The Dark Signal

After weeks of silence, Cyrus Blackwood returns to the airwaves. He’s alive, but changed—his voice steady, his words threaded with unease. He claims the signal was jammed, buried beneath bureaucracy and static. Yet even in the quiet, some listeners swear they still heard him whispering across dead frequencies.Now, the transmission resumes from Australia’s red heart, where our investigators follow the last trail of the Sand Bat cult into a world of dust, ruin, and whispers beneath the dunes. In Cuncudgerie, the circle closes. Trucks burn in the night. A gunshot ends a man’s silence. And beneath a sandbag outpost lies a stairway carved into the bones of the earth.Descending into the darkness, they uncover a buried ruin—metallic and alive, thrumming with impossible energy. But the deeper they go, the more the air itself begins to move. Wings beat in the black. Shadows fall where no light reaches. And the desert, it seems, has been waiting for them.As one listener warns, the bats have another entrance… and something else might too.The signal hums again. The desert breathes. The darkness remembers.

After weeks of silence, Cyrus Blackwood returns to the airwaves—his voice steady, but shadowed by something… off. He claims the broadcast was jammed. Others whisper they still heard him on dead frequencies, whispering through the static.Meanwhile, our investigators arrive in the Australian outback, chasing the last traces of Dr. Robert Huston into a desert that hums like something alive. In the town of Cuncudgerie, a smiling liar guards a shipment marked with the cult’s sigil. Night brings break-ins, vanishing families, and a book that whispers when opened.As the team drives deeper into the wastes, a sandstorm descends—red skies, wings overhead, and a gunshot that leaves blood on the dust. A mad prospector speaks of bats that blot out the moon and stones that hum beneath starlight. And when the group reaches the dig site, a familiar voice calls from the dark…In a haunting closing call, a listener claims to have heard Cyrus’s broadcast while he was missing—numbers, coordinates, and voices that stopped the moment he came back on air.The desert remembers. The signal never sleeps.

After thirty-five days at sea, our investigators reach Australia—but their arrival brings no peace. Customs officers eye their arcane cargo with suspicion. Selina Brock’s Cambridge cover is tested. Victor Belmont, returning home, finds his roots tangled in silence.Their pursuit of Robert Huston leads them to Sydney and the worn hands of Professor Dodge, whose whispers reveal a pattern of cults and lost cities. A dead man’s diary, a cursed scrying mirror, and a splintered vision all point toward the red heart of the continent—and Huston’s shadow sprawled across it.In Darwin, a break-in at Randolph Shipping uncovers more than smuggled relics. Among strange idols and coded manifests lies a name from the past: Florence Bolan. Spy. Survivor. And now—unexpected ally?As Florence's tangled truths emerge, our investigators race to expose the network beneath the dust. Huston’s name marks everything: idols, engines, and a mirror-machine built for minds, not eyes. And when symbols begin appearing in the desert—perfect circles humming with power—Cyrus Blackwood asks the question no one wants to answer:What happens when the desert sings?

As the investigators steam toward Australia, Cyrus Blackwood rewinds the signal—returning us to London, where the trail of the Black Pharaoh first unfurled in blood and shadow. From fog-choked alleys to firelit moors, this is the story behind the story—a chronicle of what they uncovered, and what they lost.The team traced Elias’s warnings to monstrous paintings, werewolves in Derbyshire, and the ritualistic horrors lurking beneath the Penhew Foundation. They infiltrated Zahra Shafik’s cult beneath the Blue Pyramid Club, and at Misr House, watched the sky rip open as Heralds from another reality tore through the veil.Florence Bolan vanished without a trace. Miles Shipley painted visions of futures he couldn’t have known. And a date—9-19-27—echoed across maps, ledgers, and whispered dreams.Now, Australia looms. A factory blueprint. A name—Robert Huston. A mirror that reflects wrong. And the long shadow of something vast waiting beneath the sunburnt soil.This episode is not about escape. It is about memory.And what happens when memory fights to be forgotten.

The investigators board the S.S. Maurentania, bound for Melbourne—but the sea offers no escape from the secrets that shadow them. Josephine is invited to dine with the captain, where she meets Count Kurosov, Professor Patterson, and Karim Safar—an Egyptian scholar who claims to have known Jackson Elias. But trust is a vanishing commodity in these waters.Victor shares their darkest findings: idols, tomes, artifacts, and the cursed date whispered from beyond—9/19/27. Meanwhile, the professor offers a demonstration of forbidden magic, revealing glimpses of Cyrus Blackwood himself. But the answers only deepen the mystery: what is Cyrus, really... and who is watching whom?A passenger is murdered—organs removed, a taunting note left behind. "THE RIPPER" walks among them. And then Patterson is found hanged, his suicide note begging for his books to be burned before “they” arrive.Visions of ancient monsters rising from the sea plague the group, and the ship hums with something unnatural in its metal bones. A priest who sees too much. A purser with a cultic pendant. A mirror that reflects death.As Australia approaches, the voyage tightens its grip. The Ripper isn't just onboard—it’s history repeating itself.The water is calm. The gods beneath are not.Next stop: the red soil of Australia—and the truth buried beneath it.

The Dark Signal returns to London—where silence is rarely empty and art hides more than intention. In Between Brushstrokes and Blood, host Cyrus Blackwood guides listeners through a tale woven with steel, secrecy, and something inhuman slithering just out of sight.Investigators Harriet Hughes, Victor Belmont, and newcomer Selina Brock descend into the shadowy remains of Henson Manufacturing, uncovering blueprints for technology not meant for modern minds—designs tied to a whisper from the dead: September 1927. Meanwhile, a return to the attic studio of Miles Shipley, a painter tormented by visions, reveals a chilling canvas of a murder that hasn’t happened—or has, far from London’s eyes.But the deeper horror lies beneath the floorboards. In a basement hidden from memory, Selina discovers a vat of preserved body parts and a truth too monstrous to be merely human. The kindly Grandmother is not who she appears. What follows is a deadly confrontation with something ancient, scaled, and venomous—costing blood, sanity, and trust.As the investigators reel from betrayal and loss, Florence Bolan, their enigmatic ally in the U.S. Secret Service, disappears without a trace. A house wiped clean. A name denied. Was she erased—or was she never on their side at all?From blood-soaked basements to shifting realities, this episode pulls back the curtain on a world unraveling. What began as a mystery of machines and dreams ends in venom, disappearance, and an ominous voyage to Australia.The date 9-19-27 looms. The serpent is dead. But the signal... still hums.