Explore every episode of the podcast Otis Jiry's Midnight Transmission

A dying man refuses every comfort: the doctor, the prayer, the hymn book his mother keeps pressing into his hand. But something in the room has started paying attention, and it is waiting for the moment his back is turned.

Facing eviction in a brutal Boston winter, Maeve Miller accepts a bizarre, high-paying job to sit in pitch darkness and comfort an unseen companion. The rules are simple: never turn on the light, and never try to look at the entity in her lap. But as a suffocating sickness begins to hollow her out, Maeve realizes she has signed away much more than her time.

A hiker caught in a sudden storm takes shelter in an abandoned fire tower, the same tower where the last ranger on watch vanished decades ago. Then something starts climbing the stairs.