Operation Watchtower is set in the wake of 9/11. Follow Nicholas Grayson, a haunted FBI agent; Belle Flower, a runaway from a family of circus freaks; and Senator Bryce Wexley, a man replaced by a thing that wears his face. What begins as investigation becomes revelation. What is known cannot be unmade.

After blood and doubles, Bryce Wexley wakes to open earth and a ghost hovering before him. The gun fails. A mark is struck. Trenody is broken. They flee into night knowing it rode ahead. Belle Flower hunts a ghost online and wakes a deeper thing. Rot and milk and crying shadows mark the night. The past comes back breathing, and it knows her name. Agent Grayson rides a cold trail through lies and shadows, tells folks it's gas when it’s damnation. He earns trust late, runs toward a bomb, and learns some debts get paid in light and fire.

Soundtrack generously provided by Dead Melodies.

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WARNING

This podcast contains mature themes including psychological trauma, violence, religious extremism, suicide, body horror, and the breakdown of reality. It explores conspiracies, real historical tragedies, and occult imagery rooted in the horror role-playing game Kult: Divinity Lost. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Nothing in Operation Watchtower is suitable for children. Some content may be distressing for survivors of abuse, veterans, and those sensitive to depictions of state violence or ritualistic harm.

If you feel unsafe or overwhelmed at any point, we encourage you to pause, breathe, and return when you’re ready. Or not at all.

Hope the New Year found you still upright and breathing. If it didn’t treat you kindly, you weren’t alone. Either way, I’m glad you made it this far. Happy New Year!

Before I go, I want to thank Nsitaj for their kind words. They told me they love audio dramas that lean into psychological horror and the weight of buried trauma. Nsitaj subscribed to Operation Watchtower and added it to their queue.

Thank you, Nsitaj. This kind of story reckons you’re already hauling something you don’t say out loud. If it is the dark corners and old wounds you listen for, then Operation Watchtower hears you, too. I’m obliged you tuned in.

If Operation Watchtower rode shotgun with you through a long mile of wrong road, do it a mercy and pass it on to somebody else drifting in the dark. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, whatever fire you’re crouched by. Every star, heart, and crooked thumbs-up keeps the false god of Algorithm humming. And if you hated Operation Watchtower, well. Hand it to an enemy and let fate decide what they deserve.

Pilgrim, it’s a ride through a busted world where every mile is a test, and every answer costs blood. You keep going even when the gods lie, the map burns, and the truth hurts worse than the fire. Nobody wins. You just learn what was watching you the whole way.

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