WPR: Wasteland Public Radio

Storme Craft wakes up dangerously cheerful in the wasteland, kicking off the morning with sunshine, sarcasm, and a missing cat named Mr. Sniffles — whose safe return becomes the most wholesome manhunt of the apocalypse. Meanwhile, Stan discovers a solar-powered weed bunker blooming out of season, Mama’s legendary “Apple Pie Special” moonshine starts circulating through Harlan County, and Karen desperately tries to keep the station from collapsing into chaos.With wolves roaming Texas, solar stations needing repair, and Storme passing out at her desk mid-broadcast, Episode 24 delivers peak WPR energy: absurd survival news, found-family banter, and reminders that kindness, tradition, and very questionable brownies still matter — even at the end of the world.♪ Featuring music by The Hollar Brothers — “Moonshine & Mary Jane”📻 Dark comedy apocalypse radio🐈 Missing pets, moonshine legends, and weed bunkers🔥 Storme naps, Karen takes over, Stan gets threatened (again)Follow us everywhere at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Wasteland Public Radio⁠⁠⁠⁠Written, Directed & Produced by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠J.Taylor Campbell⁠⁠⁠⁠Storme Craft: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bree Croft⁠⁠⁠⁠Stan Croft: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Telford⁠⁠⁠⁠Karen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Amy Barrett⁠⁠

A snowstorm traps Ken Fox inside an abandoned trailer park, where winter quiet stirs memories better left buried. Tonight’s story follows a lone survivor who crosses what he believes is a frozen field — only to discover a lake beneath the snow, packed with hundreds of zombies suspended under the ice like insects in glass, including a waitress he once knew before the fall.As the memory deepens, Ken traces the story back to a lakeside restaurant that became a refuge during the early days of the outbreak — until winter turned escape routes into mass graves. A listener letter adds new folklore to the wasteland: pop-up soup kitchens that feed wanderers for free… and turn thieves into permanent guards.“Under the Ice” is a meditation on winter, memory, hunger, and the quiet horror of things preserved rather than destroyed — where kindness can be sacred, silence can be dangerous, and the ground beneath your feet may already be holding the dead.🕯️ Atmospheric horror❄️ Winter survival folklore🧟 Zombies beneath frozen lakes🍲 Pop-up apocalypse kitchens📻 Afterlight transmissions from the dark♪ Darkness Abides: Field of GlassFollow Us!⁠⁠Writer, Director & Producer: ⁠J.Taylor "Boomer" Campbell⁠Ken Fox: ⁠Ryan Kern

Wasteland Public Radio is back in full chaos mode as Storme Craft guides listeners through another week of nightmares, rumors, and bad decisions across the wasteland.This episode features reports of a mysterious man named Christian wandering Clearfield County muttering about portals, demons, and vampires—raising more than a few comic-book red flags. In Gettysburg, snowmelt floods the streets and carries walkers straight into living communities, while whispers from Jericho, California tell of a woman in white appearing on back roads, vanishing from locked cars, and leading the curious toward burned-out homes that should be empty.With Stanley delivering grim weather warnings, Karen issuing vital community alerts (including the return of Sector 5 and a frozen-pizza-for-guns trade in Virginia Beach), and the Emergency Channel standing by, Episode 23 balances dark humor with creeping horror.The episode closes with a chilling after-music ghost story about Gettysburg’s haunted battlefields—where zombies reenact the Civil War every summer, turning history into an annual bloodbath that refuses to stay buried.🕯️ Apocalyptic horror & dark comedy🧟 Urban legends of the wasteland📍 Clearfield County, Gettysburg & Jericho📻 Emergency Channel always listening🎵 ♪ Tonya Lee – The Woman in WhiteIf you’re still alive, congrats—you cleared another side quest.Try not to die on the way to the pizza.Follow us everywhere at: ⁠⁠⁠Wasteland Public Radio⁠⁠⁠Written, Directed & Produced by: ⁠⁠⁠J.Taylor Campbell⁠⁠⁠Storme Craft: ⁠⁠⁠Bree Croft⁠⁠⁠Stan Croft: ⁠⁠⁠Justin Telford⁠⁠⁠Karen: ⁠⁠⁠Amy Barrett⁠⁠

The first Afterlight broadcast of the year comes from an abandoned trailer park where the calendar no longer matters and the heat still hums for reasons no one can explain. Ken Fox reflects on the last New Year before the fall—when people still gathered, still counted down, and still believed time could reset itself.This episode weaves together a quiet, devastating family story, an old legend about the New Year Spirit, and a listener letter describing a highway that never ends—where mile markers reset, fireworks shimmer in the distance, and time refuses to move forward.The Last New Year is a meditative, atmospheric episode about memory, ritual, and what happens when hope stops announcing itself. No jump scares. No answers. Just wind, power lines, and the question of whether moving on requires permission.🌑 Afterlight storytelling🕯️ Post-apocalyptic folklore📻 Ken Fox, alone on the mic🛣️ Roads that won’t let go📅 The year that never came back ♫ Darkness Abides: We Saved The YearIf you’re still counting days, maybe stop at one that feels real.Ken will be listening.Follow Us!⁠Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellKen Fox: Ryan Kern

Storme Craft is back after a long hiatus and absolutely not in the mood to play nice. Episode 22 of Wasteland Public Radio drops listeners straight into the chaos with zombie-fueled metal concerts in Kansas, ice-armored undead roaming a historic Boston blizzard, and disturbing reports of half-zombies haunting Pittsburgh back alleys.Featuring the return of Stanley’s brutally honest weather, Storme’s unfiltered commentary on survival, raiders, and bad ideas, plus a full community alert rundown from the Emergency Channel, this episode is peak WPR: loud, darkly funny, and unapologetically bleak.The episode closes with a behind-the-scenes story about the first time metal band Torn played live on WPR—drawing zombies by the dozens and turning the studio into a warzone of sound, fire, and early-2000s nu-metal glory.🎸 Zombies for cover charge❄️ Blizzard-hardened undead🐈 Questionable Pittsburgh sightings📻 Emergency Channel still open🔥 Torn – Burn Another BatchYou’re still not dead yet.Try to keep it that way.Follow us everywhere at: ⁠Wasteland Public Radio⁠Written, Directed & Produced by: ⁠J.Taylor Campbell⁠Storme Craft: ⁠Bree Croft⁠Stan Croft: ⁠Justin Telford⁠Karen: ⁠Amy Barrett⁠

WPR goes off-format for one night only: Christmas in the Wasteland, a 2025 crossover special with Raising the Dead. Storme hosts from the station’s dining room table as the crew piles in—Karen cooking, Stan getting bullied (as tradition), James being James, and Ken setting the mood like a beautiful doom poem with legs. Jason, Alice, Derek, and Frank roll in from the road, the drinks start flowing, and the “rules” are simple: zombie noises? drink. Karen scolds? drink. Storme roasts someone? drink. Jason rages out? finish it.Then the night turns: Christmas “Santas” aren’t bringing gifts… unless it’s pipe bombs. Ken tells a brutal, unforgettable 2019 Christmas tale. Storme shares the story of the year Lena forced joy back into the world—and the mug that proved some things survive the end. And when Lena finally walks through the door, she brings a fresh rescue story that earns the only toast that matters out here: family.Creator note + help request: The episode closes with a brief message breaking continuity to share a fundraiser link for Lena’s parents after a November 6, 2025 house fire. If you can spare anything, please use the link in the description and tell them Lena and WPR sent you.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-needed-parents-lost-everythingCast Storme Craft: Bree CroftStan Croft: Justin TelfordProducer Karen: Amy BarrettKen Fox: Ryan KernJames: Shane AlanLena K: Bree Croft (AI Voice Changer)Jason: J.Taylor CampbellAlice: Allison SheppardDerek: Eric HugginsFrank: Alan AlbrightWritten, Directed & Edited by: J.Taylor CampbellGo and follow all of our wonderful cast and support our lost friends parents! Merry Christmas!

🕯️ Happy Halloween from Wasteland Public Radio.When the world’s already crawling with real monsters, what’s left to fear on Halloween night? Storme Craft hosts a one-night broadcast of static, spirits, and sarcasm alongside Ken Fox, Stan Croft, and the ever-uninvited Karen.But as the signal fractures and voices seep through the dead channels, something—or someone—starts broadcasting back.👻 Featuring:• Storme Craft’s haunted mic banter• Ken Fox’s spectral philosophy• Stan’s apocalyptic forecast (in Latin, obviously)• Karen’s costume contest from hell• …and the return of The Girl in the static🔊 Produced by Outlawz Studios📻 “Where it’s always spooky… and we’re always watching.”Follow Us!Writer, Director, Editor, Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellStorme Craft: Bree CroftKen Fox: Ryan KernStan Croft: Justin TelfordProducer Karen: Amy BarrettThe Girl on Channel 77 was produced with Elevenlabs AIMusic Produced with Suno AI

At the edge of an abandoned service camp, Ken Fox finds a hand-pump well that shouldn’t be there—and water that reflects without light. Beneath the surface, something listens in rhythm, answering each drip with intent.The night deepens as Ken decodes the markings around the stone lip, hears his own name echo back through static water, and breaks the silence with a test that should have gone unanswered. But the well learns quickly.Through field tape and story, The Mirror Well explores what happens when reflection becomes aware—when rhythm turns into recognition. Ken closes the night with a caution: never trust the echo that chooses you.🔷 Featuring:A mirror that remembers daylightMorse patterns beneath running waterThe story of a family’s haunted well that “listened different”Survival rules for reflections that think📻 WPR: Afterlight — radio for the dark between frequencies.Hashtags / Keywords:#WPR #Afterlight #WastelandPublicRadio #KenFox #AnalogHorror #CreepyPodcast #AudioDrama #PostApocalyptic #SignalHorror #MysteryPodcast #Reflections #HauntedWaterFollow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellKen Fox: Ryan Kern

(Redacted) is back on-air… and everything immediately gets louder. While Storme juggles cult rumors, coded broadcasts, and one very opinionated producer, the station reboots its Community Alerts and the wasteland listens in. Between fried inverters, haunted sheds, and mislabeled “rice,” the crew fights to stay organized—and human—on the edge of nowhere.When the signal crackles, remember the rule: landmark → condition → request.Welcome back to the noise.Hashtags / Keywords:#WPR #WastelandPublicRadio #Afterlight #PostApocalyptic #AudioDrama #StormeCraft #SheReturns #RadioHorror #EmergencyChannel #KenFoxFollow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellStorme Craft: Bree CroftStan Croft: Justin TelfordKaren: Amy Barrett

A padlocked shed opens. A red light blinks. The signal speaks.Ken Fox steps into a forgotten utility shed behind the station and finds a tape deck still humming—repeating four words in Morse: “I see you, Ken.” What follows is a broadcast about haunted circuitry, code that remembers names, and the danger of being heard by something that isn’t human.Through static and story, Ken recounts the legend of “The Half-Mile” repeater—a machine that learned to answer back—and the quiet rituals that keep code from learning too much.🔴 Featuring:Morse code transmissions not sent by WPRA red light that blinks past the breakerThe Half-Mile repeater and its impossible knockSurvival rules for haunted machines📻 WPR: Afterlight — where ghost signals remember more than the living.Hashtags / Keywords:#WPR #Afterlight #PostApocalypticRadio #SignalHorror #KenFox #AnalogHorror #AudioDrama #MorseCode #CreepyPodcast #WastelandPublicRadioFollow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellKen Fox: Ryan Kern

The airwaves crackle with sermons, static, and science gone wrong. Storme and Stan uncover the rise of the Rotborn’s Ascension Camps, strange transmissions talking back, and a quiet way out of the noise. Featuring rogue satellites, noise bombs, toaster prosthetics, and fieldcraft for surviving the static. The world may be ending, but the show goes on—sarcasm included.Hashtags / Keywords:#WPR #WastelandPublicRadio #PostApocalyptic #SurvivalRadio #DarkHumor #Rotborn #Cults #ApocalypsePodcast #RadioDrama #AfterlightFollow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellStorm Craft: Bree CroftStan Croft: Justin Telford

Ken Fox investigates an abandoned supply barn where the dust remembers everything—and a TV with no power turns itself on. A face appears in the static, a signal shifts, and the world holds its breath. Part ghost story, part survival diary, this broadcast blurs superstition, signal bleed, and the thin line between remembering and being remembered.Hashtags / Keywords:#WPR #WastelandPublicRadio #Afterlight #PostApocalypse #RadioHorror #SignalFiction #Static #HauntedBroadcast #AudioDrama #KenFoxFollow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellKen Fox: Ryan Kern

Storme and Stan report on the ruins with drones overhead, bridges breaking, and Mardi Gras reborn in madness. From swamp parades to collapsing trestles, it’s survival with sarcasm, gallows humor, and one very dumb hotel tragedy. Tune in for post-apocalyptic advice, emergency chatter, and the weirdly romantic chaos of staying human in the wasteland.Hashtags / Keywords:#WastelandPublicRadio #PostApocalypse #DarkComedy #ZombieApocalypse #SurvivalStories #MardiGrasAfterTheFall #RadioDrama #WPR #WPRAfterlightFollow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellStorme Craft: Bree CroftStan Croft: Justin Telford

Some holes don’t wait to be dug—they listen first.Ken Fox finds a freshly cut trench near the south fence of the station. Too straight for rain, too neat for a grave. Beneath a flat stone lies a burned piece of paper with six words: “I hear her humming when you talk.”Back in the studio, Ken rewinds the last few tapes and finds something new layered beneath his broadcasts—a woman’s voice, humming softly, syncing to his cadence. The hum spreads, bleeding into the insects outside, folding into silence that sounds like waiting.By the time he speaks again, even the ground seems to answer.🎙️ Highlights:A trench built with impossible precision near the WPR stationBurned note warns of “her humming”Background audio reveals a hidden lullaby in past transmissionsThe insects go quiet—then mimic rhythmStory of the farmer who learned to stop listening🜃 Themes:Echoes, buried language, mimicry, and the danger of being heard too clearly.⚠️ Survival Tip:If the ground hums back, don’t match its key.WPR: Afterlight — Ken Fox documents the quiet between signals, where the soil remembers voices better than the living.Follow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellKen Fox: Ryan Kern

If your radio starts to hum, you’re already part of the circuit.Storme returns with a transmission packed tighter than a bad fuse: a half-buried tower still broadcasting “Pilot Logs,” a pack of ex-zookeepers rolling through the desert with armored llamas, and The Murphy prison cult building jammers to silence entire towns.Meanwhile, producer James calls in a field report from the Tram Yards—where a homemade jammer hums, a feral dog guards the switch, and courage is measured in decibels. Stan logs the “smear” (his new scientific term), weather threatens to fly off the map, and a girl’s voice from an old archive reminds us what happens when kindness meets horror too late.By night’s end, it’s all dust, static, and signal ghosts—but the frequency holds.🎙️ Highlights:Tower found buried in the Utah dunes, still transmitting “Pilot Logs”“Beast Patrol” returns with armored llamas (yes, Tax Fraud is back)The Murphy starts jamming survivor networks to isolate townsField report: Tram Yards jammer neutralized—feral dog unharmedArchive story: Mimi DeLuca and the cult beneath Curwensville⚡ Survival Tips:Unplug what hums. Don’t follow the glow. When the air tastes like pennies, stay boring.🎧 WPR — Keeping the wasteland weird, one bad idea at a time.Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellStorme Craft: Bree CroftStan Croft: Justin TelfordFollow Us!

Deep in the pines, a rusted camper whispers SALVAGE—painted on every wall, over stains that never dried. Inside, Ken Fox finds an old analog radio still tuned to something impossible: a fragmented voice claiming “the girl is not alone.”The night grows heavier. Footsteps cross the roof. Words scratched beneath a table warn, “She’s listening too.” What begins as a scavenger’s find becomes a study in the danger of repetition—the way a mark turns into a name, and a name starts answering back.As Ken unravels the origin of the red letters, he tells the story of a man who used the word SALVAGE as a shield until it began to write itself. By the time the paint stopped shining, it wasn’t just a mark anymore—it was waiting.🎙️ Themes: forgotten places remembering back, false refuge, echoing transmissions, the unseen watcher🎧 Featuring: “The Girl on Channel 77” (reference signal)“If a mark gets repeated too cleanly, it’s either a map or a trap. Either way, it expects you.”WPR: Afterlight — The night always leaves a note.Follow Us!Written, Directed & Produced by: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellKen Fox: Ryan Kern

If your fence sings when you touch it, that’s current—not angels.Storme checks in from the wasteland with updates on South Dakota’s “Shocktangle”—an improvised electric defense made from Christmas lights, lawnmower guts, and sheer spite. Between auroras that try to spell and a strange broadcast announcing a countdown, the morning gets tense, wired, and weird.Emergency reports flow in from James about noise lures and burning barrels, while Stan fights static and sarcasm from a frozen outpost. Later, Storme shares a rare story of hope: a woman named Jenny, a missing cat, and an impossible reunion years after the fall.Fieldcraft: How to build an electric perimeter without electrocuting yourselfEmergency Logs: “Switchgrass Siding” incident — noise lure neutralizedStrange Reports: Singing fences, magnetic storms, and synchronized herdsMessage of the Day: Not everything that happens in the wasteland is awful.⚡ Survive smart. Laugh when you can. And if the sky starts a countdown—do the boring things perfectly.🎧 WPR: keeping the signal alive, one jolt at a time.Follow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellStorme Craft: Bree CroftStan Croft: Justin Telford

A wall remembers a door it never had.Ken Fox finds a new room in the station—narrow, breathing, and sealed behind him once he enters. Inside, graffiti repeats one message: “SAY SOMETHING BACK.”A reel-to-reel tape is already spinning, playing a voice that sounds like his own.Outside, the ticking grows louder. Inside, the room is listening.Location: Former generator room, sealed from the outsidePhenomenon: Architectural mimicry; self-recording acousticsField Note: Leave a line to daylight—chalk, ribbon, or coin noiseDirective: Knock twice for presence, once for troubleSurvival Tip: Never answer a room with words—it might answer in kindFollow WPR: Afterlight for transmissions after the power fades.Knock. Don’t speak. The walls are already learning your voice.Follow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellKen Fox: Ryan Kern

WE HAVE UPLINK, Wasteland Public Radio may be the only ones with an internet connection but god damnit we are gonna use it to post bull shit that others may see someday. Check us out on facebook!When the sky throws a tantrum, curiosity kills batteries first. Solar storms, tornado lines, and a NORAD-ghosted message: “Re-entry locked. Shield failing. No safe vector.”Fieldcraft: Pair batteries; write coords on paper; break line-of-sight; mask lightsPilot thread: Off a bunker relay—something’s falling; “shield” unknownEmergency Channel: Bright trail over Ashwood Cut; metallic ash; panel-surge burns—approach upwind, engines offPower etiquette: Don’t energize every relic in a “radio museum”; log & label; share notes with JamesVermont: “Captain Sap” maple plant = heat, filters, dorm—trades wood & AA batteries for syrup suppliesDecoys: Argument-loop roamers with open-band handsets—don’t chase voices in fogWeather (Stan): Peekaboo blackouts; Plains tornadoes; shortwave squeal around ~5.315 MHzWeirdness: Unplugged TV chatter, fireflies in the wrong places—log phrasing/time/bearing, don’t debate at noonFollow Wasteland Public Radio for new episodes weekly. Share OPSEC-safe intel via the Emergency Channel to help someone else make it home.Follow Us!Writer, Director & Producer: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellStorme Craft: Bree CroftStan Croft: Justin Telford

Underground, round rooms file you under sound. In a flooded culvert, walls learn voices, reverse phrases, and offer names back like ropes. Some echoes aren’t yours—and some try to follow you out.Location: Drainage culvert under the fence (mile marker nine)Phenomenon: Concrete “memorizes” speech; repeats lines backward; palindromes make perfect baitStory: Reed the rescuer, a chalk trail, a collar mic—and a message returned as “kca b nrut”Survival: Detune your breath; don’t speak names; answer with non-words (knuckles, pebble, rope on nylon)Writing: Misspell on purpose; scuff messages; do not clap; leave palindromes at campSFX vibe: Drip, low resonance, static flutter, pebble ticks—pressure like breath through a pipeFollow WPR: Afterlight for new night transmissions. Share OPSEC-safe intel via the Emergency Channel to help others make it home.Follow Us!Writer, Director & Editor: J.Taylor "Boomer" CampbellKen Fox: Ryan Kern