Operation Watchtower is set in the wake of 9/11. Follow Nicholas Grayson, a haunted FBI agent; Belle Flower, a runaway from a family of circus freaks; and Senator Bryce Wexley, a man replaced by a thing that wears his face. What begins as investigation becomes revelation. What is known cannot be unmade.
Senator Wexley, amidst the aftermath of 9/11, reflects on his rising political power. As Whitman pushes him toward the presidency, Wexley struggles with unsettling memories of Alpine, where a dark secret connects him to a mysterious force, symbolized by a blood-red knife. The real Bryce Wexley, recovering from pain and trauma, learns from Trenody, a survivor of Heaven’s Gate, about a powerful Entity that has haunted humanity for eons. Trenody reveals unsettling truths about the entity’s connection to Bryce and its return.
This podcast contains mature themes including psychological trauma, violence, religious extremism, suicide, body horror, and the breakdown of reality. It explores conspiracies, real historical tragedies, and occult imagery rooted in the horror role-playing game Kult: Divinity Lost. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
Nothing in Operation Watchtower is suitable for children. Some content may be distressing for survivors of abuse, veterans, and those sensitive to depictions of state violence or ritualistic harm.
If you feel unsafe or overwhelmed at any point, we encourage you to pause, breathe, and return when you’re ready. Or not at all.
Well now, ‘fore I ride outta Dodge, I gotta tip my hat to ol’ Hugo for his kind words. Fella says he loves Operation Watchtower and reckons we oughta keep up the good work.
We see you, Hugo, and appreciate you. Buckle up. Each new episode dives deeper into madness as Agent Grayson, Belle Flower, and Bryce Wexley claw their way toward the Truth… and the Truth is hungry.
Now listen here, folks: if Operation Watchtower’s got its hooks in you, go on and pass it along to a friend. Or you can walk the Hugo trail and leave us a note on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or what have you. Every kind word and star you drop feeds the Great God Algorithm, and that ornery spirit loves a good meal. Helps turn our humble posse into a whole dang legion.
And if you hate Operation Watchtower? Well, partner… send it to someone you can’t stand. Let them wrestle with it.
Operation Watchtower is set in the wake of 9/11. Follow Nicholas Grayson, a haunted FBI agent; Belle Flower, a runaway from a family of circus freaks; and Senator Bryce Wexley, a man replaced by a thing that wears his face. What begins as investigation becomes revelation. What is known cannot be unmade.
Whitman urges Senator Wexley to seize the moment, be seen in the ruins, do staged hands-on work, and sends off-book Delta teams to erase failures. Wexley poses in ash for the cameras, plays the grieving leader, and embraces the power born from fear and spectacle. The other Bryce Wexley, paranoid and delusional, rebuilds himself: hair cut, suit fitted, ready for war. When Vince Caruso arrives, Bryce’s raving about doubles and aliens turns to horror as Vince orders his torture. Reality fractures; visions of cloning and ritual bleed into madness. Bryce awakens reborn in blood. Belle Flower dreams of her monstrous origins, her mother reshaping her body in a mirrored tent of horrors. Awakening injured, she’s rescued by Agent Grayson and taken to a safe house. Her past and digital ghosts resurface, merging trauma, paranoia, and code into one haunting reflection. Agent Nicholas Grayson interrogates Mercer, haunted by echoes of Waco and McVeigh. Virek warns that his files are compromised. Grayson endures reprimand, exhaustion, and dreams of childhood terror, drawn again to the Indiana cornfield and the spectral woman who made him what he is.
This podcast contains mature themes including psychological trauma, violence, religious extremism, suicide, body horror, and the breakdown of reality. It explores conspiracies, real historical tragedies, and occult imagery rooted in the horror role-playing game Kult: Divinity Lost. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
Nothing in Operation Watchtower is suitable for children. Some content may be distressing for survivors of abuse, veterans, and those sensitive to depictions of state violence or ritualistic harm.
If you feel unsafe or overwhelmed at any point, we encourage you to pause, breathe, and return when you’re ready. Or not at all.
Operation Watchtower is set in the wake of 9/11. Follow Nicholas Grayson, a haunted FBI agent; Belle Flower, a runaway from a family of circus freaks; and Senator Bryce Wexley, a man replaced by a thing that wears his face. What begins as investigation becomes revelation. What is known cannot be unmade.
Fleeing danger, Belle rides west with Red, an old circus-worker turned junkie hiding in a trailer park. Haunted by secrets and hunted by unseen foes, she finds no refuge, only wrongness. When a man claiming to be a detective arrives, Red is shot, and Belle fights for her life as darkness closes in. Agent Grayson tails a green Bronco to a trailer park, joined by a shadowing Impala. Inside, chaos erupts, a gunman kills Red Mathers and attacks Belle Flower. Grayson storms in, subdues the shooter—Mercer—and rescues Belle, fleeing as sirens rise behind them. Amid smoke and ruin, Senator Wexley emerges from his car into the chaos of a burning New York City. Urged by his advisor to seize the moment, he faces the cameras, ashen and resolute. Tomorrow’s papers will crown him reborn in fire: a leader forged from tragedy, his legacy born in ash. In San Diego, paranoid and unraveling, Bryce Wexley begs a diner owner he believes is an alien for help, then spirals through San Diego’s streets seeking money, drugs, and salvation. Convinced he’s been replaced by a clone, he calls his old contact Vince, who sends men that may save or doom him.
This podcast contains mature themes including psychological trauma, violence, religious extremism, suicide, body horror, and the breakdown of reality. It explores conspiracies, real historical tragedies, and occult imagery rooted in the horror role-playing game Kult: Divinity Lost. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
Nothing in Operation Watchtower is suitable for children. Some content may be distressing for survivors of abuse, veterans, and those sensitive to depictions of state violence or ritualistic harm.
If you feel unsafe or overwhelmed at any point, we encourage you to pause, breathe, and return when you’re ready. Or not at all.
A tip my Stetson to Jonathan Maberry, Jendia Gammon, and Scott Sigler, some of the kind folks I met at last weekend’s Scream Diego. I had a fine time of it, and I reckon I’ll make the ride to HorrorCon in Los Angeles come 2026. If you see me there, nod once, and I’ll know you for kin among the haunted.
Operation Watchtower is set in the wake of 9/11. Follow Nicholas Grayson, a haunted FBI agent; Belle Flower, a runaway from a family of circus freaks; and Senator Bryce Wexley, a man replaced by a better version of himself. What begins as investigation becomes revelation. What is known cannot be unmade.
Wexley watches his doppelgänger on tv while the world burns. Homeless and hunted, he eats a meal at Wong’s diner. Conspiracies and visions gnaw at him, and he feels the eyes upon him. Belle flees the man in gray. She waits at a library ragged till Red finds her. They speak of years lost and the towers burning. Sirens rise. He hides her under the dash and drives her toward his trailer. Grayson comes to San Diego. Agent Guthrie meets him. He calls his sister, answers his shrink, speaks with fellow jarhead, Boyd, of Mercer the psychopath. At Belle’s place, he finds a doorman slain, a home invasion, the air thick with loss. A jade Bronco tears away into the sunlit street like a beast unchained. They are all unaware how deeply they’re entangled in something monstrous and occult.
This podcast contains mature themes including psychological trauma, violence, religious extremism, suicide, body horror, and the breakdown of reality. It explores conspiracies, real historical tragedies, and occult imagery rooted in the horror role-playing game Kult: Divinity Lost. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
Nothing in Operation Watchtower is suitable for children. Some content may be distressing for survivors of abuse, veterans, and those sensitive to depictions of state violence or ritualistic harm.
If you feel unsafe or overwhelmed at any point, we encourage you to pause, breathe, and return when you’re ready. Or not at all.
The soundtrack to Operation Watchtower is the work of Dead Melodies, who builds with dust and echo. Music carved from ruin. A dirge for the dreaming. He weaves field recordings like ghosts in the walls and tunes the silence to sorrow.
Operation Watchtower is set in the wake of 9/11. Follow Nicholas Grayson, a haunted FBI agent; Belle Flower, a runaway from a family of circus freaks; and Senator Bryce Wexley, a man replaced by a better version of himself. What begins as investigation becomes revelation. What is known cannot be unmade.
Agent Nicholas Grayson is summoned into the dark heart of America’s hidden wars. Waco, Oklahoma City, and the Unabomber. Occult rites, state secrets, and black ops. Grayson knows the truth. Tasked to Operation Watchtower, he is sent to San Diego. Alone. His targets: Erik Dunlop, preaching the Fourth Aeon from a bookstore called The Veil, and Kurt Maurer, the warlord of Ocean Beach with runes inked in flesh. Meanwhile, Belle Flower flees from a ruthless assassin. And Senator Bryce Wexley staggers through visions of 3,333 screaming faces, doors opening into impossible corridors, twin horrors transforming him into a vessel.
Conspiracy is just the cover story. What festers beneath is ancient, sinister, and waiting.
This podcast contains mature themes including psychological trauma, violence, religious extremism, suicide, body horror, and the breakdown of reality. It explores conspiracies, real historical tragedies, and occult imagery rooted in the horror role-playing game Kult: Divinity Lost. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
Nothing in Operation Watchtower is suitable for children. Some content may be distressing for survivors of abuse, veterans, and those sensitive to depictions of state violence or ritualistic harm.
If you feel unsafe or overwhelmed at any point, we encourage you to pause, breathe, and return when you’re ready. Or not at all.
Agent Grayson doesn’t sleep. He surveils the cracks in reality. Groomed by the Bureau, haunted by the dead, and tethered to Belle Flower by shared nightmares. When the veil thins, he bleeds.
Raised under the big top, cut by family lies. Belle Flower ran—into code, into ghosts. Now she’s hacker Swift Knees 85, a whisper in forgotten forums. Her scars surfaced in other people’s dreams. Her truth is blood and binary. The Bureau can’t contain her.
Two Bryce Wexleys. Same face. Same scars. Same breath. One in D.C., one in a San Diego. One is a lie. Or both are. Trust no appearance.
Silver-haired statesman. Burned-out king. Senator Wexley rose from 9/11 dust with fingerprints on lies and power. Behind the flags and speeches, an ancient machine turns—funded by blood, masked by law. Watch his eyes. The mask slips soon.
Silas Mercer is the knife you never see. A fixer who walks the fault lines between state and syndicate, making people vanish—sometimes legally, sometime not. Wexley and Whitman don’t own him. No one does. When Mercer arrives, the bleeding’s been scheduled.
Wong Hsu serves coffee with a side of cosmic distortion. His eyes flicker, his clock lies, and his smile hides something ancient. The diner changes you. Some don’t walk out. Surveillance continues.
He doesn’t believe in peace. Only prophecy. Krieg’s tattoos bleed ideology—sunwheels, runes, ruin. He leads zealots with scars, not slogans. Compromise? That’s for the dead.
Erik Dunlop wears Armani like armor. His obsidian pendant reflects no light—just shadows. Prophet or predator? Every word a blade. Every appearance a reckoning. Watch the pendant. Track the lies. Shadows follow.
Red Mathers, a junkie from the circus. Haunted by what the marquee never named. His veins whisper secrets the Bureau can’t ignore. Some wounds bleed truth.
They call him “Long Haul.” Buck Flanagan never left the big top. Marle Brothers Circus clings to his chest like a ghost. When San Ysidro went down, it wasn’t what he said, it was what he didn’t. Haunted men don’t talk. They run.
The Black Labs wound the earth; men descend and are unmade. The Archons do not speak—their silence is law. Grayson bears scars like scripture, the body a gospel of exile and judgment. Surveillance knows you, owns you. Beneath stone, the Entity dreams. This is not story but truth—ash, blood, silence.
There are things beneath this country. Things sewn into the soil… into memory. You hear them, if you listen long enough. Bleeding dreams. Government lies. Sacred rot.
Operation Watchtower is not a story–it’s a wound. And wounds whisper. Listen… before they seal it shut again.
The Black Labs wound the earth; men descend and are unmade. The Archons do not speak—their silence is law. Grayson bears scars like scripture, the body a gospel of exile and judgment. Surveillance knows you, owns you. Beneath stone, the Entity dreams. This is not story but truth—ash, blood, silence.
