Midnight Signals

On a remote Afghan mountainside, a US military unit enters a cave and, according to the story, meets something that does not belong in the twenty first century at all. This episode digs into the modern legend of the Giant of Kandahar, a red haired, man eating giant said to stand more than twelve feet tall, wielding a spear and moving with impossible strength before being brought down in a firefigh...

The kraken is the sea monster that refuses to stay in storybooks. Sailors once spoke of a creature so vast it could be mistaken for an island, with tentacles long enough to drag entire ships under. In this episode, Midnight Signals traces the evolution of the kraken from early Scandinavian lore and ship logs to modern science that has finally confirmed giant squid hunting in the dark zones of the...