A late-night news reporter chasing a potential Bigfoot sighting in the Indianapolis woods uncovers a humorous misunderstanding—only to stumble upon something far more unsettling and unexplainable in the shadows.

When humanity unlocks the language of whales, they uncover ancient truths, haunting questions, and a silence that might hold the key to their own fate.

During the midnight shift at a hospital, a nurse encounters a mysterious woman named Margaret, who claims to be a “shift walker”—a nurse trapped in time, forever working the same hours across different eras.

On an ordinary day in Times Square, Robie, the world’s first mobile sales robot, rolls through the crowds with charm and ingenuity—until an unthinkable disaster puts his programming to the test.

When a mysterious news segment predicts events that begin unfolding in real life, producer Lena Harper is thrust into a chilling puzzle where reality bends and the future seems already written.

Aboard a ship recovering the dead from an endless interstellar war, a man faces a grim moral dilemma when an enemy official—presumed dead—awakens with a deadly mission that could decide the fate of the galaxy.

In a world where everyone has everything, some people begin to question whether the comforts of their modern world are worth the cost.

In this episode we have the third and final act of our first miniseries, The Illusion of Unity. In act two, after learning there was a fleet of alien ships on their way to Earth and they would reach us in 75 years, the human race banded together to create our own ships to intercept them. Now, in the conclusion, it’s time to meet our interstellar neighbors.

In the future, society perfects time travel, so naturally they use it to send prisoners to the primordial Earth. This decision has some unintended consequences.

In this episode we have the second act of our first miniseries, The Illusion of Unity. In act one, the human race learned they weren’t alone in the universe, and our neighbors were on the way for a visit. But these aliens were traveling at sub-light speed, and will take 75 years to reach us. In this episode, we have to decide what to do next.

This week’s story is Gambit by Cobelle, an original story we’ll be sharing for the first time on Auditory Anthology. A fragmented consciousness trapped in an endless quantum game of timelines and possibilities struggles to remember its humanity while endlessly shaping and collapsing the universe.

In this special episode, we present the opening act of a three-part miniseries “The Illusion of Unity.” When an amatuer radio operator hears a radio signal from outer space, it sends the entire human race on a multi-generational journey with consequences no one could have seen coming.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could go back and ask past leaders for advice? Maybe, but it could be a problem if you’ve relied on them and suddenly they are less available.

This week’s story is The Anglers of Arz By Roger Dee. A human crew lands on a seemingly tranquil alien world. They watch the aliens interact with each other and think they’re clearly more intelligent and are ready to colonize the place, but they quickly learn they might be in a little over their heads.

This week we have a story called Second Census by John Victor Peterson. Most people don’t think twice when a census taker shows up at their house. It’s not an everyday occurrence, but it happens every 10 years. But it could turn out you’ll learn something new and very surprising about yourself from the experience.

This week we have a story called “The Show Must Go On” by Henry Slesar. The story is kind of a cross between The Hunger Games and The Truman Show.

This week we have The Statistomat Pitch by Chan Davis. It features a beleaguered salesman trying to make a pitch, but it turns out there’s a little bit more going on there than meets the eye.

This week we have “The Long Question” by David Mason. If you’re like me, at one point when you’ve watched the reality show “Survivor” you’ve wondered what would happen if the world ended while that show was going on. Well, now you’ll have to wonder no more.

It’s October, which means a couple of things: The weather is a little colder, everything is suddenly Pumpkin Spice-flavored and most importantly, it’s “Spooky Season. So in addition to our normal science fiction stories, this month we’re sharing some classic horror tales by Edgar Allen Poe to keep you up all night.