| “ | You're listening to America Overnight, now in its 29th year... or is it? | ” |
— The host of America Overnight | ||
America Overnight (FBC initiative #72-A) is a late-night radio show secretly created by the Federal Bureau of Control in order to covertly gather information about and obfuscate potential Altered World Event cases. Portraying itself as a conspiracy theory-type broadcast featuring callers who have experienced strange events, it is actually a FBC front organization whose purpose is to extract paranatural-related intelligence from civilians without revealing the Bureau's existence to the public. It was originally created just to spread cover stories for AWEs, but later developed into an information gathering operation as well.
Disinformation efforts usually involved depicting paranatural phenomenon through the framework of more conventional (but otherwise fictional) "paranormal" concepts already familiar with the general public, such as the radio host falsely claiming that the Sterling AWE sphere is a "UFO" from outer space or that investment banker David Wolff had joined up with the "Illuminati" following his disappearance even though he was actually arrested by the FBC for trafficking in altered materials.
In addition to aiding the Bureau in tracking down potential AWEs, America Overnight also serves as a means of gauging the human collective subconscious and understanding how ordinary people perceive the paranatural.[1] America Overnight is broadcast from Colorado in a 2:00 AM timeslot, and claims (sometimes ambiguously) to have been airing for "over 29 years"; this claim was reiterated in an episode that aired not long after the Sterling AWE in 2016, implying the show launched no later than 1987.
Both the show's male host (who is unidentified) and its producer, Karen Harris, were undercover FBC agents. Harris was involved with the program for years, until her death in 2016 when the elusive paracriminal group known as the "Blessed" Organization (which was operating under the alias "Blessed Pictures" at the time of the incident) had staged an attack on the FBC by targeting the America Overnight station and incinerated her using an a paranatural object in the form of fondue set that had been delivered to the studio. The show's host was placed on leave by his superiors after he revealed in debriefing following the events of episode 382 that he had been in a romantic relationship with Harris prior to her death, which violated FBC internal regulations.[2]
The success of America Overnight in aiding the FBC's mission persuaded the FBC to purchase the rights to and reboot the television anthology series Night Springs.
Broadcasts
- Ep. 349: An unidentified caller, the brother of a man who lived in Ordinary, Maine, insists that the disappearance of the town's people was not an industrial accident.
- Ep. 352: The host reads a letter by a woman from Michigan named Kate, who describes feeling a constant sensation of the universe expanding.
- Ep. 356: The host recounts his visit to the "meteor" site in Sterling, Colorado and claims he found pieces of a UFO.
- Ep. 359: Dr. Quincy Reagan, friend of the show, relates his experience of sleeping in the Chilly Pines Motel in Macon, Georgia whilst attending an event called "SuspiciCon" and waking up after having been inexplicably translocated beneath his bed.
- Ep. 367: Peggy from Biloxi, Mississippi recounts how her husband's eyes turned green after she bought a salt lamp, similar to another incident in Decatur.
- Ep. 382: The host reads a letter from Toledo about a fondue set sent to him by Blessed Pictures, and discovers on-air that his producer was killed by it.
America Overnight episode 235 is mentioned but does not appear as a collectible. It is implied that the episode was broadcasted in 1998, and that its caller alerted the Bureau to rumors about the Merry-Go-Round Horse Object of Power, which allowed the Bureau to contain the object that year.[3]
Trivia
- It is based on Coast to Coast AM, an American late-night radio talk show hosted by Art Bell that (like America Overnight) often explored topics related to conspiracy theories and the paranormal, lasting from 1988 to 2003.
- It is unknown how often America Overnight broadcasts. There are at least 382 total episodes, and the host mentions that the show has been broadcasting for "more than" or "over" 29 years in five of the six episodes that are collectible in Control. Assuming the show's run is in fact a minimum of 29 years, then on average one episode is broadcast every 27.7 days, indicating a monthly schedule. However, the 29 years claim is made as early as episode 352 and as late as episode 382, which means at least 30 episodes aired in the space of a single year, implying a much more frequent schedule, possibly weekly. The problem with the latter possibility is that there are not enough episodes to fill 29 years. Some speculative explanations for this inconsistency are: the host is lying about the show's run for some reason, the show is seasonal or irregularly scheduled, or developer Remedy Entertainment numbered the collectible episodes incorrectly.