Borrasca

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Small-town horror with no clean escape.

The gist

Borrasca turns a missing-person story into a brutal return trip through Drisking, Missouri. Sam Walker’s past keeps clawing into the present, where loss, revenge, addiction, and buried town secrets collide.

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About Borrasca

Borrasca is a dark serialized thriller about Sam Walker and the Missouri town that never really let him go. The story begins in the aftermath of his sister’s disappearance, a case softened by official language and family denial until Sam refuses to keep pretending. That refusal costs him. Later, the past returns through Kimber, whose need for revenge drags Sam back toward Drisking and the truth beneath its local legends. The show moves fast. Characters interrupt, accuse, bargain, and lash out as if every conversation might be the last safe one they get. Its horror is not limited to shadows or folklore. Borrasca is most unsettling when it shows how ordinary systems can protect terrible things, from reports to family silence to a town’s habit of looking away. Sam is not a clean hero. He is wounded, addicted, angry, loyal, and often convinced that one more reckless act will finally make the story come out right. Kimber is just as scarred, and the tension between protection and control gives their scenes a bitter charge. The series uses immersive sound as more than atmosphere. Cold cars, mountain snow, hospital machinery, gunfire, and sudden quiet make the world feel close enough to touch. The dialogue is blunt without feeling lazy. Gallows humor flickers through the dread, especially when old friends try to act normal while everything around them is collapsing. Drisking itself becomes the real monster, a place made of rumor, grief, missing girls, and men who expect silence. The supernatural category suits the show’s legend-soaked dread, but the deepest fear is human. Borrasca keeps returning to what survivors owe each other after the worst thing has already happened. It also asks what revenge can and cannot repair. The result is sharp, punishing, and propulsive, with the emotional weight of a crime story and the nerve of a horror serial. It suits listeners who want full-cast fiction that feels dangerous from the first scene and stays dangerous after the mystery starts answering back.

Made for: Best for listeners who like serialized fiction with immersive sound, damaged characters, and mysteries that turn uglier as they clarify. It suits horror fans who prefer emotional stakes over simple jump scares.

What sets it apart: Borrasca stands out by making every revelation feel personal before it feels mythic. Its pressure comes from arguments, memory, trauma, and revenge as much as from the supernatural atmosphere around Drisking.

In their own words

A gripping psychological thriller starring Cole Sprouse as Sam Walker. In the first season we followed Sam as he painstakingly recounts the summer his sister disappeared; the friends he made, the legends he heard, the pain and confusion of loss. Over nine episodes, we uncovered the unspeakable secrets of Drisking, Missouri and the people who live there. After leaving the audience with a jaw dropping cliffhanger, we are finally returning to Sam and the terrible truths of Drisking.Across seven episode of Season 2, a ghost of Sam’s past arrives to drag him back to Drisking for revenge. Back to th...

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Borrasca binds a missing-person mystery to Sam Walker's fractured memory, using close performance and sound to make Drisking's violence feel inescapable.

Borrasca turns Sam Walker's account of his sister Whitney's disappearance into a serial built from memory, investigation, and a reckoning with Drisking, Missouri.

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Why you'd press play

Drisking turns a missing sister into the nightmare you will keep following after every sensible exit.

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  • a mystery where hometown legends become much uglier than campfire folklore
  • immersive sound that makes danger feel uncomfortably close to your headphones
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An audio drama around the 2000 Super Bowl that puts Madam Ram at the center of a glossy, high-energy story.

The episode follows Madam Ram as an audio drama built around the lead-up to the 2000 Super Bowl kickoff at the Georgia Dome. Toni Collette stars in a story created by Michelle Rosenfarb, and the setup keeps the Rams and Titans on the field while Madam Ram stays at the center,…

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A tense supernatural encounter that also serves as a direct introduction to Sightings.

This episode offers an eerie supernatural story that also works as a clear launch for a new show. Set in 1950s Kentucky, it follows a rural family as a strange glow, shadowy figures, and unexplained sounds gather outside the house, then moves into a close-quarters confrontation…

A Glorious Footnote — Part 2Nov 10, 2022

A battered chapter that turns a crime-scene reckoning into steady pressure.

The episode opens in a hard, bruised register: Sam wakes injured and is quickly hemmed in by federal agents and a lawyer. The questioning centers on a crime scene where he was found near death beside a 27-year-old woman, the corpse of a county sheriff, and more than a hundred…

A Glorious Footnote - Part 1Nov 10, 2022

Cold, angry, and driven by revenge that keeps giving way to grief.

This episode keeps its blade aimed at two pressures at once: the cold, practical problem of staying alive on a mountain, and the uglier pull of revenge.

Welcome HomeOct 6, 2022

A tense roadside return keeps Sam Walker moving while the show leans on sharp dialogue and growing unease.

Baraska follows Sam Walker as a sudden call puts him back in motion, and the episode stays tight on clipped exchanges, roadside errands, and the sense that everyone is holding back something important.

Partial RemainsJun 8, 2020

A bleak missing-person chapter built around partial remains and the grief still hanging over Whitney Walker's case.

The episode gives Whitney Walker's disappearance a harsher edge by circling back to the 2003 case, the later discovery of partial remains along Interstate 55 in May 2012, and the question of whether they were really hers.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Preview: Madam Ram Starring Toni Collette

    This preview episode of Madam Ram opens with Georgia Rosenbloom narrating from beyond the grave on Super Bowl XXXIV, framing herself as the most polarizing woman in sports history.

    Mar 3, 2025·36m·3 clips
  2. 2

    Introducing: MADAM RAM Starring Toni Collette

    This episode is a promotional trailer for Madam Ram, an audio fiction series starring Toni Collette as Georgia Frontier.

    Feb 24, 2025·3m
  3. 3

    Introducing: SIGHTINGS – A New Weekly Series from QCODE & Reverb Exploring the World’s Most Mysterious and Unexplained Phenomena

    Sightings presents its premiere episode with an immersive first-person dramatization of the 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO encounter in rural Kentucky, narrated by McLeod Andrews, followed by a factual investigation hosted with co-creator Brian Sigley.

    Oct 2, 2024·39m·2 clips
  4. 4

    A Glorious Footnote — Part 2

    Sam wakes up in rough shape.

    Nov 10, 2022·43m·2 clips
  5. 5

    A Glorious Footnote - Part 1

    Sam and the others are stranded in the cold, staring down a night that could end with them freezing to death.

    Nov 10, 2022·45m·3 clips
  6. 6

    All Roads Lead To Borrasca

    Nov 3, 2022·1h
  7. 7

    An Unlikely Tomb

    Oct 27, 2022·57m
  8. 8

    Kyle's Map Theory

    Oct 20, 2022·58m
  9. 9

    The Gates Of Borrasca

    Oct 13, 2022·50m
  10. 10

    Welcome Home

    Sam Walker is reunited with Kimber Destaro, a childhood friend who survived the same trafficking network in Drisking, Missouri that destroyed his life.

    Oct 6, 2022·56m·4 clips
  11. 11

    Season 2 — Coming 10/6

    Sep 22, 2022·2m
  12. 12

    The Place Where Bad Things Happen Pt. II

    Jul 14, 2020·47m
  13. 13

    The Place Where Bad Things Happen Pt. I

    Jul 13, 2020·37m
  14. 14

    Mile Marker 54

    Jul 6, 2020·46m
  15. 15

    All Her Shame on Display

    Jun 29, 2020·41m
  16. 16

    That’s Not What You Told Me

    Jun 22, 2020·41m
  17. 17

    The Million Dollar Question

    Jun 15, 2020·44m
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    Partial Remains

    This episode uses a dual timeline, framing teenage Sam Walker's memories in Drisking through present-day therapy sessions with his parole officer Leah Dixon.

    Jun 8, 2020·41m·3 clips
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    The Woods Are Full

    Jun 1, 2020·42m
  20. 20

    Tell Me About Whitney

    May 25, 2020·40m
  21. 21

    Trailer: Borrasca

    May 15, 2020·2m