Samuel has hunted the same stretch of Louisiana woods since he was fourteen years old. Tucked away on two hundred acres of family land sits the forgotten remains of an old plantation—and deep within it, a decaying cabin hiding an abandoned well that should have stayed buried.

For years, strange things plague the property. The smell of rot drifts through the timber. Deer vanish after the shot. Something impossibly large moves just beyond the trees. When Samuel finally follows a wounded buck back to the cabin, he discovers a nightmare living beneath the earth… and spends the longest night of his life trying to escape it.

Meanwhile, at WHAINT Radio, Jonah is still reeling from the events of Missing Tape 002. The station is growing stranger by the night, and whatever has found its way to the tower doesn’t appear ready to leave.

So settle in, keep the fire burning, and stay close to the radio.

You’re listening to WHAINT Radio… 91.5 FM. South Louisiana’s Voice in the Dark.

This is a special bonus broadcast from WHAINT Radio.

Before Broadcast 008 arrives, Jonah answers a listener’s question that many of you have been asking: How did he find the tower?

As Jonah opens up about the grief of losing Marianne, the lonely years that followed, and the stormy night that led him to WHAINT Radio, the broadcast is suddenly interrupted by strange sounds coming from the station roof.

Unable to ignore them, Jonah grabs a flashlight and investigates live on the air - only to discover far more than he ever expected.

This is not a full episode, but a special piece of the ongoing WHAINT story that takes place before the events of Broadcast 008. It serves as a bridge into the next full broadcast and reveals another unsettling chapter in the mystery surrounding WHAINT Radio.

Broadcast 008 is coming soon, friends.

A veteran Alaskan musher enters the burned wilderness known as the Farewell Burn, where something ancient runs beside his sled just beyond the trees. As old guilt resurfaces and the trail leads onto uncertain ice, he discovers the only voices worth trusting may belong to the dogs pulling him through the dark.

Tonight’s broadcast: Winter Burn — an eerie tale of the Alaskan wilderness, the Keelut, and the price of ignoring a warning.

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 stumbling into the rain.
And something pale crawling out from the storm.

What Caleb saw that day was not just an accident. It was not just an animal attack. It was something that follows disaster, hides in the noise, and uses the chaos of the storm to feed.

Tonight on The Midnight Holler, Jonah plays a listener confession from a storm chaser who learned the hard way that sometimes the worst thing beneath a tornado… is not the tornado.

Stay up late if you dare.

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 entirely?

Jonah now has to decide whether to follow the voice calling him toward Studio B.

Stay tuned to find out what he does next.

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 the radio, warning a drunk kid to turn around before it’s too late to.

This one’s about what a man can pour into an object over forty years of loving it — and what rides along after, once he’s gone.

And… an interruption in the broadcast by none other than Marianne herself - and another chapter reveal of her and Jonah’s story.

Keep the porch light off for this one. And if a voice on your own dial ever tells you to stop, do it.

“The Preacher on the Dial” — a WHAINT Radio story from Midnight Holler.

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 there first.

Also... a great deal about Jonah's story is revealed. Clues about how he found the station, the rules about it, and what happens when the broadcasting stops.

If you liked this episode, consider subscribing or submitting your own story to [email protected]

MIDNIGHT HOLLER is a Southern Gothic horror fiction podcast broadcasting from WHAINT Radio, 107.9 — hosted by Jonah, a man who found the station during a storm and hasn’t been able to leave. Every week, Jonah plays the dark stories and the true ones, because out in the Holler, dead air lets things in.

New episodes every week. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

Lock your door.

Thanks for listening.

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 thirteenth night, Joel realizes the smoke rising around his tower is not from any fire he was sent to watch.  

Presented by The Midnight Holler and WHAINT Radio — broadcasting from somewhere in the dark since 1976.

Lock your doors tonight. We’ll be back next week.

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. Things that call from the tree line. Things you should never answer.

Inspired by the eerie tone of late-night AM radio broadcasts, this episode of The Midnight Holler brings you a chilling Wendigo tale of isolation, dread, and the terrible realization that some things do not stay in the woods.

So dim the lights, check the locks, and keep your radio low.

Because out there in the cold… something may have heard you listening.

You’re tuned to WHAINT Radio. The signal fades, but the holler remembers.

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’s only a few glowing eyes.

Then dozens.

Then more than they can count.

Stranded deep in the swamp with no help nearby, the men realize they are not alone — and whatever is moving through the woods and water is closing in fast.

Tonight on The Midnight Holler, Lewis brings you a chilling Southern swamp horror story of ghouls, blackwater, and a desperate fight to make it out alive.

So turn the lights down low, keep your hands steady on the dial, and don’t stare too long into the trees.

Because in the Okefenokee…

something may be staring back.

Episode: There Are Ghouls in the Okefenokee Swamp, Land of the Trembling Earth

Genre: Southern Horror, Swamp Horror, Backwoods Horror, Creature Story, Scary Stories