Hidden Oaks

Season 3, Episode 5: Secrets corrode vital bonds. Investigation reveals unlikely truths. Flame opens impossible paths...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Story Timing Index:  - "Game Over" - 00:46 - "On the Trail" - 11:32 - "The Crossing" - 38:56 Check out our website and merch store for updates and to get your own cool Hidden Oaks stuff!  Thanks for Listening!

Season 3, Episode 4: A vision of home, corrupted, a functionary's world, upended, a friendship, recomposed...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Story Timing Index:  - "Unforgettable Silhouette" - 00:45 - "The Pad" - 21:21  - "Struggle" - 30:51 "The Pad" written by guest writer Rob Alger.  "Struggle" written by Robin Sand Check out our website and merch store for updates and to get your own cool Hidden Oaks stuff!  Thanks for Listening!

BONUS - the next few week's we're taking a break for the holidays, but as you wait for the story to continue, enjoy this bonus short that continues the Season 3 storyline, "The Weak and Wounded" by Patrick W. Marsh.  Check out the website for updates on episode release dates, and have a splendid December! Thanks for listening! 

Season 3, Episode 3: Love's strength crosses another force. Power's residue feels hollow. Mother nature's records highlight the unnatural...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Story Timing Index:  - "The Call" - 00:45 - "Absence" - 28:41 - "Tracks" - 49:39 "The Call" was written by guest author Amanda Meuwissen Check out our website and merch store for updates and to get your own cool Hidden Oaks stuff!  Thanks for Listening! 

Season 3, Episode 2: A boundary rests on the cusp of breach. Freedom meets fear in the skies. Agents without agency seek answers...Welcome, to Hidden Oaks!  Episode Timing Index: - "On the Red Plains" - 00:45 - "Lift" - 07:00 - "The Message" - 23:35 Check out our website and merch store for updates and to get your own cool Hidden Oaks stuff!  Thanks for listening everyone! 

Season 3, Episode 1: A community picks up the pieces, and each other; nature's harmony disperses; two notes linger, playing curses; a boy receives a ghastly visit...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Episode Timing Index:  - "Support Group" - 00:47 - "Soil and Flow" - 14:23 - "David" - 20:31 Check out our website and merch store for updates and to get your own cool Hidden Oaks stuff!  Thanks for listening everyone! 

Season 3 is just around the corner! Season Premiere is set for 10/31/2021! In the meantime, while you wait this final week, enjoy this sneak peek into what we have in store for you! Thanks for listening!  Check out the website for our Merch Store which is open NOW with all kinds of cool gear and other periodic updates!  www.hiddenoakspodcast.com Hidden Oaks is an Ironfield Independent Production and a member of the Pizza Rice Podcasting Collaborative.  www.pizzaricepodcast.com

Patrick, Robert, and Owen sit down to do an author's question and answer session. All the questions the writer's have for each other are discussed and more! Check out the website for our Merch Store which is open NOW with all kinds of cool gear, as well as updates on the release of Season 3, coming fall 2021!  www.hiddenoakspodcast.com Hidden Oaks is an Ironfield Independent Production and a member of the Pizza Rice Podcasting Collaborative.  www.pizzaricepodcast.com

Patrick, Robert, and Owen sit down to do an author's question and answer session. All the questions the writer's have for each other are discussed and more! Stick around for Part 2 coming later this summer!  Check out the website for our Merch Store opening soon, as well as updates on the release of Season 3, coming fall 2021!  www.hiddenoakspodcast.com Hidden Oaks is an Ironfield Independent Production and a member of the Pizza Rice Podcasting Collaborative.  www.pizzaricepodcast.com

Hey Listeners! We have another Bonus Short while you wait for the release of Season 3!  "Ten O'Clock Takers" by Robert Daun is a story told in the same world as Hidden Oaks.  Stay tuned for more as we approach the release of season 3!  Thanks for listening everyone! 

Hey Listeners! We have another of multiple Bonus Short while you wait for the release of Season 3!  "The Basement Window" by Patrick W. Marsh is a story told in the same world as Hidden Oaks.  Stay tuned for more bonus episodes every few weeks until we release season 3!  Thanks for listening everyone! 

Hey Listeners! We have one of multiple Bonus Short while you wait for the release of Season 3!  "One-Legged Jay's Unlucky Day" by Owen Swerkstrom is a story told in the same world as Hidden Oaks.  Stay tuned for more bonus episodes every other week until we release season 3!  Thanks for listening everyone! 

The Behind the Scenes discussion continues as part of the Hidden Oaks podcast team sits down for the rest of the commentary following release of season two of the show.  Stay tuned for another Q&A episode before getting into season 3. If there's anything we didn't discuss in these episodes, or anything that you're dying to know about in terms of creation, plot, characters, or anything else, e-mail us at hiddenoakspodcast@gmail.com or visit any of our social media sites and reach out!  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenoakspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiddenoakspod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiddenoakspodcast/ Thanks for listening everyone! 

Part of the Hidden Oaks podcast team sits down for a two-part behind the scenes discussion following release of season two of the show.  The next part of this episode will be coming out within the next two weeks. We will also be doing another Q&A episode before getting into season 3. If there's anything we didn't discuss in these episodes, or anything that you're dying to know about in terms of creation, plot, characters, or anything else, e-mail us at hiddenoakspodcast@gmail.com or visit any of our social media sites and reach out!  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenoakspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiddenoakspod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiddenoakspodcast/ Thanks for listening everyone! 

Season 2, Episode 10 (Season Finale): The shattered agency begins to hide the unleashed horror; She begins to understand her newfound freedom; a gas station closes in the wake of calamity…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Episode Timing Index: - "Fractions" - 00:50 - "To the Hunting Ground" - 16:14 - "Last Shift" - 32:35 Thank you for listening to Season 2 of Hidden Oaks!  We are already hard at work on putting together Season 3 and will be taking a longer break between seasons this time. Stay tuned for plenty of Behind the Scenes and Bonus Episodes between now and then! Thanks again for listening! 

Season 2, Episode 9: The new generation picks up the pieces of their family rites; a master plan rolls into motion; frustration swells in an innocent marked and watched…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! **PTSD trigger warning - there are some sudden instances of thunder and explosion sounds in this episode** Episode Timing Index:  - "Descent" - 00:50 - "War" - 31:21 - "Mantorvilla" - 57:46 Thanks for listening everyone!

Season 2, Episode 8: Dreams and visions weigh heavily upon Eddie and Ellie; a betrayal comes to fruition; containment begins to end as the nightmare breaks free…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Check out www.hiddenoakspodcast.com for our information on how to participate in our current contest!  Episode Timing Index: - "Zipper" - 00:51 - "Double Agency" - 24:04 - "Chains" - 27:24 Thanks for Listening Everyone!

Season 2, Episode 7: Father Witherow looks for help, as help looks for him; an evil grows bored and playful in an empty building; Alice listens closely as the bridge speaks to her one last time…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Check out www.hiddenoakspodcast.com for our information on how to participate in our current contest!  Episode Timing Index: - "Keep Off the Grass" - 00:53 - "Shadowplay" - 19:47 - "Ishkode" - 45:15 Thanks for Listening Everyone!

Season 2, Episode 6: Haunted strings need more to survive than just being played; two worlds finally meet in the midst of a living nightmare; her voice is her own, it is time to listen…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Check out www.hiddenoakspodcast.com for our information on how to participate in our current contest!  Episode Timing Index: - "Fretboard" - 00:53 - "The Square Table" - 16:40 - "She" - 46:26 Thanks for listening everyone! 

Welcome to a special Halloween edition of Hidden Oaks!  For this bonus episode we'll be traveling back in time to visit three characters from season one. These stories take place one year before the events of the Hidden Oaks that you all know. A young programmer receives a strange message from an unknown neighbor, a bully laments change, before a nightmare finds her, and the dead revel in their one night of freedom…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! *Listen to the introduction for a contest announcement! Episode Timing Index: - "Amy's Journal" - 02:11 - "The Masquerade" - 13:54 - "The Death of the Party" - 32:23 Thanks for listening everyone! Happy Halloween!

Season 2, Episode 5:  Conspiracies vie for a moment in the spotlight; an arcade game is far more life-like than anyone could imagine; the fire's hunger continues to grow…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Episode Timing Index: - "Investigations" - 00:51 - "Joe Dimaggio's" - 12:31 - "Flames" - 32:17 *Story "Investigations" written by guest writer Chris Gilde! Thanks Chris! Thanks for listening everyone! 

Season 2, Episode 4: Plans unroll as the agency begins to plot; a hobby store becomes a hunting ground; a little boy finds an unlikely group of friends…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Episode Timing Index: - "Fun and Games" - 00:51 - "Shadow Boxes" - 08:27 - "A New Home" - 27:47 *Story "A New Home" written by guest writer Shemar Hunter! Thanks Shemar! Thanks for listening everyone! 

Season 2, Episode 3: A living fire haunts the suburbs; nostalgia fuels a difficult trade; Alice learns about the hidden fire, and its keeper…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Stories Timing Index: - "Sparks" - 00:51 - "Missing" - 20:53 - "The Emerald Hawk Moth" - 41:39 Thanks for listening! 

Season 2, Episode 2: Ellie and Eddie return home to more mystery; a college student's summer job allows her garden to grow in ways she didn't expect; a young man's escape from the dog days of summer, sends him even further away…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Episode Timing Index: - "Inheritance" - 00:54 - "The Gardener" - 08:46 - "Escape" - 33:09 *Story "The Gardener" written by our first guest writer - Collin Arnett! Thanks Collin! Thanks for listening everyone! 

Welcome Back Listeners! We hope you enjoy Season 2! Season 2, Episode 1: A little girl meets a monstrous voice on an empty prairie; Ellie and Eddie crawl out of hell, one layer at a time; a lie is spun to protect the unknown…Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Stories Timing Index: - "Alice" - 00:52 - "The Way Out" - 15:11 - "Cover Story" - 36:44

Hey listeners! Here's a final little bonus short while you wait for Season 2 to start on September 30th, 2020. "Takeout" is a story told in the same world as Hidden Oaks. We'll be taking a break next week and then see you again on 9/30/2020!  Enjoy "Takeout" by Robert Daun Thanks for listening everyone! 

Hey listeners! While you wait for Season 2 to start on September 30th, 2020, we thought we would give you a little gift. "Splat" is a story told in the same world as Hidden Oaks, one of several short bonus episodes that will drop between now and 9/30/2020.  "Splat" by Owen Swerkstrom Thanks for listening everyone! 

Robin Sand (voice of Ellie and Mira, as well as amazing Instagram profile manager/contributor) hosts this Q&A session along with writers/producers Patrick W. Marsh, Robert Daun and Owen Swerkstrom and composer David Schwartz.  Thanks for listening everyone! We really appreciate all the feedback we've received for this project so far! Thank you for sending in your questions and thoughts. Feel free to keep them coming if you have other questions or thoughts.  Thank you as well to those who have donated to the show through www.hiddenoakspodcast.com  Stay tuned for more bonus short stories coming out, and for the Season 2 premiere on Wednesday, September 30th! See you then listeners! 

Hey listeners! While you wait for Season 2 to start on September 30th, 2020, we thought we would give you a little gift. "The Smell" is a story told in the same world as Hidden Oaks, one of several short bonus episodes that will drop between now and 9/30/2020.  "The Smell" by Owen Swerkstrom Thanks for listening everyone! 

Hey listeners! While you wait for Season 2 to start on September 30th, 2020, we thought we would give you a little gift. "The Sweeper" is a story told in the same world as Hidden Oaks and will be the first of multiple short bonus episodes that will drop between now and 9/30/2020.  "The Sweeper" by Patrick W. Marsh Thanks for listening everyone! 

The writing team behind the Hidden Oaks podcast sits down for the second part behind the scenes discussion following release of the first season of the show.  There will be an upcoming question and answer episode later this summer. If there's anything we didn't discuss in these episodes, or anything that you're dying to know about in terms of creation, plot, characters, etc. email us at hiddenoakspodcast@gmail.com or visit any of our social media sites and reach out!  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenoakspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiddenoakspod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiddenoakspodcast/ Thanks for listening everyone! 

The writing team behind the Hidden Oaks podcast sits down for a two part behind the scenes discussion following release of the first season of the show.  There will be an upcoming question and answer episode later this summer. If there's anything we didn't discuss in these episodes, or anything that you're dying to know about in terms of creation, plot, characters, etc. email us at hiddenoakspodcast@gmail.com or visit any of our social media sites and reach out!  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenoakspodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiddenoakspod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiddenoakspodcast/ Thanks for listening everyone! 

Episode 10: Siblings find answers where nightmares circle and terror plays; the surveyor makes a deal with something beyond the trees; a cashier waits on the edge for more of the strange and scary...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Stories Timing Index: - "The Cage" - 00:56 - "Exchange" - 31:03 - "Sunex Sunset" - 48:58 Thank you for listening to Season 1 listeners! We will be taking a break before coming back with Season 2 later this summer.  In the meantime, keep your eyes out (no pun intended) for a behind-the-scenes commentary episode with the production team in two weeks, followed by a question and answer session with the crew later in July, and also some updates on cool merchandise coming soon. If you have any questions you'd like to have Patrick, Robert and/or Owen answer on the Q&A episode, please email us at hiddenoakspodcast@gmail.com or find us on social media. Please feel free to let us know what you think of the show too!  Thanks for listening everyone! See you next season! 

Episode 09: A playground grows faster than the children who play there; a map serves as the perfect bait for a swarm of hungry agents; the lich returns with more dread than hope...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Stories Timing Index: - "The Butterfly" - 00:53 - "The Cartograph" - 16:29 - "Partial Delivery" - 25:42

Episode 08: A photo leads a black and white trail to a hungry bridge; a surly bus driver picks up a mysterious passenger; puddles ripple the minds of siblings seeking answers from their father...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Stories Timing Index: - "Reflection" - 00:52 - "Round and Round" - 17:43 -  "The Rain Has Come" - 31:52

Episode 07: A priest stumbles across an otherworldly trap; the tiniest bystander feels the rain from a most unlikely storm; the natural world grieves alongside a lonely father...Welcome to Hidden Oaks Stories Timing Index: - "Snare" - 00:53 - "Storm House" - 26:14 - "Laurus Nobilis" - 33:29

Episode 6: The dead come back, but with secret strings attached; stacks of reports echo a strange cloud of appearances; siblings journey into the past to face the present, with something looking over their shoulder...Welcome to Hidden Oaks.  Stories Timing Index:  - "Marionette" - 00:56 - "Reports" - 21:40 - "Awake" - 33:24

Episode 5: A cashier's apocalyptic fiction is dwarfed by the strangeness all around him; the living aren't the only ones who can experience restlessness; a feverish vision haunts a servant to an ancient ritual...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Stories Timing Index: - "Night Shift at the Sunex Gas 'N' Go" - 00:54 - "The Request" - 14:47 - "The Only Priority" -  38:40

Episode 4: A flashback to a dark and monstrous duty; siblings wrestle with a crisis of past and present; a young man can't escape the magnetic trauma of his own heritage...Welcome to Hidden Oaks!  Stories Timing Index:  - "Lanthorn Light" - 00:53 - "Come Home" - 17:00 - "I'm Not Coming Home" - 25:22

Episode 3: A new agent adjusts to a routine abnormal; a troubled soul sees reality more clearly than anyone else; the natural world is betrayed by being an accomplice to kidnapping...Welcome to Hidden Oaks!  Stories Timing Index: - "Agency" - 00:55 - "Black Sedans" - 17:17 - "Earwig" - 32:04

Episode 2: A surveyor's measurements continue to warp, a plane vanishes without a trace, an old woman tries to ignore the death downstairs until it gets desperate...Welcome to Hidden Oaks!   Stories Timing Index: - "The Survey" - 00:54 - "Lost Contact" - 25:19 - "A Rose for Walter" - 28:19

Hidden Oaks is a serial suspense/horror podcast about a monster, a haunted forest, and the people victim to both in 90's era Minnesota. Episode 1: A forest awakens with the dead, a jogger finds too much escape in his evening routine, bugs adore a young girl when no one else does...Welcome to Hidden Oaks! Stories Timing Index:  - "Episode One" starts at 00:51 - "The Jog" starts at 17:10 - "Dermaptera" starts at 25:51 www.hiddenoakspodcast.com