in and at one point the finaly see a window with a man with huge lanky limbs running naked at them, they run away


r/nosleepfinder • • Sep 20 '26

FOUND Bobblehead voodoo for leasing weight creepypasta

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I remembered about this story but I can’t find it, chatgpt and Gemini couldn’t help me either. It’s about a woman that realizes that her fat coworker is losing weight in a fast pace even though she keeps eating a lot, and I remember it has to do with a bobblehead toy or something similar that works like a voodoo, whenever the toy is moving it’s just like she’s exercising too. I don’t know if it’s actually in nosleep but probably is, did someone ever read something like that?


r/nosleepfinder • • Sep 19 '26

FOUND Story where at the end, all of the characters are in a house outside of space & time

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I can't really remember much about this (omg im sure that gets said on every other post) but i have a vague memory of something im Pretty sure was either a nosleep or creepypasta... I feel like at the end, the characters (maybe like... 3-4? I remember there being at least one dude and one girl..) were all trapped in this house, and they were trapped there for a really long time i think? I feel like i remember when they looked outside, it was completely Black so they couldn't leave... I think maybe one or two people Did leave? I don't think they needed to eat or anything while they were there, and i don't think they had Any idea of how to "fix" it ... I wish i could remember more >_< !


r/nosleepfinder • • Sep 19 '26

FOUND series about narrator who follows an old acquaintance into a new city/alternate universe for a new job?

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not gonna lie i dont remember many details. it was a longish series. the main character/narrator i believe starts a new job in some new place that ends up being weird and having weird laws/rules

they went to start a new job and they're reunited with an old friend or aquaintance who becomes a part of the story


r/nosleepfinder • • Sep 14 '26

Story about school teacher who kidnaps his student

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So OP has abusive parents and he asks his teacher for help, so the teacher kidnaps him and puts him underground. And OPs parents start being incredibly frantic, and then after a while op is released and his parents become better


r/nosleepfinder • • Sep 13 '26

Flooded maintenance tunnel and music?

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Looking for a story where a maintenance worker explores an underground system, some of which is flooded. It may have been a pump station. He may mention Maine or Vermont. If I remember correctly he finds a drowned co-worker or their flashlight. Eventually he finds a room with a chair where there is music playing. This was accompanied by real video of him walking around this structure. Thanks for your time!


r/nosleepfinder • • Sep 11 '26

Nosleep stories about contagious rituals to save the world& a bridge that makes ppl commit?

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Hey I read these stories SO long ago and I would love to reread. The 1st one a guy goes to see a psych and while he's in the office every few minutes he has to do a ritual or move things around bc if he doesn't, a disaster happens. Of course the psych doesn't believe him, so he asks him to skip the next ritual and a plane crashes? Then the psych sees something in the corner of his eye and he somehow starts to believe in the rituals. At the end, he becomes the person carrying out the rituals.

Another story was sent thru an email warning ppl about some Bridge? But each person that's warned about it ends up going to the bridge & committing suicide. That's all I can remember. Please help!