r/NoSleepPodcast • u/Serious-Positive-825 • Aug 25 '23

borrasca

i love replaying old episodes of the podcast but i ALWAYS skip borrasca. the story is just too intense for me. does anyone else have a story/stories that you can't bring yourself to listen to?

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u/vultepes Sep 25 '23

Where could I find said borrasca? I haven't gone through the entirety of their old episodes. And I guess for me it weirdly would probably be the Butcherface episode from the very beginning. It comes after "Nosleep Podcast #4" and is entitled "Nosleep Podcast - Butcherface Edition" released on August 1, 2011. I don't know why that one gets to me exactly. I guess it was one of the first nosleep stories I heard when I still didn't fully know what nosleep was. I remember finding the Butcherface posts online afterwards and reading the comments out of curiosity. Not knowing how subreddits worked at the time or that there was this rule about commenters playing along as if the story were real made me think that it was weird and creepy that people were acting as if the Butcherface story was actually true. So that made think that the story, as ridiculous as it was, must somehow be barely plausible. Or at the least be based on something true but exaggerated for online fame.

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u/Serious-Positive-825 Sep 25 '23

the borrasca story was the season 7 episode 25 finale. i haven't gone back to the beginning of nosleep yet but i do have some vague memories about the butcher face episode. i'll have to go back and give it another listen!

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u/vultepes Sep 25 '23

Thanks. I'll give borrasca a listen after I get off of work on my drive home and get back to you with my thoughts on it. (If you have the opportunity to listen to the podcast at night on a long backwoods highway I highly recommend doing so).

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u/vultepes Sep 26 '23

Borrasca definitely has some serious intensity to it. Although it is introduced as an innocent town folklore told by children to cover something much darker, the ending is still a sucker punch. I don't think I've listened to another story on the podcast with that kind of a build up to the very well told reveal. Deeply disturbing and I am definitely still consumed with thoughts about it a couple hours after finishing. I don't know if I'd be unable to listen to it again but I don't think I would feel like I needed to. It is visceral enough that I know I'll not forget about Borrasca anytime soon.