The Midnight Holler

Caleb Mercer spent years filming weddings, corporate videos, and quiet moments people paid him not to miss. But after one hurricane assignment changed the course of his career, he found himself drawn to the violent beauty of storm chasing. Then, during a tornado outbreak outside a forgotten Oklahoma town, Caleb captured something on camera that should not exist. A red truck in a ditch. A man stumb...

During a late-night broadcast in 1976 (Broadcast 005), WHAINT Radio host Jonah was interrupted by a voice he never expected to hear again: Marianne, the woman he loved and lost years ago. Her message came through the broadcast, reaching both Jonah and the audience in a moment that left more questions than answers. Was it really Marianne? A warning? A trick of the station? Or something else entirel...

Jonah’s got a story tonight sent in secondhand, from a man who swears he isn’t lying and wishes he was. It starts the way these things always do: a county clean-out crew, a house gone quiet, and a maroon pickup sitting in the garage cleaner than anything else in a dead man’s life. A jar of moonshine that shouldn’t have been opened. A dare that shouldn’t have been taken. And a preacher’s voice on t...

MIDNIGHT HOLLER | S1E4 | “The Smoke That Stays” (Part Two) — The Thirteenth Night The journal of Joel Ardis, fire observer at Station L-7, continues. Part Two covers Days Eight through Thirteen. It was found in a waterproof box on the floor of the cab on October 3rd, 1973. Joel Ardis’s gear was present. His boots were at the base of the ladder. He has not been found. Haven’t heard Part One? Start...

Recovered from the journal of Joel Ardis, a former U.S. Forest Service ranger stationed alone at a remote fire lookout tower in Northern California, this account follows fourteen days above the Feather River Canyon where the silence begins to change. Dead animals appear at the base of the tower. Figures stand motionless at the treeline. A strange camp hides in the drainage below. And by the thirte...

Presented by The Midnight Holler & WHAINT Radio Tonight’s broadcast comes to you through the static, somewhere between the pines and whatever waits beyond them. In “The Thing That Learned My Voice” a ranger's missing persons patrol turns into something far worse. The missing person is recovered, but so is something else. There are old stories about things that wear hunger like a second skin. T...

Tonight’s broadcast takes us deep into the black water of the Okefenokee Swamp — the legendary “Land of the Trembling Earth.” Two men set out by boat, pushing nearly eight miles into the swamp’s winding channels, surrounded by cypress knees, hanging moss, and miles of dark water. But as night settles over the Okefenokee, they begin to notice something watching them from the tree line. At first, it...