The Overnight Radio Hour

This is the last episode of the Overnight Radio Hour. Rae speaks. Not about a caller's story :: about herself. About wanting to be someone else. About the moment she realized she couldn't be. About what it means to be the only version of yourself there is. Then the line opens. Someone is calling. They know their name.

The callers won't speak. The line keeps opening. Someone is calling in and repeating everything she says, back to them , in their own voice. They thinks it's a prank. They think it's Gerritt. They thinks it's Sam. They stops thinking that. Then it speaks for itself. No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

Jimmy calls in from the woods. There's fire. He says he found something :: or someone :: and he burned it. Rae wants to call 911. Luke doesn't seem to think it's that big of a deal. Later, Garrett calls in and he's not doing well. And neither, it turns out, is Luke. 

Garrett and Sam call in from a walk and notice something is off about Luke. Jack returns with another update :: and this time, what he found in the woods is harder to explain away. A caller named Regis had breakfast with someone who looked exactly like his girlfriend. His girlfriend was upstairs the whole time. Luke is starting to come around. That should feel like good news.

A man named Noah hasn't been home in days. Something that wears his face has been standing at the edge of his woods :: and it's been there longer than he realized. The calls keep coming, and the stories keep rhyming. Rae thinks something is happening in Brackensville. Luke thinks it's a crime wave. Jimmy calls in again.

Jack is back :: and Thea is still missing. A caller named Sophie has been tracking something she calls The Doubles, and she has evidence. A veteran calls in about the day his wife came face to face with someone who looked exactly like him :: sixty miles away. Rae is starting to connect the dots. Luke isn't ready to.

Episode two and the calls are getting stranger. Luke recounts a childhood encounter with a couple at the park who didn't quite look human :: and a caller named Jimmy seems to know exactly who they are. Later, a man at the movies describes a face that smiled all wrong. And somewhere out there, a girl named Thea still hasn't come home.

It's the first ever episode of The Overnight Radio Hour, and Rae and Luke are open for business. The lines are hot and Brackensville is calling :: with stories of animatronics that move on their own, a gnome in a kitchen, and things that vanish before you can get a good look. A lighthearted start to something that might not stay that way.