Episode 04: Borrowed Words and Broken Signals

Tonight on The Midnight Window, we open on a startling confession: a renowned author whoclaims he’s never written a single word of his bestsellers. In a tale that blurs the line between identity and illusion, we hear the unnerving truth of a man who lived behind the words of others and the strange force that may have helped him do it.

Then, host Jake Besten turns the dial back to 1987 Chicago, where a masked figure hijacked two television signals in one of the most surreal, unsolved media intrusions in history. Was it a protest, a performance, or something more disturbing? To closethe night, two vintage recordings from the early 20th century invite you to drift softly into sleep, as always, beneath the quiet gaze of The Midnight Window.

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“Walking Along”, “Just As Soon”, "Relaxing Piano Music", and “Night on the Docks – Trumpet” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Available at ⁠⁠incompetech.com⁠⁠.

"Keep Going", "Haunted by Screams", and "Outsider", by Myuu, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Available at thedarkpiano.com

"Sun Awakening" by Futuremono. Provided to YouTube by the YouTube Audio Library. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Available at youtube.com

“Story book ball” and “Swanee 'One-step'" courtesy of the Library of Congress. Accessed at ⁠⁠loc.gov⁠⁠.

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Story Link

⁠Author Website⁠

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