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Dust and Echoes

Dust and Echoes is a cinematic history and mystery podcast from award-winning filmmaker and writer James Cawley. Told in immersive audiobook style, each episode blends rich narration, music, and atmospheric sound design to explore strange history, forgotten legends, frontier mysteries, monster lore, unexplained encounters, and eerie true accounts that still echo through time.This is not a casual talk show. Every episode is crafted as a fully produced story experience…moody, vivid, and built to feel

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36:39

THE CARETAKER

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/12/02

Darius Enlo is five thousand days into a lonely mission to harvest a comet that will exponentialize Earth's AI models. Onboard are the scientists who will execute the plan on arrival, frozen in ice for the long haul. Watching over them alone is Darius, a transit caretaker. But when an impossible message arrives from deep space claiming the mission is a death sentence for "his people", Darius must make a choice.Does he trust the AI-lead world government's models? Or...does he trust the voice

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30:41

THANKFUL

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/11/25

Stewart believes he is just waiting out the clock. Retired, invisible, and adrift in a life that feels increasingly gray, he drives into the high Utah wilderness not to find something new, but to escape the quiet nothingness of home. He tells himself he is ready for the end.But the mountain has a way of calling a bluff. When a sudden winter storm buries the remote road and traps him in a freezing whiteout, the silence of the desert strips away Stewart’s defenses. Isolated in the crushing cold, he

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81:35

VAMPIRES OF ARCH CAPE

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/11/18

Sent to the dreary, isolated Oregon coast to stay with a grandmother they barely know, two city teenagers find themselves trapped in a war that is older than they are, and far more terrible.Their family's history is the town's curse, and the only path to survival demands that they sail directly into the heart of the darkness. This is a story about the agonizing choice between running from your past, and the moment you decide to burn it all down.

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46:02

THE FACTORY GRAVE

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/11/11

Thomas Reid is a literary star, his bestselling novel The Factory Grave, a golden ticket out of his blue-collar past. But the life he built withing a remote mountain fortress, the perfect family, the critical acclaim....it all feels like a fraud. He is haunted by a suffocating "survivor's guilt", a feeling that drives him back to the Utah wilderness for a reunion with Rudy, the best friend he left behind. He went for penance. He went to prove he hadn't changed. In the cold, gray light of the

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35:31

REWIND

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/11/04

What if you found a VHS tape... that showed you the future?It's 1992, and Clint Mercer is a lonely man living a quiet, predictable life. His only solace is the local video rental store, a relic of a bygone analog era. But when the clerk hands him a mysterious, unlabeled cassette with one word on it ...REWIND! his world is shattered. It's not a movie. It's a prophecy. Clint watches, horrified, as the grainy, handheld footage shows him events that haven't happened yet, a future he can't even

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58:59

THE BLACKTOP SAINT

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/10/28

Jack's a long haul trucker that's not just hauling freight.He's cursed with a psychic radar for evil...a 'Thump' in his skull that screams for blood, freezes the cab with spectral dread, or heralds true, ancient darkness. Blackmailed by a demonic 'Dispatcher' holding his sister's life as leverage, Jack is now on a cross-country run with an impossible cargo: a sealed, freezing trailer that's a beacon for every monster on the map. From roadside serial killers to rival psychics, Jack's about to

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28:37

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/10/21

What if the things you trust most...the deep silence of the woods, the familiar voice of a loved one, a desperate cry for help in the dark...were all just bait?For this special Halloween episode, Dust and Echoes presents a triptych of terror. Three Original Tales of Terror from author James Cawley that explore the unsettling truth that we are never truly alone, and that something ancient is learning how to get closer. These stories take you from a solo camping trip where the wilderness is watching

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25:18

SKINWALKER

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/10/14

Seeking total solitude in the vast, silent corners of the Utah desert, a traveler believes he's finally alone. But the darkness is listening...and waiting. When a relentless siege begins against the thin fabric of his small tent, he is forced to remember the ancient, whispered rules of the night: Don't speak, don't whistle, and never, ever tell the darkness your name. This is a terrifying psychological battle against a patient predator that specializes in mimicry, using the voices of the loved

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76:56

REDEMPTION

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/10/07

REDEMPTIONAn Original Dust and Echoes Cinematic Western by James Cawley Under the searing Utah sun, where the San Juan River cuts through stone and silence, a quiet frontier life is set ablaze. When a brutal betrayal rips her world apart, Emma Hawthorne rises from the ashes...scarred, armored, and guided by something far older than the church bells that once tried to tame her. Redemption is not your typical western. It’s a vengeance-soaked, faith-fractured, desert-burning odyssey. A cinematic audio

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26:51

SCRATCH TWICE

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/09/30

After the funeral and the estate sale Thomas stays behind to spend one final night alone in his childhood home. To say goodbye before it's sold. The rooms are now empty. But something still moves in the silence. As he clings to fading memories, something within the house begins to respond. A slow-burning tale of guilt, loss, and the dark things that wait in places we think are safe. Written and performed by the Author, James Cawley.

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47:56

THE CORN WITCH

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/09/23

Some roads lead to what people would rather forget.In the backroads of Indiana, the corn grows high enough to swallow the horizon. Mile after mile of silent rows, where sound dies and even daylight feels heavy. Farmers tell their children to stay clear of the fields after dark. Hunters avoid them altogether. And still, the missing persons reports grow. This is the story of what Jenson and Susan McBride stumbled into one late summer evening when a wrong turn, a stranger, and a simple act of kindness

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54:22

THE DOWN DARK

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/09/16

Three hundred years after the fall of the old world, the survivors live not in cities… but inside their skeletons.High above the vine-choked ruins of what once was Manhattan, the Stone Tree Clan endures among the rooftops guided by firelight, memory, and the stories passed down since the first flames were lit. Stories that remind them of the sins that burned the world… and of the one law that has kept them alive: Stay close to the flame. Remember the stories. Never go into The Down Dark. But rules

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59:08

DEAD MEMORIES

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/09/09

Some places will never let you go.Jeff Bauer thought he escaped his hometown of Burley, Idaho. He traded wheat fields for Hollywood lights, childhood ghosts for film scores and awards. But a phone call from an old childhood friend drags him back into the nightmare that he thought he'd escaped. Developers are unearthing the farmland where two kids once hid things that they hoped would always stay buried. Now, Jeff must confront the dungeon once again....the town he fled, the boyhood pact he broke,

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25:58

THE SKY WE CARRIED

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/09/02

Long before covered wagons creaked across endless sagebrush and steam locomotives chased the horizon...something ancient arrived from the cold stillness between distant galaxies, and it buried itself deep into the red clay of Shoshone land. And there, it waited for the old man and the girl. Generations later, Dzoon awakens it. The visions it brings are unlike anything he’s ever known...not memories, but omens. Fire. Ruin. A ghostly old woman. A warning... A fragile thread of hope that his people

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1:00

Trailer: Introducing Dust and Echoes

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/09/01

Dust & Echoes is a fiction podcast blending horror, mystery, adventure and suspense in original short story form. Each episode is a cinematic, immersive experience drawing you into tales of the strange, the forgotten, and the haunted parts of being human. Written and performed by author James Cawley, Dust & Echoes delivers a modern campfire experience, one story at a time. Unheard. Unpublished. Until now. New episodes every Tuesday. Each one a new original story. ------------ See what's

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35:56

THE BERMUDA MERIDIAN

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/08/26

When neurosurgeon Garrett Goodwin boards the Celestia Maris with his family, he’s looking for quiet. But in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, the ocean gives him something else: silence. The kind that feels… alive and watching. As strange orbs appear on the horizon and a boy in the ship’s medical wing whispers in someone else’s voice, Garrett is drawn into a nightmare of reality that science can't explain.The Bermuda Meridian is a psychological thriller that blends cosmic horror with intimate

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35:02

THE DECKHAND

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/08/19

He took the deckhand job with no experience and no questions asked. Just a one-way ticket to somewhere quiet. A chance to disappear.After years of bad choices and time served, Joey’s ready to leave everything he broke behind. But the further the small fishing boat he gets from land, the more dread builds inside Joey's mind. What begins as a quiet escape drifts, in thick fog, into darker waters. And as the isolation deepens, Joey starts to suspect this boat was never headed where they

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30:54

LIBRARY IN THE DESERT

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/08/12

In a remote desert canyon lost to time, a weathered archaeologist uncovers the final thread of a mystery he’s chased his entire life, a forgotten Indigenous city hidden beneath the stone. But when a mountain lion encounter leaves him broken, bleeding, and alone, survival becomes a brutal reckoning. Blending myth, memory, and a fire-lit confrontation with the past, Library in the Desert is a visceral tale about what we choose to remember… and what was never ours to claim in the first place.

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46:40

THE FIFTH NUMBER

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/08/05

Out in the wasteland, something still ticks, a briefcase unshackled from a dead chief’s wrist, armed with codes from the old world. Now, a Tribal sheriff must race through a post-apocalyptic Vegas to stop a warlord wearing a stolen face. This isn’t hope. This isn’t redemption. This is Humanity’s last stand, and it rests on the back of one man. The Fifth Number is an original story by James Cawley, host of the Dust and Echoes podcast. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend. I'll have

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01:35:45

THE SILENT

Dust and Echoes ·

2025/07/28

The world ended with a sound. Low, strange, and final. Entire cities froze. The Silent remained: breathless, wide-eyed, deadly if you fall asleep. A gambler, a swimmer, a rock star, and a physicist race toward a rumored safe zone as the last signal counts down. But what they find isn’t safety, it’s the truth behind the end. The Silent is a gripping survival thriller where sleep isn’t rest, it’s a death sentence. Make sure to SUBSCRIBE and tell a friend. I'll have another new original story for you

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