The Midnight Holler

Deep in the American wilderness, some things are better left undisturbed. Three forest rangers. Three terrifying encounters. And three stories that prove the greatest dangers in the woods aren’t always the ones you can see coming. Tonight, Jonah Elias Crowe opens the files on three men whose lives were forever changed by what they encountered beyond the trails. I KNOCKED BACK — Washington, 2018 Wh...

An isolated farmhouse in the mountains of North Georgia. A man chained to the floor of his own basement. And three words that should have been enough of a warning. Don’t let me out. Eli was twenty-seven years old and deep in the worst years of his meth addiction. Breaking into houses had become a way of life. He knew what to look for, what to take, and how to disappear before anyone noticed. Then...

WHAINT RADIO — ARCHIVED TRANSMISSION FILE: WHAINT-1976-1106 RECORDING DATE: November 6, 1976 SOURCE: UNKNOWN STATUS: UNAUTHORIZED TRANSMISSION The following audio was discovered following an unexplained interruption to Broadcast 025 of The Midnight Holler. The recording appears to document a funeral service held in Plainfield, Louisiana, in November of 1976. The deceased is identified as Jonah Eli...

The Night the Stars Disappeared | The Midnight Holler — Broadcast 024 The sudden appearance of multiple Great Gray owls. A hole in the sky that grows. Forest animals that begin acting… strange. And then a wristwatch on the wrong arm. Henry Sellards spent most of his adult life preparing for the worst. But nothing prepared him for what happened during a late-August rotation in the mountains of nort...

Broadcast 023 — The Dispatcher Who Heard Tomorrow What if 911 received your call before you needed help? Tobias Crawford has spent seventeen years working the night shift as a 911 dispatcher in a small Texas county. He knows what it sounds like when someone is truly afraid. He knows how much thirty seconds can matter. And he knows that sometimes, no matter how quickly help arrives, it still isn’t...

Curtis Wayne Miller has spent decades telling people that nobody is beyond redemption. Then he meets Quincy Hale, a death-row inmate convicted of murdering four people. During their third visit, Quincy asks him to pray. The prison goes dark for eleven seconds. When the lights return, Curtis is trapped inside Quincy’s body — and Quincy is wearing his. Now Curtis has to survive another man’s enemies...

Andrew always wanted to play with his older brother. Even after he died. Growing up, Colby and his little brother Andrew spent their summers exploring an abandoned factory hidden deep in the woods. Fifty-foot concrete pillars. Roofless rooms. Drainage trenches. And a half-built fort they swore they’d finish someday. It was also where Andrew first saw something that looked exactly like Colby. Years...

BROADCAST 20 Jeff Harding isn’t his real name. It was the name given to him before he went undercover with the Iron Wake, a Massachusetts outlaw motorcycle club with thirteen full-patch members. For eleven months, Jeff became someone else. He learned their routines. Earned their trust. Sat in their clubhouse. Survived being questioned by men who suspected exactly what he was. And somewhere along t...

BROADCAST 019 OF THE MIDNIGHT HOLLER In 1878, Nathaniel Clark was injured and stranded alone on the North Texas range. Then a stranger found him. Harlan Reddick pulled Nathaniel out of the mud, brought him home, and gave him a place to recover. Harlan’s wife tended his wounds. They fed him. Gave him medicine. Treated him like family. Nathaniel thought they had saved his life. Then he noticed his m...

Ian Mercer spent five years working overnight security in the same thirteen-story office building. Nothing ever happened. Then, at 2:14 one morning, he looked up at the elevator display and saw a number that shouldn’t have been there. 14. The elevator began coming down. At first, Ian assumed it was a malfunction. Bad wiring. A glitch in an aging building. But when the doors opened, what was standi...

Broadcast 017: I Fell In Love With An Immortal Funeral Director / The Dead Kept Her Young In 1962, Emmett Guidry takes a job at a small funeral home in Bellweather, Louisiana. The work is steady, the dead don’t bother him much, and his employer, Evangeline Marchand, is unlike any woman he has ever met. Elegant. Distant. Beautiful. Emmett is completely taken with her. Then one night, after returnin...

Three hikers. Three stories. One trail you might not want to walk alone. Tonight on The Midnight Holler , Jonah opens the mailbag for three unsettling stories from the Appalachian Trail. A solo backpacker in the Smokies notices a man following him from a distance. Every time he stops, the man stops. Every time he speeds up, the man eventually reappears behind him. Until somehow… he’s ahead. A coup...

Broadcast 015: Every Time I Blink, They Move Closer He started seeing them when he was a kid. Tall, black figures standing where people weren’t supposed to be. Behind walls. At the end of hallways. Across the street. Always watching. At first, he thought blinking made them disappear. Then he realized every time he closed his eyes… they got closer. By thirteen, his birthdays had become something to...

Sid and Pat were supposed to be making a routine service call. Then the storm came. Stranded on the backroads of Mississippi with rising water, no cell service, and nowhere to spend the night, the two friends see something through the rain that shouldn’t be there. THE MAGNOLIA MOTOR HOTELVACANCY It looks like a place forgotten by time. No WiFi. No computers. No online reviews. A working payphone h...

Something has happened at WHAINT Radio. The station is wrecked, the equipment is failing, and Jonah Crowe is nowhere to be found. Then a stranger sits behind Jonah’s microphone. His name is Jackson Crowe . Jonah is his father. In this Missing Tape from upcoming Broadcast 014, Jackson enters the station searching for Jonah and discovers that his father may have gone into the one place he was never...

CALLS FROM THE HOLLER is where you take the microphone Tonight, a listener named Tyler from Decatur, Georgia calls into WHAINT 91.5 FM to share something he has never been able to explain. And if you’ve got a true story of your own, something strange, unsettling, impossible, or simply something that has stayed with you for years, we want to hear it. Call the Midnight Holler listener line at 1-214-...

MISSING TAPE 004 - Intro & Outro from Broadcast 012 This is not a broadcast. For full episode, see Broadcast 012 in it's entirety. This is only a piece of it. What follows here a recovered piece of audio from WHAINT Radio—recorded sometime during the events surrounding Broadcast 012. The tape contains only three things: A message from Jonah Crowe. What happened after the station went quiet. An...

BROADCAST 012 — THE SHAPE UNDER THE HIDE The generators are dead. The backups are gone. And somewhere beyond the walls of WHAINT, something has finally started coming inside. Broadcast 012 begins with a prerecorded emergency message from Jonah Crowe... one he hoped the station would never have to play. With the transmitter dying, the lights fading, and the sounds outside getting closer, Jonah has...

The Man in Lookout 43 Tonight’s tape was recovered from a weatherproof logbook box found near an abandoned Forest Service trail in the Cascade Mountains. The recording belongs to Ethan Mercer, a fire lookout who accepted a summer assignment after leaving an engine crew. His statement begins like any other account we’ve archived—weather reports, lightning strikes, long days alone in a tower above t...

Broadcast 010: Something Ancient In The Caves Feasted On Our Memories or "When I Forget" Deep beneath the mountains of North Georgia is a place almost forgotten by time... almost. The Cherokee once called it Tsulawé... The Place That Weaves. Those who still remember it speak of an ancient presence known only as The Weaver , a silent keeper of memory that asks for nothing… until grief becomes too h...

Some conversations were never meant to be broadcast. In this recovered segment from Broadcast 010, Jonah attempts to answer a simple listener question: “How do you sleep at the station?” Before he can finish, an old melody begins drifting through the static… Marianne is back. Calling from somewhere beneath WHAINT Radio, she begs Jonah to come to Studio B—not with anger alone, but with heartbreakin...

BROADCAST 009 of The Midnight Holler It's 1888. In a forgotten bayou of Louisiana rests a town, a perish, and a terrible secret that has been locked away. A cracked church bell has rung every night for nearly seventy years. The people of Bellerose Hollow know exactly why. When Reverend Amos Pruitt arrives in the Louisiana swamps of 1888 to replace the aging bell, he discovers an isolated community...

BROADCAST 008 of The Midnight Holler Samuel has hunted the same stretch of Louisiana woods since he was fourteen years old. Tucked away on two hundred acres of family land sits the forgotten remains of an old plantation—and deep within it, a decaying cabin hiding an abandoned well that should have stayed buried. For years, strange things plague the property. The smell of rot drifts through the tim...

This is a special bonus broadcast from WHAINT Radio. Before Broadcast 008 arrives, Jonah answers a listener’s question that many of you have been asking: How did he find the tower? As Jonah opens up about the grief of losing Marianne, the lonely years that followed, and the stormy night that led him to WHAINT Radio, the broadcast is suddenly interrupted by strange sounds coming from the station ro...

BROADCAST 007 of the Midnight Holler A veteran Alaskan musher enters the burned wilderness known as the Farewell Burn, where something ancient runs beside his sled just beyond the trees. As old guilt resurfaces and the trail leads onto uncertain ice, he discovers the only voices worth trusting may belong to the dogs pulling him through the dark. Tonight’s broadcast: Winter Burn — an eerie tale of...