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Subterranean Stories

Whether exploring caves, navigating a labyrinth, living in an underground city, or dealing with denizens of creatures beneath our feet, this collection features tales that take place, for the most part, below ground. Check your claustrophobia at the door, I guess?
As he listens, stories will be removed from this list and, hopefully, added to other Collections and possibly get that coveted Recommended badge!
Subterranean Stories
A collection of tales from a strange, bleak, and beautiful world where all creatures great and small, ambitious and content, must come together and make something like “civilisation”.
Tales From The Low City
Narrated post-apocalyptic fantasy series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
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
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
3 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins Oct 21, 2024
Recommended
The search for a 21st Century urban explorer who stumbled onto a disturbing discovery while vlogging an abandoned scientific research facility. This centuries-spanning story explores the sacrifices people make in order to leave an imprint on the world, even if it means hurting others along the way.
Regina Prime
Dramatized scifi mystery microfiction series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
On the night of May 10, 2007, three boys entered a cave in Mantawauk County, Tennessee. Only one made it out alive. The other two were found ten days later. They had been attacked by someone - or something.
The Mantawauk Caves
Dramatized horror mystery series
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
Above: The estate. Below: Caves, and a thousand stories.... Secret passages and doors, a lake, a garden even - according to some. Tonight: A final underground rave. Tomorrow: The demolition of the estate, shutting off the caves forever.
Beneath Our Feet
Dramatized urban fantasy
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
Something strange is going on in Spire. After the death of one of the city’s most important figures, change is in the air. But when two inhabitants of the city find themselves swapping places back and forth, they realise just how curious Spire is. And exactly how deep down the rabbit hole goes.
Spire
Dramatized scifi series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
An expedition is launched into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit. The company-backed research submarine Virgil is elegant, state-of-the-art, and capable of withstanding enormous pressures. The same cannot be said for her crew.
Down
Dramatized sci-fi horror series
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
A mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present and future, and; trying to remember the level select cheat from Sonic 2.
Red Valley
Dramatized scifi thriller series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
3 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
The Earth is almost uninhabitable. Some will be protected underground while the rest must stay above ground. The Ministry of Experience must find a way to conserve resources until they're able to relocate to “Eden." Its existence is the last hope for the human race.
The Oyster
Narrated scifi series
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
Ace scavenges for his existence in a massive, underground bunker. An outcast, he’s always on the run from security forces, AI robots, and mutant creatures. Alone in this world, his only desire is to escape Subterra and see the sun for the first time in his life. But what waits on the surface?
Subterra
Dramatized scifi series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
2 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
Follow Seth as he steps into the unknown and unravels the mysteries of an underground facility, and AICS the enigmatic AI designed to help him survive. Can she be trusted or is she a hidden adversary?
The Box
Dramatized sci-fi mystery series
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
One hundred years after a cataclysmic event, three friends decide to host a radio programme from their underground bunker, complete with guests, interviews, short stories and music. And the possibility of starvation, madness, monsters – both metaphorical and literal – and, worst of all, each other.
The Bunker
Dramatized post-apocalyptic comedy radio series
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
As a fearless reporter steps inside the Knock Knock club in search of the missing mayor, beneath the cabaret he discovers a much bigger problem than the disappearance of the mayor. He discovers a city-wide issue that is ready to erupt.
Vivika Widow's Knock Knock
Narrated thriller series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
3 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
When what’s beneath the floorboards is revealed and the picturesque facade of suburban life is stripped bare, the cracks in the foundation can’t be ignored. Possession takes audiences on a harrowing journey into the dark realities of middle-class life, prejudice, and a system rigged.
Possession
Dramatized modern horror tale
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
Our Fair City is a campy, post-apocalyptic audio drama from Audacious Machine Creative.
Our Fair City
Dramatized scifi comedy series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
2 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
Struck by a recent loss, Matt turns to spelunking for solace. As Matt battles grief, he questions if the caves are playing tricks or if something else lurks within. The Grotto is a liminal horror podcast that explores the thin line between grief, pain, mourning, and loss.
The Grotto
Dramatized horror romance series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins Aug 30, 2024
Recommended
A UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden apocalyptic world. An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavours to find answers in the wreckage.
Wake Of Corrosion
Dramatized scifi series
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
4 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
A science fiction audio drama following humanity’s first interstellar mission, already underway for 92 years. Features a full cast of ~30 actors, stereo effects, realistic physics, big ideas, ethical dilemmas, and plausible aliens.
253 Mathilde
Dramatized scifi series
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
3 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
A behind-the-curtain look into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, told through the lenses of the creator of the game, Gary Gygax, played by Wil Wheaton and of private investigator, William Dear, played by Jon Hamm, a swashbuckling tough guy in 1979.
Dungeon Masters
Dramatized thriller mystery series
Limited Series Fully Released
Limited Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
A fantasy audio drama that explores ancient ruins, sails the high seas, and questions whether friendship truly is magic—all while cracking pirate skulls and dabbling in high explosives! Can three unlikely heroes keep from arguing long enough to thwart a diabolical conspiracy?
Omen
Dramatized fantasy adventure series
Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released
Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
1 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended

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