Long Night in Egypt

Introducing Long Night in Egypt, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media, distributed by Realm. During Spring Break, a group of archaeology students travel to Egypt and sneak into the Pyramid of Unas after dark. Little do they know that they are setting themselves up for a ghostly night of terror that will alter their fates forever. Episode 1 premieres on January 23rd. Subscribe for free wherever you listen to podcasts. LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Please proceed with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Four archaeology students from the University of Chicago arrive in Cairo for spring break — and before they've even landed, something is wrong. Kayla, the Egyptophile of the group, discovers that the ancient book of maps she brought along has writing inside it that glows in the dark. She doesn't tell anyone. Not yet.   Long Night in Egypt is an eight-part horror audio drama built on real Egyptian mythology — the Pyramid Texts and the Book of the Dead, the same sacred writings that lined the tomb of Pharaoh Unas at Saqqara. Episode 01 introduces Kayla, Mo, Jordan, and Pia as they arrive in Cairo and are met by Mo's cousins Samira and Amr, whose family holds the keys — literally — to the ancient sites. One of those cousins already has a plan.   Directed by Jack Bowman. Written by Sarah Pitard. Score by Talip Peshkepia. Sound design by Jan Piasecki. A Violet Hour Media production.   LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Please proceed with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kayla is still sitting on her secret — the book glows, and she doesn't know why. Meanwhile, Uncle Abasi and Aunt Rania, Cairo archaeologists with access to the great ancient sites, welcome the group with a feast and the stories of the old gods: the Ennead, the nine deities at the center of ancient Egyptian theology, and the Pyramid of Unas — a monument so old it contains the earliest religious texts ever written.   Samira is paying close attention. A plan is forming. After dinner, she takes the group out clubbing in Cairo. Tomorrow is the official pyramid tour. What happens after midnight is still being decided.   Episode 02 of Long Night in Egypt builds the world: the mythology, the family dynamics, and the slow drip of dread that comes from knowing something is wrong with a book that shouldn't be able to glow.   Written by Sarah Pitard. Directed by Jack Bowman. Score by Talip Peshkepia. Sound design by Jan Piasecki. A Violet Hour Media production.   LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara has been standing since 2375 BCE. Its interior walls are covered in the Pyramid Texts — the oldest religious writings ever discovered, designed to protect the pharaoh Unas in the afterlife and to keep what's inside, inside. Samira has her father's stolen key. The group has had too much to drink. The plan is happening.   They cross the desert to Saqqara, enter the pyramid, and descend into darkness. Behind them, the door closes — on its own, unprovoked, with no one near it.   Episode 03 of Long Night in Egypt is the point of no return. The mythology of the Pyramid Texts comes alive in the sound design, the architecture, and the slow realization that the group has entered somewhere they were never supposed to be.   Written by Sarah Pitard. Directed by Jack Bowman. Score by Talip Peshkepia. Sound design by Jan Piasecki. A Violet Hour Media production.   LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pharaoh Unas is not a typical ghost. His Pyramid Texts describe him as a hunter of gods who devours the divine to absorb their power — a being so ancient and so ravenous that the spells covering his tomb were designed to keep him contained as much as to protect him. Jordan has just urinated in the corner of that tomb.   Episode 04 of Long Night in Egypt is the point of rupture. Unas appears in full, Jordan is consumed into the floor of the pyramid, and Pia is devoured by the Pharaoh's rage. What remains is Kayla, Mo, Samira, a glowing book, and a maze of tunnels that shouldn't exist. Amr is stranded alone in the ascending corridor behind three trap doors. Nobody is coming for him.   The mythology driving this episode is drawn directly from the Pyramid Texts — the oldest religious writings ever discovered.   Written by Sarah Pitard. Directed by Jack Bowman. Score by Talip Peshkepia. Sound design by Jan Piasecki. A Violet Hour Media production.   LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The glowing eye of Horus leads Kayla, Mo, and Samira into the Duat — the ancient Egyptian underworld. Their path takes them to a cave lake deep beneath the pyramid, where a funerary boat waits to carry them across dark water. Kayla recognizes it from the Book of the Dead. She knows what lives in the water.   Apophis — the great serpent god of chaos, the enemy of Ra, the force that attacks the sun every night as it travels through the underworld — rises from the lake. The battle is real. The mythology is exact. The blue hand of Hapi pulls them back from the deep.   Episode 05 draws directly from Egyptian cosmological texts, bringing to life the journey of the soul through the Duat in visceral audio detail. By the end of the episode, a wind takes them somewhere new — their fate no longer in their own hands.   Written by Sarah Pitard. Directed by Jack Bowman. Score by Talip Peshkepia. Sound design by Jan Piasecki. A Violet Hour Media production.   LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The weighing of the heart is one of the most powerful concepts in Egyptian mythology. In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis places the heart of the dead on a scale against the feather of Ma'at — the feather of truth. A heart burdened by sin is heavier than the feather. It is devoured by Ammit, the hippo goddess, and the soul ceases to exist. A pure heart passes into eternity.   Kayla, Mo, and Samira are brought before Anubis and Pharaoh Unas to be judged. Jordan is already there — dead, tortured, his fate sealed. Kayla's heart is weighed. She passes. Samira's is weighed. The hippo goddess devours it. Mo watches his cousin die, and then it is his turn.   Episode 06 of Long Night in Egypt executes one of the most authentic and dramatic sequences in the series — a judgment scene built directly from the Book of the Dead.   Written by Sarah Pitard. Directed by Jack Bowman. Score by Talip Peshkepia. Sound design by Jan Piasecki. A Violet Hour Media production.   LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mo's heart is on the scale. He is about to fail. And Kayla does something extraordinary — she asks Pharaoh Unas, the ancient and terrifying god-king who has been hunting them through the underworld, for the Eye of Horus.   In Egyptian mythology, the Eye of Horus is among the most powerful symbols ever conceived — a talisman of protection, a source of divine power, a vessel of healing and destruction. Unas gives it to her. She forces it into Mo. The scale tips. He passes.   But gaining the powers of the gods draws the attention of the dawn — and at dawn, Unas performs his most ancient ritual: consuming all the gods to become the ruler of the sun. Kayla and Mo, transformed into birds and flying back through the pyramid, get caught in the rising power of the Pharaoh. Their fate, as the episode ends, is genuinely unclear.   Written by Sarah Pitard. Directed by Jack Bowman. Score by Talip Peshkepia. Sound design by Jan Piasecki. A Violet Hour Media production.   LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The series finale of Long Night in Egypt. Amr is found delirious on the roadside outside Saqqara, blown from the pyramid when Unas' chariot rose to join the sun. Uncle Abasi and Aunt Rania search the pyramid and find only what was left behind: the book of maps. Kayla's backpack. No sign of anyone who entered.   But the book of maps shows their fate. Kayla and Mo have become eternal attendants of Pharaoh Unas — transformed, bound to the ancient god who weighed their hearts and kept them. Not destroyed. Not freed. Claimed.   Uncle Abasi makes a decision that completes the mythology of the series: the pyramid and its ancient power must never be exposed. The police must never know. The mystery will remain unsolved. Some doors, once opened, must be sealed again.   All eight episodes of Long Night in Egypt are now available.   Written by Sarah Pitard. Directed by Jack Bowman. Score by Talip Peshkepia. Sound design by Jan Piasecki. A Violet Hour Media production.   LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing Real Hauntings, Real Ghost Stories with their episode Evil Ghost Lady Tried to Take my Son. Noah Daniels, JJ Krehbiel, and Cat Clark infuse humor and horror as they interview guests who share stories of their firsthand encounters with ghosts and other supernatural experiences. New episodes release every Monday! Listen and subscribe to Real Hauntings, Real Ghost Stories here. Warning this episode does describe a situation involving domestic abuse and may be triggering for some audience members. Noah and JJ interview Brandie in what they consider to be the most convincing and scary ghost story they have heard so far on the podcast. Brandie describes what it was like having two ghost living in her home. One ghost wanted to take her son the other watched over and protected her son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing London After Midnight with part one of this two-part program. Five years before our story begins, wealthy Englishman Roger Balfour committed suicide at his country estate. But there are those in his family who harbor dark suspicions… especially in light of the new tenants… who you’ll meet soon enough. Considered the Holy Grail of silent cinema, the last known copy of London After Midnight was destroyed in 1965. And now for the first time in decades, Pocket Universe Productions, AudioMarvels, and Monkey Basket Entertainment presents this lost classic as an experience for the ears, adapted from the original screenplay. And... whatever you do... don't give away the ending! Part of the MIDNIGHT MATINEES podcast; also available as an ad-free binaural digital download at www.londonaftermidnight.co.uk Written by Lance Roger Axt & Kenton Hall Based on London After Midnight by Waldermar Young & Tod Browning Produced by Lance Roger Axt, Jack Bowman & Kenton Hall Associate Producer: Liis Mikk Directed by Jack Bowman & Kenton Hall Original Music by Kenton Hall & Brett Richardson Sound Design by Rory O'Shea Recorded at The Soundhouse, London Studio Manager: Freddie Sledge Studio Engineering: Wilfredo Acosta Starring Art Malik as Inspector Burke Dan Starkey as Sir James Beth Eyre as Lucy Kenton Hall as Hibbs David K Barnes as Murphy David Bickerstaff as McInroy Jack Bowman as Sgt Browning Cliff Chapman as Colonel Yates Sarah Dorsett as Doris Karim Kronfli as Williams Abi McLoughlin as Miss Smithson LISTENER WARNING: The subject matter in this program may not be appropriate for all listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices