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 survive. Every year, the figures returned. Every year, there were more of them. And every year, he became better at staying awake.

Coffee. Cold water. Alarms. Mirrors. Anything to keep his eyes open until sunrise.

But the older he gets, the more the rules begin to change.

And as his eighteenth birthday approaches, he discovers something even more frightening:

His mother knows exactly what he’s been seeing.

She always has.

Broadcast 015 of The Midnight Holler is a long-form supernatural horror story about shadow people, sleepless nights, a mother’s impossible choice, and the terrible cost of living on borrowed time.

And when the story ends, stay tuned for “Don’t Let The Dead Air In” by Carl Lee Hesh and The Backwoods Boys, closing out tonight’s broadcast from WHAINT Radio.

Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and settle in.

Just remember…

don’t blink.

Got a story of your own?

We want to hear it. Give us a call at 1 (214) 699 7784… leave your story after the beep.

Or send your written ones to [email protected]

Thank you for being part of the Holler.

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 hangs in the lobby. Brass room keys wait behind the front desk. Everything looks like it hasn’t changed since the 1960s.

And somehow, they have a room available.

Room 317.

But when Sid and Pat reach the third floor, they discover two hallways with no room numbers and no apparent end.

Then Sid hears Pat calling his name.

There’s only one problem.

Pat’s voice is coming from the wrong direction.

What follows is an account of impossible hallways, familiar voices, things wearing familiar faces, and a roadside hotel that Sid has never been able to find again.

But the Magnolia isn’t the only thing waiting in Broadcast 014.

Something has happened at WHAINT Radio.

Jonah Crowe is missing.

And for the first time, someone else is sitting behind his microphone.

His name is Jackson Crowe.

And he’s looking for his father.

MIDNIGHT HOLLER
Broadcast 014: The Magnolia Motor Hotel
WHAINT 91.5 FM
Yazoo County, Mississippi

If you see the VACANCY sign glowing through the rain… keep driving.

Keep the signal alive.

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 supposed to enter: Studio B.

Jackson also knows the truth about Marianne, what happened to his mother, and what the Holler has been slowly taking from Jonah all these years.

But answers will have to wait.

The signal is weakening.

Something is outside.

And if Jackson wants to survive long enough to find his father, he’ll have to do exactly what Jonah did before him.

Keep broadcasting.

Missing Tape 005: Jackson Enters the Station
A Midnight Holler transmission from WHAINT 91.5 FM.

Keep the signal alive.

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 1-214-699-7784.
Leave your story, and you may be featured on a future episode of Calls From the Holler.

Tyler’s story begins with memories.

Memories of an older Korean man who kept mostly to himself, watched professional wrestling, and had dark brown eyes Tyler says could stare straight through you.

There’s only one problem.

The man was Tyler’s great-grandfather.

And he died before Tyler was born.

This is Calls From the Holler, BROADCAST 13.

Some memories belong to us.

Others may have been waiting for us.

WHAINT 91.5 FMThe Holler’s Own

Got a story for the Holler? Call 1-214-699-7784 and leave us a message. Your voice may come through the signal next.

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.

And a song.

There are gaps in the recording that cannot be accounted for.

No corresponding broadcast log has been found, and according to Jonah’s own notes, parts of this tape should not exist at all.

Listen closely to the voices.

Listen closer to what happens between them.

Because something changed inside WHAINT that night.

And for the first time in a very long while…Jonah may not be alone.

MIDNIGHT HOLLER — MISSING TAPE 004

Recovered from WHAINT 91.5 FM.

Every Story Leaves Something Behind.

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About WHAINT Radio

You’re tuned to WHAINT Radio, somewhere between the pine trees and the end of the road.

The Midnight Holler is a true-feeling horror stories broadcast from WHAINT Radio, a backwoods station trapped in 1976 where the night never ends. A realistic ARG vibe mixed with a bit of Stephen King, if you will.

New episodes + updates to Jonah's story every week.

Got a ranger log, ghost tape, confession, or strange report?

Send it to WHAINT Radio.

Jonah may read it on the next broadcast.

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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 enough power left for only one thing:

One last story.

Tonight’s tale comes from an old Appalachian taxidermist who spent more than fifty years learning that every animal has a shape all its own.

Then one summer, a stranger brought him a buck that didn’t seem to have one.

The deer was too heavy.

Its eyes were still clear.

Its body was put together wrong.

And beneath the hide was something that had been using the animal like a man uses a coat.

Something that listened.

Something that learned.

And when the taxidermist began building a new form for the mount…

…it began learning how to fit.

THE SHAPE UNDER THE HIDE is a slow-burning tale of taxidermy, imitation, family, and the terrible danger of giving the wrong thing a place to live.

But the story may not be the worst thing waiting inside WHAINT tonight.

Because after the final words fade, something moves below the station.

Footsteps climb the stairs from Studio B.

And a voice Jonah has not heard in a very long time calls into the darkness.

Stay through the end.

Whatever happens to WHAINT tonight…

Every Story Leaves Something Behind.

Keep listening.
Don’t change the dial.
And if somebody calls your name from the dark…

make sure you know who’s speaking.

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 the trees.

Then another lookout begins calling him over the radio.

The man’s name is Ian.

He claims to be stationed at Lookout 43, a tower that doesn’t appear on any current Forest Service maps. At first, the conversations are ordinary. They talk about weather, old fires, wildlife, and the quiet that settles over the mountains after sunset. Ian knows the country better than anyone Ethan has ever met.

Too well.

When Ethan finally searches the archives, he discovers Lookout 43 burned to the ground in the summer of 1967.

The man operating it was never found.

If you’ve ever spent time alone in the woods, you know silence has a way of changing shape after dark. Sometimes the only thing louder than the wind is another voice coming through the radio… one that shouldn’t still be there.

The following recording has been preserved exactly as it was recovered.

After tonight’s broadcast, stay tuned for a new original Midnight Holler song, “Keep Talking, Jonah.”

The red light is on.

Are you listening?

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 heavy to carry.

When Dexter Lewis returns home to care for his grandmother, he believes she’s losing herself to dementia. Instead, he uncovers a hidden trail, a notebook filled with desperate warnings, and an impossible cave where every bargain comes at the cost of a treasured memory.

Broadcast 010 is a deeply emotional Appalachian horror story about love, loss, memory, and the frightening temptation to erase pain instead of living through it.

It may bring you to tears just as much as frighten you.

Throughout tonight’s broadcast, Marianne once again reaches Jonah through the static, revealing another deeply personal piece of the mystery surrounding WHAINT Radio and the secrets beneath Studio B.

Stay with us after the broadcast for “Dear Marianne,” an original Midnight Holler song that closes the night with one final message from Jonah to the woman he’s never stopped loving.

Keep the radio close.

And if you ever hear breathing just beyond the tree line…

Remember what Margaret said.

The wind doesn’t wait for you to breathe first.

Last note... if you're still reading.

Many of us have family members who have struggled or are struggling with dementia. My heart goes out to you.

This one is for you.

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 heartbreaking familiarity. She reminds him of promises he once made, accuses him of abandoning her, and finally reveals a terrifying possibility:

Jonah may not remember the truth about how Marianne died.

As memories begin to unravel, listeners are left questioning whether Jonah is an innocent man being manipulated by the station… or whether the station is forcing him to remember something he buried decades ago.

This standalone Missing Tape contains one of the most important conversations in the ongoing Midnight Holler story.

Turn the lights down.

Put on your headphones.

And listen carefully…

Sometimes the static remembers more than we do.

The Midnight Holler

Broadcasting from WHAINT Radio, 91.5 FM… where it’s always night.

New broadcasts, missing tapes, songs, and transmissions released regularly.

If you hear humming behind the static…

She may be talking to you.

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 willing to risk death before allowing it to fall silent.

As strange figures begin appearing in windows, impossible sounds rise from beneath the church, and forgotten journals reveal a terrifying secret, the Reverend realizes the bell was never calling the faithful.

It was keeping something asleep. Something that had been locked away for three generations...

And now it has finally awakened.

Broadcast 009 — The Last Bell of Bellerose Hollow

Headphones recommended.

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