You're riding alone on a moonlit but starless night.

You just missed your exit.

Now there's only one way back home.

So sit back, open your ears, and hold on tight

because you're about to take a quick detour through Uncanny County.

Good morning, gentle listeners. This is Orson Wells, welcoming you to another broadcasting day

here at KMRZ, the voice of truth here in Monroeville.

We have a very exciting local news report for you today.

Miss Monroeville, Meg Henderson, will be here to sing,

I've got a feeling you're fooling,

and at a half past the hour,

we'll reveal to you just who will take home the blue ribbon from the Matheson County Bakeoff.

But first, the Farm Report.

Halloween 1939.

Welcome to the new reality of Orson Wells.

Precisely one year to the day after his infamous War of the World's broadcast

tricked a nation into believing we were under attack by real-life Martians.

Now after being all but kicked out of the business,

Orson is scraping by as an announcer to tiny radio station just outside of Monroeville.

Down, but not out,

Orson is willing to do whatever it takes to make his way back to the

bright lights of New York City. But first, he's going to have to make it through an even more

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