After landing a suspiciously affordable apartment in Logan Square, a grad student discovers her new roommate is a 90s-obsessed ghost who is less interested in haunting her and more interested in the proper way to label her leftovers.
After missing his train by the usual five minutes, a habitually late man finds himself trapped in a hauntingly empty subway station where the clocks have stopped, the passengers have his own face, and the next stop is always the same.
After stumbling into a mysterious Chicago tavern where the patrons treat him like a long-lost legend, a reserved young man disappears from his life forever, leaving his friends to eventually discover that the bar, and everyone inside it, never existed at all.
On his first solo overnight shift at an old radio station, a young announcer is guided and mentored by the station’s kindly, veteran engineer, only to discover in the morning that the man who kept him company—and whose tools still sit on the console—died years ago in the locked transmitter room.
The overnight staff at a dimly lit newsroom learns to dread… and then depend upon… a cranky, anonymous 11:37 p.m. caller on Line Seven who relentlessly complains about the station’s coverage of future events, accurately predicting everything from escaped goats at City Hall to the weatherman fainting live on air.
The exhausted staff of a hospital’s chaotic night shift comes to depend on an unsettlingly silent, unscheduled janitor nicknamed “Saint Squeegee,” who materializes exactly when and where messes, accidents, and minor crises erupt, leading the nurses to believe he is either a guardian angel or a cleaning ghost.
The late-night technician at an outdated TV station discovers a mysterious phantom channel that broadcasts a live, eerie feed of their town, only to realize the footage isn’t showing the present, but the immediate, inevitable future, with predictions that quickly turn from strange coincidence to terrifying catastrophe.
The night shift at the hospital is dramatically altered when the staff discovers that the old, untrustworthy vending machine, an office joke, starts dispensing eerie and hyper-specific fortune tea bottles that accurately predict everything from missed birthdays to patient emergencies on their floor.
After calling a customer support line for his broken streaming box, Evan is horrified when the voice on the other end begins using an unnervingly cheerful tone to reveal private memories, predict his immediate future, and ultimately prove she knows more about his life than he does.
Exhausted ER Nurse Tanya faces the most bizarre intake of her career at 2:45 a.m.—an alleged extraterrestrial named Todd in a silver tracksuit who, claiming a dislocated shoulder, proceeds to break the hospital’s equipment, reveal Tanya’s secret life plans, and vanish, leaving behind only a mysterious metal lunchbox.