<description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;u&gt;Find us where we live!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;The Latchkey Lair &lt;/a&gt;: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weirdos&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Role For Sanity&lt;/a&gt;: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Echoes under Ashwood Facebook&lt;/a&gt;: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this recovered police interview, Dawn McBride is questioned shortly after the disappearance of her best friend, Amy Caldwell. Audibly nervous and increasingly agitated, Dawn struggles to give direct answers as the detective presses her on Amy’s final days, her state of mind, and whether she had planned to meet anyone near the Fen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the police, Dawn sounds evasive. To the listener, she sounds terrified.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;What remains unsaid is the thing that has haunted Dawn for decades: Amy asked her to come with her into the Fen that night. Dawn said no.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amy went alone.  And whatever came back from that night was not an answer. It was a wound.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cast: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keeper / James Altwies &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Dawn vs Her Conscience 

<h2><u>Find us where we live!</u></h2><h3><a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Latchkey Lair </a>: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weirdos</h3><h3><a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops</h3><h3><a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Role For Sanity</a>: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making</h3><h3><a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Echoes under Ashwood Facebook</a>: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook</h3><p><br></p><p>In this recovered police interview, Dawn McBride is questioned shortly after the disappearance of her best friend, Amy Caldwell. Audibly nervous and increasingly agitated, Dawn struggles to give direct answers as the detective presses her on Amy’s final days, her state of mind, and whether she had planned to meet anyone near the Fen.</p><br><p>To the police, Dawn sounds evasive. To the listener, she sounds terrified.</p><br><p>What remains unsaid is the thing that has haunted Dawn for decades: Amy asked her to come with her into the Fen that night. Dawn said no.</p><p>Amy went alone.  And whatever came back from that night was not an answer. It was a wound.</p><br><p><strong>Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel </strong></p><p><strong>Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies</strong></p><br><p><strong>Cast: </strong></p><p><strong>Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris </strong></p><p><strong>Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards </strong></p><p><strong>Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner </strong></p><p><strong>Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel </strong></p><p><strong>Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards </strong></p><p><strong>Keeper / James Altwies </strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Ashwood Archives - McBride Police Interview

<description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;u&gt;Find us where we live!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;The Latchkey Lair &lt;/a&gt;: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weiros&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Role For Sanity&lt;/a&gt;: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Echoes under Ashwood Facebook&lt;/a&gt;: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ashwood has a way of turning reunions into interrogations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Part 2 of the Cuckoo’s Nest meetup picks up after Amy Caldwell’s will reading, with old friendships already starting to fray under the weight of memory, suspicion, and too many unanswered questions. The drinks are cheap, the ashtrays are full, and everyone’s pretending this is still just a bunch of former friends catching up in a dying hometown bar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then Traci Lathrop-Matthews walks in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Former queen bee. Still perfectly composed. Still somehow knowing everybody’s business before they do. Her arrival shifts the entire room, especially with Tina Geroski already circling the group like a shark with a cigarette and a grudge. The two old frenemies waste no time digging at each other while quietly steering suspicion back toward the people who left Ashwood behind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, strange old photographs and forgotten fragments continue surfacing—little pieces of the past that don’t fit together cleanly anymore. The more the group looks, the less trustworthy their memories start to feel.  And around them, the town keeps pressing closer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chuck is acting unusually rigid, like he’s trying too hard to stay grounded. Matt Russell watches everything from behind the bar with the nervous energy of a man who knows more than he should.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because in Ashwood, nobody really moves on.  They just learn how to talk around the things that still live here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Beware Frenemies Bearing Gifts

<h2><u>Find us where we live!</u></h2><h3><a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Latchkey Lair </a>: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weiros</h3><h3><a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops</h3><h3><a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Role For Sanity</a>: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making</h3><h3><a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Echoes under Ashwood Facebook</a>: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook</h3><p><br></p><p>Ashwood has a way of turning reunions into interrogations.</p><br><p>Part 2 of the Cuckoo’s Nest meetup picks up after Amy Caldwell’s will reading, with old friendships already starting to fray under the weight of memory, suspicion, and too many unanswered questions. The drinks are cheap, the ashtrays are full, and everyone’s pretending this is still just a bunch of former friends catching up in a dying hometown bar.</p><br><p>Then Traci Lathrop-Matthews walks in.</p><br><p>Former queen bee. Still perfectly composed. Still somehow knowing everybody’s business before they do. Her arrival shifts the entire room, especially with Tina Geroski already circling the group like a shark with a cigarette and a grudge. The two old frenemies waste no time digging at each other while quietly steering suspicion back toward the people who left Ashwood behind.</p><br><p>Meanwhile, strange old photographs and forgotten fragments continue surfacing—little pieces of the past that don’t fit together cleanly anymore. The more the group looks, the less trustworthy their memories start to feel.  And around them, the town keeps pressing closer.</p><br><p>Chuck is acting unusually rigid, like he’s trying too hard to stay grounded. Matt Russell watches everything from behind the bar with the nervous energy of a man who knows more than he should.</p><br><p>Because in Ashwood, nobody really moves on.  They just learn how to talk around the things that still live here.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

S01 E04 - No One Gets Nice at 50

<description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;u&gt;Find us where we live!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;The Latchkey Lair &lt;/a&gt;: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weiros&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Role For Sanity&lt;/a&gt;: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Echoes under Ashwood Facebook&lt;/a&gt;: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this Ashwood Archives supplimental content, we are introduced to an unidentified agency surveilling the residents of Ashwood Ohio. To what end, we may never know. A recorded conversation in 1978 at the family lake house between Pastor Bob and Thomas Lathrop, former Ashwood Safety Service Director seeds more questions than answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ashwood Archives are supplimental content and can be listened to in any order, between main episoeds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Aurora Group Artifacts

<h2><u>Find us where we live!</u></h2><h3><a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Latchkey Lair </a>: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weiros</h3><h3><a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops</h3><h3><a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Role For Sanity</a>: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making</h3><h3><a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Echoes under Ashwood Facebook</a>: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook</h3><p><br></p><p>In this Ashwood Archives supplimental content, we are introduced to an unidentified agency surveilling the residents of Ashwood Ohio. To what end, we may never know. A recorded conversation in 1978 at the family lake house between Pastor Bob and Thomas Lathrop, former Ashwood Safety Service Director seeds more questions than answers.</p><br><p>Ashwood Archives are supplimental content and can be listened to in any order, between main episoeds.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Ashwood Archives - Lake House Surveillance

<description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;u&gt;Find us where we live!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;The Latchkey Lair &lt;/a&gt;: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weiros&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Role For Sanity&lt;/a&gt;: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Echoes under Ashwood Facebook&lt;/a&gt;: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Episode 3 - “The Cuckoo’s Nest”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amy’s instructions lead them to the Cuckoo’s Nest, a place none of them expected to return to and one that no longer resembles what it once was. In the 1970s it was the center of everything. Music, light, movement, a place where people went to be seen. Now it has settled into something smaller and worn down, a dive that feels like it stayed open out of habit rather than purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still, a table is waiting for them. No one questions how. Inside, the air feels thick with time that never fully passed. The walls are covered in layered collages of Ashwood’s past, photographs stacked and overlapping in no clear order. Generations of faces stare out from dim corners and warped frames. Some are familiar. Many are not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And some should not exist. Among the images are moments that never happened. Versions of events that feel close enough to be real, but wrong in ways that are hard to explain. The five of them recognize themselves in a few of the photographs, but not the way they remember. Not where they remember. It is subtle, but unmistakable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Nest is not just displaying history. It is editing it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matt Russell owns the place now. He is quieter than they remember, more contained. The kind of presence that blends into the room while still knowing exactly what is happening inside it. He does not seem surprised to see them, and he does not offer more than he has to. When they begin asking questions about Amy, about the town, about anything that might explain why they have been brought back, his answers stay just out of reach. Enough to keep them engaged. Never enough to give them ground. The conversation circles without landing. Others arrive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chuck drifts in like he never left town, carrying the same unpredictable energy that used to make him easy to dismiss. He talks too much, laughs at the wrong moments, and drops fragments of insight that feel uncomfortably close to something real. It is hard to tell if he knows more than he should or if he has simply been here long enough to stop questioning what the town does.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tina appears with a different kind of weight. Confident, practiced, and deliberate. She watches more than she speaks, inserting herself only when it matters. There is a familiarity to her that feels curated, as if she is choosing which version of herself they are allowed to see. Neither of them seems surprised that the five of them are together. As the night settles in, the group begins to feel the limits of what they can get from this place. Every question leads somewhere incomplete. Every answer suggests something larger without revealing it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Nest holds pieces of the past, but not in a way that clarifies anything. If anything, it deepens the uncertainty.Amy reserved this table for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But whatever she wanted them to find here is not obvious. Not yet. When they finally step back out into Ashwood, the feeling from earlier has changed again. It is no longer distant or observational. It feels engaged. As if something has taken notice of their movement through the town and is beginning to respond.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cuckoo’s Nest does not give them answers. It gives them contradictions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And for the first time since they arrived, the possibility begins to form that Amy did not bring them back to uncover the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She brought them back because they are already part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cast: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keeper / James Altwies &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Reunion Continues

<h2><u>Find us where we live!</u></h2><h3><a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Latchkey Lair </a>: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weiros</h3><h3><a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops</h3><h3><a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Role For Sanity</a>: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making</h3><h3><a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Echoes under Ashwood Facebook</a>: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook</h3><p><br></p><br><p><strong>Episode 3 - “The Cuckoo’s Nest”</strong></p><br><p>Amy’s instructions lead them to the Cuckoo’s Nest, a place none of them expected to return to and one that no longer resembles what it once was. In the 1970s it was the center of everything. Music, light, movement, a place where people went to be seen. Now it has settled into something smaller and worn down, a dive that feels like it stayed open out of habit rather than purpose.</p><br><p>Still, a table is waiting for them. No one questions how. Inside, the air feels thick with time that never fully passed. The walls are covered in layered collages of Ashwood’s past, photographs stacked and overlapping in no clear order. Generations of faces stare out from dim corners and warped frames. Some are familiar. Many are not.</p><p>And some should not exist. Among the images are moments that never happened. Versions of events that feel close enough to be real, but wrong in ways that are hard to explain. The five of them recognize themselves in a few of the photographs, but not the way they remember. Not where they remember. It is subtle, but unmistakable.</p><br><p>The Nest is not just displaying history. It is editing it.</p><br><p>Matt Russell owns the place now. He is quieter than they remember, more contained. The kind of presence that blends into the room while still knowing exactly what is happening inside it. He does not seem surprised to see them, and he does not offer more than he has to. When they begin asking questions about Amy, about the town, about anything that might explain why they have been brought back, his answers stay just out of reach. Enough to keep them engaged. Never enough to give them ground. The conversation circles without landing. Others arrive.</p><br><p>Chuck drifts in like he never left town, carrying the same unpredictable energy that used to make him easy to dismiss. He talks too much, laughs at the wrong moments, and drops fragments of insight that feel uncomfortably close to something real. It is hard to tell if he knows more than he should or if he has simply been here long enough to stop questioning what the town does.</p><br><p>Tina appears with a different kind of weight. Confident, practiced, and deliberate. She watches more than she speaks, inserting herself only when it matters. There is a familiarity to her that feels curated, as if she is choosing which version of herself they are allowed to see. Neither of them seems surprised that the five of them are together. As the night settles in, the group begins to feel the limits of what they can get from this place. Every question leads somewhere incomplete. Every answer suggests something larger without revealing it.</p><br><p>The Nest holds pieces of the past, but not in a way that clarifies anything. If anything, it deepens the uncertainty.Amy reserved this table for a reason.</p><p>But whatever she wanted them to find here is not obvious. Not yet. When they finally step back out into Ashwood, the feeling from earlier has changed again. It is no longer distant or observational. It feels engaged. As if something has taken notice of their movement through the town and is beginning to respond.</p><br><p>The Cuckoo’s Nest does not give them answers. It gives them contradictions.</p><p>And for the first time since they arrived, the possibility begins to form that Amy did not bring them back to uncover the truth.</p><p>She brought them back because they are already part of it.</p><br><p><br></p><p><strong>Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel </strong></p><p><strong>Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies</strong></p><br><p><strong>Cast: </strong></p><p><strong>Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris </strong></p><p><strong>Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards </strong></p><p><strong>Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner </strong></p><p><strong>Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel </strong></p><p><strong>Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards </strong></p><p><strong>Keeper / James Altwies </strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

S01 E03 - Confab at the Cuckoo's Nest

<description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;u&gt;Find us where we live!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;The Latchkey Lair &lt;/a&gt;: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weiros&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Role For Sanity&lt;/a&gt;: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Echoes under Ashwood Facebook&lt;/a&gt;: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In between main episodes we try to sprinkle in a little Ashwood "flavor."  These bonus files are not required listening to follow the main story but we think you will find them interesting. The particularly astutue may find some helpful info buried in these. Maybe our cast should listen to these, too......&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;This BONUS clip comes from an undisclosed archive in Ashwood. A 2 a.m. call on Old Fen Road leads Ashwood PD to a silent teenage girl wearing a St. Sebastian’s uniform, despite the school having closed in 1979. When the officer attempts to take her home, the road begins to distort, looping and folding in on itself as local geography changes and reality slips. What starts as a routine welfare check becomes something far stranger...where time, memory, and place refuse to stay in line.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cast: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keeper / James Altwies &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Lone Girl

<h2><u>Find us where we live!</u></h2><h3><a href="https://discord.gg/S7UTzcCV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Latchkey Lair </a>: come hang out on Discord and chat up all of our weiros</h3><h3><a href="https://patreon.com/roleforsanity?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>: Help support the show and get access to exclusive drops</h3><h3><a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/694461b289ee5e06fd94dab9/shows/69a1c67f1432e4060341e296/episodes/www.roleforsanity.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Role For Sanity</a>: The OG homepage for Echoes and anything else we feel like making</h3><h3><a href="https://www.facebook.com/echoesunderashwood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Echoes under Ashwood Facebook</a>: We're Gen-X, we still use Facebook</h3><p><br></p><p>In between main episodes we try to sprinkle in a little Ashwood "flavor."  These bonus files are not required listening to follow the main story but we think you will find them interesting. The particularly astutue may find some helpful info buried in these. Maybe our cast should listen to these, too......</p><br><p>This BONUS clip comes from an undisclosed archive in Ashwood. A 2 a.m. call on Old Fen Road leads Ashwood PD to a silent teenage girl wearing a St. Sebastian’s uniform, despite the school having closed in 1979. When the officer attempts to take her home, the road begins to distort, looping and folding in on itself as local geography changes and reality slips. What starts as a routine welfare check becomes something far stranger...where time, memory, and place refuse to stay in line.</p><br><p><strong>Opening Song "Home-grown" written and performed by Sadie Baimel </strong></p><p><strong>Show is written, edited, and produced by James Altwies</strong></p><br><p><strong>Cast: </strong></p><p><strong>Bex Lexington / Carrie Harris </strong></p><p><strong>Dawn McBride / Angela Edwards </strong></p><p><strong>Harry Glassman / Grant Gleisner </strong></p><p><strong>Lance McClane / Gregg Baimel </strong></p><p><strong>Oz Hannigan / Art Pratt and Davis Edwards </strong></p><p><strong>Keeper / James Altwies </strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

BONUS -  Found audio - Ashwood Police Dispatch 10/97

<p>Echoes Under Ashwood is a cinematic cosmic horror podcast about memory, friendship, and the quiet dread of returning home.</p><br><p>When a group of Gen-X friends reunite to settle a will, they discover their childhood in Ashwood, Ohio wasn’t what they remember. Disappearances. Missing years. A town that seems to shift when no one is looking.</p><br><p>Blending an ensemble cast, investigation, and slow-burn psychological horror, Echoes Under Ashwood explores nostalgia, trauma, and the things small towns bury.</p><br><p>Episodes begin April 27.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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