Hi. I'm Jesse. I run the Midnight Archive from my kitchen table in Seattle.
Archivist and envelope stuffer
I grew up on this stuff. Cryptids, cold cases, hauntings, the episodes you play at 1am with one lamp on. Somewhere between my hundredth true crime podcast and my thousandth, I realized the thing I wanted didn't exist: a mystery you could hold. Not another app, not another feed. A sealed envelope. Evidence on paper, the way secrets used to travel.
So I built it. Every month I research one legend, design the case file, print everything, and assemble every mailer by hand.
I use AI for a lot of the visuals and copy, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. I'm one person, not a studio. The research, the design, the printing, the stuffing of envelopes at midnight, that's me. As the Archive grows, subscriber money goes toward hiring independent artists to make original artwork for the files. That's been the plan from the start.
I still have a day job. This is the thing I do because I love it, and it shows up in the details: the postcard from Point Pleasant, the collector card you'll want the full set of, the clue hidden in every envelope pointing at the next case.
If you love this stuff too, you're my people. Join the Archive, or just hang out in the Case Files and listen to the episodes that started all this.
Jesse
Midnight Archive