Oct 29, 20261h 13m
You don't have to figure everything out tonight. If you're lying awake replaying the day or worrying about tomorrow, let it go for a few hours. All you have to do is close your eyes, listen to the rain, and let these...
About this Podcast:
You are tuned into The Wakeful Dark, a quiet transmission for the restless. We broadcast original, slow-burn horror tales of rural isolation and creeping paranoia, grounded by high-fidelity ambient weather.Every episode is a seamless audio environment engineered to help you fall asleep. There are no jump scares or jarring sound effects—just a steady, hushed voice that fades away into uninterrupted rain.Lock in your frequency, turn off the screen, and close your eyes. We only transmit when the sun goes down.
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Guest openness
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What is The Wakeful Dark about?
You are tuned into The Wakeful Dark, a quiet transmission for the restless. We broadcast original, slow-burn horror tales of rural isolation and creeping paranoia, grounded by high-fidelity ambient weather. Every episode is a seamless audio environment engineered to help you fall asleep.
What has The Wakeful Dark covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Sleep to the STRANGEST Night Shift Stories You’ve Ever Heard ► NO ADS" (29 October 2026, 73 minutes), "3 Unsettling Stories for Sleep (NO ADS) | The Float Dock & More Atmospheric Horror" (27 October 2026, 76 minutes), and "1 HOUR of STRANGE Scary Stories to Help You Sleep ► NO ADS" (22 October 2026, 80 minutes).
How often does The Wakeful Dark publish?
The Wakeful Dark publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 110 minutes across 11 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Wakeful Dark?
Booking probability for The Wakeful Dark is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Wakeful Dark requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Wakeful Dark's contact route on record: public web form.
About the host
The Wakeful Dark is a fiction podcast with 11 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 27, 20261h 16m
Drift into the wakeful dark with 1 hour and 15 minutes of uninterrupted, slow-burn horror. This compilation features three atmospheric tales of impossible architecture and unmapped voids, accompanied by the steady...
The Wakeful Dark
1 HOUR of STRANGE Scary Stories to Help You Sleep ► NO ADS
Oct 22, 20261h 20mFall asleep to 1 HOUR of strange scary stories with gentle rain in the background. No ads, no jumpscares — just slow, quiet horror to help you sleep. These are horror stories for sleep told in a calm, sleepy voice over...
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Transmission 10 - When Physics Breaks in the Woods: 3 True-Feel Horror Stories | Rain & Dark Ambience (No Ads)
Oct 21, 20261h 24mSettle into the dark. Tonight’s ad-free compilation features over an hour and twenty minutes of slow-burn, atmospheric horror set across rain-slicked midnight bridges and isolated October timberlands—designed with...
The Wakeful Dark
Transmission 09: Fall Asleep to 7 HOURS of HAUNTING Horror Stories for Sleep ► NO ADS
Oct 18, 20267h 2mFall asleep to 7 HOURS of HAUNTING horror stories for sleep with gentle rain sounds for sleeping ► NO ADS Let the rain carry you down into The Wakeful Dark. This 7-hour compilation gathers over a dozen slow-burn...
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- Oct 16, 20261h 15m
Three quiet, slow-burn accounts of solitary municipal and highway technicians working the late October shift—where routine infrastructure inspections meet impossible physical anomalies in the dark. Designed for sleep...
- Oct 14, 20261h 27m
Fall asleep to 1 hour 27 minutes of uninterrupted horror stories for sleep with gentle rain sounds for sleeping — no ads, no jumpscares.Let the rain carry you down into The Wakeful Dark. These are quiet, slow-burn...
The Wakeful Dark
Transmission 06: 2+ Hours of Autumn Rain & Quiet Dread: 6 Slow-Burn Stories for Sleep (No Ads)
Oct 6, 20262h 18mPress play, set your sleep timer, and drift off. Tonight’s episode features six original, slow-burn horror stories told calmly to help you sleep, layered over continuous autumn rain. There are no mid-roll ads, no jump...
The Wakeful Dark
Transmission 05: The Darkened Maze (Sleep Audio)
Oct 3, 20261h 6mWelcome to The Wakeful Dark. Tonight’s broadcast features two haunting accounts of closing sweeps through darkened autumn corn mazes, where familiar paths refuse to exit and agricultural boundaries dissolve into ancient...
- Sep 30, 20262 hour
The fourth transmission of The Wakeful Dark broadcasts six long-form accounts of rural isolation and mechanical decay. Tonight’s audio features: a late-night processing shift at a commercial cider mill that receives a...
The Wakeful Dark
Transmission 02: Black Water & The November Shift (Sleep Audio)
Sep 27, 20261h 16mThe second transmission of The Wakeful Dark brings four more accounts from the night shift. Tonight's broadcast features: a flooded cranberry bog holding a reflection of the wrong sky, an unmarked 80,000 lb truck with...
The Wakeful Dark
Transmission 03: The Endless Route & The Cold Wall (Sleep Audio)
Sep 27, 20261h 2mThe third transmission of The Wakeful Dark broadcasts three new tales of isolated paranoia. Tonight’s audio features: a graveyard shift in a decaying retail anchor store with impossible geometry, a commuter trapped on...
- Sep 27, 20261h 10m
Welcome to the first transmission of The Wakeful Dark. Tonight’s broadcast features four tales of rural isolation: a sweeper walking an impossible corn maze, a mechanic fixing a heavy combine in the dead of night, a...
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