Galactic Horrors
by Galactic Horrors
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About this podcast
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 plausible, this is your channel.
All stories, artwork, and thumbnails are original to Galactic Horrors. We do not accept submissions. Disclosure: This show includes AI-generated elements.
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Episodes
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- We Found An Abandoned Space Station Orbiting Mars. What We Saw Inside Was HORRIFYING · 1 h 18 minFour years into a survey of the asteroid belt, a small ship is nearly out of water, and the closest supply is the quarantine station orbiting Mars, where everyone leaving the…
- For 100 Years We’ve Dropped Our Losing Crews Into Jupiter. Then Something Climbed Out · 1 h 18 minFor eight years, the head of a minor house on Callisto has chosen which of his people go up to the ring above Jupiter. There each house docks a sealed module packed with men…
- We Travel To The Moon Through A Portal. A Hellish Creature Got Stuck Inside It · 1 h 20 minFor eighteen years, a colony at the Moon's south pole has lived on what comes through a gate of two iron rings, one in Houston and one in a lunar crater. Food, mail and every…
- Monstrous Black Petals Rise From The Sea, Close Over Our Boats And Carry Them Skyward · 1 h 18 minWhen a trawler goes silent off the coast of Newfoundland, a Coast Guard lifeboat crewman helps search for her and finds only a circle of black water lying flat in a gale. Weeks…
- We Landed On Neptune's Moon Triton. Something Else Was There Already · 1 h 28 minA government geologist has spent twenty years mapping Triton, Neptune's frozen moon, from a desk in Arizona. When new orbital pictures show rows of pale shapes standing on its…
- In 1958, The Atomic Energy Commission Gave Out Free Houses. Monstrous Things Grew In The Beds · 1 h 21 minIn 1958, a soft-spoken man from the Atomic Energy Commission offers a newly widowed Montana mine worker free rent on a street the government has quietly bought. The price is one…
- A Ship The Size Of A Mountain Range At The Edge Of The Solar System Never Let Anyone Die. Or Leave · 1 h 5 minOut past Neptune, where crews tow comets sunward for their water, a tug's drive engineer wakes warm and unhurt inside the robot rescue ship that swallowed his crew's wreck. Its…
- The World’s Largest Particle Accelerator Made A Thing That Is Eating Its Way Through Rock, Steel And Men · 1 h 39 minFor three years, an American cave surveyor working for CERN has kept a secret beneath the Large Hadron Collider: a forgotten smugglers' cave, far below the collider's tunnel…
- Past Saturn, We’re Paid To Hammer Open The Veins Of A Nightmare The Size Of A Moon · 1 h 22 minFor eleven years he has driven piles into the Mississippi as the second man on somebody else's rig. When a mining company offers him a hammer of his own, the work is seven weeks…
- I Signed Up To Test Cryosleep For One Year And Woke Up 4,106 Years Later · 1 h 18 minOn Alaska's dying North Slope, a pipeline welder lets a nineteen-year-old apprentice carry the blame for the failed weld that killed the boy. Facing an inquiry, he signs up to be…
- We Harpoon Giant Creatures In Space For Their Oil · 1 h 20 minFor twenty years he has been the cleanest cutter on a hunting ship that harpoons the slow beasts grazing the dark between the stars. Their oil keeps a frontier colony alive far…
- We Spent Six Hours At The Bottom Of The Mariana Trench. 400 Years Passed On The Surface · 1 h 19 minNearly seven miles beneath the Pacific, a three-man submersible mapping the Mariana Trench finds what no chart has ever shown: a perfectly round shaft cut into the rock, with…
- At The Edge Of The Solar System, We Opened An Ancient Tomb Holding Six Billion Graves · 1 h 11 minNine hundred times farther from the Sun than Earth, a tug captain has spent nineteen years cutting comets into ice for worlds he will never see. When his engineer's scan finds a…
- We Drilled Into A Lake Buried Under The Uzbek Desert. Something Has Been Waiting There Since 1977 · 1 h 23 minIn 1977, a Soviet water crew abandoned its drilling camp in the Uzbek desert, and the men who never came home were written off as deserters. One of them left a four-year-old son…
- A Living Alien Toured With Our Carnival For Years. Then One Night, The Visitors Came · 1 h 20 minIn 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 sideshow Martian…
- We Chain Men To Posts Out On The Ice Every Night. The Guns Behind Us Wait For One To Scream · 1 h 29 minFor 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 the war stalls on a…
- On The Gulf Coast, A Whole Town Cuts Its Power Before Nightmares Crawl Ashore · 1 h 18 minEvery 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 blinds, families…
- The Most Terrifying Weapon America Ever Used · 1 h 20 minIn 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 to a night route…
- In A West Virginia Mill City, A Reactor Explosion Slowed Time To A Crawl · 1 h 13 minWhen 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 has never seen…
- We Asked For Miracles On A Distant World. The Things That Delivered Them Were Not Human · 1 h 19 minA 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. After forty nights of…
- At The Edge Of Human Space, The Last Garrison Has Lost Every Son It Ever Sent · 1 h 20 minEvery 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 every child aboard is…
- We Found A World Where 10-Foot Giant Aliens Are Walking · 1 h 31 minOn 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 feet have worn…
- I Was Sent Ahead Of Everyone Into A Nightmare Forest Where The Giants Hunt · 1 h 24 minTwo winters ago, something escaped from the laboratory at a secret army research station deep in the northern pines. The scientists vanished the same night. Officially, they are…
- The Secret Cargo Moving Across America Sinks People Straight Into The Earth · 1 h 20 minEvery 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, and they keep…
- A Planet's Entire Ocean Pours Into A Bottomless Cosmic Abyss That Never Fills · 1 h 12 minFor 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 closer a boat dares…
- A Colony Hired Me To Dig Up Their Sleeping God · 1 h 13 minFor 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 the dark. Every…
- For 10 Years, The Army Bombed The Aliens Underground. They Were Keeping Something Asleep · 1 h 11 minFor 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 dropped from orbit…
- A Space Expedition Traveled Past Jupiter And Found A Wall · 1 h 12 minOne 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 equipment twice…
- On A 300-Year Generation Ship, The Erased Population Formed A Hidden Society Of Invisible Humans · 1 h 15 minOn 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 thousand people's…
- Gas Miners Discovered Something Living Beneath The Saturn Storms · 1 h 27 minSaturn 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 move, he doesn't call…
- An Alien Artifact Crashed On Earth. It Reconstructs Humans Into Living Nightmares · 1 h 39 minThe 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 expects this one…
- An Invisible Cosmic Predator Is Hunting Thousands Of Space Refugees · 1 h 16 minWhen 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 face it. A navy…
- The Soviets Built A Gun The Size Of A Train. It Turned Siberia Into A Boiling Hell · 1 h 59 minHis 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 mission will take him…
- The Military Froze Elite Soldiers For The Apocalypse · 1 h 29 minDeep beneath the Greenland ice, eighteen frozen soldiers wake before their minds are ready. They cannot recognize the people around them, but they remember exactly how to kill…
- Mining Colony Found An ALIEN ARTIFACT. It Turns Human Flesh Into Puppets · 1 h 23 minSeven weeks after an orbital mining platform stops transmitting, the first thing a containment team hears is the rattle of human teeth. Their orders are: retrieve a strange…
- I Woke Up In A Secret Army Base On The Moon · 1 h 37 minA 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 a hidden lunar…
- Our World's Orbital Mirror Ring Shattered. Now The Entire Sky Is Falling · 1 h 48 minWhen 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 descends toward the…
- Forty Years Ago, Something Fell In The Pacific. Now Earth Is A Biomechanical Hell · 1 h 58 minForty-one years after something fell into the Pacific, an alien jungle has swallowed the surface. Its towering harvesters strip the nervous systems from anyone they catch. The…
- We Escaped Earth 600 Years Ago. Something Is Following Us · 1 h 8 minFor 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, and sending them…
- Our Orbital Collider Tore Reality Open. Three Overlapping Dimensions Just Bled Together · 1 h 7 minAfter an accelerator accident, the doctor aboard a four-man orbital research station begins seeing rooms that should not exist. One version matches the station around him…
- Exploring A Secret Soviet Cryo-Vault Two Miles Under The Ice: The Warning Said "Do Not Descend" · 1 h 10 minSixty 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. Russian translator Burke…
- The Verrin Incident: An Elite Clearance Squad Dropped Straight Into Hell · 1 h 22 minEight 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 squad expects an…
- We Boarded A Classified Space Station That Fed Its Crew To A Cosmic Horror · 1 h 6 minSite 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, they find the crew…
- Imperial Warships Invaded An Alien Planet. It Woke Up And Swallowed Them · 60 minWarrant 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 a bog, its armor…
- Deep In Montana, A Nuclear Bunker Was Sealed For 30 Years. I Am The Last Human Inside · 59 minFor thirty years, Captain Raymond Tolliver has kept watch beneath a ruined America, maintaining a nuclear missile that was never launched and sharing the bunker with the…
- FTL Travel Takes A Microsecond. The Entity Inside Takes A Lifetime · 59 minWhen 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. The fold is…
- Military Recon Squad Deployed Through A Stargate. It Was An Alien Proving Ground · 52 minFourteen soldiers cross an experimental gate into an unknown structure. Seconds later, the way home disappears. What should have been a four-hour reconnaissance sweep becomes a…
- Top Secret Underground Facility Went Dark. Something Below Sub-Level 9 Is Climbing Up · 58 minNineteen hours after a buried containment facility goes silent, Investigator Callahan descends into a vault where every door is open and the surviving guards insist containment…
- Empire Sent 600 Soldiers To A Silent Foundry Planet. They Found A Mechanical Hell · 1 h 16 minMajor 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 mount, breathing on…
- Soldiers Returned From War 2,000 Years Later. Humanity Had Evolved Into Something Bizarre · 1 h 11 minStaff Sergeant Nate Hollis returns from a six-week campaign to discover that six centuries have passed without him. Relativistic deployment has kept Nate and Second Platoon…
