Echoes Under Ashwood is a cinematic cosmic horror podcast about memory, friendship, and the quiet dread of returning home.
When a group of Gen-X friends reunite to settle a will, they discover their childhood in Ashwood, Ohio wasn’t what they remember. Disappearances. Missing years. A town that seems to shift when no one is looking.
Blending an ensemble cast, investigation, and slow-burn psychological horror, Echoes Under Ashwood explores nostalgia, trauma, and the things small towns bury.
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Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : Home for all the cool kids, clues, and supressed memories. It's FREE to join, but we're happy to accept your money too. Help support the show and get access to exclusive dropsRole For Sanity: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like makingEchoes under Ashwood Facebook: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook
Episode 11 - Chain of Custody
In Episode 10, Lance, Oz, and Bex found the cache Amy left for them in her old bedroom but were stopped by Randall and his thugs before they could leave but not before Oz killed Shane "No Neck." Now they're left with a corpse, pooling blood (which seems to be a regular thing at Amy's house lately), and a cadre of stoner wannabe enforcers. Things escalate when Officer Dobbs arrives to document the altercation. Little did the goup expect the response they recieved from the Ashwood Constabulary.
Make sure to jump over to our Latchkey Lair at Patreon. It's the home for all clues and extra content and it's F.R.E.E.
From the Creator:
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
In This Episode:
1990s analog technology and cassette tapes
Unresolved Gen X childhood trauma
Shadowy Conspiracies
Small-town Midwestern decay
Atmospheric sound design and scoring
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel
Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies
Ashwood Archives: Absentia - The Vanished Expedition
Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 19:24
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Ashwood Archives: Absentia - The Vanished Expedition
Evie Ross is back and this time she's matching wits with Ashwood's resident know-it-all...Prof. Edwin McClane. Yep, this is Lance's dad. Emeritus professor of history and Arthurian legend, Dr. McClane is an expert on all things Ashwood history. Just ask him. Evie is looking into a survey crew disappearance in 1936. A group of government cartographers, geologists, and naturalists set out to record any instances of important minerals in the Hollow. They never returned. That's just the sort of thing Evie eats for breakfast. This time we think she got a piece of Edwin, too.
Make sure to jump over to our Latchkey Lair at Patreon. It's the home for all clues and extra content and it's F.R.E.E.
From the Creator:
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
S01 E10 - Finders Keepers || Gen X Cosmic Horror
Season 1 · Episode 10
Monday, August 17, 2026 • Duration 01:46:42
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Episode 10 - Finders Keepers
It's getting thick and deep now! Episode 10 picks up with our fab 5 splitting up again. Harry and Dawn are headed to Jenny BlackWOOD (I don't know how many times we screw up her name but it's BlackWOOD, not Blackwell) and Backwood's Books and Cafe. They want to question Jenny about her former friend Lilly Caldwell and what she might know about Amy's return.
Meanwhile, Lance, Oz, and Bex head back over to Amy's house on the strong hunch from Dawn that the house hasn't given up all of its secrets just yet. Tensions heat up as Bex and Oz are alone in the cab of his truck for the first time in over 30 years. Bex had/has expectations. Oz has moved on. Oh, and Lance is riding in the back a la hound dog style because his recent mental health hit has him highly clausterphobic.
Make sure to jump over to our Latchkey Lair at Patreon. It's the home for all clues and extra content and it's F.R.E.E.
Ashwood Archives - Aurora Surveillance || Gen X Cosmic Horror
Monday, August 10, 2026 • Duration 06:34
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Ashwood Archives – Aurora Group Surveillance
In this Ashwood Archives installment we first hear about a shadowy group investigating seemingly mundate goings-on inside Ashwood. In this instance, it's transcribed notes from a Trust and Loan board meeting. Numerous references to the Caldwell and Tremont spike the interest of the candestin agents. It's clear they have been piecing together seemingly unrelated accounts for decades; their interest piqued with the timing of Amy's return. What in the hell in going on?
Make sure to jump over to our Latchkey Lair at Patreon. it's the home for all clues and extra content and it's F.R.E.E.
From the Creator:
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
S01 E09 - Forgotten History, Remembered Voices || Gen X Cosmic Horror
Season 1 · Episode 9
Monday, August 3, 2026 • Duration 02:02:07
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Episode 09 – Forgotten History, Remembered Voices
Congratulations! You've made it to Episode 09 and that marks half way through Act 1. That's some comittment and we're happy you joined us behind the basement door.
A quick note about the cast change going forward. Art, who created Oz, had to step away to depose some banana republic colonel and won't be back this story. But Oz is not gone, for David Edwards stepped up to cllimb into the boots of this suspicious giant called Oz and we couldn't be happier that he's here.
In this episode, the gang find themselves awash in documents, items, and old cassette tapes featuring voices they had long forgotten...or buried. A pile of seemingly unassociated documents start to stack up and slowly a story begins to emerge. What's the deal with that thumb in a jar? Did Bex say something about mycology last episode? And what's with all this military jargon? Make sure to jump over to our Latchkey Lair at Patreon. it's the home for all clues and extra content and it's F.R.E.E.
Ashwood Archives - Red Ryder and the Fairies in the Ferns?
Monday, July 27, 2026 • Duration 04:39
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Ashwood Archives - Fairies in the Ferns?
In this week's Ashwood Archives we listen in on another Red Ryder show on WASH AM730. The Midnight Hour is Red's part cll-in conspiracy show and part capitive audience for his snark. Our old friend Chuck is back with an interesting tke of the old Fen Fairies legend of Ashwood. Rumor has it that the Irish that setted the area managed to conjure a doorway to the Fae realm and every now and again some of ol' fairies come squirtin' through into Fen Hollow. Dim lights apparently floating near the ground, popping in and winking out. Everybody's home town has its legends...excepat Ashwood seem constructed from them.
From the Creator:
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
S01 E08 - What We Leave Behind part 2 || Gen X Cosmic Horror
Monday, July 20, 2026 • Duration 01:01:37
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : Home for all the cool kids, clues, and supressed memories. It's FREE to join, but we're happy to accept your money too. Help support the show and get access to exclusive dropsRole For Sanity: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like makingEchoes under Ashwood Facebook: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook
Episode 8 – What We Leave Behind part 2
Amy didn't leave answers. She left a trail. In this extended episode, the group begins unlocking the places Amy trusted them to find and old assumptions start to crack. Forced to split up, Lance and Oz lean into their buddy cop energy, Bex attempts penance by taking Harry with her, and Dawn finds herself alone with Traci in Amy's house, and the echoes of someone she thought she knew. An empty house that feels anything but abandoned.
Some doors open with keys. Others should have stayed closed.
Also, some game mechanics shenanigans.
From the Creator:
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
Ashwood Archives - Death Rays and Turbines and Tesla, oh my! || Gen X Cosmic Horror
Monday, July 13, 2026 • Duration 18:19
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : Home for all the cool kids, clues, and supressed memories. It's FREE to join, but we're happy to accept your money too. Help support the show and get access to exclusive dropsRole For Sanity: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like makingEchoes under Ashwood Facebook: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook
Ashwood Archives - Death Rays, Turbines, and Tesla, oh my!
In this week's Ashwood Archives we listen in on another Red Ryder show on WASH AM730. The Midnight Hour is Red's part cll-in conspiracy show and part capitive audience for his snark. Dennis from "Fen Hollow" calls Red and drops a huge load of crazy, which is just the way Red likes it. Only this load has a plausable flavor to it. Ashwood has a litany of weird stuff. There's no shortage of host material, for sure.
From the Creator:
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
S01 E07 - What We Leave Behind part 1 || Gen X Cosmic Horror
Season 1 · Episode 7
Monday, July 6, 2026 • Duration 01:29:06
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : Home for all the cool kids, clues, and supressed memories. It's FREE to join, but we're happy to accept your money too. Help support the show and get access to exclusive dropsRole For Sanity: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like makingEchoes under Ashwood Facebook: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook
Episode 7 – What We Leave Behind part 1
Amy didn't leave answers. She left a trail. In this extended episode, the group begins unlocking the places Amy trusted them to find and old assumptions start to crack. Forced to split up, Lance and Oz lean into their buddy cop energy, Bex attempts penance by taking Harry with her, and Dawn finds herself alone with Traci in Amy's house, and the echoes of someone she thought she knew. An empty house that feels anything but abandoned.
Some doors open with keys. Others should have stayed closed.
Also, some game mechanics shenanigans.
From the Creator:
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
Ashwood Archives - The Lone Boy || Gen X Cosmic Horror
Monday, June 29, 2026 • Duration 05:08
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : Home for all the cool kids, clues, and supressed memories. It's FREE to join, but we're happy to accept your money too. Help support the show and get access to exclusive dropsRole For Sanity: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like makingEchoes under Ashwood Facebook: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook
In this Ashwood Archive clip, we overhear a conversation between Ashwood dispatch and Ashwood police office responding to a strange 911 call, where they find a young boy happily eating cereal and watching cartoons while his mother stares blankly into the distance. Everyone is somehow related to everyone else in Ashwood, and most of the time the weird just gets passed around.
From the Creator:
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
In This Episode:
1990s analog technology and cassette tapes
Unresolved Gen X childhood trauma
Shadowy Conspiracies
Small-town Midwestern decay
Atmospheric sound design and scoring
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel
Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
In This Episode:
1990s analog technology and cassette tapes
Unresolved Gen X childhood trauma
Shadowy Conspiracies
Small-town Midwestern decay
Atmospheric sound design and scoring
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel
Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
In This Episode:
1990s analog technology and cassette tapes
Unresolved Gen X childhood trauma
Small-town Midwestern decay
Atmospheric sound design and scoring
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel
Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies
Echoes under Ashwood is more than a horror story...it is a deeply personal piece of autofiction. The slow-burn dread, the isolation of the rural Midwestern setting, and the unresolved history of the Gen X cast are directly informed by my own childhood trauma, processed and reframed through the lens of cosmic horror. This is an exploration of what it takes to look into the dark, face old ghosts, and survive the aftermath.
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
In This Episode:
1990s analog technology and cassette tapes
Unresolved Gen X childhood trauma
Small-town Midwestern decay
Atmospheric sound design and scoring
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel
Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
In This Episode:
1990s analog technology and cassette tapes
Unresolved Gen X childhood trauma
Small-town Midwestern decay
Atmospheric sound design and scoring
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel
Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies
About Echoes under Ashwood: This is an audio-only cosmic horror podcast set in rural southeastern Ohio. Our story is a slow-burn analog mystery rooted in psychological dread, following a Gen X cast through an investigative narrative. While the story is completely improvised, the framework is heavily inspired by investigative tabletop RPG systems like Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green.
In This Episode:
1990s analog technology and cassette tapes
Unresolved Gen X childhood trauma
Small-town Midwestern decay
Atmospheric sound design and scoring
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel
Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies
