The Midnight Window

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The Midnight Window is your companion in the quiet hours, a late-night podcast that blends eerie tales, forgotten music, and thoughtful musings under a canopy of jazz and the unknown. Hosted by Jake Besten, each episode invites you into a hushed space between sleep and stillness, where vintage ghost stories, personal reflections, and strange history drift through the night like whispers on the wind. Whether you're chasing meaning, calming your mind, or simply keeping the night company, The Midnight Window is here to light a candle in the dark.

Episodes

  1. 10/20/2025

    Episode 02: Endless Doors and Quiet Pills

    Tonight on The Midnight Window, we step through the impossible corridors of No End House, a story where reality folds inward and memory becomes the ultimate trap. Then, we descend into the coded shadows of Lake City Quiet Pills, an internet legend buried beneath obituaries, secret messages, and the uneasy hum of a digital afterlife. As the night fades, host Jake Besten guides you through both the imagined and the inexplicable—where stories don’t end, they… change shape. ---MUSIC CREDITS---  “Walking Along”, “Just As Soon”, "Relaxing Piano Music", and “Night on the Docks – Trumpet” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Available at ⁠⁠⁠incompetech.com⁠⁠⁠. “Walking into Darkness,” “Silent Turmoil,” “Extinction,” “Cornered,” “Nightmares,” “Bad Encounter,” and “Living in the Dark” by Myuu.Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.Artist: https://www.youtube.com/@Myuu “Gems from The Lady of the Slipper," courtesy of the Library of Congress. Accessed at ⁠⁠⁠loc.gov⁠⁠⁠. ---END MUSIC CREDITS--- ---STORY CREDIT--- Russell, Brian. “NoEnd House.” Creepypasta Wiki, Fandom Communities, originally uploaded 30 June 2011, https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/NoEnd_House ---END STORY CREDIT---

  2. 07/14/2025

    Episode 01: Borrowed Words and Broken Signals

    Tonight on The Midnight Window, we open on a startling confession: a renowned author whoclaims he’s never written a single word of his bestsellers. In a tale that blurs the line between identity and illusion, we hear the unnerving truth of a man who lived behind the words of others and the strange force that may have helped him do it. Then, host Jake Besten turns the dial back to 1987 Chicago, where a masked figure hijacked two television signals in one of the most surreal, unsolved media intrusions in history. Was it a protest, a performance, or something more disturbing? To closethe night, two vintage recordings from the early 20th century invite you to drift softly into sleep, as always, beneath the quiet gaze of The Midnight Window. ---MUSIC CREDITS---  “Walking Along”, “Just As Soon”, "Relaxing Piano Music", and “Night on the Docks – Trumpet” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Available at ⁠⁠incompetech.com⁠⁠. "Keep Going", "Haunted by Screams", and "Outsider", by Myuu, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Available at thedarkpiano.com "Sun Awakening" by Futuremono. Provided to YouTube by the YouTube Audio Library. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Available at youtube.com “Story book ball” and “Swanee 'One-step'" courtesy of the Library of Congress. Accessed at ⁠⁠loc.gov⁠⁠. ---END MUSIC CREDITS--- ---STORY CREDIT--- Story Link ⁠Author Website⁠ ---END STORY CREDIT---

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The Midnight Window is your companion in the quiet hours, a late-night podcast that blends eerie tales, forgotten music, and thoughtful musings under a canopy of jazz and the unknown. Hosted by Jake Besten, each episode invites you into a hushed space between sleep and stillness, where vintage ghost stories, personal reflections, and strange history drift through the night like whispers on the wind. Whether you're chasing meaning, calming your mind, or simply keeping the night company, The Midnight Window is here to light a candle in the dark.

Information

  • Creator
    Besten
  • Years Active
    2025
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Besten
  • Show Website
    The Midnight Window