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

The facts are buckling. Journalist Ross Ford tried to hold them up, to build a case against James Brightman, but the walls are coming down. The story is watching Ross. The lines are gone - between evidence and obsession, between the Brookfield fire and the fire in Ross's head. This is the structural failure.

In the final episode of this fictional true-crime investigation, the evidence doesn't just point to a killer; it points to something else entirely, something looking back from the dark.

Tell it again. TELL IT AGAIN.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Cast:

Ross Ford - Daniel Romano

James Brightman - Jacob Ryan

Additional characters/voices - Tenara Calem, Becky Fleckner, Ryan Kirchner, Jed Krivisky, Taylor Rouillard, Heidi Silva, Geremy Webne-Behrman

Music by Kobe O

Contact: ⁠burnpatternpodcast@gmail.com⁠

Forensic evidence tears apart the official narrative as journalist Ross Ford uncovers devastating physical proof that challenges everything. But as Ross closes in on the truth, the investigation takes a sinister turn. The search for a killer becomes a struggle against an unseen force trying to bury the truth forever.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Cast: Ross Ford - Daniel Romano

James Brightman - Jacob Ryan

Additional characters/voices - Tenara Calem, Becky Fleckner, Ryan Kirchner, Jed Krivisky, Taylor Rouillard, Heidi Silva, Geremy Webne-Behrman

Music by Kobe O

Contact: burnpatternpodcast@gmail.com

See more of the story and dive into the lore: Come see The Watcher Sleeps as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Cannonball Festival.

⁠https://phillyfringe.org/events/the-watcher-sleeps/⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.thewatchersleeps.com/

Journalist Ross Ford rewinds the week before the Fairview apartment fire, looking for cracks in a seemingly impenetrable story… only to uncover the emotional backdraft building inside Apartment 3A. Receipts. Maintenance logs. Texts. Private recordings. The once “clean” story of the fire and its survivor begins to splinter. Even Ross’s own audio begins to act… strange.

Cast: Ross Ford - Daniel Romano

James Brightman - Jacob Ryan

Additional characters/voices - Tenara Calem, Becky Fleckner, Ryan Kirchner, Jed Krivisky, Taylor Rouillard, Heidi Silva, Geremy Webne-Behrman

Music by Kobe O

Contact us at: ⁠burnpatternpodcast@gmail.com⁠

See more of the story and learn more lore! Come see The Watcher Sleeps as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Cannonball Festival.

⁠https://phillyfringe.org/events/the-watcher-sleeps/⁠

⁠https://www.thewatchersleeps.com/

On the night of July 12th, 2022, the town of Fairview was rocked by a senseless act of violence, leaving two dead and James Brightman as the only survivor. Journalist Ross Ford reopens the cold case to see if the story is truly as cut and dry as it has been made out to be.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Cast: Ross Ford - Daniel Romano

James Brightman - Jacob Ryan

Additional characters/voices - Tenara Calem, Becky Fleckner, Ryan Kirchner, Jed Krivisky, Taylor Rouillard, Geremy Webne-Behrman

Music by Kobe O

Contact us at: burnpatternpodcast@gmail.com

See more of the story and learn more lore! Come see The Watcher Sleeps as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Cannonball Festival.

https://phillyfringe.org/events/the-watcher-sleeps/

https://www.thewatchersleeps.com/