Press 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 scares, and no loud disruptions—just quiet, uninterrupted dread.

Perfect for falling asleep, insomnia relief, nighttime anxiety, and late-night focus.

Timestamps:

• 00:00:22 — The Haul-Out: Tidal Boatyard Horror

• 00:17:41 — The Visitor Bleachers: Empty Stadium Dread

• 00:37:37 — The Lawn Anchor: Suburban October Dread

• 00:54:43 — The Cold Flue: Fieldstone Hearth Horror

• 01:12:26 — The Storm Insert: Liminal Window Void

• 01:30:21 — The Midnight Tare: Route 206 Weigh Station

• 01:49:40 — Extended Rain & Night Ambience for Deep Sleep

How to Listen:Use your preferred headphones, set your device's sleep timer, and close your eyes. Subscribe to The Wakeful Dark on your favorite podcast app for new sleep-friendly horror every week.

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Welcome 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 silence.

Engineered for sleep. The narration fades away, leaving you with uninterrupted ambient rain. No jump scares. No mid-episode interruptions. Lock in your frequency.

The Cornfield Turn (Holloway Farm)

The Cornfield Turn (Miller's Ridge Farm)

The fourth transmission of The Wakeful Dark broadcasts two 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 delivery of impossible, freezing fruit, and a tenant in a 1920s apartment building who discovers their steam radiator is pulling air into the foundation.

Engineered to help you fall asleep. The narration will eventually fade away, leaving you with uninterrupted ambient rain. No jump scares. No interruptions. Lock in your frequency.