Echoes Revisited

Step back into the darkness with a special bonus episode of Echoes in the Dark: Original Stories, True Hauntings, & Horror Genre Explored.

In “Echoes Revisited,” John Keaser Jr. takes listeners on an atmospheric journey through some of the most memorable intro themes, segment openings, and ambient tracks from previous episodes of the podcast. From chilling cold opens and haunting transitions to fan-favorite segment music, this episode is a nostalgic trip through the sounds that helped shape the identity of the show.

No movie countdowns.
No deep-dive reviews.
No interruptions.

Just immersive horror atmosphere, dark audio, cinematic tension, and the echoes of past episodes designed for late-night drives, sleepless nights, and listeners who find comfort in the dark.

If you’ve ever listened to Echoes in the Dark while driving empty roads at night, working third shift, reading horror novels, or lying awake unable to sleep, this episode was made for you.

Hosted by horror author John Keaser Jr., creator of Hopewell Hollow and founder of Dark Hollow Media LLC.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

You know what's strange about sound? It lingers long after the episode ends, long after the lights come back on, long after the story's over, certain intros, certain songs, certain moments from this podcast became attached to people's lives, late-night drives, empty highways, third shifts, breakups, insomnia, grief, loneliness, and over time, these intros and atmosphere tracks became more than just background music. They became memories. Tonight, we revisit the echoes.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

What up, my creep? Um John Keyser Jr., writer, insomniac, and horror exhibitionist. I don't sleep well, so neither should you. And this is Echoes in the Dark. Original stories, true hauntings, and horror genre explored. Tonight's bonus episode is called Echoes Revisited. Over the next hour, we're going back through some of the most memorable intro themes, segment tracks, and atmospheric pieces from previous episodes of the show. No movie breakdowns tonight, no haunted houses, no cursed artifacts, just the sounds, the atmosphere, and the music that helps shape this podcast into what it became. Some of these tracks are dark. Some the sounding, some unsettling. But all of them carry echoes from previous lights in the dark together. So turn the lights down. Turn the volume up and let the atmosphere volume out into the shadows.

SPEAKER_30 2:15

The air turns in the demon turkey's voice creeps in. Next the twist of heads that turn, the storm outside will never adjourn. Claw marks grape on the old wood floor, but chill runs deep you lock the door, but gobbles seep through every pore gobble gobble the sound of fear it's closer now, it's almost here. Gobble gobble, don't look away. The cursed bird has come to play.

SPEAKER_22 4:27

No time for good jero. We wish you a morbid Christmas And a dreadful new year.

unknown 4:34

Bring us some plastic boogie. Bring us some plastic boogie.

SPEAKER_33 4:39

Bring us some plastic boogie and scream on joy.

SPEAKER_22 4:44

We wish you a morbid Christmas. We wish you a morbid Christmas.

SPEAKER_24 4:50

We wish you a morbid Christmas and a dreadful new year. Now dread as you go and fear as you roam. Dark tidings to you, may you feel all alone. We wish you a morbid Christmas and a dreadful new year.

SPEAKER_27 5:25

Whispers through the frost, breath turns steam.

SPEAKER_18 5:28

Footsteps in the snow, shadow splits the beam. Cold cuts deeper than night, don't sleep. When this curse creeping, it's a promise to keep. Teeth chatter symphonies, wind hums low. Ghosts in the tree line, they shuffle, they glow.

SPEAKER_10 5:42

And it's carved in the bark, own in the nice, flesh of the foolish, dinner for the night. Soul frozen, solid, veins run slow. When they go green, sharp enough to show.

SPEAKER_18 5:53

Claws scratch rhythm, heart strung fair, silent in the forest, but the beast draws near. Who survives when the snow won't thaw? Who defies a creature's law? Echoes in the dark, whispers raw. Hunger in his belly, hunger with no flaw.

SPEAKER_25 6:09

Winner of the windy go can escape the cold. Frozen breath through legend stories, centuries old. Winter of the windy go.

SPEAKER_11 7:03

Shadow stretch creeps slow through the hollow.

SPEAKER_18 7:07

Whispers in the trees. Dread we borrow. Moonlight, fractured tail, eyes away those bow. Roots twist like fingers clawing from the ground. Blackbirds scatter, omen or reply. Sky bleeding rust, the sun for God. Steps on the path they echo too loud. Graves breathe secrets under the shroud. Oh, well, hollow where the winds don't sleep. Darkness on the soil so deep. Oh, well, hollow where the shadows leak.

SPEAKER_24 7:45

Evil wakes when the lost souls creep.

SPEAKER_26 7:48

Oh, oh, oh. Oh, ho, ho, ho, oh, oh, oh, lost souls creep. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, oh, oh, lost souls creep.

SPEAKER_18 8:03

Lanterns flicker, oil and fear burn slow. Mouse covered warnings in the undertow. A face in the fog, but it's yours, it's now. Every turn tighter in this cursed plot. Echoes of sermons, fire at the stake, hymns of despair in the woods they make. Branches snap, no one behind. A life in the distance, tether to turn. Hope well, hollow where the winds don't see.

unknown 8:37

Darkness stone in the soil so deep. Hope well, hollow where the shadows weep.

SPEAKER_18 8:45

Evil wakes when the lost souls creep.

SPEAKER_41 9:35

Someone said my name. Tilling knew my shame.

SPEAKER_18 9:51

Heard you in the fan home, hiding in the white noise low, laughing in the reruns, answering the things that don't show.

SPEAKER_42 9:59

Flipping through the channels. Every face smiles what I've done. Every ass is careful. Every laugh track comes undone.

SPEAKER_18 10:10

Voices that follow you home. Talking through the screen like they slept in your bones. Can't turn it off when the sound lives under your skin.

SPEAKER_42 10:31

You know every late. Every search I never spoke out loud. You repeat my secrets, put forward inside the crowd. Radio in the kitchen starts to stutter on my fear.

SPEAKER_18 10:41

DJ says my birthday, then I hear you in my near life. Voices that follow you home.

SPEAKER_42 10:51

Talking through the screen like they club in your bones. Can't kill the feet when the noise moves into your head. Don't I say go to go to bed? Don't I say go to bed? Is it in the wires? All the cracks inside my mind. If I smash the speakers, will you speak from exit signs? If I pull the plug out, will you ride a quiet L? You say check the closet. And your laugh comes from in the hell. Voices that follow you home, whispering my name like they called it in stone. Can't change a dial when no host leaves under my skin.

SPEAKER_15 12:53

Creaking floorboard sighs. They know it all.

SPEAKER_02 13:00

Don't fall asleep, the dark will keep echoes in the dark. Think I too deep. Close your eyes, lose your mind, the demons piece where dreams unwind.

SPEAKER_14 13:28

Fingers on the window, tapping slow, a lullaby of terror.

SPEAKER_15 13:41

Let it grow.

SPEAKER_06 13:45

The air is heavy. The moon won't show.

SPEAKER_18 13:52

You're not alone. You never work.

SPEAKER_42 14:01

They're in your balls. They start to stir.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

Don't fall asleep, the dark will keep echoes in the dark. They cut to deep. Close your eyes, lose your mind. The demons feast where dreams unwind. Through cracks on the scene. They wear your face, stay steal your screen, void with shadows.

SPEAKER_29 15:14

Calendar laughing in red. Thirteen hearts on the table.

SPEAKER_08 15:28

Love letters written in thread. Roses in a ring of edge. Wax drips fresh from the neck.

SPEAKER_40 15:39

Mask on the mantle. Crack Polaroids pin to the wall. Chocolate box with a heartbeat. Sun sharp tucked in the shop. Shh, welcome to Echoes in the dark with the kids, leaves the star.

unknown 15:54

So the prayer for your heart.

SPEAKER_04 15:56

Friday the 13th, Valentine in the graveyard. You feel a hand on your back. That's just two plates, one chip. Footsteps in the hallway stop right outside your front door.

SPEAKER_08 16:20

Phone rings, same, heavy breathing voice says, I'm already here. Already here. Check the closet, check the mirror, see your face.

SPEAKER_15 16:29

Swallowed by fear.

unknown 16:31

Welcome to Echoes in the dark. Say a prayer for your heart.

SPEAKER_04 16:40

Friday the third seat, Valentine in the graveyard. You feel a hand on your back. That's just Light.

SPEAKER_42 16:54

Lux turn it slow. If love don't kill you, kill you.

SPEAKER_18 17:02

The story will, well, will no, well, well, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_11 18:01

Shh, old tape piss, spine like dice. Stories we say from a childhood night. Pages and pages under covers we shook. Now it's right in your ears. You can't close the book. Hallway, breathing bedroom door. Something you dreamed is on the floor. You would subscribe, but you ain't alone. Cause the fear that followed us, just found your home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 18:24

This is scary stories in the fear that followed us. Every shadow in the room wanna talk to us. Undercovers like the past, still watching us. Press play, let the dark come follow. Scary stories in the fear that followed us. Childhood chills in the dark, still haunting us. From the closet to the cross base, calling us.

SPEAKER_11 18:44

Press play, let the dark come follow. Back to the 90s through the fate. School yard rumors, no escape. Bloody names on the bathroom glass. You left it off, but the years don't pass. We grew up, but the monsters didn't. They've been hiding in the cracks to every minute. Now every episode is a midnight bus.

SPEAKER_40 19:05

Lights out, fill the fear that followed us.

SPEAKER_18 19:08

This is scary stories in the fear that followed us. Every shadow in the room wanna talk to us. Under covers like the past, still watching us.

SPEAKER_22 19:17

Press play, let the dark come, follow us. Scary stories in the fear that followed us. Try the chills in the dark still haunting us.

SPEAKER_14 19:25

From the closet to the cross face, calling us. Press play, let the dark come, follow us.

SPEAKER_18 20:24

Pages in your mind still flip. Shadow in the corner, tight grip. You hear voices from that tale under covers like a kid. Thanks for listening. Now good luck trying to sleep. Flashback, close ticker ceiling. Old house hung, same feeling. Monster in the hallway floor cold. You grew up, but the shiver's still whole. Check under the bed. Just in case, cause some nightmares remember your face. Thanks for listening.

SPEAKER_38 21:17

Now good luck trying to sleep. Oh stay.

SPEAKER_26 21:20

Those stories stay where the blankets carriage. Scare stories and the fear that followed us deep.

SPEAKER_36 21:32

Till next time. Close your eyes and keep listening.

unknown 21:41

Keep listening. Keep listening.

SPEAKER_27 22:14

We turn down the lights, let the stories come find you.

SPEAKER_18 22:18

Circle in the trees, flashlight on the log, backpacks, candy, shadows in the fog. One kid swears there's a face in the smoke. Another one laughs, but the fire coughs and choke.

SPEAKER_36 22:30

Submitted for your approval. We're not going home tonight. Sharing secrets by the fire till the dark turns out the light. If you listen very closely, you can hear them in the flame. Little voices in the branches calling out your name.

SPEAKER_18 22:52

Pages in the notebook, names scratch deep. Some dreams follow you, even when you don't sleep. Clock says midnight, but the woods say more. Every story is a doorway, not a door you should ignore. Submit it for your approval.

SPEAKER_36 23:06

We're not going home tonight. Sharing secrets by the fire till the dark turns out the light. If you listen very closely, you can hear that in the flame. Little voices in the branches calling out your name. Shadows draw. One more story.

SPEAKER_27 24:16

Closet crack with a single lie. Old toy stare, but they never cry. Under the bed where the noise runs, then you count it ten.

SPEAKER_04 24:26

It's behind your skin. Submit it for your approval. We turn the lights down, down. Every echo has a face. Now every creek's another ghost in town. If you're still there, still listen, then don't move, don't speak, keep shivering.

SPEAKER_17 24:44

Submit it for your approval.

SPEAKER_26 24:47

You're part of the story now.

SPEAKER_36 24:53

Footsteps soft on the attic stairs. Something knows all your bedtime prayers. Names you whisper when you fall asleep. Come back, change from the dark and deep. Curtain moves, but the wind stays still. Old house hums with the hungry. Will you stay? It's just in my head this time. But the laugh in the wall tries to match your eyes.

SPEAKER_26 25:18

Submit it for your approval.

SPEAKER_18 25:21

We turn the lights down, down. Every echo has a face now. Every creek's another ghost in town. If you're still there, still listening.

SPEAKER_17 25:32

Don't move, don't speak, keep shivering. Submit it for your approval.

SPEAKER_38 25:38

You're part of the story now.

SPEAKER_36 25:43

If you hear your name in the hallway, Don answer. If you feel that hand on your shoulder, Don Sir If the dog leans in with a secret, let it burn.

SPEAKER_26 26:32

Thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_03 26:43

Thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_35 26:45

From the echo to the spark.

SPEAKER_38 27:32

When she walks on screen, blood on her sneakers, eyes, cold clean.

SPEAKER_36 27:40

They bet on a break and bet on a scream. She's shopping the trauma, turned it to a beam. Name on the credits, stitching scarlet ink. Smile in the silence, watch the monster thing.

SPEAKER_18 27:51

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_38 27:57

Stripping with the pearls. They came here to hunt. But we're at the end.

SPEAKER_36 28:07

That goes in the dark. We cut every star. She's the first one. Breathe. And they do the car. You can chase the RP do it. But the answer is the hunter. She cards your name. Cards your name. Third phone at 5%. Shadow at the window, heavy on the vent. He thinks he's the legend. Stalking in the mist. Every time we miss up in the bottom, where's that? And it's a vibe of step, go to bed. On your eye, I'll let the story start.

SPEAKER_38 29:06

They can't bear the haunt. They can't bear the arm. But we write the end. That's all. That goes in the dark. Every scar. She's the first one. When they step the car, you can taste the heart. The hunter is the hunter.

SPEAKER_36 29:29

She carves your name. For the one in the cabin. For the one on the table. For the one in the basement. Letting her escape. For the voice on the phone. Saying I'm not alone. For the girl in the mask, building her over.

SPEAKER_38 29:51

Echoes in the dark. Their names, their names. Final girls rising. Set the frame, set the frame creep. So keep quiet while the credits start. This is her story.

unknown 30:06

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_34 30:23

Last green face. But we still lurk. Spinal girls stand tall. Did the hard work. Blood on the kicks, lip glow sharp. You made it to the credits of Echoes in the dark. Badass vinyl girls, we know when we bite. Thanks for listening through the fear, through the night. Hit that listen, hit that like, keep us under your skin. Follow close, tell a friend, let the terror begin. Cut that merch with the curse. Let the logo drip red every shirt, every cat. Keep us living in your head. Badass vinyl girls, if you ride in your house. Echoes in the dog, see you back in the scars.

SPEAKER_16 31:51

The walls kept moving and they knew my shame. Old porch light flickered in the air went thin. Something at the window started grinning in. Tell it slow.

SPEAKER_07 32:03

Tell it truth. We've been awaiting on you. Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_06 32:17

Say it like a prayer.

SPEAKER_18 32:20

Say it like a mark.

SPEAKER_07 32:24

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_19 32:27

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_07 32:30

One more story.

SPEAKER_16 32:36

Mama heard footsteps on an empty stair. Tiny knocks on the ceiling when nobody's there. A phone line hissed and the baby cried back. And the voice, not his own from the kitchen black. Tell it slow.

SPEAKER_07 32:52

Tell it true. We've been waiting on you. Echoes in the dark. Say it like a prayer.

SPEAKER_19 33:09

Say it like a mark.

SPEAKER_07 33:12

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_19 33:15

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_07 33:18

One more story.

SPEAKER_06 33:25

If the room goes cold, keep talking anyway. If it answers once, don't let it stay. We collect the feel like nails in the jar. Every little echo leaves a deeper scar. Echoes in the dark. Say it like a prayer.

SPEAKER_19 33:48

Say it like a mark.

SPEAKER_07 33:51

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_06 34:02

Listen to stories.

SPEAKER_18 34:37

Basement full of ash and grease. Pages tucked in my coat. Hope we'll hollow on the sleeve. The housekeeping names on the wall, scratch them with the nail. You hear your own voice back in the floor. Boys ring like jail. Black ink on my fingertips.

SPEAKER_13 34:53

Cold coin in the palm. Every dog got the lid the bruise. Every room got the calm.

SPEAKER_18 34:58

And if you can't put the truth in, baby, here's the cut. The dog don't need the reason, it just opens when you touch. Listen close, don't blink now. That old fear is loud now. Follow it. Take the route. One wrong turn, and you're out. Listen like follow.

SPEAKER_38 35:22

Listen like follow. Cop that merge. Cop the novel.

SPEAKER_19 35:28

Oh, well, hollow. Oh, well, hollow. Listen like follow. Listen like follow. Cop that merge. Cop the novel. Oh, well, hollow.

unknown 35:48

Hallow.

SPEAKER_10 35:51

Creaking the hall like a grin. Ink running down the spine. I seen the moon in the jar in the bled out. The thin white line. Back room full of missing ears. From porch full of flies. Everybody gotta price.

SPEAKER_13 36:05

Everybody gotta lie.

SPEAKER_10 36:07

I don't sleep, I just circle it like something wants me near. Hardcover, folded tease, all the baddies disappear. So if you hear that now, better keep your hands still. Sometimes wear a human face.

SPEAKER_18 36:20

Some tails bite for the thrill. Listen close, don't blink now. That old fear gets loud now.

SPEAKER_19 36:30

Follow it, don't take the row. One wrong turn, in your owl.

SPEAKER_34 36:37

Listen like follow.

SPEAKER_38 36:39

Listen like follow. Cop that merch. Cop the novel.

SPEAKER_19 36:45

Hope well, hollow. Oh, well, hollow. Listen like follow. Listen like follow. Cop that merch. Cop deno.

unknown 37:00

Hope well, hollow.

SPEAKER_14 37:05

Hallow light in the pit, then it's snapping two. Name on the sign got burber to still look like you. So I chanted the static and I breathe through the dread. If the woods wanna witness, let 'em hear what I said.

SPEAKER_19 37:27

Listen like follow, listen like follow. Pop that merch, cop and all, oh, well, hollow.

SPEAKER_38 37:39

Oh, well, hollow. Listen like follow.

SPEAKER_19 37:44

Listen like follow. Hop that merch. Cop and novel. Oh, well, hollow hollow.

SPEAKER_39 38:14

Last year never left. Shadows in the hallway, breathing on your neck. Calendar flip, but it still came through. Same cold footsteps right behind you. Midnight hits, you can change that page.

SPEAKER_27 38:26

But the same black eyes watch from the frame. New keys, new lock. Same thing, scrape. Something in the fence. Learn your name, phone light on. See the outline shift. Static in the speaker when the stories drip. You could burn that list. All the things you would grab. But the worst ones pacing by the fire escape. Yeah.

SPEAKER_38 38:45

Think of the followers. Check the dark, yeah, still wants us.

unknown 38:55

Think of the followers. Right on the past, it's good, trust.

SPEAKER_38 39:00

You run ahead, it stays in front. Some things cross over when the clock jump.

SPEAKER_28 39:05

New year's toast, red stain on the floor. Every little secret knocking at the door. Hear it in the vents when the room goes still. Hear it in the laugh that don't sound real. Every story told, every dare you took, every name you spoke. When you shouldn't have looked, you can light that stage. Let the smoke rise slow, but it sits in the corner like I still know.

SPEAKER_38 39:26

They're the followers, they don't forget it, just the just you think you left in the dust. Check the dark, yeah, still on stress. They're the followers. Breath on the glass with spur trust. You run ahead, it stays in front. Some things cross over when the clouds run.

SPEAKER_28 39:48

Echoes in the dark. Follow every step you started play. Feel the teeth and the tone. These are the things that come home into the new year.

SPEAKER_39 40:52

Grow on the fence, post, speaking like a friend. Says blood makes a circle, and circles never end.

SPEAKER_18 41:00

Breathe in the hallway, floorboards count my steps. Nails in the door frame, scratching hours left. I hit them in the oven heat. Soft feet on the tiles, little teeth clicking, little wicked smile. Echoes in the door, in the top.

SPEAKER_05 41:19

We made a covenant. The rules won't let us quit. Egg's on the flame. We don't feel the fit. Echoes in the door. Hear the children sing.

SPEAKER_39 41:49

They dance in the cornrows, faces made of wax, eyes like empty windows, voices crawling down my back. I try to say a prayer. My tongue turns to rope.

SPEAKER_18 42:01

Larded with the lullabies, hanging from the hope. They draw in the dust, circles, crooked stars. One for every night. Play, they say play. Till my reason snaps. They clap out the counting. I fall through the cracks. Hey, Echoes in the dark, in the dark.

SPEAKER_05 42:24

We made a covenant.

SPEAKER_25 42:26

Put our names in bar in the roots, won't let us quit. Hands on the flame. We don't feel a thing. Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_05 42:36

Hear the children sing.

SPEAKER_36 42:38

La la la la. Whose voice is in your mouth now. Whose hands are in your head? They said it was a game then. Now you're praying to the shit if you run.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

We will fall. Echoes in the dark, in the dark.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

We made a colour. Put our names in bark in the mouth. The roots won't let us speak.

SPEAKER_25 43:19

Hands on the plane. We don't feel a thing. Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_30 43:25

Hear the children sing.

SPEAKER_18 43:42

Let's house cleaning in the cattle feet. Lantern in the window where the bedroom feeds. Your name that was never really me.

unknown 44:05

Oh, well, hollow where the lost souls creep.

SPEAKER_18 44:10

Name scarf shallow when the roots soul deep. If you came here waking, you won't leave and sleep. Oh, well, hollow where the lost souls creep.

SPEAKER_11 44:31

Crow on the crossbeam, watching what you keep.

SPEAKER_18 44:37

But on your sneaker, secret since repeat. Shadow in the tree line, walking like it's kin. You can knock three times, but it never lets you in.

unknown 44:54

Oh well, hollow where the lost souls creep.

SPEAKER_18 44:59

Name's card shallow in the roots, so deep. If you came here waking, you won't leave in sleep.

SPEAKER_32 45:11

Oh, well, hollow where the lost souls creep.

SPEAKER_18 45:21

Thanks for listening to the hunger and the hungry. Thanks for listening. Leave your fear out by the creek.

SPEAKER_32 45:32

Oh well, hello, we're the last soul screen, creak, creep, creak, creak. We're the last souls creep.

SPEAKER_18 46:30

This is the place that keeps going. Right your name on the old front door, you can run. But if I'll you home, believe it, never me. You're alone. The road tongue knows every step you take. Gravel remembers every promise you break. Old folks say the ground got eyes. Countin' every secret you try to hide well. And learns people not the other way. Tracks in the mud, spell what you won't say. History hums in the floorboard scene. Same bad story, just a swapped out scene. This is the place that keeps going. Write your name on the old front door. You can run. But it follows you home. Cause we never put on the family map, faded and thin. Last one now, swears the never back again. Still a win says your childhood prayers. Whispers every day on the crooked stairs. Change your town, you change your clothes. Still hear the holler and the dial don't glow. Every goodbye just opens a door. The past keeps count like it did before. This is the place that keeps going. Right your name on the old front door, you can run.

unknown 47:42

But it follows you on cause leaving.

SPEAKER_18 47:45

Never means you're alone.

SPEAKER_40 48:54

Shh, hit that. Story still scratchin' at the door. Cold case crumbs on the floor. You can leave, but you'll be back. You always come back for more, yeah.

SPEAKER_38 49:07

Thanks for listening down in the deep. Echoes in the dark, don't sleep. Hit that follow if you feel this, feel it. Like, subscribe if you care, you will.

SPEAKER_18 49:26

Echoes in the dark, in your vein.

SPEAKER_38 49:28

In your vein.

SPEAKER_18 49:29

See that logo staring from the screen. Little crack smile. No it's what you stand. Put the hoodie on, put a night in tight. Walk home heavy with the weight of the bite. Name written like a file in a drawer. Stamped in red, can't hide from the lore. Every stitch, every tag, every drop. Says you've been marked by the hollow chop.

SPEAKER_38 49:53

Echoes in the dark, don't sweep. Hit the hollow if you feel this feel it. Like subscribe if you dare you.

SPEAKER_18 50:01

Dop that merch from the hollow, stop that place that keeps going the harpy stop. Put your fear on your sleeve till it's name. Echoes in the dark in your veins.

SPEAKER_39 50:12

Next time you hear your name in the black. Just remember you press play on that. Echoes linger long after we pop. Echoes in the darks on and off your heart, huh?

SPEAKER_29 50:49

I brought you here to listen. I'll let you go back.

SPEAKER_18 51:10

Moon cut thin like a blade on your neck. Bootprints drowned in the mud and regret. Names on a list, scratched deep in the bark. Everyone crossed out by the time it gets dark. Whispers crawl through the teeth of the trees. They said you did it, now the roots disagree. Eyes in the edge, watch every breath you take. Truth don't trial and the rope don't break. Welcome to the knot of the wheel. How do you cues be coming to come down? Once your shadow hangs from the branch line, you always go bugging. Welcome to the knot of the wheel. Whenever plead dies, any but they don't need proof in this forest, they just tighten the hope into a rope.

SPEAKER_15 51:58

Old core burn, but the ass is still speak. Jury made a crow circle over the creek.

SPEAKER_18 52:04

Footsteps fade when the branch is leaning. Roots write guilty on the soles of your skin. You can run, but the path runs too. Every turn you take bends back to you. They don't ring bells when the sentence is done. They just let another branch go numb. Welcome to the night of the window.

SPEAKER_19 52:29

Put your shadow eggs from the batch line.

SPEAKER_33 52:35

Welcome to the night of the wicked hill. With every plane cut in the room.

SPEAKER_15 52:46

So if you're hearing this, you're already on the stand. Don't look back when you feel the hand. Two echoes in the dark. Two echoes in the door.

SPEAKER_33 52:59

Two echoes in the door. Two echoes in the job.

SPEAKER_18 53:55

Your heart. These tap blasts like fingernails in the dark. You stayed up. Past where the story is in past where the oldest name was show me and whatever's watching from the band. This was the night of the willow.

SPEAKER_06 54:10

Thanks for listening. Late with me. Eyes wide.

SPEAKER_18 54:17

Whispers draws across your screen.

SPEAKER_03 54:20

Listen, like follow.

SPEAKER_18 54:24

If you bring that shadow, sir, come back, crawl back.

SPEAKER_15 54:30

Hop that curse, that smurf. Hey, listen, mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_18 54:44

Hey. When the hallway, homes in the stairs, breathe back. Remember every word you heard, might not fitting daylife, man.

SPEAKER_13 54:52

So save this episode like the charm you keep. Next time you can't close both eyes. I'll be waiting where you can sleep right here.

SPEAKER_06 55:03

This was the night of the willow. Thanks for listening like with me.

SPEAKER_18 55:10

Doctor crack voice low window. One red light on your screen.

SPEAKER_03 55:17

Listen, like follow.

SPEAKER_18 55:20

If you live for teeth that lurk, come back, crow back. Cop that curse, that's murder. Into the next dark hell. Don't look too long at the tree.

SPEAKER_03 55:41

And that on the counter, all right.

SPEAKER_08 56:22

Footsteps face till you hear.

SPEAKER_23 56:41

Housekeep secrets, and it wants you to fall. Echoes in the door where the forgotten stays.

SPEAKER_03 56:58

Echoes in the door.

SPEAKER_23 57:01

You can't turn away. Shh If you came for a story, you might leave with a name. Door half closed, win says stay. Pictures watch you, eyes won't look away. Hold in your chest, clock stuck late. You press play now, you share their fate.

SPEAKER_15 58:16

Shadows talk, but you already know them. Whispers crawl through the hall of your headphones. Hold your breath till we let this fear go.

SPEAKER_39 58:32

Echoes in the dark, haunted places in your head.

SPEAKER_18 58:36

Thanks for listening in the black. Taking us to every trap. Listen like follow. Keep that candle by your bed. Shop the hollow, shop the hollow. Pop that merch before you rest.

SPEAKER_15 58:53

One more door, yeah, we'll leave a crack for you. When you're back, we got stories in the gloom. Coach you'll ride when the outro starts to creep. If you hear your name, don't look, just breathe.

SPEAKER_18 59:14

Echoes in the places in your head. Thanks for listening. Taking us to every trip.

SPEAKER_32 1:00:07

Backwards calling from the ponds.

SPEAKER_31 1:00:10

If you can hear this, you already too deep in. Boot prints in the red clay, truck lights cut, just black. Radio hissed in the voice like turn it up, don't turn back. Moss hang low on the fence line. Crows on the wire, don't sing. Just watching you creep down. That one lane dead and thing. Echoes in the dark, pie chat. Backward stories. They talk back. Talk back. Whispers in the cone, can't laugh. Thanks for listening, you part of that. Listen like Pylo, stay tapped. Pop that merch, wear the map. Blood red logo on the cap. Echoes in the dark, no pass. Old porch wing still movin'.

SPEAKER_18 1:01:06

Ain't a breeze in the air. Screen door slam in the distance, but there's nobody there. Benjo Twain from the tree line. Same four notes on the loop. Every time you hit play now.

SPEAKER_31 1:01:24

Some steps out the roots. Echoes in the dark. Backwards stories. They talk back. Talk back. Whispers in the car. Can't laugh. Thanks for listening. You part of that. Listen like follow. Stay tap. Pop that merch. Where the map?

SPEAKER_18 1:01:44

The red logo on the cap. Echoes in the dark. No pass. If you made it to the end, friend. You ain't scared like you claim. Hit the button, bring a butt. Let them get lost in the strange. Echoes in the dark. From the woods to your home. Next time the banjo starts up. You ain't sitting no longer.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:13

Nah. Nah.

SPEAKER_32 1:02:28

Echoes in the dark, y'all. Backwards calling from the pines. If you can hear this.

SPEAKER_31 1:02:39

You already too deep in. Boot prints in the red clay, truck lights cut. Just black. Radio hissed in the voice like Turn it up, don't turn back. Moss hang low on the fence line. Crows on the wire, don't sing. Just watching you creep down. That one lane dead and thing. Echoes in the dark, pie chat. Backward stories. They talk back. Talk back. Whispers in the cone. Can't laugh. Thanks for listening, you part of that. Listen like Pylo. Stay tapped. Top that merch. Wear the map. Blood red logo on the cap. Echoes in the dark, no pass. Old porch wing still movin'.

SPEAKER_18 1:03:31

Ain't a breeze in the air. Screen door slam in the distance, but there's nobody there. Benjo Twain from the tree line. Same four notes on the loop. Every time you hit play now. Some steps out the roots.

SPEAKER_31 1:03:51

Echoes in the dark. Backward stories. They talk back. Talk back. Whispers in the corn. Can't laugh. Thanks for listening. You part of that. Listen like follow. Stay tap. Pop that merch. Where the map?

SPEAKER_18 1:04:08

Blood red logo on the cap. Echoes in the dark. No pass. If you made it to the end, friend. You ain't scared like you claim. Hit the button, bring a butt. Let them get lost in the strange. Echoes in the dark. From the woods to your home. Next time the banjo starts up. You ain't sitting no longer.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:38

Nah. Nah.

SPEAKER_15 1:04:52

There are two kinds of fear. The kind that waits in the dark. And the kind that's already inside the room with you. But possession is something worse. Because it doesn't chase you.

SPEAKER_18 1:05:15

It doesn't hide from you. It replaces you. Your voice stops sounding like yours. Your thoughts stop feeling like your own. Your reflection lingers just a second too long. And the people around you, they don't see a monster. They see you just not right.

SPEAKER_19 1:05:39

Already in the womb. Already in the room.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:44

Not right, not right.

SPEAKER_19 1:05:46

Already in the room. Already in the room.

SPEAKER_18 1:05:53

Tonight we're talking about what happens when something crosses the line.

SPEAKER_16 1:06:00

And then decides it's not leaving. Doors stay shut. The lights stay low. You answer back, but you don't know who spoke. A smile on your face with a stranger behind. Did I swear it learned your name? Then roar it like a knife.

SPEAKER_19 1:06:19

Already in the room. Already in the room.

SPEAKER_15 1:06:24

Not right, not right.

SPEAKER_19 1:06:26

Already in the womb.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:31

Already in the room. If it calls your name, don't turn. If it calls your face, don't pink. What's inside you once out? What's outside once? Already in the room.

SPEAKER_19 1:06:51

Already in the room.

SPEAKER_20 1:06:53

Not right, not right.

SPEAKER_19 1:06:55

Already in the room. Already in the room.

SPEAKER_38 1:07:39

Something you can explain. Send it in, let it stay my name. Something didn't feel right. Kept you up for the days. Send it in, let the dark replay.

SPEAKER_34 1:07:53

Oh well, hello nineteen ninety-three at gmail.com. Put it in the line. Bring me what you bury. Bring me what you hide. Make sure you're following on Spotify.

SPEAKER_38 1:08:05

And Apple Podcasts. Don't let it slide. Leave a rating. Let it hit the feed. Share it with somebody who sleeps too easily.

SPEAKER_18 1:08:17

Well, hollow, hope, well, hollow. Send it into night.

SPEAKER_19 1:08:24

Oh, well, hollow, hope, well, hollow. Something wasn't right.

SPEAKER_38 1:08:32

Oh, well, hollow, hope, well, hollow. Keep your door shut tight. Oh, well, hollow. Hope, well, hollow.

SPEAKER_18 1:08:43

Hope you sleep tonight.

SPEAKER_34 1:08:46

Head over to Dark Hollow Medioc.com. Cop the merch teas with these mugs. Let the shadows work. The hollow shop is live, bittigin' fast. With the kind of trouble that was built to last. And don't forget the new ones out now. Hope well hollow. Say it out loud. Make sure you follow him on Spotify.

SPEAKER_38 1:09:07

Apple Podcasts. Don't let it slide. Leave a rating, let it hit the feed. Share it with somebody who sleeps too easily. Oh, well, hollow, hope, well, hollow. Send it in tonight.

SPEAKER_19 1:09:26

Oh, well, hollow, oh, well, hollow. Something wasn't right.

SPEAKER_38 1:09:33

Oh, well, hollow, oh, well, hollow. Keep your door shut away. Oh, well, hollow. Hope well, hollow. Hope you sleep tonight. Aye, aye, aye.

SPEAKER_36 1:09:50

Until next time I don't sleep well. Hear that silence like a warning bell. So tell me yours, I'll tell you mine. No shadow crossing.

SPEAKER_38 1:10:25

Oh, well, hello.

SPEAKER_19 1:10:31

Oh, well, hello. Oh, well, hello.

SPEAKER_38 1:10:39

Oh, well, hello. Oh, well, hello.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:46

Oh, well, hello. Oh, well, hello.

SPEAKER_14 1:11:08

Something stay talking.

SPEAKER_15 1:11:20

Back door crack, let it breathe. Floor boys talk underneath.

SPEAKER_18 1:11:26

Old house, no fear. Names and new are still here.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:31

Take piss on the midnight line. Somebody else just stole your time. I seen that shadow.

SPEAKER_18 1:11:38

Take a seat. Never blink, never made a peep. Don't say it out loud Little Wake Though.

SPEAKER_17 1:11:47

Don't look too long. It might look at you.

unknown 1:11:52

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:55

Echoes in the dark. Say my name once and it stays in the dark.

SPEAKER_38 1:12:01

Echoes in the dark.

SPEAKER_19 1:12:06

Echoes in the dark. You hear that call and it's already dark.

SPEAKER_18 1:12:12

Echoes in the dark. Paper on the floor, black marks. Cold spots with the bad talk starts. Sirens fall, but they won't come if the truth got teeth. You already run. Window got eyes.

SPEAKER_16 1:12:31

In the rain, every wet glass pain. Say your name. I heard the legend from the last man out. He laughed too hard, then he screamed too loud.

SPEAKER_17 1:12:40

Don't say it out loud. Don't look too long.

SPEAKER_16 1:12:55

Same my name once and it stays in the dark.

SPEAKER_19 1:13:06

You hear that call, then it's already dark.

SPEAKER_18 1:13:16

No church bells, no relief. Just a cold grant underneath. If you came for a story, stay. If you came for your soul, get away.

SPEAKER_19 1:13:45

You hear that call, then it's already dark.

SPEAKER_15 1:14:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Late night bottle video blow. Static in the pipes when the whole house cold. Footsteps drag in the hallway slow. And the walls keep score of the things you know. I seen shadows lean with the kindle was.

SPEAKER_13 1:14:43

Old mouth run, but the truth still buzz. You heard that call, but they're not pause.

SPEAKER_16 1:14:50

Something in the dark got no smart talk. Listen close now, keep it low now.

SPEAKER_21 1:14:57

If it finds you first, don't let me show now. Listen like hello.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:05

Oh well, hello!

SPEAKER_21 1:15:07

Oh well hello. Listen like hollow. I'm that burst.

SPEAKER_20 1:15:21

Wear that curse. Oh well hello.

SPEAKER_16 1:15:28

Oh well hollow. Barn door swing when the wind cuts hard. Mud on the boots and the bruise on the yard. Names on the board that the pros all god. And the moon looks sharp like a busted shard. I heard your laugh from the cellar steps.

SPEAKER_33 1:15:48

Then it turned to witness with the mouthful of debt.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:51

No signs here. Just the cracked out prayer and the cold black grin in the damp night air.

SPEAKER_15 1:15:59

Listen close now. Keep it low now. If it calls your name, don't let it show now.

SPEAKER_21 1:16:08

Listen like follow.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:10

Hope well hollow.

SPEAKER_21 1:16:12

Hope well hollow. Listen like follow.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:17

Swallow that hollow.

SPEAKER_21 1:16:19

Swallow that hollow.

SPEAKER_18 1:16:22

Cop that merch. Where that curse?

SPEAKER_15 1:16:29

Oh well hollow. Hope well hollow. Yeah. Tell your friends.

SPEAKER_18 1:16:38

Bring a light.

SPEAKER_15 1:16:39

Bring a light.

SPEAKER_18 1:16:40

We go deep.

SPEAKER_15 1:16:41

We go deep.

SPEAKER_18 1:16:42

Pass the bite.

SPEAKER_15 1:16:43

Pass the bite. If the dawn comes late, please stay. We still survive. Oh well hollow.

SPEAKER_19 1:16:49

Stay alive.

SPEAKER_21 1:17:07

Listen like follows.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:09

Hope well, hollow.

SPEAKER_21 1:17:10

Hope well hollow. Listen like follows.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:15

Swallow that hollow.

SPEAKER_21 1:17:17

Swallow that hollow. Hope that merch. Hope well, hollow. Hope well, hollow. Yeah. Hope well, hollow. Stay with it.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:41

Stay with it.

SPEAKER_18 1:18:02

Listen, so many stories step inside. Got a shaky little truth I can't hide. Disession don't always kick in loud. Sometimes it just moves through the crowd. A smile on your face, but it don't fit right. A voice in your throat at the edge of night. You say I'm fine, but your eyes won't stay. And you can't recall what you did today.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:29

One wrong word, then the wrong ghost in your name tastes strange like it's not your skin.

SPEAKER_18 1:18:35

It's already too late. It's already too late. When the voice ain't no, then you can't explain. It's already too late.

SPEAKER_19 1:18:51

It's already too late.

SPEAKER_18 1:18:52

It's already too late. It's already too late. You feel the ship stop.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:59

Then it takes your place. Oh, friends call and you snap too fast. Well, you saw somebody in the glass. Hands on the table, eyes are on the floor, but something in you keeps asking for more. I'm missing our and a bruised up wrist. A blacked-out page with a brand new twist. You laugh like that's not your laugh at all. Then the colder shadow starts to crawl.

SPEAKER_18 1:19:18

One small change, one locked door. You blink once and you're not sure. It's already too late. It's already too late. When the voice ain't yours, then you can't explain. It's already too late.

SPEAKER_33 1:19:40

It's already too late. It's already too late. It's already too late. You feel the shift.

SPEAKER_26 1:19:49

Then it takes your place.

SPEAKER_18 1:19:52

Most people miss it, call it stress, call it drift. But the bone thing lingers in the back of the lips. And the scariest part ain't the screen, ain't the shake. It's the calm little moment when your own celebrates.

SPEAKER_26 1:20:07

It's already too late.

SPEAKER_18 1:20:11

It's already too late.

SPEAKER_19 1:20:14

When the voice ain't yours, then you can't explain.

SPEAKER_18 1:20:21

It's already too late.

SPEAKER_33 1:20:23

It's already too late.

SPEAKER_26 1:20:24

It's already too late. It's already too. You feel the shit. Then it takes your place.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:51

Tonight was different. No deep dives, no countdowns, no monsters hiding in abandoned buildings. Just echoes. The sounds that built this show. The atmosphere that followed us through sleepless nights. And the music that somehow became attached to memories none of us expected the memory. Everybody who's listening supported the show. This is in the door.

SPEAKER_13 1:22:26

You hear that low hum crawl, it lives under the floor. One eye on the hallway, one hand on the door. They said the night forgot us. Said the story would fake. But the walls kept the record and the record got placed.

SPEAKER_15 1:22:40

Say it back, say it right. When the room goes still cold here on the tongue now, that's the first bad chill. Echoes represent it.

SPEAKER_16 1:22:54

Come on name in the back. And I come back again.

SPEAKER_18 1:23:01

Echoes requisite.

SPEAKER_19 1:23:04

Echoes revisit it. If you hear that old refrain, you already know.

SPEAKER_16 1:23:14

TV glow on the ceiling, faces flicker and split. Oh fear in the corners like it never got quit. We was young with the hunger, we was loud with the grim. Not the same. Little nightmare got the brim full of skin. Cain on that gate rattling. Green box at the frame.

SPEAKER_13 1:23:31

Nobody moved that next mess deal with all knew that name.

SPEAKER_20 1:23:35

Sit back, see right. Let the post run code. If the past wants payment, then the bill got sold.

SPEAKER_18 1:23:42

Echoes with my name in the black and I come back again. Echoes with Fiji.

SPEAKER_19 1:23:59

Echoes Rifid. If you hear that old refrain, you already know.

SPEAKER_15 1:24:09

I walk through the smoke line, I look in the glass on my own old shadow tryna hold me back.

SPEAKER_13 1:24:16

Then the whole room is like a congregation. Can't one voice then a hundred. Now it won't let go and lie.

SPEAKER_20 1:24:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 1:24:33

Come a name in the black. And not come back together. Burn it down, it returns then it rises of slow.

SPEAKER_19 1:24:59

If you hear that old refrain, you already know.