The Swamp Secrets Podcast
One voice, one tape recorder, and the patience to let people finish their sentences. No ads, no network, no guests who ask for the questions in advance. Streams are being rebuilt since the January incident — until then the show goes out the old way, and if you know which stretch of the dial and which stretch of road, you already know the schedule.
The January Incident, Or: Where the Old Site Went
What I can prove about the night twenty years of archive became a parked page. What the host said. What the logs said. What was in the one folder they left, and why I think leaving it was a message.
▶ LISTENLIVE from the Boudin Festival
Recorded on the midway until the fog came through and the recorder filled the rest of the tape with a waltz nobody at the festival was playing. Runs short. You'll hear why.
▶ LISTENWidow's Creek, Revisited
Fifteen years after the old site's most-read story, I go back out to the creek with a hydrophone and a man who grew up there. The wailing has moved a quarter mile upstream. Nobody's widow lives there anymore. Something still is.
▶ LISTENAn Interview With a Man Who Buys Silence
He answered a classified I never placed. Claims he's paid cash for forty years of other people's stories, all across the basin, on behalf of, quote, a family concern. The interview ends mid-sentence. The rest of the tape is tone.
▶ LISTENThe Voodoo Cyborg Conspiracy, Three Years Later
Revisiting the old archive's strangest hour: the machines that came back from the shop wrong, the shop that was never there in daylight, and the new wrinkle — three listeners whose pacemakers now stop at the parish line. Their cardiologists have opinions. So do I.
▶ LISTENThere is no Episode 9.
Pilot: Why I Believe
The porch-light story. The one I don't retell, so this is the only place to hear it. Where 'In Truth and Terror' comes from, and the promise this show was built to keep.
▶ LISTENIn Truth and Terror.
— Beau
