WPR Afterlight Ep 3 — Breathing Under the Grates, Sierra Echo Four

Stick around after the music for Ken to lull you to sleep with a chilling tale...

From a rotting woodshed behind the east fence, Ken Fox tracks a rhythmic breath under the maintenance grates—deeper than wind, not rats. A recovered Sierra Echo Four memo reports “movement at Grate 9… pulsing like lungs” before metal screams and the tape cuts. Bishop (the crow) scratches up an in-between white fragment under the floor, while survivor rumor names the shape below: Hollow People—standing, silent, wrong.

Ken teaches how to survive the tunnels: detune your steps, avoid standing over “throats,” keep weight on studs, and never match a rhythm that isn’t yours. If the chalk scatters by morning, something beneath you is breathing.

Keywords: post-apocalyptic horror podcast, analog horror, radio drama, breathing tunnels, maintenance grates, Hollow People, found audio, Sierra Echo Four, woodshed broadcast, Bishop the crow.

Content notes: tense atmosphere, implied death, unsettling audio (metal clang/screams), ambient rumble/scraping.

Written, Directed & Edited: J.Taylor "Boomer" Campbell

Ken Fox: Ryan Kern

Music: Vivek Abhishek- Bleeding Notes