Midnight Signals is told in seasons, listed here oldest first. Each one is built around a single idea, and each episode stands on its own, so you can start anywhere. New episodes arrive every week.
Strangers History
People who arrived from nowhere: a boy with no past, children the wrong color, a woman with every label cut from her clothes, a ship with everything aboard except the crew. Six episodes, in order below. The lists on this page update themselves as episodes are released.
- Trailer
- The Children of Hamelin: The Day the Town Stopped Counting
- The Green Children of Woolpit: A Land Where the Sun Never Rose
- Kaspar Hauser: The Boy from the Dark Room
- The Isdal Woman: A Stranger in Ice Valley
The Station Fiction
In 1977, a secret Cold War listening station in the hills of Pennsylvania heard something in the sky. Then it was sealed, with a warning painted on the door. Nearly fifty years later, four friends break in and press play on the tape that was left behind. A six-part audio drama, released all at once on Halloween. Listen in order.
- Official Trailer
- Part 1: Do Not Listen
- Part 2: The Town
- Part 3: The Fall
- Part 4: The Quiet
- Part 5: The Source
- Part 6: The Answer
Transmissions History
Messages no one can explain: a clay disc printed four thousand years ago in a script nobody can read, a signal from deep space that lasted seventy-two seconds, a pirate broadcast that hijacked Chicago television and was never solved. Six episodes, following Strangers.
The Archive
Before the seasons, Midnight Signals ran as a weekly broadcast: sixty-three numbered episodes of folklore, secret history, forbidden texts and strange signals, plus Signal 20, a run of seven standalone horror stories. They're all still here, sorted by theme on the Topics page.
Signal 20 Fiction
Twenty minutes of dread, seven times over. Standalone stories; listen in any order.
- The Day The Whispers Broke Free | Signal 20
- The Dispatcher | Signal 20
- Update 3 | Signal 20
- The Vault Was A Lie | Signal 20
- The Drowned Ones | Signal 20
- The Lantern Man | Signal 20
- Unleashed the Unspeakable | Signal 20
New episode every week
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Midnight Signals blends history, folklore, and dramatized storytelling. Some names, places, and events are fictionalized or illustrative. Characters are fictional, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.