{"podcast":{"title":"Galactic Horrors","slug":"galactic-horrors-6264033","podcast_index_feed_id":6264033,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66477018b68429001342b9a2","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/galactic-horrors","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66477018b68429001342b9a2/show-cover.jpg","author":"Galactic Horrors","episode_count":748,"summary":"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 Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T06:20:52.540919+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033"},"episode":{"title":"A 3-Million-Year-Old Vessel Drifted Into The Solar System. It Hides A TERRIFYING Secret","slug":"a-3-million-year-old-vessel-drifted-into-the-solar-system-it-hides-a-terrifying-secret","published_at":"2026-09-09T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/a-3-million-year-old-vessel-drifted-into-the-solar-system-it-hides-a-terrifying-secret","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033","url":"https://shows.acast.com/galactic-horrors/episodes/a-3-million-year-old-vessel-drifted-into-the-solar-system-it","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66477018b68429001342b9a2/e/6a86e5459cb9faa61a741bd2/media.mp3","summary":"A generation ship built three million years in humanity’s future has come home, and its interior is made from the dead. Paul Weaver has spent fifteen years recovering bodies from collapsed mines, ruptured stations, and industrial disasters. Nothing prepares him for the forty-kilometer vessel drifting near Jupiter. Its soil is compressed human bone. Its towering structures are cast from human remains. Across the landscape, immense autonomous machines grind, rebuild, and engrave the dead in an endless cycle whose original purpose has been almost erased. As Weaver and a small survey team descend through the ship’s strata, they uncover generations of human change written directly into the terrain. The deeper they investigate, the clearer it becomes that this is not simply a derelict vessel or a failed machine system. Something deliberate survived here long after the last human life disappeared. Then the machines begin changing course toward them. With another expedition preparing to enter, Weaver must determine what this place actually is before curiosity, procedure, or fear turns humanity’s strangest grave into one more site to be dismantled. 🔗 Official Links: The only place to get daily and bonus Galactic Horrors stories with no ads or interruptions is Patreon: 📡 Join Patreon: https://patreon.com/GalacticHorrors Galactic Horrors stories are also available as eBooks on Amazon, with new releases every week: 📚 eBooks: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0H2F5M2B3/allbooks 📖 Written by Galactic Horrors ⚠️ Content Ownership Notice All stories, artwork, thumbnails, and animations featured on this channel are original creations of Galactic Horrors. I do not accept or feature submissions from other creators. Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, or re-uploading of any con…","meta_description":"A generation ship built three million years in humanity’s future has come home, and its interior is made from the dead. Paul Weaver has spent fifteen year…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4346,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/galactic-horrors-6264033/episodes/a-3-million-year-old-vessel-drifted-into-the-solar-system-it-hides-a-terrifying-secret/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/a-3-million-year-old-vessel-drifted-into-the-solar-system-it-hides-a-terrifying-secret.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}