Messages From... ? | Completed Audio Fiction

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Ah, the old "found footage" trope. It's popular in both TV and film, just like it in the world of audio fiction. But without the shaky cam, which I think we can all agree is a good thing. Listen to these stories, all of which have some type of message from... the other side, outer space, or somewhere else as the main plot device.

As he listens, stories will be removed from this list and, hopefully, added to other Collections and possibly get that coveted Recommended badge!

Recordings have surfaced of ten people that are locked into the same space together. We don’t know where they are, or if they'll get out. But the answers must be somewhere on these tapes.

The Deca Tapes

Dramatized scifi mystery series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Q3 2025

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Messages from a fledgling, human colony on a mysterious alien world can be heard between bursts of interstellar radio static…

The Oasis Transmissions

Dramatized scifi series

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In 2057, Earth sends the first manned missions to Mars on a one-way trip to establish a permanent, sustainable human presence on another world. This is the story of what happened.

Transmissions From Colony One

Dramatized hard scifi series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Nov 2024

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Two years after her brilliant and schizophrenic brother Mark's tragic suicide, Jenny Krantz discovers six voice messages that he left specifically for her. These messages lead Jenny on an epic journey from New York City to the remote wilds of the Mojave desert.

Sonarius: The Mysteries of M

Narrated fiction

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You haven’t been back home in years, but the old answering machine is filled with messages from a high school friend named John. JOHN FROM BACK HOME is about leaving friends behind, keeping secrets hidden, and the dangers of trying to live someone else’s life.

John From Back Home

Dramatized horror mystery series

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Meet Alice – a burnt-out barista who turns to the Dark Web to pay off her student debt. But when cybercrime pulls her deeper than she could have ever imagined, only one question remains: can Alice get out before it’s too late?

The Hacker Chronicles

Dramatized thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

Unknown

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Three years after the Great Ice Sheet Collapse, a former bigwig must defend his climate legacy to his long-lost niece before she will grant him his final wish. Now they must fight against an AI-dominated world to find redemption.

Court of the Grandchildren

Dramatized sci-fi courtroom audio drama

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Since she was a child Jac has been receiving mysterious and disturbing cassette tapes in the mail from an unknown sender. This podcast listens to and discusses each tape while trying to discover who is sending these tapes and why they are sending them to Jac.

Tapes From Beyond

Dramatized horror series

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When video collector Mark watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a strange language. Mark and his girlfriend set out to investigate the tape’s origin and find themselves caught up in a web of conspiracy, occult, and a legendary video store with a sinister purpose.

Video Palace

Dramatized horror series

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Set in a futuristic United Kingdom where Dome-covered cities are governed by the Happiness Programme—a government-mandated drug eliminating negative emotions for universal bliss. Lurking beneath the Dome’s facade of utopia, a few individuals remain immune to the drug’s influence.

Everyone’s Happy

Dramatised scifi

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Dec 2024

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In October of 2011, 4 college students disappeared in the woods while researching a documentary on children’s author Jakob Stanley. Recently, their recordings appeared online. In an effort to aid in the investigation, the families of those missing have agreed to release the recovered sound files.

TELL ME A STORY: THE TRUE LIFE OF JAKOB STANLEY

Dramatized horror mystery series

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Unknown

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Five years ago, Molly, Bryan, and Nathan started a podcast on the local legend of The Blackwood Bugman. The legends are true, people are turning up dead, and someone is watching them. Their recordings have finally been released.

Blackwood

Dramatized horror series

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When Red Tail National park shuts down due to a possible ecological disaster, three campers continued their trips, and two park rangers stayed to keep an eye on the radios. Recordings from these individuals were recovered and we now try to make sense of what happened.

Do You Copy?

Dramatized horror series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 2 now releasing

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1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Jul 22, 2024

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When an isolated woman starts recording her dreams of strange women, things get weird. Over nine nights, reality becomes fantasy, past and future meld, and fate binds and beckons. What happens when these women come together, connecting across time and space as worlds die?

Wyrd Woman

Dramatized modern slipstream fantasy series

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Danny Vanderwilks takes us wherever he goes like a heroic wartime journalist mixed with a fumbling sports commentator, on a self-imposed mission to fix the world and make friends—or be humiliated and die horribly.

Fire Pockets

Narrated scifi comedy mystery series

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Follow our troubled heroine, Christine, as she documents strange and disturbing experiences that have begun to plague her. While she defies classifying her experience as a psychotic break…the day might not be long when she wishes it were.

ergo antz

Dramatized horror thriller series

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Unknown

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When her daughter dies of a drug overdose, a mother suspects there is more to the story and launches her own investigation. Taking great risks and diving into the underworld, the mother confronts the criminals who led her daughter down a tragic path and discovers a powerful truth.

Let Me Tell You About My Murder

Dramatized mystery thriller

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TBD

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In the spring of 2022, the 44 Division of the Toronto Police Service discovered the burnt remains of Rachel Amina Darwish, Daniel Brewer, and Mitig Biskane, in southern Ontario, Canada.

Everyone and No One

Narrated murder mystery series

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Unknown

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A team of xenoarchaeologists travel to distant worlds searching for traces of a now-vanished alien race. Each season brings a new site, new secrets and new dangers.

Among the Stars and Bones

Dramatized sci-fi mystery horror series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 2 now releasing

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When multiple residents of an Australian country town report seeing a strange object in the night sky, skeptical local cop Kyle Grinham takes upon himself to investigate. But as he does, Kyle stirs up all kinds of secrets in this sleepy coastal village - some of which are his own.

Hovering

Dramatised small town mystery/drama

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Oct 2024

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In 2018, famed horror writer Anna Sheridan disappeared, leaving behind only a box of mysterious cassette tapes. Detective Sam Bailey is tasked with piecing together what happened to Anna Sheridan from the seemingly impossible encounters she recorded.

The Sheridan Tapes

Dramatized horror/mystery series

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A human and an A.I on the first ever faster-than-light speed ship find themselves twice as far as they meant to go, with no fuel for a return flight. As they work together to solve the problem, they forge a friendship that could change the course of human history.

Ask Your Father

Dramatized scifi drama romance thriller series

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Sara and Noah wake up in complete darkness, trapped miles below the Denver International Airport (DIA). As they struggle for freedom from a mind-bending labyrinth filled with unimaginable horrors. Their only hope could come from the complete stranger they can send voice messages to.

Escaping Denver

Dramatized scifi thriller series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 4 now releasing

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New Season Begins Oct 21, 2024

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A story of love, madness, murder, mysteries and dead gods set in the1920's. It is an epistolary audio drama as told by Jon and Elizabeth to each other in their letters, with the action in Season Two focussed on Egypt, as well as Ireland and England.

This House Will Devour You

Narrated horror series

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Unknown

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When her home speaker begins picking up her neighbors’ conversations, lonely Julia becomes increasingly obsessed with her neighbors’ lives. What begins as a voyeuristic endeavor devolves into a situation with real world consequences, and she realizes she doesn’t know who to trust.

Listening In

Dramatized thriller series

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Follow seasoned smuggler Kilner and reluctant fugitive Samantha as they travel the galaxy, dodging bullets and meeting strange and wonderful beings as they carry out odd jobs on the fringes of the law.

We Fix Space Junk

Dramatized scifi comedy series

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Archive 81 is a fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious.

Archive 81

Dramatized horror series

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Unknown

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For years, Hero Trackers has covered the biggest news in the world of super powered heroics. What we didn’t know—some of the most influential cases all had one thing in common: Vigil. Join us as we uncover who Vigil was and the impact he had on some of the most well-known supers of our age.

Vigil

Dramatized superhero series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Jan 2025

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Dov Kandel has spent the better part of two decades exposing vast government conspiracies and exploring unsettling paranormal phenomena on his popular talk radio program. After interviewing thousands of callers and guests, he’s certain he’s heard it all. His next guest will prove him wrong.

Forbidden Cassettes: Consummation

Dramatized analog cosmic horror series

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Matthew is a surveying intern at a new nature preserve being established by the PA State Park Service, making audio notes as he goes. He has just found a frog that he cannot identify. It only gets stranger when the frog speaks.

A Somewhat Peculiar Frog

Dramatized scifi series

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The Phosphene Catalogue is a 1970s mail-order catalogue, specialising in those items that cannot be sold at other auction houses: Paintings of lost origin, statues that are too grotesque for public display, and books better left unread.

The Phosphene Catalogue

Narrated found-footage magical realism series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 2 now releasing

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Journeys to the limits of technology. An alien transmission from decades ago becomes an urgent puzzle. Digital ressurection bridges the gap between life and death. .

LifeAfter/The Message

Dramatized scifi series

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The journal entries of those that toil away at the machine. Be careful dear listener, or you may find yourself under it’s same compulsion.

This Machine Belongs To

Dramatized horror series

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From the phone line the residents call to check on the rain, to the mayor who insists he won the election that never occurred, to the two rival funeral directors’ hoping to put each other in a casket - listen to updates from the community who turn minor inconveniences into someone else’s problems.

Back to Dunbracken

Dramatized small town sketch comedy series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Q3 2025

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Alone in the house with the children asleep upstairs, Jill begins to receive telephone calls from an unknown man. Her attempts to understand why he's targeting her only heighten her fear forcing her to take extreme measures to ensure her safety.

The Caller

Dramatized horror series

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A woman who has just gotten a job as a CCTV operator at the increasingly-suspicious Atlas Consulting. She leaves voicemails for her sister, who never seems to answer her calls. And then her reality becomes a little less solid.

Before The Tone

Dramatized scifi horror series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for 2026

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When he discovers something beneath the static of the worlds’s communication network, an unnamed Observer begins to catalog and record the strange signals that should not exist…

Observable Radio

Dramatized scifi horror series

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Slated for May 2025

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Follow an ongoing experiment and its largely willing participants. As they grapple with their involvement, they must piece together who they are, what they’re doing, and what the experiment truly entails: all while struggling with the mysteries of their past and the uncertainty of their present.

Error 313

Dramatized scifi series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Oct 2025

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A cis man obsessed with the past and a trans woman trying to find her future fall in love at the end of the world.

The Transient Bliss of Death by Fallout

Dramatized post-apocalyptic queer love story

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Tom Slick: Mystery Hunter follows Tom Slick (Owen Wilson) on his 1958 Yeti hunt, revealed through hidden tapes discovered by his granddaughter Liv (Schuyler Fisk). As Liv uncovers the secrets of her grandfather's legendary and mysterious life, she unravels his greatest adventure.

Tom Slick: Mystery Hunter

Dramatised history adventure series

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