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The Midnight Holler
by WHAINT Radio
The Midnight Holler is a weekly fictional horror anthology broadcast from WHAINT Radio, a mysterious backwoods station trapped in 1976. Hear immersive first-person stories about cryptids, paranormal encounters, unexplained disappearances, and the things hiding beyond the treeline. This is where the stories that don’t belong anywhere else find a home. Fire watchers who spotted something moving in the smoke that wasn’t an animal. Park rangers three days into a solo stretch who started hearing voices from the wrong direction. Crossroads. Hollers. Back forty acres where the corn’s been dead for thirty years but something still walks the rows at night.New episodes every week. Narrated in the Southern Gothic tradition, written in the spirit of the campfire and the AM dial. Human written like the Lord intended.WHAINT Radio — Est. 1976. Still broadcasting. God help us.
Episodes
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DON’T LET ME OUT | A Werewolf Horror Story
An isolated farmhouse in the mountains of North Georgia. A man chained to the floor of his own basement. And three words that should have been enough of a warning. Don’t let me out. Eli was twenty-seven years old and deep in the worst years of his meth addiction. Breaking into houses had become a...
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The Funeral of Jonah Elias Crowe | WHAINT Radio, 1976
WHAINT RADIO — ARCHIVED TRANSMISSION FILE: WHAINT-1976-1106 RECORDING DATE: November 6, 1976 SOURCE: UNKNOWN STATUS: UNAUTHORIZED TRANSMISSION The following audio was discovered following an unexplained interruption to Broadcast 025 of The Midnight Holler. The recording appears to document a...
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The Night the Stars Disappeared | A Forest Ranger’s UFO Story | E24
The Night the Stars Disappeared | The Midnight Holler — Broadcast 024 The sudden appearance of multiple Great Gray owls. A hole in the sky that grows. Forest animals that begin acting… strange. And then a wristwatch on the wrong arm. Henry Sellards spent most of his adult life preparing for the...
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The 911 Dispatcher Who Heard Tomorrow | E23
Broadcast 023 — The Dispatcher Who Heard Tomorrow What if 911 received your call before you needed help? Tobias Crawford has spent seventeen years working the night shift as a 911 dispatcher in a small Texas county. He knows what it sounds like when someone is truly afraid. He knows how much…
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The Preacher on Death Row | E22
Curtis Wayne Miller has spent decades telling people that nobody is beyond redemption. Then he meets Quincy Hale, a death-row inmate convicted of murdering four people. During their third visit, Quincy asks him to pray. The prison goes dark for eleven seconds. When the lights return, Curtis is...
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The Skinwalker That Looked Like My Dead Brother | E21
Andrew always wanted to play with his older brother. Even after he died. Growing up, Colby and his little brother Andrew spent their summers exploring an abandoned factory hidden deep in the woods. Fifty-foot concrete pillars. Roofless rooms. Drainage trenches. And a half-built fort they swore...
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I Went Undercover With a Biker Gang. Eight Men Never Came Back | E20
BROADCAST 20 Jeff Harding isn’t his real name. It was the name given to him before he went undercover with the Iron Wake, a Massachusetts outlaw motorcycle club with thirteen full-patch members. For eleven months, Jeff became someone else. He learned their routines. Earned their trust. Sat in…
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My Great-Great-Great Grandfather Escaped a Family of Cannibals | E19
BROADCAST 019 OF THE MIDNIGHT HOLLER In 1878, Nathaniel Clark was injured and stranded alone on the North Texas range. Then a stranger found him. Harlan Reddick pulled Nathaniel out of the mud, brought him home, and gave him a place to recover. Harlan’s wife tended his wounds. They fed him. Gave...
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I WORK NIGHT SECURITY | Something Came Down The Elevator From A Floor That Doesn’t Exist | E18
Ian Mercer spent five years working overnight security in the same thirteen-story office building. Nothing ever happened. Then, at 2:14 one morning, he looked up at the elevator display and saw a number that shouldn’t have been there. 14. The elevator began coming down. At first, Ian assumed it…
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I Fell In Love With An Immortal Cult Leader | E17
Broadcast 017: I Fell In Love With An Immortal Funeral Director / The Dead Kept Her Young In 1962, Emmett Guidry takes a job at a small funeral home in Bellweather, Louisiana. The work is steady, the dead don’t bother him much, and his employer, Evangeline Marchand, is unlike any woman he has…
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DON’T HIKE ALONE | 3 Scary Appalachian Trail Stories | E16
Three hikers. Three stories. One trail you might not want to walk alone. Tonight on The Midnight Holler, Jonah opens the mailbag for three unsettling stories from the Appalachian Trail. A solo backpacker in the Smokies notices a man following him from a distance. Every time he stops, the man…
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Every Time I Blink, They Move Closer | A Shadow People Horror Story | E15
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...
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No One Checks Out Of This Hotel | The Magnolia Motor Hotel Story | E14
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…
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MISSING TAPE 05 | Jackson Enters the Station | From BROADCAST 014
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...
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My Great Grandfather's Ghost, Tyler From GA | CALLS FROM THE HOLLER | E13
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...
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MISSING TAPE 04 | When The Power Goes Out, They Start Coming | Recovered From BROADCAST 012
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...
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The Shape Under The Hide | A Southern Horror Story | E12
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...
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I Spoke to a Dead Man at Lookout 43 | A Fire Watch Horror Story | E11
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...
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Something Ancient In The Caves Feasted On Our Memories | E10
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…
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MISSING TAPE 03 | Marianne Tells Jonah The Truth | Recovered From BROADCAST 010
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…
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The Bell That Kept The Thing Asleep | A Southern Folk Horror Story From 1888 | E09
BROADCAST 009 of The Midnight Holler 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…
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I Spent The Night In An Old Well With A Cajun Cryptid | A Louisiana Horror Story | E08
BROADCAST 008 of The Midnight Holler 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…
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MISSING TAPE 02 | Jonah Answers Mike's Question & Investigates Footsteps On The Roof | Recovered From BROADCAST 008
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...
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I Ran the Iditarod… Then Something Started Running Beside Me | Alaskan Horror | E07
BROADCAST 007 of the Midnight Holler 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…
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I Saw Something While Storm Chasing... & It Was Eating Him | E06
BROADCAST 006 of The Midnight Holler 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…
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MISSING TAPE 01 | Marianne Interrupts The Broadcast | Recovered From BROADCAST 005
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...
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I Took A Dead Man's Truck For A Joy Ride... The Radio Began Speaking To Me | E05
BROADCAST 005 of The Midnight Holler 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…
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The Smoke That Stays, A Fire Watch Story Pt. 2 | E04
MIDNIGHT HOLLER | BROADCAST 004 | “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...
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The Smoke That Stays, A Fire Watch Story Pt. 1 | E03
BROADCAST 003 of The Midnight Holler 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...
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The Thing That Learned My Voice | A Wendigo Horror Story | E02
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,...
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The Ghouls of the Okefenokee Swamp | E01
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Midnight Holler is a weekly fictional horror anthology broadcast from WHAINT Radio, a mysterious backwoods station trapped in 1976. Hear immersive first-person stories about cryptids, paranormal encounters, unexplained disappearances, and the things hiding beyond the treeline. This is where the stories that don’t belong anywhere else find a home. Fire watchers who spotted something moving in the smoke that wasn’t an animal. Park rangers three days into a solo stretch who started hearing voices from the wrong direction. Crossroads. Hollers. Back forty acres where the corn’s been dead for thirty years but something still walks the rows at night.New episodes every week. Narrated in the Southern Gothic tradition, written in the spirit of the campfire and the AM dial. Human written like the Lord intended.WHAINT Radio — Est. 1976. Still broadcasting. God help us.
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