{"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":"Xeno-Archaeologists Decoded A 600,000-Year-Old Warning. They Woke Up An Extraterrestrial Horror","slug":"xeno-archaeologists-decoded-a-600-000-year-old-warning-they-woke-up-an-extraterrestrial-horror","published_at":"2026-09-07T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/xeno-archaeologists-decoded-a-600-000-year-old-warning-they-woke-up-an-extraterrestrial-horror","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033","url":"https://shows.acast.com/galactic-horrors/episodes/xeno-archaeologists-found-a-600000-year-old-necropolis-it-wa","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66477018b68429001342b9a2/e/6a852c3f9cb9faa61a1aac55/media.mp3","summary":"Four hundred alien obelisks stand on Kepler-9e, and Vanguard Consortium is cutting them down faster than its archaeologist can learn what they mean. After fifteen years of minor digs, Dr. Phelps finally has the discovery that could define a career: concentric rings of crystalline structures surrounding a monolith covered in an intact alien language. Less than half is decoded. The company funding the excavation has already learned what it needs to know. The crystal can be refined into fuel. Then a grammatical clue overturns nine months of research. The obelisks are not tombs. The monolith is not a memorial. And the civilization that left it behind was not honoring its dead. With the mining schedule accelerating and something inside the opened structures beginning to change, Phelps has hours to finish a warning that took six hundred thousand years to reach its next reader. If the translation is right, the dig has not uncovered an ancient catastrophe. It has restarted one. 🔗 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 content from this channel, in any form, is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of copyright. Legal action may be taken against any parties found infringing these ri…","meta_description":"Four hundred alien obelisks stand on Kepler-9e, and Vanguard Consortium is cutting them down faster than its archaeologist can learn what they mean. After…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5406,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/galactic-horrors-6264033/episodes/xeno-archaeologists-decoded-a-600-000-year-old-warning-they-woke-up-an-extraterrestrial-horror/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/xeno-archaeologists-decoded-a-600-000-year-old-warning-they-woke-up-an-extraterrestrial-horror.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}