Burn Pattern

4 episodes

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Web <link> from RSS feed:

https://www.thewatchersleeps.com/

Database link:

https://www.thewatchersleeps.com/

RSS Feed:

https://anchor.fm/s/1083bac14/podcast/rss

Creator from RSS feed: Hollow Narrator Media

Database Creators: Hollow Narrator Media

Synopsis:

In the ashes of a deadly apartment fire, a single survivor’s story is the only official truth. But the facts hide a darker reality. Join journalist Ross Ford as he re-examines the case, only to find that every clue leads him deeper into a web of paranoia and supernatural dread. The key to this unsolved mystery lies in a series of disturbing audio recordings that seem to be… listening back. Burn Pattern is a four-part investigative podcast that evolves from a true crime mystery into a terrifying journey into psychological and Lovecraftian cosmic horror.

Language: English

Format: Audio Drama

Continuity: Serial

Writing: Scripted

Voices: Full cast

Narrator: First Person

Genres: Crime and Mystery, Horror

Framing device: Show within a show

Soundscape: Sound effects & music

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Episodes:

Episode 4 - Structural Failure | Burn Pattern

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 05:56:58 GMT

The facts are buckling. Journalist Ross Ford tried to hold them up, to build a case against James Brightman, but the walls are coming down. The story is watching Ross. The lines are gone - between evidence and obsession, between the Brookfield fire and the fire in Ross's head. This is the structural failure.

In the final episode of this fictional true-crime investigation, the evidence doesn't just point to a killer; it points to something else entirely, something looking back from the dark.

Tell it again. TELL IT AGAIN.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Cast:

Ross Ford - Daniel Romano

James Brightman - Jacob Ryan

Additional characters/voices - Tenara Calem, Becky Fleckner, Ryan Kirchner, Jed Krivisky, Taylor Rouillard, Heidi Silva, Geremy Webne-Behrman

Music by Kobe O

Contact: ⁠burnpatternpodcast@gmail.com⁠

Episode 3 - Accelerant | Burn Pattern

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:51:30 GMT

Forensic evidence tears apart the official narrative as journalist Ross Ford uncovers devastating physical proof that challenges everything. But as Ross closes in on the truth, the investigation takes a sinister turn. The search for a killer becomes a struggle against an unseen force trying to bury the truth forever.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Cast: Ross Ford - Daniel Romano

James Brightman - Jacob Ryan

Additional characters/voices - Tenara Calem, Becky Fleckner, Ryan Kirchner, Jed Krivisky, Taylor Rouillard, Heidi Silva, Geremy Webne-Behrman

Music by Kobe O

Contact: burnpatternpodcast@gmail.com

See more of the story and dive into the lore: Come see The Watcher Sleeps as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Cannonball Festival.

⁠https://phillyfringe.org/events/the-watcher-sleeps/⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.thewatchersleeps.com/

Episode 2 - Backdraft | Burn Pattern

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:15:00 GMT

Journalist Ross Ford rewinds the week before the Fairview apartment fire, looking for cracks in a seemingly impenetrable story… only to uncover the emotional backdraft building inside Apartment 3A. Receipts. Maintenance logs. Texts. Private recordings. The once “clean” story of the fire and its survivor begins to splinter. Even Ross’s own audio begins to act… strange.

Cast: Ross Ford - Daniel Romano

James Brightman - Jacob Ryan

Additional characters/voices - Tenara Calem, Becky Fleckner, Ryan Kirchner, Jed Krivisky, Taylor Rouillard, Heidi Silva, Geremy Webne-Behrman

Music by Kobe O

See more of the story and learn more lore! Come see The Watcher Sleeps as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Cannonball Festival.

⁠https://phillyfringe.org/events/the-watcher-sleeps/⁠

⁠https://www.thewatchersleeps.com/

Episode 1 - Ignition Point | Burn Pattern

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:31:25 GMT

On the night of July 12th, 2022, the town of Fairview was rocked by a senseless act of violence, leaving two dead and James Brightman as the only survivor. Journalist Ross Ford reopens the cold case to see if the story is truly as cut and dry as it has been made out to be.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Cast: Ross Ford - Daniel Romano

James Brightman - Jacob Ryan

Additional characters/voices - Tenara Calem, Becky Fleckner, Ryan Kirchner, Jed Krivisky, Taylor Rouillard, Geremy Webne-Behrman

Music by Kobe O

See more of the story and learn more lore! Come see The Watcher Sleeps as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Cannonball Festival.

https://phillyfringe.org/events/the-watcher-sleeps/

https://www.thewatchersleeps.com/