Midnight Signals is a late-night documentary podcast about the stories history never quite explained, with original horror fiction between seasons. Every episode runs about fifteen to twenty minutes and stands on its own. If you're new, pick a door.
If you want a true mystery
Short, researched, and told in the dark. Three good first listens:
- Kaspar Hauser: The Boy from the Dark Room A boy walks into Nuremberg in 1828 with a letter and no past.
- Yellow Echo: 37 Kids Drew the Same Faceless Man The internet legend of the faceless man that thirty-seven children drew.
- The Green Children of Woolpit: A Land Where the Sun Never Rose Two green-skinned children appear at a wolf pit in 12th-century Suffolk.
If you want a story
The Station is a six-part audio drama about four friends who break into a sealed Cold War listening post and press play on the tape that was left behind. All six parts are out. Start at the beginning.
Shorter fiction lives in the Signal 20 series: seven standalone scares, twenty minutes each.
If you want a season
The show is now told in seasons, each built around one idea. Strangers is about people who arrived from nowhere. The Station is a single story in six parts. Transmissions is about messages no one can explain. Browse the seasons →
If you want a rabbit hole
There are more than sixty earlier episodes in the archive: American folklore state by state, secret military history, forbidden texts, strange broadcasts. They're sorted by theme on the Topics page.
New episode every week
Get each one by email, with the companion notes, the morning it drops.
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.