Episode Details

The lighthouse has stood on the same rocky outcropping for 150 years. It has survived storms, shipwrecks, and the slow erosion of the cliffs beneath it. But it has not survived the thing that lives inside it. Every night, the light turns on by itself. The stairs creak with footsteps that belong to no living person. The fog bell rings when the air is still. And the keeper's log—the one that's supposed to record weather and passing ships—is filled with entries in handwriting that doesn't belong to any keeper who ever worked here. My predecessor left a list of rules taped to the inside of the lantern room door. Ten rules. I broke one last night. And now I know why he didn't come back.

In this episode, we explore a first-person horror story about a new lighthouse keeper who inherits a set of rules for surviving the night shift. The rules are specific, strange, and terrifying: Never turn off the light. Never answer the fog bell. Never look at the window on the third landing. Never speak the name of the previous keeper. And never, ever go down to the basement after midnight. The keeper who wrote them is gone. The thing in the lighthouse is not.

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