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I think/hope it ties into another story (also narrated by DS), where the afterlife is an eternity of forging links for chains which hold God prisoner, because it wants to end creation.
@@Cuved13 I just thought that Bradley was scared because of what the social worker had seen because that’s where he pulled the thoughts from the memory and how scared the social worker was
The way you take on the character, the emotions, the changes in tone and pitch, you can hear the worry and exhaustiveness in your breath sometimes, as well as the joy and fervor. Another masterpiece!
Guys, he knows the definition of “servitude.” When he says he doesn’t know what it means, he’s saying he doesn’t know who is serving what and under what conditions. He only has a taste of the horror but doesn’t know the details.
One of my favorite things about you narration is the delivery of the end lines. The whole story captures you in a way it's not scary, but fascinating. Then the last line is just delivered so well it's like a domino effect on all the information before it and wraps up the horror in a perfect little bow. Goosebumps every time, my man!
Jesus. I dont know how, but for some reason these stories and the way you narrate them always manage to make me feel a paralyzing sense of dread fear and anxiety. I love it
You know how you do that thing in the end where the music intensifies then suddenly stops and you speak the last words of the video? That suspense always gets me and the phrases and how you narrate it always gives me goosebumps. Really, you really are my favorite narrator. 🙇🏻♂️
Yessss I literally just saw this on the nosleep reddit the other day. I had a headache and was just doing a cursory scroll before laying down when i came across it and was like, "know what.. If it's as good as it sounds I'm sure I'll have it pop up in my youtube notifications soon". And low and behold, my favorite one grabs it today. Grabbing my headset and the umbrella for a smoke in the rain and to set the stage. Here we goo
This story was so scary, probably as scary as the pancake family one. Edit: Will there be a part 2? Maybe the mc finds out what the boy was so afraid of!
There's really not enough shows like this in existence. I really don't know why more of them aren't made, instead of all the other drivel I see on there. I remember the first weird shit I saw on tv was The Twilight Zone...remember that one? It'd be great to have something similar again. That'd make it easy to chop and change your stories, because they're only meant to be short concepts, kinda thing. Good tv, ACTUALLY good tv, hasn't been made in many decades.
@@TheMurlocKeeper while I mostly agree with what you are saying I have to let you know that there is still plenty of good tv. It's just buried underneath a large pile of crap. But it would be good if these r/nosleep writers could make their own anthology series.
"Servitude" Wait. Does this story tie in with the one where the afterlife is forever forging chains to keep God at bay? Edit: The story I was thinking of is, "I was dead for six minutes and saw Heaven. I would rather go to Hell."
When I thought Psychic children... I thought it was going to be like children who could see past and future and use illusion spells or something. It got crazy and really spiraled into godhood. That was a very good listen. It makes me wonder, if this child could end the universe, how many other children in time or aliens out there may have that kind of influence and how has the universe survived this long without its destruction by psychic entity? Maybe it's unique, maybe there had to be a recent event that triggered the abilities. I don't know, but I love the idea of reality benders and where people take it in their world-building.
Please do more stories like this I just found this one on your channel and it is by far one of the best you have ever done just in the quality and subject of story
Your voice is ambience personified. All it takes is closing ones eyes and all of a sudden.. BAM! You're there. On top of that, your exit from every story is damn near flawless. Please stay awesome and keep getting better brother 👏🙌
I've heard this story over and over, but I came 'round today to hear it on a binge of your content, and even knowing most of the story, that last line never fails to give me goosebumps, which is a hard pull cause I'm a horror nerd and psychological horror is my favorite. So I'm a little desensitized to easy spooks in that regard. I love your final lines on these sorts of stories, they hit with a perfect level of finality and simplicity, mixed with the music in the background doing it's little ending thing and it's just, gah, *chef's kiss*
I may not be first but I'm happy to say I'm watching a Dark Somnium video within 3 minutes of it being posted. edit (spoilers) : finished listening and it's all so well tied together, the way it connects from the first girl all the way to Bradley. major props to the author for how well written it is, and an especially great job by TDS yet again for the air of believability he gives all of these stories.
I wish I usually listen to these at night while gaming because my son needs me my gf needs stuff and the grandbaby need his things and to be watched constantly
I like these paranormal investigative story’s like this. Like the other story’s, the second story of the guy trapped in his apartment and blinded himself at the end, were the guy in the mental institution interviewing patents. The guy with the dark men following him as he was traveling the country interviewing people.
The grandpa saying "servitude" that reminds me of the story about the guy that died and met the emo kid. And they were all slaving away there. I think of that as a crossover for fun lol
I just came across your channel, and now my problem is that I can't decide which video to listen to first! Your delivery is so smooth, and your choice of stories is always great. I'm so excited for all your videos, I'll have something to listen to at work for the next few months at least. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning!
This is one of my new favorite stories. REminds me of the one about a guy who gives a group of kids LSD and one of them taps through the other side and goes akira. I love fear of the unknown creepypastas.
this story had that rare mix of horror, sadness, poignancy and black humour….skillfully combined to produce a masterful tale…..the almost Lovecraft horror of the little girl who sent her parents to an eternal beach paradise kept me awake long after i had turned out the bedside light…..
Honestly i kinda like this story since i always thought that parents telling their kids stuff that they themselves dont honestly believe is dumb as heck.
I always fall asleep to your stories 0! You are literally my favorite favorite favorite spoopy story teller. I can recognize your voice Instantly! It's so calm but you change it sometimes to go with the mood it's insane :0. The stories NEVER upset me and they always deliver. Thank you for giving me many good nights :D odd thing to say but its true!
I would have loved to see this as a series. Just going from story to story following this character meet literal gods that havent realized it yet. Maybe throw in some adult psychic, minus super soldier type of characters.
Damn I love the way you read these stories. Just discorvered you tonight and I've already spent an hour laying down in bed with my eyes closed listening. Such a good story teller.
Hope you enjoy the story! let me know what you think. and remember to like and share (if you want to)
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Oh so you love your fans? Like every comment then. XD
@@talalala420 B) i do
Buckle up, bois; it's a longun.
wow Ron, your work ethic is awesome!
Hope you are well!
Howdy there partner if you want I could tell real scary story about the transformers yes
poor girl hadn’t even realized she’d doomed her parents to suffer an eternity of torture
The afterlife is worse, so...
@@RobertMcBride-is-cool luckily it isn't real
You say before dying
They shouldn’t have asked
@@xfKYZacTri Ok. It is very unlikely there is an afterlife
This is probably the single most scariest story I’ve ever heard. SO MUCH existential dread. My weakness when it comes to horror.
@Jack Javier you’d need to have a helluva “idgaf” attitude deep inside you somewhere.
Servitude:
the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful.
😬
For the emotions of Bradley and the revive grandpa... not the god we think about...
@@Cuved13 not a god at all
I think/hope it ties into another story (also narrated by DS), where the afterlife is an eternity of forging links for chains which hold God prisoner, because it wants to end creation.
@@Cuved13 I just thought that Bradley was scared because of what the social worker had seen because that’s where he pulled the thoughts from the memory and how scared the social worker was
@@oxymoron02 Stop bringing up old videos
The way you take on the character, the emotions, the changes in tone and pitch, you can hear the worry and exhaustiveness in your breath sometimes, as well as the joy and fervor. Another masterpiece!
Guys, he knows the definition of “servitude.” When he says he doesn’t know what it means, he’s saying he doesn’t know who is serving what and under what conditions. He only has a taste of the horror but doesn’t know the details.
The title alone got my ear watering.
watering? xD scary haha
@@Darksomnium
Ikr😂😇😂
Perfect comment!!
You might have an ear infection. You poor little thing, ear aches are rather painful!
You might want to check that out
Dude this is my favorite story that I’ve heard in a long time. Praying that the author decides to turn this into a series for some reason.
ONG
When a Literal god runs away you should run to
That part... take me with you Bradley
@@faticiaharris2336 This world sucks.
What if your a tentacled monstrosity from beyond the bounds of time and space?
Too*
@Valravn ZX I don't remember the story explicitly saying that.
The Author left it as a mystery.
You’re really good at creating a mood man. Keep it up. God bless
thank you :)
Isn’t he the best?? 😊
You and CreepsMcPasta are probably the best narrators there are for horror stories. You're amazing!
This was fascinating!
As morbid as it was, the writer knew how to keep moving at a steady pace.
On another note this dude is a rockstar! Being a social worker is hard enough but working with kids makes them the GOAT!
One of my favorite things about you narration is the delivery of the end lines. The whole story captures you in a way it's not scary, but fascinating. Then the last line is just delivered so well it's like a domino effect on all the information before it and wraps up the horror in a perfect little bow.
Goosebumps every time, my man!
Jesus. I dont know how, but for some reason these stories and the way you narrate them always manage to make me feel a paralyzing sense of dread fear and anxiety.
I love it
You know how you do that thing in the end where the music intensifies then suddenly stops and you speak the last words of the video? That suspense always gets me and the phrases and how you narrate it always gives me goosebumps. Really, you really are my favorite narrator. 🙇🏻♂️
The part with the beach picture nearly made me sick, and that’s an accomplishment.
Yessss I literally just saw this on the nosleep reddit the other day. I had a headache and was just doing a cursory scroll before laying down when i came across it and was like, "know what.. If it's as good as it sounds I'm sure I'll have it pop up in my youtube notifications soon". And low and behold, my favorite one grabs it today. Grabbing my headset and the umbrella for a smoke in the rain and to set the stage. Here we goo
By far one of the best stories. We need more like this one.
Hell yeah! I'm a social worker!! Haha this is going to be good.
oh snap! haha hope you like the story!
Thank you for all you do, a job that can never be appreciated enough.
Captures the spirit of social work. The guy improves nobody's situation but talks a lot of shit about parents anyhow
“We think she was a pyro”
She: “MPHHH”
Hudda hudda huh
This story was so scary, probably as scary as the pancake family one. Edit: Will there be a part 2? Maybe the mc finds out what the boy was so afraid of!
That story f*cked me up. Omg
@@AnimeBae370 Ik and i listened to it at night. Terrible decision.
@@AnimeBae370 which story was that one? I'm newer to this channel
Which story was the one with pancake family? Never heard it, so must've missed it.
@@BlackjackN7 I looked for it. It's actually called the pancake family
Any time I see you upload, it's always a gift to listen and enjoy. The only narrator that actually makes me feel the intended emotions.
Netflix, here's the premise of your next big show.
Netflix would probably ruin it though
@@rem975 Yeah, you're probably right. Imagine getting nice things past 2019, lmao.
There's really not enough shows like this in existence. I really don't know why more of them aren't made, instead of all the other drivel I see on there.
I remember the first weird shit I saw on tv was The Twilight Zone...remember that one?
It'd be great to have something similar again. That'd make it easy to chop and change your stories, because they're only meant to be short concepts, kinda thing.
Good tv, ACTUALLY good tv, hasn't been made in many decades.
@@TheMurlocKeeper while I mostly agree with what you are saying I have to let you know that there is still plenty of good tv. It's just buried underneath a large pile of crap.
But it would be good if these r/nosleep writers could make their own anthology series.
@@rem975 Yeah. Well, there hasn't been much 2020 releases that weren't absolutely soporiphic and I don't have anymore hope for 2021.
Damn, I hope this becomes a longer series. I would definitely listen to one of those 4-5 hour compilations you make.
Excellent job as always, team!
"Servitude"
Wait. Does this story tie in with the one where the afterlife is forever forging chains to keep God at bay?
Edit: The story I was thinking of is, "I was dead for six minutes and saw Heaven. I would rather go to Hell."
I thought that also.
I also thought this to
I thought the same thing hahaha
huh. didn't even think of that. good observation.
I thought of that immediately too.
The parents stuck in the drawing made me laugh more than it should. I Imagine them to look like magazines cutouts stuck on a drawing.
Wow.
The fact that a god can be frightened into a drawing of a house because of what awaits us is so interesting!
"But I don't even like the beach!"
"WELL THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD!"
I love these types of stories that really create an atmosphere and a universe around it. Some of my favourite types of stories.
When I thought Psychic children...
I thought it was going to be like children who could see past and future and use illusion spells or something. It got crazy and really spiraled into godhood. That was a very good listen. It makes me wonder, if this child could end the universe, how many other children in time or aliens out there may have that kind of influence and how has the universe survived this long without its destruction by psychic entity? Maybe it's unique, maybe there had to be a recent event that triggered the abilities. I don't know, but I love the idea of reality benders and where people take it in their world-building.
What a good story
And an even better narration
This had amazing sequel potential.
imma be honest, im not scared by the story more shocked/fascinated
You're not supposed to be scared by this one, just shocked/fascinated.
This should be a series! I love it!
I really liked this one. I hope they make a sequel.
The premise of this one would make a great show.
These scary afterlife oriented stories always scare the shit out of me 😬
This is like an SCP article on why 239 is completely horrifying. Or the Kid from the Twilight Zone.
I completely lost it at the tooth fairy part
Please do more stories like this I just found this one on your channel and it is by far one of the best you have ever done just in the quality and subject of story
This is really an awesome and imaginative story, and equally great narration. Thank you!
Your voice is ambience personified. All it takes is closing ones eyes and all of a sudden.. BAM! You're there. On top of that, your exit from every story is damn near flawless. Please stay awesome and keep getting better brother 👏🙌
I've heard this story over and over, but I came 'round today to hear it on a binge of your content, and even knowing most of the story, that last line never fails to give me goosebumps, which is a hard pull cause I'm a horror nerd and psychological horror is my favorite. So I'm a little desensitized to easy spooks in that regard. I love your final lines on these sorts of stories, they hit with a perfect level of finality and simplicity, mixed with the music in the background doing it's little ending thing and it's just, gah, *chef's kiss*
I first heard this story from creepsmcpasta. Both narations are amazing. ❤
Wow! That was awesome! More tales from this social worker please! Please!
I may not be first but I'm happy to say I'm watching a Dark Somnium video within 3 minutes of it being posted.
edit (spoilers) : finished listening and it's all so well tied together, the way it connects from the first girl all the way to Bradley. major props to the author for how well written it is, and an especially great job by TDS yet again for the air of believability he gives all of these stories.
not the first but no less important! i hope you like the story :)
@@Darksomnium I just added an edit with my thoughts on it! thank you!
I wish I usually listen to these at night while gaming because my son needs me my gf needs stuff and the grandbaby need his things and to be watched constantly
The delivering of that last line sent chills down my spine
Fantastic read!!! Yet another video where your last words echo through my whole body... Your delivery is unmatched
I like these paranormal investigative story’s like this. Like the other story’s, the second story of the guy trapped in his apartment and blinded himself at the end, were the guy in the mental institution interviewing patents. The guy with the dark men following him as he was traveling the country interviewing people.
Oh thanks for helping with the single scariest question man kind faces on a daily basis. Totally helped my anxiety. 👌🏻
Daaaamn this one was REALLY good, we need part two ! 😄
damn, truly heartbreaking to see such incredibly nice and loving intentions of that little girl have so devastating and horrifying results.
I keep falling asleep to these
Wow that was deep.
30 seconds in and already can tell this one' is gonna be a great story
Bradley was like, fuck this shit, I'm out.
I like listening to this when I’m getting ready in the morning
Every time I get chills at the last sentence of every video
The grandpa saying "servitude" that reminds me of the story about the guy that died and met the emo kid. And they were all slaving away there. I think of that as a crossover for fun lol
This is a really great story, the way you read made it all the better.
What a great story! Really well narrated. One of my new favorites from you.
MAAAAN this was CRAZY dope. Just sooo many "episodes" could be made from this concept. HYPED! Great tag team for this joint
That was absolutely brilliant. Could see this been a series.
I really like the outro blank music then boom. Awesome
Bradley is like that kid from that one episode of The Twilight Zone
This is fantastic
THIS was a good one.
I just came across your channel, and now my problem is that I can't decide which video to listen to first! Your delivery is so smooth, and your choice of stories is always great. I'm so excited for all your videos, I'll have something to listen to at work for the next few months at least. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning!
Just finished, that was amazing. The ending with that kid Bradley was ominous and freaky:0
Love it ronnie.
This is one of my new favorite stories. REminds me of the one about a guy who gives a group of kids LSD and one of them taps through the other side and goes akira. I love fear of the unknown creepypastas.
Great story, and so well narrated and composed.
Got that Anthony Fremont vibe from this story. Love it!!!
Like a twisted version of Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends.
this story had that rare mix of horror, sadness, poignancy and black humour….skillfully combined to produce a masterful tale…..the almost Lovecraft horror of the little girl who sent her parents to an eternal beach paradise kept me awake long after i had turned out the bedside light…..
Wow I would love for this to be a full fledged novel
Honestly i kinda like this story since i always thought that parents telling their kids stuff that they themselves dont honestly believe is dumb as heck.
This so feels like a first part of something longer.
Ikr? I’m hoping for a few more parts🤷🏼♀️
My MAN!! so happy ur back with avengence
How do you always make shivers run down my back
I always fall asleep to your stories 0! You are literally my favorite favorite favorite spoopy story teller. I can recognize your voice Instantly! It's so calm but you change it sometimes to go with the mood it's insane :0. The stories NEVER upset me and they always deliver. Thank you for giving me many good nights :D odd thing to say but its true!
I would have loved to see this as a series. Just going from story to story following this character meet literal gods that havent realized it yet. Maybe throw in some adult psychic, minus super soldier type of characters.
Loved it! Almost fell asleep, but in a nice way. Was a bit scary, which I like. Keep up the good work!
Fuck I loved this story, we need more in this world
This one will stay with me for quite some time, I think. Respect to Christian Wallis for the work and to TDS for another excellent narration.
I read this one on the nosleep subreddit and looked forward to see it in your channel, you are the best and i love the videos man! Keep it up!
I listen to a lot of these and that one was by a wide margin the best ive heard in a long time. I want more like this one for sure, great narration.
Always looking forward to the next story, fantastic readings!
incredible story bro. keep up the good work.
Really awesome story, i love your story telling skills.
A void for eternity where you can never die is my worst fear and it should be everyone else's too
You are amazing at getting into character. Thanks for another great story.
That was a great story. Really great!
Lmao the tooth fairy part was genius, actually the whole thing was.
Oh god that was so cool. Never Look at death kids, never look at death...
Really did enjoy this story, I’m really scared about what that world’s afterlife is.
See the story, "I was dead for six minutes and saw Heaven. I would rather go to Hell".
Great story, and great narration!
Woah dude! I love your stories and your reading voice :)
Damn I love the way you read these stories. Just discorvered you tonight and I've already spent an hour laying down in bed with my eyes closed listening. Such a good story teller.
Omg.....amazing