Dust and Echoes

Some stories never stop echoing. Vanished people. Unexplained deaths. Cryptid encounters, secret experiments, haunted places, and the darkest legends of the American West. Dust & Echoes is a cinematic storytelling podcast that goes back into the records, follows the evidence, and steps inside the strange and forgotten corners of history, one case at a time. Written and hosted by James Cawley. New episodes every Tuesday.

Real cases. Lost history. Things that should not have happened.

Episodes

Aug 26, 2025

35 min

When neurosurgeon Garrett Goodwin boards the Celestia Maris with his family, he’s looking for quiet. But in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, the ocean gives him something else: silence. The kind that feels… alive and watching. As strange orbs appear on the horizon and a boy in the ship’s medical wing whispers in someone else’s voice, Garrett is drawn into a nightmare of reality that science can't explain.
The Bermuda Meridian is a psychological thriller that blends cosmic horror with intimate human dread, taking you deep into the terrifying unknown...and into the parts of ourselves we pretend don’t exist.

Aug 26, 2025

35 min

Aug 19, 2025

35 min

He took the deckhand job with no experience and no questions asked. Just a one-way ticket to somewhere quiet. A chance to disappear.
After years of bad choices and time served, Joey’s ready to leave everything he broke behind. But the further the small fishing boat he gets from land, the more dread builds inside Joey's mind.  
What begins as a quiet escape drifts, in thick fog, into darker waters. And as the isolation deepens, Joey starts to suspect this boat was never headed where they claimed...and learns, firsthand, that past the breakers, the dark depths of the ocean keeps its own secrets.
The Deckhand is a haunting, slow-burn descent into suspicion, survival, and the choices that pull us under.See more of my stories and what's next at:https://www.dustandechoespodcast.com

Aug 19, 2025

35 min

Aug 11, 2025

30 min

In a remote desert canyon lost to time, a weathered archaeologist uncovers the final thread of a mystery he’s chased his entire life, a forgotten Indigenous city hidden beneath the stone.
But when a mountain lion encounter leaves him broken, bleeding, and alone, survival becomes a brutal reckoning. Blending myth, memory, and a fire-lit confrontation with the past, Library in the Desert is a visceral tale about what we choose to remember… and what was never ours to claim in the first place.

Aug 11, 2025

30 min

Aug 4, 2025

46 min

The world already ended once. Now one final number could make it burn again.
THE FIFTH NUMBER is a full post-apocalyptic horror story set in the radioactive deserts surrounding the buried ruins of Las Vegas.
Generations after nuclear war destroyed civilization, Beshup protects a remote village surviving on failing solar panels, dwindling water and relics scavenged from the old world.
Then a dying scout arrives with a warning.
A wasteland warlord known as Coyote Man has discovered nuclear weapons beneath an abandoned military base. The bombs remain dormant, but he believes Beshup’s missing father found the device—and the final code—needed to awaken them.
Following a vision left by his father, Beshup journeys across the waste toward a half-buried Statue of Liberty and the remains of the Las Vegas Strip. What he finds there could save his people, destroy his enemy or ignite the end of the world for a second time.
Only one digit remains.
THE FIFTH NUMBERAn original post-apocalyptic science-fiction horror story written by James Cawley.Presented by Dust & Echoes.
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Aug 4, 2025

46 min

Jul 28, 2025

1 hr 35 min

A signal too low to hear sweeps across the world.
Entire cities freeze in place...eyes open, mouths slack and minds gone. The changed become known as the Silent. They remain motionless until someone nearby falls asleep.
Cole and Juno survive the Pulse by chance: both were underwater when it struck. Now, with the Silent drawn to their dreams, they must remain awake, outrun a collapsing world and follow a desperate broadcast toward what may be humanity’s final refuge.
THE SILENT is an original apocalyptic science-fiction horror story from Dust & Echoes, written by James Cawley.
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Jul 28, 2025

1 hr 35 min

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