Introducing Dead Loop — Hex Line's standalone investigative series exploring the real stories behind the legends we inherit. Dead Loop episodes exist outside the ongoing Hex Line narrative and can be enjoyed on their own. The main Hex Line story continues in chronological order.

The story of Suicide Pond has been told throughout the Merrimack Valley for generations: a young woman, a mysterious death, and the lore of her ghost that remained in the aftermath. But when I began searching for the girl behind the ghost, I discovered a historical record that challenged the story we'd all been told. In

In Part 1, I return to 1819, when the end of a life gave way to legend. More than 200 years later, the story of Hannah Chase begins to unravel.

Hex Line was created, written, and produced by Sam Halen. 

Original Music and Mastering by Bill Shaner.

[[ Episodes are serialized and best enjoyed in chronological order starting with EP. 01 ]]

[ Act I ] The static just went cold. Something is wrong.

[ Act II ] Everyone knows the Lizzie Borden story, but bizarre discoveries and horrific tragedies plagued the family long before the axe murders that made the Borden name infamous and immortalized in a chilling rhyme.

[ Act III ] Former Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast employee Cait Hurley shares the stories that stayed behind after the guests left, the encounters she couldn’t explain, and why the house changed what she believed about the supernatural.

Creator, Writer, Producer, & Host: Sam Halen

Musical Theme and Mastering: Bill Shaner

Voice Cast: Sam Halen (as Alternate Timeline Sam) and Kevin Darbro (as Morris Miller)

Special Guest: Cait Hurley

Episodes are serialized & best enjoyed in chronological order starting with EP. 01.

[ Act I ] Sam discovers Room B in the Hex Line office, a room hidden in plain sight and housing an antique dictation machine with an ominous reputation. 

[ Act II ] On a small, remote island in New Hampshire’s Isles of Shoals, a quiet winter night turns violent. With 2 women left dead in the snow, suspicion quickly settled on a man whose bizarre behavior still begs the question: Did he do it? 150 years later, his ghost is still pleading his case.

[ Act III ] Sam and guest Cait Hurley discuss Victorian-era child labor job assignments, making loud mistakes, and the longstanding accusation of “family computer porn incident” that has yet to be cleared up.

Creator, Writer, & Producer, & Host: Sam Halen

Musical Theme and Mastering: Bill Shaner

Voice Cast: Cait Hurley (as Alternate Timeline Cait); Sam Halen (as Alternate Timeline Sam), Tom King (as Danny), Kevin Darbro (as Morris Miller)

Special Guest/Story Contributor: Cait Hurley, Smuttynose Axe Murders

Each episode begins with a serialized mystery narrative best enjoyed in chronological order.

[ Act I ] A phone call has changed everything. Sam exits the office with a proposition for Cait: the work they were hired to do doesn't exist, but a new invitation is already on the table.

[ Act II ] John Hays Hammond Jr. was both the father of radio and the Mad Scientist of Massachusetts. In life, he built a castle to contain the metaphysical, tailoring the space for his own transition into it after death.

[ Act III ] Sam and guest Cait Hurley talk weird science.

Creator, Writer, Producer, & Host: Sam Halen

Musical Theme and Mastering: Bill Shaner

Voice Cast: Cait Hurley (as Alternate Timeline Cait); Sam Halen (as Alternate Timeline Sam), Kelsey Francis (as Robin)

Special Guest/Story Contributor: Cait Hurley (writer, story of Hammond Castle)

[ Act I ] of every episode is a serialized mystery/thriller audio drama segment. To follow the narrative, start with EP. 01.

[ Act I ] Sam answers the phone and an unsettling familiarity sets in; it's not the first time she’s answered the call, but it is the first time she stays on the line long enough to find out why.  

[ Act II ] A bedridden woman, unexplainable wounds, and a small city caught in a fever of devotion. This is the surreal, true legacy of Woonsocket, Rhode Island’s Stigmatist. A mystery wrapped in Vatican secrecy and uncomfortable coincidence.

[ Act III ] Sam and guest Cait Hurley discuss the Woonsocket Corpse Flood and why you should go to the dentist.

Creator, Writer, & Producer, & Host: Sam Halen

Voice Cast: Nora Ridgeway (as Christine); Kevin Darbro (as Morris Miller); Sam Halen (as Alternate Timeline Sam)

Special Guest: Cait Hurley 

Musical Theme & Mastering: Bill Shaner

[ I ] A phone rings on a dead circuit carrying a 65-year echo suspended in the ether; June 18th is no coincidence.

[ II ] Belcourt of Newport may not be the largest of the Newport, RI mansions, but it is the most haunted. It's legacy is held by screaming armor, spectral chairs, and the displaced spirit of a medieval Carthusian monk.

[ III ] Sam and special guest Cait Hurley talk about Sam’s after-hours invite to Belcourt, the Talking Board Historical Society/ Salem Witch Board Museum, and the New England tradition of pocket nips.

[ Act I ] of every Hex Line episode is a serialized segment. To follow the narrative, please listen in chronological order starting with EP. 01.

Creator, Writer, Producer, & Host: Samantha Spence (Sam Halen)

Voice Cast: Fletcher Gracie (as James); Kevin Darbro (as Morris Miller); Cait Hurley (as Alternative Timeline Cait); Sam Halen (as Alternate Timeline Sam)

Original Score / Music by: Bill Shaner

Special Guests: Cait Hurley

The switchboard opens on June 18th, but the echoes are already starting to bleed into the static. Listen closely. There are no coincidences down here.

Hex Line Episodes I and II premiere this coming Thursday, June 18th. Follow us wherever you get your podcasts.

Slip through the static and onto the line. The switchboard comes alive June 2026.

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