The Sirens Podcast

06/04/2026

If you knew Alonzo, go show this momma some support!

06/02/2026

A quick programming note for listeners! 📚🎙️

Over the past year, many of the author interviews and fiction-focused episodes that were originally released under special segments of the show have found a new home.

As a result, most Southern Noir Book Club episodes have now been sunset, with the exception of the true crime-related episodes that remain available.

This also includes the majority of the Spooky Season episodes, as well as the Cryptids Unscripted series.

If you're looking for conversations with novelists, journalists, podcasters, filmmakers, folklorists, paranormal researchers, and other dark storytellers, or some of that content from Sirens that has been preserved, I invite you to join me over at Dreadfully Yours: Conversations with Dark Storytellers.

Dreadfully Yours was created specifically for those discussions and allows me to dive even deeper into the stories, books, folklore, and creative minds behind the work and have conversations about storytelling in general, including spooky episodes.

Thank you to everyone who supported those special episodes over the years. True crime-related book or film content will continue to be released on both shows when appropriate, but author interviews, creator conversations, paranormal discussions, and similar content have officially moved to Dreadfully Yours.

You can find Dreadfully Yours on all major podcast platforms.

🖤 Raven Rollins

05/29/2026

UPDATE: FOUND SAFE

⚠️ALERT MISSING
PLEASE SHARE⚠️

Kylie Thompson
Age 13
5’ 3” / 125 lbs
Brown eyes / Brown hair

Kylie was last seen about 6 am the morning of Wednesday 27 MAY 2026 walking south near CR 3510 & Hwy 3 near Ada, OK. She was wearing a blue Sweatshirt, black pants, and carrying a black backpack. She hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

If you see Kylie call 911 if you have seen her, or have any information regarding her, whereabouts, please contact the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office
at 580-332-4169.

05/28/2026

Today, THAT WHICH SEPARATES MAN was officially released on Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited. It will roll out to other retailers over the next few months.

This is not your typical zombie story.

Heavy with realism — both medically and emotionally — THAT WHICH SEPARATES MAN is a character-driven survival horror and medical thriller about grief, humanity, survival, and the people we become when the world ends.

When the world falls apart, what will be important in your life? Will you give up, or will you fight against all odds to protect what is most valuable to you?

In this story, we follow multiple viewpoints during the beginning of a mysterious outbreak:

Alan Hawthorne, CFO of a Fortune 500 company in Los Angeles.
Lexi Jackson, a veterinarian and former EMT for Sweetwater, a small rural Texas town.

Boone Jackson taught his daughter how to stay calm under pressure. Now he’s doing everything he can to keep her — and a frightened young boy named Ethan — alive long enough to reach whatever remains of civilization.

Bones knows engines, rifles, and hard work. But grief has a way of following people, even to the end of the world.

And Wash has spent his life in the sky. With the world collapsing beneath him, all he wants is to find his granddaughter, Clara.

As fate brings them together, they struggle through loss, survival, the terror of the undead, and the failing humanity of the remaining survivors.

If you love stories like The Last of Us, Contagion, World War Z, or emotionally grounded apocalypse fiction, I truly think this one may find a place with you.

The apocalypse officially begins today. 🖤

05/19/2026

Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, who discovered the bloody glove in the O.J. Simpson murder case has died.

Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, who discovered the bloody glove in the O.J. Simpson murder case and later torpedoed the prosecution with his use of the n-word, is dead ... TMZ has learned.

05/12/2026

If you’ve enjoyed the author interviews and storyteller conversations I’ve shared over the years on Sirens… their new home has officially arrived. 🖤📖

Welcome to Dreadfully Yours. 🐦‍⬛

This new podcast is dedicated entirely to dark storytelling and the storytellers behind it — whether those stories are told through novels, journalism, podcasting, screenwriting, songwriting, filmmaking, folklore, horror, true crime, mystery, or beyond.

Long before books lined shelves or films flickered across screens, storytelling was how humanity understood fear, grief, love, survival, history, and each other. Stories are how we remember. How we warn. How we connect. And some stories linger long after the final page.

Dreadfully Yours features conversations with the minds behind those stories — from bestselling authors and investigators to indie creatives, journalists, filmmakers, and dark storytellers of all kinds.

While Sirens will continue focusing on true crime cases, advocacy, and investigations, Dreadfully Yours will now serve as the dedicated home for my storyteller interviews and conversations. True crime author interviews and directly true crime-related conversations may still be released simultaneously on both podcasts moving forward.

Episodes are going live now, beginning with a catalog of more than 20 conversations releasing one chapter at a time from interviews I’ve conducted over the past several years, with brand new original chapters projected for mid-to-late 2026.

Whether you start at Chapter One or jump in anywhere along the way… I’m so glad you’re coming with me on this new journey.🎙️

05/12/2026

If you missed my conversations with J.L. over the years, catch up here, and give the podcast/page a follow!

CHAPTER TWO is now live. 🖤📖

This chapter of Dreadfully Yours features guest Author J.L. Hyde — one of my earliest and most frequent author conversations over the years.

For this release, I’ve combined and remastered multiple conversations into one immersive chapter exploring Hyde’s dark and emotionally driven storytelling, including discussions surrounding “Delta County,” “Underground,” "Summer of '99," and "Magnolia Court."

This episode also feels especially meaningful to me because these conversations were part of the foundation that eventually grew into Dreadfully Yours itself.

If you love psychological suspense, atmospheric mysteries, flawed characters, and conversations about the craft of dark storytelling, Chapter Two is waiting for you.

🎙️ Dreadfully Yours: Conversations with Dark Storytellers

Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts or listen with the Captivate web player in the comments.

05/10/2026

Over the years, one of my favorite things that has grown organically through Sirens has been my interviews with authors and storytellers. When I first started occasionally bringing authors onto the show, I never imagined that I would eventually have more than 20 author interview episodes — or that I would genuinely fall in love with that side of storytelling as much as I have.

As many of you know, I’m not only a true crime podcaster, but also an author, narrator, lifelong reader, and someone deeply passionate about dark storytelling in all its forms. Through these conversations, I realized something: this part of the show has grown into something much bigger than I originally intended.

Because of that, I’ve decided to launch a brand new podcast.

🖤 Dreadfully Yours, Raven Rollins: Conversations with Dark Storytellers

This new show will give me a dedicated space to continue conversations with authors, filmmakers, screenwriters, professors, narrators, songwriters, and creators whose stories linger long after the final page. Horror, thrillers, mystery, Southern Gothic, true crime writing, film, storytelling craft — all of the things I love most creatively will have a home there.

At the same time, I want to preserve the true crime core of Sirens and keep this show rooted in the advocacy, cases, victims, and investigations that it was built on.

To be clear: Sirens is NOT going anywhere.

In fact, if an interview is directly related to true crime or features a true crime author, those episodes will often be released simultaneously on both podcasts so listeners can continue finding them through Sirens as well.

This simply feels like the natural next chapter of something that has already been growing for years, and I’m incredibly excited to finally share it with all of you.

Dreadfully Yours is currently planned for release within the next couple of months, and I can’t wait to welcome you all into this new world with me.

Until the next chapter…

Dreadfully Yours,
Raven Rollins

05/06/2026

Seven-year-old Athena Strand should have been safe at home.
Instead, on November 30, 2022, she vanished from outside her father’s property in Paradise, Texas, after a FedEx delivery driver came to the home. What followed became one of the most haunting child murder cases in recent memory — a case that would ultimately lead to the arrest, conviction, and death sentence of Tanner Horner.

In this episode, I walk through the timeline of Athena’s disappearance, the search efforts that gripped the community, the disturbing evidence shown during the capital murder sentencing trial, and the heartbreaking testimony from the people who loved Athena most.

Portions of audio featured in this episode come directly from the live trial proceedings, including testimony from Maitlyn Gandy and the Medical Examiner.

Listener discretion is strongly advised. This episode contains discussion of violence against a child, forensic testimony, and traumatic material.

Out now on Spotify and Apple. All other platforms will be updated within the next day or so. Direct link in comments.