In September 2025, The Watcher Sleeps had three official performances at Philadelphia’s Cannonball Festival. Every surviving schedule agrees on that.

My planner says there was a fourth.

It says I was supposed to be at The Drake on September 28 at seven p.m. My phone contains a photograph taken outside the theater thirteen minutes before curtain. And beneath the entry, in my handwriting, is a note I don’t remember writing: Careful. That’s where it starts.

So I started checking the record. What I found led from a performance that may not have happened to a vanished review, an abandoned investigation into a fatal apartment fire, and Ross Ford—a journalist who stopped publishing after his podcast ended in the middle of something it could not explain.

For now, I’m beginning with what I can prove.

Three performances appear in the official record.

Morgan Clancy’s planner says there was a fourth.

This special trailer follows the thread connecting Tell It Again, Season Two of Burn Pattern, with My Friend, Ithamar, a live supernatural-horror performance presented by Cannonball during the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Performances:

Wednesday, September 9 at 9 p.m.
Sunday, September 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Friday, September 25 at 9 p.m.

Get tickets to My Friend, Ithamar: https://phillyfringe.org/events/my-friend-ithamar/

A very limited number of copies of the My Friend, Ithamar short-story collection will also be available for purchase at the performances.

No prior listening is required. Tickets and complete event information are linked in the show notes.

The stories stand alone.

The evidence doesn’t.

Archived studio recording, June 2025. First read-through of a staged production. Three voices. Contents unverified. Potentially dangerous.