Episode notes
In 1981, a young man runs the overnight shift alone at his father's small-town radio station, midnight to six, six nights a week. Twice an hour, the law requires him to say on air where he is and exactly what time it is.
In this original horror story, a son keeps the family station on the air through the night so it can be sold to pay for his father's care: farm reports, obituaries, requests from truckers, third-shift workers and insomniacs. One of the regulars is Alma, who calls every Thursday for the same record. It's a two-room cinderblock building on a county road with a tower in a bean field behind it, and he knows every sound it makes. So when the studio door starts standing open and a late caller asks him the time, he finds a reason each time and keeps working. Then one night, Alma calls, and she doesn't ask for her record.
A slow-burn, unsettling tale of late-night radio, a voice in the dark that everyone can hear, and a man who never realized who else was listening. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you.
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