Galactic Horrors
byGalactic Horrors
FictionScience
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. Hosted on...
Episodes(40 episodes)
We 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. After forty nights of unanswered prayer, the chaplain who talked thirty-four families out of Kansas kneels there to beg for rain. Before dawn, silver shapes come down out of the hills on their knees, and rain falls on the fields and nowhere else.The stone grants one prayer a night, exactly as spoken. Soon the whole settlement lines up at sunset with its sentences rehearsed, and the...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 1h 19m 39s
At 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 every child aboard is taught to blame. In thirty years, not one boy has come back. Not one has sent home so much as a bone.No one aboard has ever seen the enemy. So the rifle instructor who trains every class gave it a face himself: a towering monster of welded scrap and stitched canvas, built from the nightmares six-year-olds draw for him. The boys grow up beneath...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 1h 20m 33s
We 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 feet have worn knee-deep into solid rock, and sit on the steps of a great hall with the calmest faces a veteran surveyor has ever seen. Inside that hall stand rows of bone-white frames.He is here on a black expedition, kept off every record by the nameless men who buy and sell the labor contracts of convicts. Then he watches a frame take hold of the city's...
Published: Oct 22, 2026Duration: 1h 31m 8s
I 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. Officially, they are away on fieldwork, and the army now fills the station with punished men.On his first night there, a storeman stripped of his stripes for selling his own soldiers' boots is cut from elbow to wrist by something he cannot see. Then the lamplight shows him the yard. Dozens of towering, eyeless things stand among the barracks, lifting sleeping soldiers out of their bunks by one ankle and...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 1h 24m 44s
The 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, and they keep sinking.The cargo is a warm grey stone the size of a fist, heavy enough to bend the light around it, resting on a stack of steel plates it is slowly falling through. The man paid to haul it has one rule: never stop longer than it takes to fuel. A voice on a sealed radio picks every stop.Along Interstate 80, people...
Published: Oct 20, 2026Duration: 1h 20m 40s
A 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 closer a boat dares to go. Each time he comes up short, the cannery that owns his trawler rivets another iron plate to her bow, and the newest one now sits at the waterline. One more short season will cost him his boat.The only water rich enough to save him lies beyond the Barren Ring, where no bird flies and no net comes up with anything...
Published: Oct 19, 2026Duration: 1h 12m 29s
A 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 the dark. Every one except the farm town where half the town slid sideways across flat ground overnight and stopped as neatly as a train at a platform.Six years later, the believers who stayed behind send for a man with a digging machine. They have a god buried under their broken town, and they want it dug out.They drink...
Published: Oct 18, 2026Duration: 1h 13m 50s
For 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 dropped from orbit cave in the tunnels of a burrowing enemy, and his signature certifies the ground has fallen. Every crater he signs is a piece of the war that is over.Then a crater he sealed in the spring opens again. The thousand tons of stone he dropped into its tunnel are gone. The bone-hard door behind it should be cold. It is warm, and it gives...
Published: Oct 17, 2026Duration: 1h 11m 20s
A 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 equipment twice. Nothing is wrong.Two years later, after other amateurs have caught the sky in small mistakes of their own, the nation's beloved space program offers him a seat on a flight to the edge of the solar system. Aboard, the sky reaches the crew on screens, redrawn every second. One man refuses to look at them: an aging map historian who plots their course by hand...
Published: Oct 16, 2026Duration: 1h 12m 34s
On 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 thousand people's worth of water and oats, stamps the box, and goes home to bed.Then one census officer finds a man in a gray work shirt who has let himself into a family's quarters at the same minute every night for eleven years. His own files show he has found this stranger thirty-one times, closed every case as spoilage, and signed each one himself. He remembers none of them.<...
Published: Oct 15, 2026Duration: 1h 15m 37s
Gas 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 move, he doesn't call dispatch. Pilots who report things under the clouds get papered for pressure psychosis and never fly again.He calls the barge's old winch operator instead, a nearly deaf man who hears the storm through a copper rod in his teeth and swears a mean old cow lies under the weather, eating a pilot now and then. Don't light her, the old man warns. The pilot fires...
Published: Oct 14, 2026Duration: 1h 27m 25s
An 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 expects this one buried in ice. Instead he finds his client folded backward under the basement stairs, eyes sealed under amber, mouth sealed over broken teeth. Cold. Not breathing. Somehow still alive.By dawn, soldiers have fenced in the subdivision. Something has come down a few streets over, and from the bottom of its crater, it knocks. Neighbors arch backward in their beds. Dogs go hairless and sprout...
Published: Oct 13, 2026Duration: 1h 39m 13s
An 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 face it.A navy tug admiral has strung sixteen overloaded refugee haulers behind his ship, fleeing the dying farm moons for a heavy world. Something follows them that no instrument can detect, betrayed only by the stars behind it, bent into rings around perfect black.It takes the last ship first. Her weight drains away until hair lifts off every...
Published: Oct 12, 2026Duration: 1h 16m 21s
The 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 mission will take him across a Siberian winter at fifty below.An anonymous package warns of a rogue Soviet weapon hidden in the taiga, a gun that hurls steel with electricity, aimed over the top of the world at an American radar station in Alaska. It will be ready by the winter solstice. Bombers can't go, and a team would be heard. So the Army drops one...
Published: Oct 11, 2026Duration: 1h 59m 41s
The 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 exactly how to kill.For eleven months, a retired infantry sergeant trained them to clear every room of a secret military station without speaking. Now a catastrophic thaw has left them trapped inside those drills. They move in pairs through the bunker, sweeping its corridors and killing anyone in their path. The sergeant knows their tactics better than anyone. He taught them every move.With the power failing and...
Published: Oct 10, 2026Duration: 1h 29m 30s
Mining 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: retrieve a strange object from the assay bay and leave the dead to the company chaplain. For the breach specialist sent in first, the payout is worth three years of ordinary wages. Then something built from welded human bones rolls out of the dark, and the team discovers that the missing miners have not finished working.Whatever came up from the planet's deep bore has turned the station's...
Published: Oct 9, 2026Duration: 1h 23m 32s
I 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 a hidden lunar installation, the prisoners are forced through lethal habitat tests while an experimental drug turns fear into obedience. Orders become relief. Hesitation becomes agony. And every time a man follows the voice over the loudspeaker, resisting the next command grows harder.One union organizer realizes the experiment is not only measuring obedience, it is teaching it. But a frightened group can st...
Published: Oct 8, 2026Duration: 1h 37m 11s
Our 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 descends toward the surface, bringing crushing pressure, darkness, and death.Across the salt flats, a former freight dispatcher leads more than five hundred refugees toward a coastal evacuation port. Their aging ore tractors burn rendered animal fat, their engines consume precious drinking water, and every breath risks filling their lungs with razor-sharp glass. With the deadly front descending faster than expected, their only chance is a shorter route through...
Published: Oct 7, 2026Duration: 1h 48m 1s
Forty 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 they catch. The bunker's saltkeeper knows how to make human nerves useless to the machines, but every protective injection slowly poisons the people he's trying to save.With the filters collapsing, the settlement's leader plans a desperate march to a distant outpost. There isn't enough salt to protect everyone, and an adult dose can kill a child. Then the saltkeeper discovers one material the spreading rot cannot consume: the translucent membrane of...
Published: Oct 6, 2026Duration: 1h 58m 8s
We 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, and sending them into the dark. Then the number on an ancient navigation slate begins to fall. A piece of forgotten debris is drawing nearer, though neither ship nor object has accelerated.What the aft lenses reveal is worse: every corpse and scrap ever cast behind the ship is still there, packed into a vast drifting wake. Old broadcasts begin returning in reverse. Space itself seems...
Published: Oct 5, 2026Duration: 1h 8m 32s