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Galactic Horrors
Original dark science fiction stories, told as standalone narrated episodes. Ships, stations, labs and border worlds; deep-space missions, black projects, quarantined facilities and forgotten sectors where the plan makes sense on paper right up until it doesn’t.
These are slow-burn, grounded stories about technology, secrecy and the people caught in the gap between what was promised and what actually happens. If you like quiet dread, institutional cover-ups and futures that feel uncomfortably…
Episodes
Galactic HorrorsA Living Alien Toured With Our Carnival For Years. Then One Night, The Visitors Came
In the spring of 1959, an autoworker out of work for eleven months takes the only job anyone will give him: driving the truck that hauls a traveling carnival's…
Galactic HorrorsWe Chain Men To Posts Out On The Ice Every Night. The Guns Behind Us Wait For One To Scream
For twenty winters he has built the ice at the hockey arena in his Minnesota hometown, and he can tell by sound which ice will carry a man. That is why, when…
Galactic HorrorsOn The Gulf Coast, A Whole Town Cuts Its Power Before Nightmares Crawl Ashore
Every October, after the season's last storm, a lineman cuts the power to an entire Cajun shrimping town on the Louisiana coast for three nights. Behind drawn…
Galactic HorrorsThe Most Terrifying Weapon America Ever Used
In 1968, an Air Force loadmaster has spent three years flying the war dead home from Vietnam, and his career rests on never asking what is inside a box. Moved…
Galactic HorrorsIn A West Virginia Mill City, A Reactor Explosion Slowed Time To A Crawl
When the reactor at the heart of a West Virginia mill city explodes, its night engineer runs for twenty minutes without warning anyone and reaches a fence he…
Galactic HorrorsWe Asked For Miracles On A Distant World. The Things That Delivered Them Were Not Human
A failing colony on a distant world builds its chapel around an ancient black stone, its top worn into two smooth hollows by knees no one can account for…
Galactic HorrorsAt The Edge Of Human Space, The Last Garrison Has Lost Every Son It Ever Sent
Every year since Earth burned, the last human garrison at the edge of space sends its eighteen-year-old boys out in small fighting boats to strike the enemy…
Galactic HorrorsWe Found A World Where 10-Foot Giant Aliens Are Walking
On a dead world beyond the last navigation beacons, an alien city is still at work. Ten-foot beings sow fields of dust with empty hands, walk grooves their…
Galactic HorrorsI Was Sent Ahead Of Everyone Into A Nightmare Forest Where The Giants Hunt
Two winters ago, something escaped from the laboratory at a secret army research station deep in the northern pines. The scientists vanished the same night…
Galactic HorrorsThe Secret Cargo Moving Across America Sinks People Straight Into The Earth
Every time the truck stops, whoever is standing nearest its back doors begins to slow. Words drag. Faces sag. Then they fall flat and sink into the asphalt…
Galactic HorrorsA Planet's Entire Ocean Pours Into A Bottomless Cosmic Abyss That Never Fills
For twenty-two years, an aging captain has fished the rings of a sea that drains endlessly into a vast hole past the horizon, where the catch grows richer the…
Galactic HorrorsA Colony Hired Me To Dig Up Their Sleeping God
For two decades he has torn apart dead frontier colonies, and each one died of something he could dig up: a bad well, a burst dam, a hillside that came down in…
Galactic HorrorsFor 10 Years, The Army Bombed The Aliens Underground. They Were Keeping Something Asleep
For eight years, a sapper sergeant has walked down into fresh bomb craters at first light and signed them closed. On the siege world of Bracken, six-ton spikes…
Galactic HorrorsA Space Expedition Traveled Past Jupiter And Found A Wall
One January night in Nebraska, a high school science teacher watches a star slip behind Saturn's largest moon and stay lit four seconds too long. He checks his…
Galactic HorrorsOn A 300-Year Generation Ship, The Erased Population Formed A Hidden Society Of Invisible Humans
On a generation ship three hundred years from anywhere, the missing rations have an official name: spoilage. Every quarter the census office writes off a few…
Galactic HorrorsGas Miners Discovered Something Living Beneath The Saturn Storms
Saturn has no ground for twenty thousand miles. So when a helium skimmer pilot's altimeter dies mid-storm and his ship settles onto something the wind can't…
Galactic HorrorsAn Alien Artifact Crashed On Earth. It Reconstructs Humans Into Living Nightmares
The ankle monitor says his client's leg is getting colder. Fifteen years as a county probation officer have shown him every trick for beating a bracelet, so he…
Galactic HorrorsAn Invisible Cosmic Predator Is Hunting Thousands Of Space Refugees
When a ship at the end of the line dies, the sound comes up the tow cable like a church bell struck underwater, and nine hundred refugees sit up in the dark to…
Galactic HorrorsThe Soviets Built A Gun The Size Of A Train. It Turned Siberia Into A Boiling Hell
His knees are brass, built by a secret Army program after a land mine took his own. Around forty below, the oil inside them hardens like candle wax. This…
Galactic HorrorsThe Military Froze Elite Soldiers For The Apocalypse
Deep beneath the Greenland ice, eighteen frozen soldiers wake before their minds are ready. They cannot recognize the people around them, but they remember…
Galactic HorrorsMining Colony Found An ALIEN ARTIFACT. It Turns Human Flesh Into Puppets
Seven weeks after an orbital mining platform stops transmitting, the first thing a containment team hears is the rattle of human teeth. Their orders are…
Galactic HorrorsI Woke Up In A Secret Army Base On The Moon
A dozen political prisoners wake beneath the Moon’s surface, where the U.S. Army is preparing ordinary men for a future no one on Earth knows is coming. Inside…
Galactic HorrorsOur World's Orbital Mirror Ring Shattered. Now The Entire Sky Is Falling
When the orbital mirror ring shatters, the sky begins to fall in glass. Sunlight burns entire towns, lethal dust fills the air, and a vast atmospheric front…
Galactic HorrorsForty Years Ago, Something Fell In The Pacific. Now Earth Is A Biomechanical Hell
Forty-one years after something fell into the Pacific, an alien jungle has swallowed the surface. Its towering harvesters strip the nervous systems from anyone…
Galactic HorrorsWe Escaped Earth 600 Years Ago. Something Is Following Us
For six hundred years, the dead of a generation ship have been given to the distance. The ship's sexton has spent three decades washing bodies, sewing shrouds…
Galactic HorrorsOur Orbital Collider Tore Reality Open. Three Overlapping Dimensions Just Bled Together
After an accelerator accident, the doctor aboard a four-man orbital research station begins seeing rooms that should not exist. One version matches the station…
Galactic HorrorsExploring A Secret Soviet Cryo-Vault Two Miles Under The Ice: The Warning Said "Do Not Descend"
Sixty years after a Soviet station was sealed beneath two miles of ice, a buried beacon begins repeating one message: fire has returned. Do not descend…
Galactic HorrorsThe Verrin Incident: An Elite Clearance Squad Dropped Straight Into Hell
Eight soldiers enter a silent weapons foundry. The machines are still working, and something inside has learned how to make them obey. Corporal Nolan Kroll's…
Galactic HorrorsWe Boarded A Classified Space Station That Fed Its Crew To A Cosmic Horror
Site Twelve has been silent for six days, and its orbit is falling. When systems specialist Tolliver and his recovery team dock with the classified platform…
Galactic HorrorsImperial Warships Invaded An Alien Planet. It Woke Up And Swallowed Them
Warrant surveyor Coyne gave the Sol Invictus Empire the mineral reading that brought an armada to an unnamed world. Four days later, his warship is wrecked in…
Galactic HorrorsDeep In Montana, A Nuclear Bunker Was Sealed For 30 Years. I Am The Last Human Inside
For thirty years, Captain Raymond Tolliver has kept watch beneath a ruined America, maintaining a nuclear missile that was never launched and sharing the…
Galactic HorrorsFTL Travel Takes A Microsecond. The Entity Inside Takes A Lifetime
When a colony ship’s wake system fires three seconds too early, Dr. Tom Greer opens his eyes at the one moment passengers are never supposed to be conscious…
Galactic HorrorsMilitary Recon Squad Deployed Through A Stargate. It Was An Alien Proving Ground
Fourteen soldiers cross an experimental gate into an unknown structure. Seconds later, the way home disappears. What should have been a four-hour…
Galactic HorrorsTop Secret Underground Facility Went Dark. Something Below Sub-Level 9 Is Climbing Up
Nineteen hours after a buried containment facility goes silent, Investigator Callahan descends into a vault where every door is open and the surviving guards…
Galactic HorrorsEmpire Sent 600 Soldiers To A Silent Foundry Planet. They Found A Mechanical Hell
Major Hollis descends to a silent foundry moon with 608 soldiers and orders to end a labor revolt. The first rebel he finds is a dead worker bolted into a gun…
Galactic HorrorsSoldiers Returned From War 2,000 Years Later. Humanity Had Evolved Into Something Bizarre
Staff Sergeant Nate Hollis returns from a six-week campaign to discover that six centuries have passed without him. Relativistic deployment has kept Nate and…
Galactic HorrorsSpace Hauler Found Something In The Void. Hearing What It Is Infects You
Salvage tug captain Curtis Bagley wakes pinned in the wreckage of a freighter he deliberately rammed, with twelve hours of oxygen and three days missing from…
Galactic HorrorsSecret Lab Traps Earth in a 40,000-Day Time Loop. Each Reset Sends 8 Billion People into the Abyss
David Walsh has lived the same Tuesday more than forty thousand times. At 6:14 a.m., a physics experiment begins a cascade that will destroy Earth. At 8:47…
Galactic HorrorsBehind The Artificial Sun Lies A Colossal Entity Humanity Has Been Feeding For Centuries
For fourteen years, Hadley has driven a sixty-ton locomotive across magnetic rails suspended over a void, always one mistake from death. Burn too hot, and the…
Galactic HorrorsA Research Vessel Entered An Ancient Gate. What Lurks Beyond Feeds On Unseen Reality
On the far side of an unmapped gate, reality stays put only while someone is watching. Lieutenant David Harrell expects Gate Eleven to be another routine…
Galactic HorrorsSpace Explorers Found A Megastructure. It Is Breeding Civilizations
On the far side of an unmapped gate, reality stays put only while someone is watching. Lieutenant David Harrell expects Gate Eleven to be another routine…
Galactic HorrorsHumanity Kept This Planet Frozen For 200 Years. The Reason Is HORRIFYING
On a planet locked in a two-hundred-year winter, eleven hundred survivors depend on a deep thermal bore for heat. When instruments detect an impossible warm…
Galactic HorrorsThe Military Sent An Assault Team 300 Years Into The Future
Staff Sergeant Peter Landry watched Ben Carver die four years ago. Now Carver is standing three centuries in the future. Landry's unit has been sent through a…
Galactic HorrorsAn Abandoned Arctic Station Was Hiding A Terrifying Secret Beneath The Ice
Paul Denny is surveying a dead Cold War station when his radar finds rows of soldiers standing upright beneath the ice, wired to machines that should have…
Galactic HorrorsAfter 700 Years In Deep Space, Humanity Reached Its Destination. The Universe Was Empty
After seven hundred years in transit, Director Parrish opens his generation ship’s observation shields to reveal humanity’s promised destination. The star is…
Galactic HorrorsA Military Team Stepped Through A Portal To A Parallel Earth. Evolution There Went Horribly Wrong
Six-man survey team crosses a Magellan Gate expecting a lightly settled alien world. Instead they emerge onto a rust-colored Earth scattered with abandoned…
Galactic HorrorsA Space Survey Team Found Something Unspeakable. It Wears The Faces Of The Dead
Four hundred meters before the map says it should, the road turns to teeth. Ray Colter has worked enough frontier security jobs to know when a contract is…
Galactic HorrorsA Dead Gas Giant Has A Horrifying Secret Hiding In Its Lower Atmosphere
Rian Hadley is fourteen runs from freedom when his atmospheric scrubber starts pulling living tissue out of a poisoned gas giant. Disgraced, unlicensed, and…
Galactic HorrorsDeep-Core Miners On A Frozen Planet Accidentally Awakened A Subglacial Bio-Engine
Ray Dunford knows the Kelvin-3 drill has one dangerous flaw: its sensors understand Nevada geology, not an alien world. Procurement says the software update…
Galactic HorrorsA Deep Space Prison Uses Crushing Gravity To Restrain Inmates. Tonight, They Break Out
Tartarus Station was designed so its prisoners would never need walls. At the asteroid prison’s outer rim, spin-generated gravity holds maximum-security…
Galactic HorrorsA 3-Million-Year-Old Vessel Drifted Into The Solar System. It Hides A TERRIFYING Secret
A generation ship built three million years in humanity’s future has come home, and its interior is made from the dead. Paul Weaver has spent fifteen years…
Galactic Horrors60 Astronauts Entered The Singularity Engine. Only One Body Came Back
Sixty astronauts entered the Singularity Engine. One man came back carrying all of them. Flight neuropsychologist Dr. Hale chose the crew, and now he is the…
Galactic HorrorsXeno-Archaeologists Decoded A 600,000-Year-Old Warning. They Woke Up An Extraterrestrial Horror
Four hundred alien obelisks stand on Kepler-9e, and Vanguard Consortium is cutting them down faster than its archaeologist can learn what they mean. After…
Galactic HorrorsA Quantum Experiment Opened A Window To The 28th Century. The Survivors Are Fleeing A Dying Sun
A six-minute quantum experiment opens a bridge seven hundred years into humanity's future, and cryogenic engineer Art Lawson is the only man keeping it alive…
Galactic HorrorsSix Million Passengers Returned From Deep Space. Their True Origin Is A Biological Harvest
For fourteen years, quarantine physician Noah has decided when crews from sealed orbital habitats are safe to come home. Then a vessel the size of a small moon…
Galactic HorrorsA Deep Space Outpost Was Built To Seal A Dimensional Tear. Something Is Leaking Through
At the edge of chartered space, twelve living gates are dying one by one around a dimensional rupture. The Bio-Industrial Splicer assigned to keep them alive…
Galactic HorrorsThe First FTL Ship Returned From Deep Space As A Biomechanical Nightmare
Humanity's first faster-than-light jump succeeds. Six hours later, the test ship returns to its Kuiper Belt quarantine berth at exactly 812 degrees Celsius…
Galactic HorrorsAn Alien Species Showed Up In Earth's Orbit. What It Truly Wants Is HORRIFYING
A living alien ship has fused itself to an orbital station, and linguist Eric Taylor has volunteered to let it wire a translator into his spine. The graft…
Galactic HorrorsI Was Part Of The Solar Mission To Study The Sun. It’s Not A Star, It’s A Harvesting Organ
Brian Kelley has spent twenty years listening to the sun. Then it starts sounding alive. At Solstice, an isolated Antarctic observatory, the chronically…
Galactic HorrorsWe Found Every Missing Ship in History At The Bottom Of The Trench
A deep-sea salvage expedition discovers thousands of wrecks arranged around an unexplored trench: galleons, submarines, vanished freighters—and ships that…