Radio Rental – Episode 102: Haunted Removals & Voices in the Walls

Date: April 17, 2026
Host: Payne Lindsey, Terry Carnation
Podcast Brand: Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

Main Theme & Overview

Episode 102 of Radio Rental dives deep into the unnerving territory of real-life horror, featuring two chilling first-person stories: one from a funeral home “removal technician” faced with gruesome decomposition and inexplicable fear, and one recalling persistent, unexplainable voices and vandalized walls in a childhood home. Radio Rental’s cult-classic format blends deadpan humor, 80’s-tinged nostalgia, and authentic oral history, all set inside a fictional video rental store that “makes you question your own reality.”

Key Discussion Points & Story Highlights

1. “The Removal Technician” – A Body, a Lie, and Something More

Story Begins: [05:13]

Storyteller: Anonymous removal technician, age 19, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

• The Setup:

  • At 19, the storyteller works for a funeral home as a removal technician, responsible for picking up deceased individuals from various locations.
  • She’s dispatched with her partner to a small town, responding to a call about a deceased man, supposed dead “last night at dinner.”

• Initial Red Flags & Unsettling Environment:

  • The daughter greeting them is strangely detached and nervous, her boyfriend and young son present.
  • A powerful and disturbing smell permeates the clean house, with desperate attempts to mask it (candles, windows open, A/C blasting).
  • Daughter claims last saw the father last night, which the technician finds immediately suspicious:

    “That kind of smell does not happen in less than 24 hours.” ([06:54])

• Discovery of Advanced Decomposition:

  • The deceased displays clear signs of having been dead far longer than claimed—“purple, he had blisters, skin slip...he had swollen pretty big.”
  • The technician’s partner goes out to get bed sheets, leaving her alone with the body, per company policy.

• Escalation of Fear & Supernatural Sensation:

  • Alone, she hears the daughter and boyfriend whispering, feeling watched and unnerved.
  • An inexplicable “loud gurgling” starts from the corpse, growing until it fills the room:

    “It started to get louder and louder, making my ears ring...it just goes. The noise is sounding like it's coming up closer behind me.” ([12:44])

  • Panicked, she tries to flee; the door violently slams shut. She tries to escape but the door jams as the ominous presence seems to approach.
  • At the peak of her terror, the partner returns (“What’s going on?”), and no one admits to closing the door.

• Aftermath and Investigation:

  • At the funeral home, even the boss is shocked at the level of decomposition and the family’s timeline:

    “There's just no way. There's no way that this guy passed away last night.” ([16:12])

  • Authorities were called; the true timeline is revealed—daughter and boyfriend had hidden the death to continue collecting the man’s benefits.
  • The storyteller is left shaken, haunted not only by the criminal element but also by the overwhelming, inexplicable fear in the room:

    “This was the first time doing my job that I genuinely felt afraid. It felt like being in a horror movie almost.” ([17:35])

Notable Moments & Quotes:

• “You go ahead and stay here. I'm going to go get the bed sheets...I was begging her, please don't leave me here with this because I'm scared.” ([10:10])
• “It felt as if whatever was in the room with me was telling me, get out right next to me.” ([13:23])

2. “The Voices in the Walls” – Childhood Haunting and a Hidden Room

Story Begins: [22:51]

Storyteller: Zach (frequent Radio Rental contributor), recounting childhood experiences in the 1990s.

• Recurring Nighttime Voices:

  • Zach, as a child, hears indecipherable male voices outside his bedroom, happening almost every night near midnight.
  • The house’s layout leaves his room isolated near an alcove, where windows and TVs occasionally act up on their own.
  • When his brother sleeps over, the brother is horrified and tries to flee, but the voices fall silent when the door is opened—a pattern Zach recognizes.

• Normalization of the Paranormal:

  • For years, Zach becomes accustomed to living with the nightly voices:

    "After enough nights of nothing bad happening, you just forget that it’s as abnormal as it is.” ([26:16])

  • The voices: always unintelligible, more “gibberish” than another language.

• Escalation: Knocking, Scratching, and Closet Terror:

  • The phenomenon evolves—knocking at the bedroom door, escalating to the closet.
  • After being locked in the closet by a sibling, Zach experiences scratching on the walls and physically on his body, emerging bloodied:

    “I could hear scratching on the walls. I could feel scratching on my body. And the next thing I knew, my mom had opened the door...I was covered in blood. And she asked me why I had been scratching myself.” ([29:07])

  • Inside the closet, Zach’s name is found scratched into the wallpaper.

• The Hidden Child’s Room & Vanishing Objects:

  • Over the years, more unexplained phenomena occur: objects—ranging from scissors to entire chairs—disappear throughout the house.
  • Eventually, a collapse in his sister’s upstairs room reveals a walled-off, forgotten child’s room filled with all the missing objects, including things from before their family lived there.

    “Upstairs in my sister's room, the wall collapsed because it had gotten so full of things...everything that had gone missing was inside that wall...You could see that it was this small room...like it was a child’s room.” ([32:15])

• Emotional Fallout:

  • The family is left unnerved, especially after discovering the hidden room. The sister refuses to stay there thereafter; the family locks it up until moving.

Notable Moments & Quotes:

• “You'd hear doors open and shut on their own...sometimes just slam. We eventually found where everything was going...inside a wall in this little room that had been walled off....like it was a child's room.” ([32:15])
• “She experienced the same kind of things in that house. She had no reason not to believe me. She just didn’t want to. It was easier to ignore.” ([30:01])

3. Host Commentary & Tone

Throughout, the show’s trademark humor and meta-commentary support the atmosphere:

• “Removal technician. I didn’t know that was a job. They certainly didn’t have that as a job option at my high school job fair.” ([17:48])
• “Holy smokes. A child’s room in your walls. That’s gnarly. This is why I don’t live in a house. Never have. Live in an RV. Grew up in a van.” ([33:40])

The store’s quirky “host” and the presence of Terry Carnation inject both comic relief and a satirical lens on the rental-shop setting between stories.

Memorable Quotes with Timestamps

• [06:54] – “That kind of smell does not happen in less than 24 hours.” — Removal Technician
• [12:44] – “The noise is sounding like it’s coming up closer behind me...It felt as if whatever was in the room with me was telling me, get out right next to me.” — Removal Technician
• [17:35] – “This was the first time doing my job that I genuinely felt afraid. It felt like being in a horror movie almost.” — Removal Technician
• [26:16] – "After enough nights of nothing bad happening, you just forget that it’s as abnormal as it is.” — Zach
• [32:15] — “Everything that had gone missing was inside that wall...like it was a child's room.” — Zach
• [17:48] — “Removal technician. I didn’t know that was a job...I think I’d be pretty well suited for that kind of work environment.” — Radio Rental Host

Segment Timestamps

• [03:06] – Radio Rental store introduction (Terry Carnation, Host)
• [05:13] – “Removal Technician” story begins
• [17:48] – Host commentary and comedic riff
• [22:51] – “Voices in the Walls” story begins
• [33:40] – Host commentary on haunted houses and avoidance
• [36:09] – Store closes, playful banter

Takeaway & Final Impressions

Episode 102 exemplifies Radio Rental’s unique blend of suspense, authenticity, and humor—delivering true tales that blur the lines between chilling folklore and disturbing reality. The stories this week both highlight how the unknown—and the unexplainable—can lurk not just in remote cemeteries or abandoned houses, but right in the routines of daily life.

For fans: This episode underscores why Radio Rental remains a cult favorite: it’s not just the scares, but the deeply personal experiences, told in the words and voices of those who lived them, all refracted through an atmosphere that’s spooky, nostalgic, and a little bit tongue-in-cheek.