Midnight Signals: History, Folklore and Unexplained Mysteries

Russ Chamberlin
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Midnight Signals is a history and folklore podcast about unexplained mysteries, told in a late night documentary style by Russ Chamberlin. Each episode follows one real case: lost colonies and vanished lighthouse keepers, cursed castles, cryptids, Cold War secrets, and ancient texts like the Book of Enoch. The 50 States of Folklore series visits one state legend at a time. The show also makes original audio fiction, including The Station, a six part story about a sealed Cold War listening post, and Signal 20, short horror tales for late nights. Every fiction episode is labeled as fiction. More at MidnightSignals.net. 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.

  1. 3d ago

    The Station, Part 6: The Answer

    On the night of the spring equinox, as the last tower is finished and the Silencers wait at the foot of the ridge with their fuel, Nora Vance threads the reel marked Complete and unwraps her ears. What she finds on the other side is vast, and old, and ...

    The Station, Part 6: The Answer

  2. 3d ago

    The Station, Part 5: The Source

    With a brass key from Lena Hollis and a map from Dr. Brenner, Nora crosses a silent America on foot, following the long lines of people who are all walking the same way. She is captured by the Silencers, armed survivors who have sealed their ears and p...

    The Station, Part 5: The Source

  3. 3d ago

    The Station, Part 4: The Quiet

    On Gannet Rock, eleven miles off the coast of Maine, four hundred survivors live by rules written on a sheet of plywood: no speakers, no humming, no singing, and anyone who begins to change will be cared for, not cast out. Ruth teaches the island to si...

    The Station, Part 4: The Quiet

  4. 3d ago

    The Station, Part 3: The Fall

    Eleven seconds of television becomes millions of uploads, and the signal begins assembling itself, one humming voice at a time. At 2:19 a.m. on the first of August, the emergency alert system sounds on two hundred million phones. Governments order the ...

    The Station, Part 3: The Fall

  5. 3d ago

    The Station, Part 2: The Town

    Dev stops sleeping. He tells Nora the world finally makes sense, and that there is more of it, waiting to be heard. Eli goes back up the ridge alone. Then Dev slips into WHRL, Harlow's radio station, in the middle of the night, and at 6:03 the next mor...

    The Station, Part 2: The Town

  6. 3d ago

    The Station, Part 1: Do Not Listen

    On the last Saturday of June, four friends who have just graduated from high school, Nora, Eli, Cass, and Dev, climb Copper Ridge above the small town of Harlow, Pennsylvania. They're looking for Site Kestrel, an Air Force station that shut down withou...

    The Station, Part 1: Do Not Listen

  7. Oct 26

    Kaspar Hauser: The Boy from the Dark Room

    On Whit Monday, 1828, a shoemaker in Nuremberg found a boy swaying in the square. He had soft, blistered feet, an unsigned letter in his hand, and one sentence he repeated over and over. When the boy learned to speak, he described a life spent sitting ...

    Kaspar Hauser: The Boy from the Dark Room

  8. Season 4 Trailer

    The Station | Official Trailer

    In 1977, a secret Cold War listening station in the hills of Pennsylvania heard something in the sky. Then it was sealed, with a warning painted on the door: Do not listen. Nearly fifty years later, four friends break in and press play on the tape that...

    The Station | Official Trailer
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Midnight Signals is a history and folklore podcast about unexplained mysteries, told in a late night documentary style by Russ Chamberlin. Each episode follows one real case: lost colonies and vanished lighthouse keepers, cursed castles, cryptids, Cold War secrets, and ancient texts like the Book of Enoch. The 50 States of Folklore series visits one state legend at a time. The show also makes original audio fiction, including The Station, a six part story about a sealed Cold War listening post, and Signal 20, short horror tales for late nights. Every fiction episode is labeled as fiction. More at MidnightSignals.net. 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.

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