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The Hale Mysteries Podcast — A Literary Mystery Audio Drama

Podcast by James Speelman

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About The Hale Mysteries Podcast — A Literary Mystery Audio Drama

The Hale Mysteries Podcast is an audio drama thriller in an alternate America where Catholicism is driven underground and truth is regulated by paperwork. At St. Eadred College, art historian Dr. Benedict P. Hale follows quiet clues — missing records, altered catalogs, forbidden histories never destroyed, only moved. With Integrity issuing “courtesy” notices, Hale must protect the truth without becoming part of the official record. A Father Brown–inspired mystery series about conscience, faith, and the quiet cost of telling the truth when the system demands silence.

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Episode 2: The Catalog of Ashes — For the Record

A hidden ledger meant to vanish resurfaces — and with it, proof that destruction can be procedural. In Ashcombe, records don’t burn. They’re corrected. When Dr. Benedict Hale traces the quiet logic behind a catalog designed to erase without spectacle, he discovers that the danger lies less in what the ledger contains than in how quietly it can ruin the people who encounter it. As Integrity pressure tightens, Hale must protect his graduate assistant, Clara Keane, from becoming the system’s convenient witness — or its scapegoat. The immediate threat is contained, but the larger machinery remains untouched, its rules still hidden in plain sight. The Catalog of Ashes deepens the season’s mystery, revealing that some problems can be managed without being solved — and that the record is never as final as it appears.

4 Feb 2026 - 25 min
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Episode 1: Ex Libris — A Forbidden Book Sparks a Quiet Academic Mystery

St. Eadred College sits on the edge of Ashcombe, where salt air, marsh fog, and old limestone make the campus feel older than its paperwork — and where a quiet mystery can hide in plain sight. By day, it presents itself as a model institution — aligned with the American Church’s reasonable public faith. By night, it reveals something else: corridors, thresholds, and catalogs of what was lost. When a graduate assistant discovers an unindexed Ex Libris page in the archives, art historian Dr. Benedict P. Hale is pulled into a quiet academic mystery. The document reads less like scholarship and more like a receipt — proof that forbidden histories were never destroyed, only moved. As the campus Integrity Office begins its polite scrutiny — courtesy notices, standards reviews, corrected records — Hale must decide how much truth can be preserved without becoming part of the record himself. Episode 1 opens The Hidden Chapel Archive, the season-long mystery of The Hale Mysteries Podcast — a slow-burn audio drama thriller about faith, conscience, censorship, and the cost of noticing what the record is designed to forget.

29 Jan 2026 - 16 min
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Season One Trailer — The Hidden Chapel Archive

Season One of The Hale Mysteries Podcast is a slow-burn, scripted mystery set in the fictional New England town of Ashcombe. Art historian Dr. Benedict P. Hale navigates the quiet pressures of St. Eadred College — missing books, altered catalogs, and records that do not want to be found. With his graduate assistant Clara Keane, Fr. Gus Navarro, and an unerring terrier named Dominic, Hale uncovers stand-alone mysteries tied together by a deeper pattern. As the state-aligned American Church and its Integrity Office enforce “approved history,” traces of an erased miracle-faith surface — not through spectacle, but through paperwork, procedure, and human conscience. This trailer introduces Season One: The Hidden Chapel Archive.

29 Jan 2026 - 1 min
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