King Falls AM

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Small-town radio, big paranormal trouble.

The gist

King Falls AM treats a mountain town’s AM dial as the center of an expanding supernatural emergency. Call-ins, ads, sheriff politics, missing people, strange lights, and town eccentrics blur into one long-running mystery with a comic edge.

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About King Falls AM

King Falls AM is a serialized fiction show disguised as a late-night AM broadcast from a mountain town where every routine segment can become evidence. The premise is simple enough to enter quickly. Two voices at a radio station take calls, read ads, cover local announcements, and try to keep the program moving. The world around them refuses to stay ordinary. Missing-person alerts, strange lights at Harrison Beauregard’s manor, sheriff department turmoil, town elections, coded clues, interrupted advertisements, and signals from impossible places all push through the broadcast. The show uses radio grammar as story machinery. A sponsor spot is not just a sponsor spot. A call-in is not just a call-in. Even a holiday episode can pivot from community concern to urgent paranormal threat. Comedy is a major part of the texture, with absurd local ads, overexcited callers, and characters who turn every sentence into a performance. The danger still lands. King Falls feels like a place where jokes are a survival tactic, not a shield from consequences. Sammy and Ben’s on-air partnership sits near the center of that effect, balancing deadpan reporting, panic, affection, irritation, and responsibility. Around them, figures such as Deputy Tim Jensen, Deputy Katie Lynch, Troy Krieghouser, Mary, Doyle, Lily Wright, and Emily Potter widen the town into a dense comic-mystery ensemble. The later excerpts show the mythology escalating into war language, rescue attempts, a mysterious book, and threats that make ordinary citizens consider extraordinary action. Beyond The Falls adds a second rhythm. Those episodes step outside the fiction to talk about episode 100, hiatus timing, live events, sound work, directing, improvisation, and the mental-health shape of Sammy’s story. That behind-the-scenes candor makes the main series feel more handmade and more emotionally deliberate. The show is best started early, because names, alliances, running jokes, and supernatural clues accumulate over time. Its appeal comes from the collision of formats. It is a town bulletin, a comedy showcase, a mystery serial, a paranormal thriller, and a community hangout all at once. King Falls AM suits listeners who like fiction podcasts with a large cast, long arcs, local-radio texture, and tonal whiplash between ridiculous banter and genuine alarm. It is strange, warm, chaotic, and built for people who want their supernatural stories to sound like they broke into a live broadcast.

Made for: Best for audio-drama listeners who like serialized mysteries, ensemble town comedy, paranormal escalation, and radio-show framing. It especially suits completists who enjoy following callbacks, recurring residents, and slow-burn mythology across many episodes.

What sets it apart: Its local AM format is not just decoration; ads, calls, station breaks, sheriff updates, and live interruptions all carry story weight. The show stands out by making a whole town feel audible before turning that town’s everyday chatter into supernatural evidence.

In their own words

King Falls AM centers on a lonely little mountain town's late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants.New shows available the 1st and 15th of every month! Be sure to start from Sammy's first show (May 1st, 2015) to stay up to date with all your King Falls favorites.

Why you'd press play

A derailed Christmas ad gets you laughing; Tim's mech suit makes you hold your breath.

Press play if you want

  • a radio call that makes a missing-person search feel uncomfortably close
  • humor that sits beside genuine worry for a deputy in a mech suit
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Best episodes of King Falls AM

Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.

Beyond The Falls: Celebrating 100 EpisodesDec 18, 2019

A warm, loose milestone that opens the booth door before King Falls AM heads into its break.

Episode 100 hands the mic to the people behind King Falls AM, using the break as both a goodbye-for-now and a relaxed celebration of the 99 episodes that came before.

Episode One Hundred: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)Dec 15, 2019

A Christmas search broadcast becomes a tense signal hunt, with King Falls AM at its most haunted.

A county-wide search for retired King Falls High School teacher Cecil Sheffield becomes a Christmas-night broadcast where public reassurance keeps slipping.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Beyond The Falls: Live 2!

    Mar 27, 2020·1h 20m
  2. 2

    King Falls AM Update

    Mar 19, 2020·10m
  3. 3

    Beyond The Falls: Celebrating 100 Episodes

    Hidden gem

    King Falls AM's Beyond the Falls special celebrates episode 100, the 99 episodes before it, and the decision to take a hiatus.

    Dec 18, 2019·1h 2m·5 clips
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    Episode One Hundred: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

    Hidden gem

    King Falls AM's "Episode One Hundred: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" centers on the search for Cecil Sheffield, a retired King Falls High School teacher last seen on December 1, while the town asks for food, volunteers, and Christmas support.

    Dec 15, 2019·41m·2 clips
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    Episode Ninety-Nine: Problems, Tim Is Definitely One

    ["King Falls AM episode 99 turns a deputy swearing-in into a public brawl when Sheriff Troy introduces Tim Jensen, The Dark, and The Dirt while Burt Gladstone and Jacob Williams heckle the budget.", "Ben Arnold, Sammy Stevens, Lily Wright, and Emily Potter then pivot to Death by Damnation, repeat the line about a 'great flash of dark light,' and argue over whether Sammy opened the door.", "Roland Northwoods calls in to say Emily is 'The One,' the Science Institute has shifted under Leland Hill, and whoever opens the door will be lost.", "The broadcast ends with a blackout and vanished backups, leaving Troy, Ben, Emily, and Lily scrambling for answers."]

    Dec 1, 2019·41m·2 clips
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    Beyond The Falls Live: 2

    Nov 20, 2019·3m
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    Episode Ninety-Eight: Degrees

    A routine Dale's Dollar Tree ad suddenly broadcasts Leland Hill, prompting Sammy and Ben to call it an attack.

    Nov 15, 2019·28m·2 clips
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    Episode Ninety-Seven: When It All Falls Down

    Mary Jensen weighs Tim's duty to protect King Falls against the risk of leaving his family without him.

    Nov 1, 2019·31m·2 clips
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    Episode Ninety-Six: Dark Horse

    Sheriff Troy tells Ben Arnold and Sammy Stevens that evidence of robot attacks does not give him grounds to raid the Science Institute.

    Oct 15, 2019·37m·2 clips
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    Episode Ninety-Five: I'll Fly Away

    Chet warns Emily, Ben, Sammy, and Sheriff Troy that an Mbot resembles Emily, and the group weighs whether to confront it or lie low.

    Oct 1, 2019·33m·2 clips
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    Episode Ninety-Four: Misdirects

    Archie argues against Mayor Grisham's 9 p.m.

    Sep 15, 2019·34m·2 clips
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    Episode Ninety-Three: Head Hunters

    Sep 1, 2019·30m
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    Episode Ninety-Two: Words: Greater Than Pen, Greater Than Sword

    Aug 15, 2019·34m
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    Episode Ninety-One: In The Still of The Night

    Aug 1, 2019·35m
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    Beyond The Falls: Live!

    Jul 26, 2019·1h 28m
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    Episode Ninety: If You're Hungry And You Know it

    Jul 15, 2019·31m
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    Episode Eighty-Nine: Late Fees

    Jul 1, 2019·41m
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    Episode Eighty-Eight: Backbones and Welcome Homes

    Jun 15, 2019·37m
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    Episode Eighty-Seven: Cause And Effect

    Jun 1, 2019·33m
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    Episode Eighty-Six: Boxed In

    May 15, 2019·31m
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    Episode Eighty-Five: All You Need Is Love

    May 1, 2019·42m
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    What is The Make Believe Show?

    Apr 25, 2019·7m
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    Episode Eighty-Four: Red Comforter

    Apr 15, 2019·30m
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    Episode Eighty-Three: Pretty Little Hate Machine

    Apr 1, 2019·28m
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    Episode Eighty-Two: And A One, And A Two...

    Mar 15, 2019·31m
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    Episode Eighty-One: You're The One That I Want

    Mar 1, 2019·32m
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    Episode Eighty: Three's Company

    Feb 15, 2019·31m
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    Episode Seventy-Nine: Blackbird

    Feb 1, 2019·22m
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    Episode Seventy-Eight: First Loser

    Jan 15, 2019·37m
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    Episode Seventy-Seven: Homecoming

    Jan 1, 2019·31m
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    Episode Seventy-Six: A King Falls Christmas Carol

    Dec 15, 2018·35m
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    The King Falls' Sheriff Brawl 2018

    Nov 6, 2018·14m
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    The King Falls Chronicles: Part Three

    Oct 25, 2018·1h 12m
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    Doyle's Conspiracy Cavern 2

    Sep 21, 2018·7m
  35. 35

    Doyle's Conspiracy Cavern

    Jul 30, 2018·10m
  36. 36

    Beyond The Falls: July 1st Excerpt

    A behind-the-scenes discussion about mental health themes in the fictional King Falls AM show.

    Jul 12, 2018·23m
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    Beyond The Falls: Live Special #1

    May 8, 2018·1h 33m
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    Episode Seventy-Five: The Ben Arnold Show

    Sammy Stevens, former host of King Falls AM, delivers a monologue about a strange encounter and then transitions into a political endorsement for the upcoming sheriff election.

    May 1, 2018·49m
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    Episode Seventy-Four: And You Say, Stay

    Apr 15, 2018·32m
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    Episode Seventy-Three: She Blinded Me With Science

    In this episode, a grieving man insists on staying by his friend Cecil's hospital bedside despite being repeatedly ejected, while the radio hosts try to comfort him.

    Apr 2, 2018·40m
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    Episode Seventy-Two: This Just In

    Apr 1, 2018·6m
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    Episode Seventy-One: Long Distance Relationship

    Mar 15, 2018·29m
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    Episode Seventy: Like You're Running Out Of Time

    Mar 1, 2018·31m
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    Episode Sixty-Nine: One Is The Loneliest Number

    Feb 15, 2018·6m
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    Episode Sixty-Eight: The Best Imitation of Myself

    Feb 14, 2018·32m
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    Episode Sixty-Seven: The Darkest Night

    Feb 1, 2018·34m
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    Episode Sixty-Six: Something To Talk About

    Jan 15, 2018·24m
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    Episode Sixty-Five: New Year, New You

    Jan 1, 2018·33m
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    Episode Sixty-Four: All I Want For Christmas

    Dec 15, 2017·39m