Fiction Podcasts

Welcome to Night Vale

261 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 24.4K ratings
Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio sho...

Full Body Chills

54 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 19.5K ratings
Ever miss those spooky campfire stories you heard growing up? Well, gather round... and listen close.

Six Minutes

596 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11.7K ratings
Eleven-year-old Holiday is pulled from the icy waters of Alaska with no memory of who she is or where she came from. Are her mom and dad really who they say they are? And when she begins to...

We're Alive

167 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.4K ratings
Set 17 years after the main events of WE’RE ALIVE, GOLDRUSH is a recollection story that describes the efforts of the “soldiers” (Greg Muldoon, Anthony Robbins, Carl Thomas, and Samuel Puck) attemp...

Limetown

22 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★ - 8.3K ratings
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 ...

TANIS

89 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8K ratings
Tanis is a bi-weekly podcast from the Public Radio Alliance, and is hosted by Nic Silver. Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and surprising mystery: the myth of Tanis. Tanis is an ...

Monstruo

60 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★ - 8K ratings
The heart of a man is darkness... No person, place or culture is immune to extreme violence. The worst of the worst cases have occurred all over the world.  Be prepared to take a journey, ...

Imagined Life

126 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratings
What is it like to be famous before you’re famous? What is it like to walk in the shoes of another person? Each episode of Imagined Life takes you on an immersive journey into the life of a...

Something Scary

178 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7.7K ratings
Do you wanna hear something scary? Join Markeia every week as they bring you the creepiest ghost stories, urban legends, and folktales. Wanna hear something scary without ads? Click here: https://s...

Homecoming

21 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.1K ratings
Now a Prime Original TV series. From Gimlet, Homecoming centers on a caseworker at an experimental facility, her ambitious supervisor, and a soldier eager to rejoin civilian life — presented in an ...

Tales

155 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.9K ratings
Traditional fairy tales aren’t exactly suitable for kids. Women vomit spiders. Children get eaten. There’s even murder! Every Wednesday, we take you through the twists and turns of the dark origins...

Alice Isn't Dead

54 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.9K ratings
A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in ...

RABBITS

24 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.9K ratings
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 Carl...

Creepy

611 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.5K ratings
From creator Jon Grilz, a collection of the most famous and disturbing creepypastas and urban legends in the world. Listener discretion is advised. Stories requests can be made on twitter @creepypo...

Wolf 359

110 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.9K ratings
Life's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific...

Passenger List

32 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
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 th...

Sandra

12 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
Helen’s always dreamed of ditching her hometown, so when she lands a job at the company that makes Sandra, everyone's favorite A.I., she figures it’s the next-best thing. But working behind the cur...

Bubble

19 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
Welcome to Fairhaven, a literal Bubble of corporate utopia set amid the wild, goblin-infested Brush. The first scripted comedy series from Maximum Fun, Bubble was created by Jordan Morris, and tell...

Bridgewater

12 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
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 ...

The Truth

167 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratings
THE TRUTH makes movies for your ears. They're short stories that are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always intriguing. Every story is different, but they all take you to unexpected pl...

Becoming Mother Nature

76 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3K ratings
Becoming Mother Nature introduced us to troubled 13-year-old Chloe Lovejoy, who prematurely inherited the mantle and awesome power of Mother Nature from her Grandmother Ivy. In season one, ...

Old Gods of Appalachia

67 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratings
In the mountains of central Appalachia, blood runs as deep as these hollers and just as dark. Since before our kind knew these hills, hearts of unknowable hunger and madness have slumbered beneath...

Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

538 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
Come relax with the #1 Sleep Podcast. Our unique stories help calm the mind and relax the body. Press play, it's time to Get Sleepy... Become a premium member for access to bonus episodes and ad f...

1865

91 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
All episodes are available for free, with ad-free episodes available for Wondery+ subscribers. April 15, 1865. President Lincoln is dead and the country in turmoil. Secretary of War Edwin...

36 Questions – The Podcast Musical

5 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
Hear what The New York Times calls "the future of musicals"... 36 Questions, a three-part podcast musical starring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton. 36 Questions is produced by Two-Up, the produc...

Dark Air with Terry Carnation

22 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
Rainn Wilson stars in this fictional darkly comedic podcast that explores the on and off-air life of Terry Carnation – a late-night talk-radio show host who deals with bizarre topics, outrageous ca...

Otis Jiry's Scary Stories Told in the Dark: A Horror Anthology Series

243 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
A multiple story, horror-themed audio storytelling podcast, spun-off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show features master storyteller Otis ...

Storynory - Audio Stories For Kids

864 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 2.2K ratings
Storynory brings you audio stories for the family, beautifully read, and with a touch of sophistication. We find traditional stories from all over the world and create our own characters including...

From Now

22 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 2.2K ratings
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 lef...

Within the Wires

78 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Stories told through found audio from an alternate universe. Season four, "The Cradle" is a story about a mother and daughter as they attempt to lead a family-centric commune surviving on t...