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Mar 9th, 2025
A list of my favorite fiction podcasts. No particular order.

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    Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature – Second Year Classics, C667, Professor [REDACTED]. This course discusses the Anterran Civilization, examining the evidence regarding the recent archeological r
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    I LOVE THIS ONE. The concept, the story, the acting, and the production. I wish there were 100 episodes! Listen to Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature!
    "A must-listen indie podcast." - The Guardian"A beautiful, kind, wonderful story." - BBC RadioWhen Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an empl
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    One of the best ADs released. Awesome in every way!
    Taking place several decades after the events of Midst and Moonward, UNEND focuses on a supernatural ship and a remarkable crew set forth on an expedition to explore the highest heights, deepest depth
    FictionScience FictionArts
    Critical Role Podcast Network

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    One of the absolute best audio dramas available!
    A strange letter. An impossible sender. Secrets hidden in the ground. From STUDIO5705, a scripted fiction podcast set in present-day Washington State about a man’s journey to unlock a family mystery—a
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    Another one of my favorites!
    Forbidden Cassettes: Consummation is an analog horror podcast created by Kevin Scott Joiner & Adrian Vanderbosch. Dov Kandel has spent the better part of two decades exposing vast government conspir
    FictionScience FictionDrama

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    Very intriguing plot! The voice acting is excellent. It gives the impression of real people telling a real story on talk radio.
    It's 1999 and Enron finance manager Jim Yang has received an email from the future.BOOM is a groundbreaking audio drama from Stak and the makers of The Offensive and Jackie the Ripper.Stars Akie Kotab
    FictionScience FictionDrama
    AcastStak

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    Great podcast!
    Badlands Cola is a cinematic mystery/horror audio drama about eldritch fossils, hate-flirting, and liminal nightmares that yawn wide in the night. In a desert town full of strange fossils and even str
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    Great, imaginative story with good acting and sound production. Give it a listen!
    My name is Dr. John Watson, once of the British Army Northumberland Fusilier Regiment, now a true crime podcaster based in Central London. I don't have much experience in criminology, so this is mostl
    FictionDramaArts
    Goalhanger Podcasts

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    Great stuff!
    Station 151 is Antarctica’s first and only astronomical radio observatory. Built by the Telders Corporation at an estimated cost of $200M USD, the station promises to reveal the darkest secrets of the
    FictionScience Fiction

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    “The suspense in Remade is gripping.”— Observer Twenty-three teenagers from different backgrounds die at the same time, reawakening in a mysterious world overtaken by deadly robots. Alone and abando
    FictionDramaScience Fiction

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    “What does where the leaves fall purple mean?”Ben Miller has a problem. He’s in his final year of university with nothing to show for it. His true crime podcast only has a handful of listeners and h
    FictionDrama

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    Excellent plot and great acting. Highly recommended!
    When anyone asks Audrey why she moved to Alaska, she tells them for a fresh start. But a lot of the people in Alaska are hiding from something. And Audrey is no different. When she journeyed to Alaska
    FictionDramaScience Fiction

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    Great story and acting.
    Welcome to Realm's newest feed, Strange Matter. Max Gladstone presents a collection of thrilling stories of magic and mystery rooted in the strangeness of our own world. Come back every week for a new
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    Another great production from Realm!
    They claim to cure video game addiction - but what's really going on? Mind-bending thriller from the makers of The Cipher, starring Armin Karima (Sex Education).
    FictionDrama
    BBC

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    Journalists Gemma Avots and Thomas Fonte accompany their listeners on an intriguing journey into their own childhood memories by way of a brand new memory recovery program, developed by world renowned
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    Starts out with a "Morning Zoo" vibe, but quickly gets engaging. Worth a listen!
    A Nevada college podcast is disrupted by bizarre signals, leading its student crew to an unearthly and horrifying discovery deep in the desert.
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    The Soviet Union has won the Space Race and American astronauts never landed on the Moon. Told through radio news broadcasts in 1968 and 1969, The Soyuz Files takes you from the skyscrapers of Manhatt
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    Cryptic is an audio drama. Cole and Julie Kurtz, a brother-sister team investigate cryptid sightings in their home state of Ohio. Oh, by the way, all of these legends are true!
    FictionDramaScience Fiction

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    I used to live in Ohio (several areas) and Cryptic really brings back a lot of memories. The podcast is excellent. It hits all the right areas: an engaging story, outstanding voice talent, and excellent production.
    From the writer of The Message, Life/After, and Steal the Stars. They call the crashed spaceship “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners tr
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    Give Me Away is excellent. It hits all three: great story, great acting, and great production.
    In June of 2020, Buddha Kline vanished from the Carson National Forest while searching for the Forrest Fenn Treasure. From alien abductions to haunted hotels to reincarnation robots, everyone has a th
    FictionScience FictionDrama

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    An investigation into witchcraft, the occult and secret government operations. From H.P. Lovecraft.
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    BBC

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    AGENT STOKER is a paranormal thriller – part Raymond Chandler, part Philip K. Dick, and all macabre all the time. AGENT STOKER is the love child of The Shadow and Black Mirror, it’s “The X-Files with
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    Really, really, REALLY good !!
    Bridget’s life is a series of dropped calls. With a gift for gab, an ex-husband in rehab, and down to her last dollar, Bridget’s life takes a desperate turn when she starts vishing over the phone for
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    When Carly Parker’s friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search for her friend leads her headfirst into a ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits. Soon Carly b
    FictionScience FictionArts
    Public Radio Alliance

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    The Black Tapes is a weekly podcast from the creators of Pacific Northwest Stories, and is hosted by Alex Reagan. The Black Tapes Podcast is a serialized docudrama about one journalist's search for tr
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    Welcome to our feed! We serialize top science fiction and fantasy audiobooks with bold characters, daring adventures and smart, compelling stories. We're in between seasons right now, so check back fo
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    Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast, American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the
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    Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a new audio drama from Audacious Machine Creative.Unwell is complete- listen to all five seasons now!Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohi
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    Explore the far reaches of the world’s horrors in the audio drama podcast The White Vault. Follow the collected records of a repair team sent to Outpost Fristed in the vast white wastes of Svalbard an
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    The adventure begins: 11/26/19A Man of the Mountain is an audio drama telling the story of Jonas, a man hell bent on maintaining the Bigfoot legend, and Shirley, the intrepid tabloid reporter trying
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    Winner of the 2025 Ambie® for Best Indie Podcast, What Happened in Skinner traces a viral Internet mystery to the remote island of Skinner, Oregon– Where a series of disappearances quickly unravels in
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    Wayward Guide is a fictional investigative podcast about the sordid world of local politics, backroom dealings, and werewolves. When an alluring corporate corruption story falls unexpectedly into th
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    When Angels Visit Armadillo uncovers a mystery shrouded in conspiracy, tucked away behind the moss in the rural town of Armadillo, Florida. Through interview recordings and phone calls, WAVA delves i
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    When video collector Mark Cambria watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a language that doesn't exist. Mark and his girlfriend Tamra set out to investigate the tape's origin
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    Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, i
    FictionDrama
    Radiotopia

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    When an experiment in a time much like our own goes horribly awry, Dr. Sally Grissom finds herself stranded in the past and entrenched in the activities of a clandestine branch of the US government. G
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    An eight-part mystery story. 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
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    Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist trying to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed with a seemingly harmless pastime known as the Left/Righ
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    Ostium is a fictional podcast about a man who discovers a secret town with many doors that lead him to strange and interesting places.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ostium. Hosted on Aca
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    Acast

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    Dr. Miranda Quan's lab partner is MIA. But his notes, and a tape player that may contain his final words, have made it onto the research ship headed hundreds of miles into the North Pacific — along wi
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    It's like the Twilight Zone for an optimist's heart. Every episode starts with the same line, but becomes a totally different story. And yet, they’re all intertwined. Can you find the connections?**
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    Three women. Three centuries. One haunting. Mirrors is a sci-fi ghost story from ZoomDoom Stories.Find out more at https://www.mirrorspodcast.com/Our cover image is courtesy of the Wellcome Librar
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    On March 20th, 2014, Ella McCray disappeared.There were six witnesses to her disappearance.Six conflicting accounts of what happened to her.Who is lying? Who is telling the truth? And what really h
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    Down is a 24-part science-fiction series from Definitely Human about an expedition into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit. The company-backed research submarine Virgil is
    FictionScience FictionArts
    Acast

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    In 2001 two girls, on opposite sides of town, in the dead of night, stopped what they were doing and walked into the Daniel Boone National Forest. Now, a journalist who grew up with the girls is comin
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    A mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present & future, & trying to remember the level select cheat from Sonic 2. 
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    A multi-award-winning conspiracy thriller, written by Matthew Broughton.
    FictionDrama
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    A gripping psychological thriller starring Cole Sprouse as Sam Walker. In the first season we followed Sam as he painstakingly recounts the summer his sister disappeared; the friends he made, the lege
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    Gwen Thomas' girlfriend, Frankie, disappeared two weeks ago. Following her trail, will Gwen find Frankie, or is she really gone? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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
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    Beatrice Ashe has a quiet life as an assistant at the Woodbine Agency, a small detective firm in the east end of Toronto. But things change for her quickly when she is brutally attacked and left near
    FictionDramaComedy
    Frequency Podcast Network

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    Great story, voice acting, and sound design. Parkdale Haunt has it all!
    When 16-year-old Sabrina cracks the cryptic Parallax, she’s recruited to track down a serial killer... who might not be from this world. Starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo. New episodes Tuesday
    FictionDrama
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    A famed lost spaceship, the USS HOPE, returns to Earth after vanishing thirty-five years prior. The lone survivor (Richard Madden) disembarks mysteriously​ looking the exact same age as when he left​.
    FictionScience FictionDrama
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    Good Sci-Fi plot and voice acting. The sound effects and some dialog are a bit over-the-top (think comic book movie) but enjoyable none the less.
    Whether the Essence is an element that can manipulate time or the Essence is the source of time itself remains uncertain. Be that as it may, its power has omnipotent potential that demands shielding i
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    I love time travel stories. FKA "Essence House", this podcast has an imaginative plot and very good acting.
    Sarah McIlwraith is haunted by the past. It doesn't help that she can also see ghosts. Listen to Sarah as she recounts her involvement in the infamous IPP study, and her search for the truth behind th
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    In the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm-reading outcast team up to unravel the mystery behind cases of sudden insanity besetting the city.The Call of the Void is an indie sci
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    In the uncanny world of Elizabeth Crowne, anything can happen: Murderers levitate through trees. Werewolves stalk unsuspecting bootleggers. The undead run their own zeppelin service. In this serialize
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    What price a new body? Welcome to 2050, where the booming transplant industry can cater for all your wildest desires
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    Great story with the usual top tier acting and production from BBC Sounds
    Starring Firefly’s Summer Glau as a video game designer who discovers that the game she created has been stolen as part of a top secret project—and might be the only thing keeping the world from plung
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    People only find the antique shop when they need to. Just at the right time.
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    Five years ago, Molly Weaver, Bryan Anderson, and Nathan Howell started a podcast focused on the local legend of a monster called The Blackwood Bugman. Quickly, the investigation grows out of their co
    FictionTrue CrimeMystery
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    A small California town—and three people within it—become the targets of an ancient evil.Tess Bellamy’s return home is anything but triumphant. She’s decided Hollywood isn’t for her, resigned to a n
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    Deep in the serene forest of Silverwood, California, a monster from another dimension is desperate for the human blood it needs to return home. What begins as a relaxing week in the woods for two gr
    FictionDrama

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    A science fiction, horror audio drama podcast that follows Silas Caldwell, a linguist, who finds himself employed by VINCULA, a biotech company with an unearthly set of artifacts in their possession.
    FictionScience FictionDrama
    Acast

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    Lydia was perfect, because Soft Voice told her exactly what to do and what to say. But one day, Soft Voice left. SOFT VOICE is an immersive audiodrama about imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and self-
    FictionDramaSociety
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    When a relic from his past is rediscovered, folklore professor Jeremy Bradshaw puts his life on hold to solve the mystery. Along the way, he’s helped by people who challenge everything he believes in,
    FictionDrama
    Grim & Mild

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    Headphones are highly recommended for this immersive, psychological, sci-fi thriller! John Boyega (STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS) stars as Jack Locke, a mysterious conman with a vendetta who infiltrate
    FictionScience FictionDrama
    iHeartRadio

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    The hit horror show, The Burned Photo is back. This suspense-filled thriller tells the story of Felicia (Charmaine Bingwa, THE GOOD FIGHT) and Kira (Kat McNamara, SHADOWHUNTERS), two women, whose live
    FictionDrama
    QCODE

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    On a back country road outside the hamlet of Duggan Hill, Saskatchewan, a woman named Sasha Ismond goes missing without a trace. She had been travelling from Vancouver for the past day, and was mere m
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    “They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting.”From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of P
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    Tig Torres is back! The Lit Killer saga continues in Season 2 as friends new and old return to Hollow Falls for the grand reopening of the Montague Hotel. But the town is in for a rude awakening when
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    Crime fiction by Mark Coggins featuring private investigator August Riordan. Each season is a one chapter/one episode reading of a Riordan novel by the author. Season 1 is THE DEAD BEAT SCROLL, a book
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    When Peace of Ship opens a new HQ in Brazil, Jemma finds herself in new territory: Interim Head of HR. Her first task? Hire a new CTO. That is, until one candidate ends up dead. Now she must find the
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