Explore every episode of the podcast Echoes under Ashwood
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| S01 S11 - Chain of Custody | 31 août 2026 | 00:53:03 | |
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. 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:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives: Absentia - The Vanished Expedition | 24 août 2026 | 00:19:24 | |
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: 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. 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:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S01 E10 - Finders Keepers || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 17 août 2026 | 01:46:42 | |
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 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. 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:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives - Aurora Surveillance || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 10 août 2026 | 00:06:34 | |
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 – 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. 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:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S01 E09 - Forgotten History, Remembered Voices || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 03 août 2026 | 02:02:07 | |
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 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. 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:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives - Red Ryder and the Fairies in the Ferns? | 27 juil. 2026 | 00:04:39 | |
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 - 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. In This Episode:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S01 E08 - What We Leave Behind part 2 || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 20 juil. 2026 | 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. 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:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives - Death Rays and Turbines and Tesla, oh my! || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 13 juil. 2026 | 00:18:19 | |
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. In This Episode:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S01 E07 - What We Leave Behind part 1 || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 06 juil. 2026 | 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. 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:
Opening Song "Home Grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives - The Lone Boy || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 29 juin 2026 | 00:05:08 | |
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. In This Episode:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper and additional voice acting / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S01 E06 - The House Listens || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 22 juin 2026 | 00:50:44 | |
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 6: The House Listens Night falls over the Lake House, but rest proves difficult. As the group tries to regroup and prepare for the next day’s search, old tensions settle in alongside new suspicions.Some moments feel private. Some discoveries suggest they are not. And as Ashwood presses closer, the team begins to understand that the past may not be buried at all. It may simply be waiting for someone to notice it. Oh, and James stands in as Oz again. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives: Absentia - Echoes of the Five || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 15 juin 2026 | 00:26:11 | |
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 Absentia: Echoes of the Five Episode Summary Before Amy Caldwell disappeared, she wasn't the only one asking questions. In this special compilation episode of Absentia, investigator Evie Ross sits down with people connected to the five individuals drawn back to Ashwood. Former classmates, old friends, rivals, and acquaintances offer their perspectives on Harry, Dawn, Oz, Lance, and Bex. Some remember loyalty. Some remember trouble. Some remember things they'd rather forget. A former dealership owner recalls the jealousy and heartbreak surrounding Dawn McBride's closest friendship. A bartender reflects on Oz Hannigan's reputation and the ghosts he never quite left behind. A garage owner shares his thoughts on Harry Glassman. Other interviews reveal fragments of Lance McClane's past and the complicated relationship between Bex Lexington and those closest to her. Taken together, the interviews paint a picture of five ordinary people whose lives may have been connected long before they realized it. Or perhaps that's only what the story wants them to believe. 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:
Listener Note: This episode contains supplemental character material intended to expand on events and relationships referenced in the main campaign. While not required listening, it provides additional context for the people at the center of the Ashwood mystery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S01 E05 - Everybody Brings Baggage || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 08 juin 2026 | 01:06:51 | |
Episode 5 - Everybody Brings Baggage The group settles into the Matthews lake house—an expensive slice of manufactured peace sitting just far enough outside Ashwood to pretend the town can’t reach it. It can. While Oz, Bex, and Lance try to reconnect over drinks, old dynamics start resurfacing almost immediately. Time may have passed, but Ashwood has a habit of preserving unfinished business. Especially between people who never really figured out what they were to each other in the first place. Meanwhile, Harry and Dawn make a late stop at Chuck’s garage to grab supplies—and end up getting something else entirely. Beneath the rambling, the smoke, and the half-broken machinery, Chuck quietly lets slip a truth about Ashwood that reframes the town in a way neither of them is prepared for. Because people leave Ashwood all the time. According to Chuck… that doesn’t necessarily mean they escape it. Also in this episode: James steps in for Art as Oz. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives - McBride Police Interview || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 01 juin 2026 | 00:16:18 | |
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 recovered police interview, Dawn McBride is questioned shortly after the disappearance of her best friend, Amy Caldwell. Audibly nervous and increasingly agitated, Dawn struggles to give direct answers as the detective presses her on Amy’s final days, her state of mind, and whether she had planned to meet anyone near the Fen. To the police, Dawn sounds evasive. To the listener, she sounds terrified. What remains unsaid is the thing that has haunted Dawn for decades: Amy asked her to come with her into the Fen that night. Dawn said no. 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:
Amy went alone. And whatever came back from that night was not an answer. It was a wound. Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S01 E04 - No One Gets Nice at 50 || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 25 mai 2026 | 00:33:15 | |
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weirosPatreon: 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 4 - No One Gets Nice at 50 Ashwood has a way of turning reunions into interrogations. Part 2 of the Cuckoo’s Nest meetup picks up after Amy Caldwell’s will reading, with old friendships already starting to fray under the weight of memory, suspicion, and too many unanswered questions. The drinks are cheap, the ashtrays are full, and everyone’s pretending this is still just a bunch of former friends catching up in a dying hometown bar. Then Traci Lathrop-Matthews walks in. Former queen bee. Still perfectly composed. Still somehow knowing everybody’s business before they do. Her arrival shifts the entire room, especially with Tina Geroski already circling the group like a shark with a cigarette and a grudge. The two old frenemies waste no time digging at each other while quietly steering suspicion back toward the people who left Ashwood behind. Meanwhile, strange old photographs and forgotten fragments continue surfacing—little pieces of the past that don’t fit together cleanly anymore. The more the group looks, the less trustworthy their memories start to feel. And around them, the town keeps pressing closer. Chuck is acting unusually rigid, like he’s trying too hard to stay grounded. Matt Russell watches everything from behind the bar with the nervous energy of a man who knows more than he should. Because in Ashwood, nobody really moves on. They just learn how to talk around the things that still live here. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives - Lake House Surveillance || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 18 mai 2026 | 00:07:32 | |
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weirosPatreon: 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 Archives supplimental content, we are introduced to an unidentified agency surveilling the residents of Ashwood Ohio. To what end, we may never know. A recorded conversation in 1978 at the family lake house between Pastor Bob and Thomas Lathrop, former Ashwood Safety Service Director seeds more questions than answers. Ashwood Archives are supplimental content and can be listened to in any order, between main episoeds. 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:
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| S01 E03 - Confab at the Cuckoo's Nest || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 11 mai 2026 | 01:08:10 | |
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weirosPatreon: 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 3 - “The Cuckoo’s Nest” Amy’s instructions lead them to the Cuckoo’s Nest, a place none of them expected to return to and one that no longer resembles what it once was. In the 1970s it was the center of everything. Music, light, movement, a place where people went to be seen. Now it has settled into something smaller and worn down, a dive that feels like it stayed open out of habit rather than purpose. Still, a table is waiting for them. No one questions how. Inside, the air feels thick with time that never fully passed. The walls are covered in layered collages of Ashwood’s past, photographs stacked and overlapping in no clear order. Generations of faces stare out from dim corners and warped frames. Some are familiar. Many are not. Among the images are moments that never happened. Versions of events that feel close enough to be real, but wrong in ways that are hard to explain. The five of them recognize themselves in a few of the photographs, but not the way they remember. Not where they remember. It is subtle, but unmistakable. Chuck drifts in like he never left town, carrying the same unpredictable energy that used to make him easy to dismiss. He talks too much, laughs at the wrong moments, and drops fragments of insight that feel uncomfortably close to something real. It is hard to tell if he knows more than he should or if he has simply been here long enough to stop questioning what the town does. Tina appears with a different kind of weight. Confident, practiced, and deliberate. She watches more than she speaks, inserting herself only when it matters. There is a familiarity to her that feels curated, as if she is choosing which version of herself they are allowed to see. Neither of them seems surprised that the five of them are together. The Nest holds pieces of the past, but not in a way that clarifies anything. If anything, it deepens the uncertainty.Amy reserved this table for a reason. But whatever she wanted them to find here is not obvious. Not yet. When they finally step back out into Ashwood, the feeling from earlier has changed again. It is no longer distant or observational. It feels engaged. As if something has taken notice of their movement through the town and is beginning to respond. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives: Ashwood Police Dispatch 10/97 || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 05 mai 2026 | 00:05:50 | |
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weirosPatreon: 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 between main episodes we try to sprinkle in a little Ashwood "flavor." These bonus files are not required listening to follow the main story but we think you will find them interesting. The particularly astutue may find some helpful info buried in these. Maybe our cast should listen to these, too...... This clip comes from an undisclosed archive in Ashwood. A 2 a.m. call on Old Fen Road leads Ashwood PD to a silent teenage girl wearing a St. Sebastian’s uniform, despite the school having closed in 1979. When the officer attempts to take her home, the road begins to distort, looping and folding in on itself as local geography changes and reality slips. What starts as a routine welfare check becomes something far stranger...where time, memory, and place refuse to stay in line. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives: Absentia - Ashwood Institutions | 30 avr. 2026 | 00:06:45 | |
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 BONUS Content Investigative journalist Evie Ross has spent years studying disappearances and the strange patterns they leave behind. In Ashwood, those patterns don’t just appear in people, they also appear in the town itself. A Catholic academy that closed suddenly in 1979, its campus still standing behind locked gates. A bank that has outlived every regional merger and financial collapse. A factory founded in the 1960s that employs half the town, even though few people can clearly explain what it produces. Individually, each of these institutions has a history that raises questions. Taken together, they suggest something else — a town where certain structures seem to operate quietly in the background, long after the reasons for their existence should have disappeared. This is Absentia. Where Silence Becomes Evidence. Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood Archives: Absentia - Old Fen Road || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 30 avr. 2026 | 00:05:12 | |
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weirosPatreon: 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 BONUS Content Investigative journalist Evie Ross continues her investigation into Ashwood, and one place keeps appearing in the town’s stories. Old Fen Road. For generations, locals have warned their kids not to go there after dark. Not because it’s dangerous in any ordinary sense, but because of the stories people tell about what happens along that stretch of road. People who seem to appear out of nowhere. Cars that look decades out of date. Strange animals moving in the treeline. And sightings no one can quite explain. Most residents treat Old Fen Road like a piece of local folklore; the kind of story every town invents to scare teenagers. But when Evie begins tracing the reports more closely, she discovers something unsettling. The stories about Old Fen Road have been told in Ashwood for a very long time. And they’re remarkably consistent. This is Absentia. Where Silence Becomes Evidence. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ashwood archives: Absentia: Welcome to Ashwood || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 30 avr. 2026 | 00:04:39 | |
Find us where we live!The Latchkey Lair : come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weirosPatreon: 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 Investigative journalist Evie Ross arrives in Ashwood, a fading Midwestern town with a long history of disappearances, unexplained events, and stories locals still hesitate to tell. Factories have closed. Storefronts sit empty. But beneath the quiet surface, Ashwood carries a reputation that stretches back decades, like missing children, institutions that shut down overnight, and traditions that continue long after the reasons for them have disappeared. Most people outside the county have never heard of Ashwood. But the deeper Evie looks into the town’s past, the clearer it becomes that something about this place has never been fully explained. This is Absentia. Where Silence Becomes Evidence. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S01 E02 - Ghosts of the Past, Echoes of the Future || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 27 avr. 2026 | 00:55:45 | |
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 2 begins with the five arriving separately at the Tri-County Bank for the reading of Amy Caldwell’s last will and testament, each expecting a routine obligation and none aware that the others have been called as well. The reunion is unplanned and deeply uncomfortable. Thirty years of distance sit between them, and whatever they once were to each other does not easily return. Conversation is strained, polite at best, with long pauses filled by recognition that feels more like intrusion than familiarity. Amy has arranged everything with precision. Each of them is given a sealed envelope addressed in her hand, along with a set of unfamiliar keys and a single personal item. The objects are distinct, clearly chosen for each individual, and carry a weight that makes them feel less like keepsakes and more like instruments. There is no explanation provided for any of it, only the quiet expectation that they will understand in time. When they begin to handle the items, the tone shifts. Each of them experiences a brief but undeniable waking disturbance. A visual inconsistency. A sound that should not exist in the room. A memory that feels imposed rather than recalled. The moments are fleeting, disorienting, and impossible to verify with one another in any meaningful way. Each is left to question whether it happened at all, or whether the strain of returning has begun to affect them. The pattern is clear even if they do not say it out loud. The items are doing something. The will itself offers direction without clarity. The keys suggest locations yet to be discovered. The items suggest purpose without revealing intent. And the fact that all five were brought together without their knowledge begins to feel deliberate in a way that is difficult to ignore. Outside, Ashwood remains unchanged in appearance, but the feeling from their arrival has intensified. The town no longer feels distant or passive. It feels closer, as if their presence has shifted something. As the meeting concludes and they linger in the shared discomfort of being together again, there is a growing sense that this was never about closure. Amy did not gather them to settle her affairs. She gathered them because something is beginning. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| START HERE! S01 E01 - Welcome to Ashwood || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 27 avr. 2026 | 01:10:50 | |
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 - 1 On this premiere episode of Echoes under Ashwood, five former best friends return separately to Ashwood, Ohio, drawn back by the will of their long-lost friend, Amy Caldwell. What should be a simple obligation, a reading, a signature, a quick departure, begins to feel unsettled the moment they arrive. The terms are clear. All five must be present. Together. No explanation is given. Gaathered after 30 years of little contact, things will be interesting. Ashwood does not feel like a place they have returned to. It feels like something they have stepped back inside of. The town has been rotting from teh inside out for decades. The streets are quiet. The town looks...intact. But something in it resists being familiar. Distances feel slightly off. Buildings seem to linger in ways they should not. People look at them just a moment too long, as if trying to place something they cannot quite name. Every interaction carries the sense that their presence is not unexpected. It seems no one can run from Ashwood forever. Each of them experiences this alone. They do not reunite, and there is no shared moment to validate what they are feeling. Left to themselves, they explain it away as nostalgia, stress, or the discomfort of returning to a place tied to a past they thought they had outgrown. Still, the feeling remains that Ashwood has not simply endured. It has been waiting. Amy’s death is the reason they give themselves for coming back. The will is the structure that holds it together. Beneath that, something less certain begins to surface. A sense that their return was not chance, and not entirely their choice. That whatever connects them to Ashwood was never fully broken. As each of them settles into the town again, uneasy and alone, one realization begins to take hold. They did not just come back to Ashwood. They submitted to it. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Echoes under Ashwood - A Primer to Collaborative Audio Drama || Gen X Cosmic Horror | 06 avr. 2026 | 00:05:27 | |
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 Echoes Under Ashwood is a cinematic cosmic horror podcast about memory, friendship, and the things small towns refuse to forget. Role for Sanity is a collaborative storytelling group exploring slow-burn horror through a distinctly Gen-X lens. Childhood independence. Unsupervised nights. The quiet understanding that something always felt… off. Our stories live in that space between nostalgia and unease, where memory shifts and the past refuses to stay buried. Our first series, Echoes Under Ashwood, follows a group of Gen-X friends returning to their hometown to settle a will, and discovering they were part of something older than nostalgia, older than Ashwood itself. This is slow-burn, character-driven horror built on shared adolescence, unreliable memory, and the uncomfortable realization that the things you remember may have happened… differently. Episodes begin April 27. Follow now so you don’t miss the return to Ashwood. 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:
Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies Cast: Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards Keeper / James Altwies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||