Speaker 1: This show contains terrifying, shocking, and haunting stories that some
Speaker 1: listeners may find disturbing or offensive. It's two fifteen am.
Speaker 2: You're driving down a dirt road on the sixty two.
Speaker 2: Not a soul in sight, just you and the desert night.
Speaker 2: But wait, you hear a signal off from the distance.
Speaker 2: It's faint, but it grows louder. Is it the howl
Speaker 2: of a coyote, the hiss of a king's snake, or
Speaker 2: the voice of a man guiding you toward a great darkness?
Speaker 2: From my heart radio and overtones media, you're listening to
Speaker 2: YFT two, the only sound you'll hear in the sleep
Speaker 2: old valley. I'm Dixon Lewis, your lone companion for the night,
Speaker 2: and I've got a new batch of stories to keep
Speaker 2: you up as you drive down the dusty, desolate highway.
Speaker 2: When May was looking for a new apartment, she decided
Speaker 2: she didn't want to live with roommates. Maybe she should
Speaker 2: have specified that she didn't want to die either. This
Speaker 2: is Unwelcome guest by Sabrina Cruz.
Speaker 3: It's not what it looked like online.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, last ten and left some stuff behind.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a good deal.
Speaker 4: For you though, isn't it free furniture?
Speaker 3: I guess so?
Speaker 4: So hun, Like I said on the listing, you get
Speaker 4: the full basement for seven fifty a months.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, uh sorry if this is rude to ask.
Speaker 5: This is just my first time looking for apartments and
Speaker 5: a friend wanted me to ask, So sorry again, but seven.
Speaker 3: Fifty is pretty cheap for the area. Is there something
Speaker 3: I should know?
Speaker 1: It's for my dad.
Speaker 4: He's up in the main unit and could use a
Speaker 4: little money.
Speaker 3: Oh that's really cool.
Speaker 6: So what do we do now?
Speaker 4: You really haven't done this before. All I need from
Speaker 4: you is seven to fifty for your first month and
Speaker 4: another seven fifty for the security deposit. Cool?
Speaker 5: And do you need me to have like a co signer?
Speaker 5: I read about that online and I'll do you a favor.
Speaker 4: We can skip the paperwork stuff as long as you
Speaker 4: pay your rent, we're good. If that does a war.
Speaker 4: I got someone else interested in the place, so.
Speaker 6: No, do you take denmo?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: There got it.
Speaker 4: You've got my numbers, so just shoot me a text
Speaker 4: if you have any problems. And here are the keys.
Speaker 4: Silver is for the unit, small brass key is for
Speaker 4: the mailbox. Big brass keys.
Speaker 3: For the unit upstairs upstairs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just in case something happens to my old man.
Speaker 4: He's got a key for this place too. Don't don't worry.
Speaker 8: He's got a key. Oay, I think I live here
Speaker 8: now what?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean, kind of sketch, but it's the entire basement
Speaker 5: for seven fifty. Shut it up. No, Well, the guy's
Speaker 5: dad lives upstairs and has a key.
Speaker 6: But it's weird.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank god, I thought it was crazy for thinking
Speaker 5: that it was weird.
Speaker 4: You should really get that key back.
Speaker 3: But anyway, seven fifty.
Speaker 5: What if I just move in with you and defeat
Speaker 5: the whole purpose of me moving out? Dude, you and
Speaker 5: Ashley deserve some privacy.
Speaker 3: You and you're a healthy boundary. Are you still good
Speaker 3: to help me move my stuff over?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Tomorrow's all queer, all right.
Speaker 6: See you soon.
Speaker 7: I hope that's not going to be a problem.
Speaker 6: Man, you're living in suburbia.
Speaker 3: There's a blessed hobling right there.
Speaker 6: Do you need a passport to the city. It's not
Speaker 6: that far, right, I'm just kidding. It's like twenty minute
Speaker 6: bus ride, right, that's like perfect podcast length. What are
Speaker 6: you waving up?
Speaker 9: My landlord's dad, Oh, the one that has your key.
Speaker 3: Why is he shaking his head at his I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe he doesn't like having someone in his basement.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, he looks like he doesn't like a lot
Speaker 9: of things.
Speaker 6: He's just old. I'm Fatty's worried we're gay?
Speaker 3: You are gay?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Well this is nice, Okay, I know it's a little
Speaker 5: dirty by the last tenant.
Speaker 9: Really leave all this stuff behind? Yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 9: a good deal though, right, I guess. So where's the
Speaker 9: bathroom by the way?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: I think it's over there.
Speaker 6: You get over here. What did you check the taps
Speaker 6: before you moved in?
Speaker 3: No? Was I supposed to?
Speaker 6: Oh my god?
Speaker 7: Is that blood? Ugh?
Speaker 6: Yes, you're supposed to and can't be blind or right?
Speaker 6: H Lou, that's disgusting. Well, it tastes metallic. Probably just
Speaker 6: rust it's very red. Maybe it's very rusty. Is this
Speaker 6: something I text Dave about?
Speaker 9: Yes, you should ask your landlord to fix your weird
Speaker 9: blood pipes.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't just fix itself text him.
Speaker 6: Fine, thank you?
Speaker 3: Scent?
Speaker 6: Can we unpack now? Mm hmm? Is this all the
Speaker 6: kitchen stuff you have? Yeah? Why, it's one fork, one
Speaker 6: plate in one pot.
Speaker 3: It's a nice pot.
Speaker 6: Offered to give you her old flatware.
Speaker 3: Set, and I said no.
Speaker 5: Because I have my own stuff that I can put
Speaker 5: on my own shelves.
Speaker 6: Whoa you good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, must have knocked it over.
Speaker 6: What did you check if the shelves were level? Who
Speaker 6: does that?
Speaker 3: Besides, none of the old tenant stuff is falling off.
Speaker 6: You're right. Wait, let's see if the pot falls off
Speaker 6: another shelf. Weird.
Speaker 9: It's like your apartment is only rejecting your stuff.
Speaker 5: First the taps and now this. No one tells you
Speaker 5: to look for this stuff. What are you doing with
Speaker 5: that photo?
Speaker 9: I'm trying to see if the walls also hate you
Speaker 9: or if it's just the shelves.
Speaker 6: Walls to whoa wait, where are your toiletries?
Speaker 3: I want to see if the ghost cat is in
Speaker 3: the bathroom too. The ghost cats.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because it's like a cat knocking your stuff down,
Speaker 9: but it's invisible.
Speaker 6: So ghost cat, lou stop stop. Sorry, that's my bed.
Speaker 3: I didn't think it knock over your toothbrush.
Speaker 5: It's not the toothbrush, it's everything.
Speaker 9: I think you should sleep at mine tonight. You can
Speaker 9: try and find a new place tomorrow. I already paid
Speaker 9: for this place, and you can probably get it back,
Speaker 9: since the ghost cat.
Speaker 6: Isn't even letting you move in, not even your toothbrush.
Speaker 3: I am not finding another apartment.
Speaker 6: You can. You'll have fresh eyes tomorrow.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 5: I've tried, Lou, I've been trying ever since you told
Speaker 5: me months ago that you and Ash were thinking of
Speaker 5: moving in together. I started looking, but every place is
Speaker 5: a two hour commute or stupid expensive, or full of strangers.
Speaker 6: And I get it. Roommates are normal.
Speaker 5: But I'm twenty five and I don't want to have
Speaker 5: to worry if someone's stealing my peanut Butter.
Speaker 6: I had no idea.
Speaker 5: I didn't want you to know the couch is yours
Speaker 5: for as long as you need it, or ashkinder down
Speaker 5: her all. No, thank you, but no. The reason I
Speaker 5: didn't tell you about all this.
Speaker 6: Is because.
Speaker 5: How do I say this without sounding awful? You have
Speaker 5: your life together and that's great, but I don't, and
Speaker 5: you're trying to help, but it's starting to feel like
Speaker 5: we're not equals. And I know that when Ash moves in,
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna feel more like you're weird surrogate kid,
Speaker 5: and I don't want that.
Speaker 9: Hey, come here, you always had an issue with lesbian loves.
Speaker 6: Don't grow in this? I no, Well, I guess ghost
Speaker 6: cat makes moving any easier. Huh yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the last tenant left most of the stuff
Speaker 3: I need.
Speaker 6: Or maybe it's why they left.
Speaker 9: They wanted to put up some curtains and ghost Cat
Speaker 9: was like, maybe it was an earthquake.
Speaker 6: That's not a cat.
Speaker 5: Do you think there's like a fourma can file with
Speaker 5: a tennin board.
Speaker 6: For a haunted apartment? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean cockroach is basically hot of Heartbn's right, and
Speaker 5: you can complain about them.
Speaker 6: Why not ghosts? Did it promise no ghost in your lease?
Speaker 3: I don't have a lease, ny loo, I get it.
Speaker 6: I'm not your mom, I'm your friend.
Speaker 5: But friends help friends get their keys back from creepy
Speaker 5: old men. Secure a proper lease and the exercise ghost.
Speaker 6: Yes, now, how do we do that? Give me a second?
Speaker 3: Are you looking up how to exercise ghosts online? Can
Speaker 3: you send me the link?
Speaker 2: Are you? We'll be back with our broadcast after these messages.
Speaker 6: I think it's working.
Speaker 9: You are literally playing royalty free Gregorian chants.
Speaker 6: I saw you type it in.
Speaker 3: It's just in case the ghost is feeling litigious. Didn't work.
Speaker 6: Let's see, Yes.
Speaker 5: It worked, it worked.
Speaker 6: Why do you sound sad?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: I just realized they actually need unpack.
Speaker 9: I can't believe we unpacked everything you own in an hour.
Speaker 3: It's called minimalism.
Speaker 6: It's called depressing. Trinkets are actually legally an SSRI. Is
Speaker 6: this your phone?
Speaker 8: Nope?
Speaker 6: Got mine here? Maybe it belonged to the last tenant.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll plug it in and try to find the owner.
Speaker 9: See if the password is one, two, three four, nobody
Speaker 9: uses that password.
Speaker 3: I do change your password?
Speaker 6: Who's acting all mom like? Nah?
Speaker 3: Anyway? I think that is everything?
Speaker 6: You sure? I still have a whole lot of guilt
Speaker 6: you can exploit.
Speaker 5: Maybe tomorrow you can pretend to be my tenant lawyer
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 6: Good night, May.
Speaker 4: Sorry about that.
Speaker 6: Oh hey Dave, she was just leaving. Night Lou.
Speaker 3: You've got to get my client.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 6: I'll probably ease agreement and.
Speaker 8: Okay's back, or else I'll be sending one of them
Speaker 8: safe and desst.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good night, Lou. That's low. Ask Guia do you bye?
Speaker 3: Bye?
Speaker 4: So I got your many texts right.
Speaker 3: The taps were spewing blood.
Speaker 5: The AC sounded like it was getting strangled. The shelves
Speaker 5: had a coast cat weird day.
Speaker 3: Sounds like it, but I think I figured it out.
Speaker 4: You did?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, well, I guess I'll be on my way.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, do you know where the last tenant moved to?
Speaker 4: Why do you ask? Han?
Speaker 6: I think I found their phone?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Why don't you pass it to me? And I'll make
Speaker 4: sure it gets to them.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not even sure if it's theirs, But if
Speaker 5: it is, I got a crazy story.
Speaker 3: I want to tell them directly.
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: I should probably get that, but.
Speaker 3: Write the mystery phone. Let's try one, two, three, four? Unbelievable.
Speaker 6: M h oh, whoops.
Speaker 3: I guess that texts just finished sending.
Speaker 5: Now that the phone is charged, A video to mom?
Speaker 7: I love you?
Speaker 3: Why did she her hands tied up?
Speaker 4: I loved her?
Speaker 3: I love the PHAs going on?
Speaker 8: I love.
Speaker 7: Coming in?
Speaker 6: What did that old man do?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 6: Dave need Che's burg?
Speaker 7: U s A P.
Speaker 4: I don't say that high?
Speaker 2: What are you watching?
Speaker 3: Their hun you?
Speaker 2: The Unwelcome Guest has written and directed by Sabrina Cruz.
Speaker 2: The executive producers are James Kim and Taylor Chaqui. Erica
Speaker 2: Huang is a producer Diego Perez is producer and lead
Speaker 2: sound designer. Alisina Sawe Nozari provided additional sound design. Daniel
Speaker 2: Martinez is a production sound mixer. Matthew Wong is a composer.
Speaker 2: Theme music by Ryo Baum and Robert Garova. Artwork by
Speaker 2: Justin D.
Speaker 1: Lee.
Speaker 2: This episode was recorded at Hobby Shop West in Highland Park,
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Raven Brinson plays May Madison, Lee plays Lou
Speaker 2: and Janice Hank Grover plays Dave You Feel In This
Speaker 2: Too is a production of iHeartRadio and Overtones Media