Two captives beneath Denver's airport, one stranger listening above.
Noah and Sara fight their way through a hidden world beneath Denver International Airport, where they run into a cult, an alien called the Archivist, a Sphinx and a giant spider robot. Their story reaches the listener secondhand, through a narrator living out of motels up top who recaps, second-guesses and worries about them between scenes.
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Escaping Denver is a conspiracy thriller told in two voices at once. Below Denver International Airport, Noah and Sara are trying to get out of a place that seems built so they can never finish. Above it, a stranger who receives their messages tells the story from motels, from small towns, and from the side of the road while waiting on car repairs. That split matters. The show doesn't drop the listener next to its heroes. It routes the story through a witness who is worried, opinionated and more and more exposed. This narrator once thought conspiracy theories were for tinfoil hat wearers and now feels both enlightened and terrified. The underground half is busy and strange. The pair deal with a shadowy collective, soldiers, a cult figure called the Herald, a giant spider robot, an alligator bear, and a Sphinx in a bioluminescent cavern that holds a portal to another world. An alien known as the Archivist, possibly the last of his kind, hands Noah a supermagnet. Noah keeps surviving things that should kill him, and the narrator wonders how long that can last. The dialogue scenes lean on quick, dry banter. In one, the pair plan to follow a group of scientists toward a server room and make up a cover story on the spot. In another, one of them calls the facility a nightmare Rube Goldberg machine, where every defeated enemy leads to a bigger one, and suggests they simply stop playing. The narrator's half adds commentary and a second set of stakes. Between recaps, the narrator distrusts a character named Palmer and questions whether Noah's memories are real, noting only that he once ran an online radio show about conspiracy theories. The narrator also asks why Noah and Sara keep ignoring the instinct to cut their losses. There is real danger up top as well: the narrator talks about having a target on their back and about arranging for material to go out if things turn bad. Under the monsters is a story about friendship, and the narrator suggests it may be the only thing that gets Noah out. Installments are labeled by batch and number and have terse, chapter-style titles such as 'The Armistice 5.05' and 'The Pivot 5.06'. The sign-offs thank CuriousCast and ask for opinions by email or on Reddit. It is a serial building toward a promised conclusion, so it works better from the beginning than dropped into midway.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys serialized audio fiction built on Denver airport conspiracy lore, with monsters, cult intrigue and wry banter wrapped around the loyalty between two friends.
What sets it apart: It doesn't place the listener beside its heroes. It sends their escape through a stranger on the surface who recaps, doubts and worries about them, and who faces danger of their own.
Sara and Noah wake up in complete darkness, trapped miles below the Denver International Airport (DIA) with no hope for escape. Join their perilous journey as they struggle for freedom from a mind-bending labyrinth filled with unimaginable horrors. Their only hope could come from the complete stranger they can send voice messages to. Escaping Denver dives straight into the deep end of conspiracy theories surrounding the Denver International Airport. Final Season Begins August 11
A giant spider robot might have a crush on Sarah; you get to decide whether that's useful.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Sarah returns to Noah carrying guilt, purpose, and a perilous push toward the end.
Sarah's return reframes survival as a moral reckoning. She has chosen life after the Sphinx's test, but Noah is still in danger, and the reunion arrives with horse hooves, unanswered questions, and the feeling that everything endured so far has been preparation for the…
A cleaned-up gunfight and a sphinx's offer turn survival into a test of character.
Escaping Denver's "The Judgment" frames survival as a test of conscience as much as nerve. The host's car-repair detour folds in thoughts on karma, due diligence, and the point at which cutting losses becomes its own kind of wisdom.
Palmer's off-leash uncertainty turns dusty motel fatalism into a sharp reckoning with stolen memories.
A motel party that has been going since yesterday gives The Pivot a clean, uneasy frame: people keep spending on escape while stuck in a dusty motel, so the idea that people rarely change lands with some bite.
Noah and Sarah look for a way out by refusing the facility's deadly boss-fight logic.
The Armistice finds Noah and Sarah in the uneasy stretch where staying alive starts to become a systems problem. Fresh out of captivity, they follow the Archivist's trail, absorb the possibility that he is an alien and maybe the last of his kind, and run straight toward another…
Speculative stories, read with quiet precision.
A fan-made audiobook of Wildbow's superhero serial Ward.
Story-heavy actual play with sharp supernatural turns.
Local radio at reality's breaking point.
Escaping Denver: The End 5.10 follows Sarah and Noah through a subterranean confrontation involving the collective, armed soldiers, a Kitsune leader, a kaiju rat monster, and the Guardian.
Sarah leaves the Sphinx's cavern, climbs a 200-foot spiral shaft, and keeps repeating that her original version is dead.
Escaping Denver's "The Confrontation" follows Sarah's departure and Noah's wait in a glowing cavern beneath the earth.
A sphinx-like judge confronts Noah and Sarah in Escaping Denver: The Judgment, after the pair push deeper into a hidden underground facility.
Escaping Denver: Batch 5, Episode 6, "The Pivot," follows Noah and Sarah after Palmer gives them directions through a subterranean facility.
Escaping Denver: The Armistice traps Noah and Sarah in a humid, plant-filled facility while the Palmer Puncher hunts them.
The Archivist admits he is an alien and says he has maintained the Collective's archive for over a century.
Noah and Sarah follow cryptic instructions through a Denver facility, including the warning to "disturb nothing, even darkness." A room full of lost luggage hides refrigerator-sized moth creatures that force them to flee.
An interview with the author of the upcoming Escaping Denver novel, discussing how he got involved with the podcast and the conspiracy lore around DIA.
Noah recounts his plan to escape the underground labyrinth using a stolen access card, while the narrator reflects on the characters' choices.
Sara and Noah are trapped in a labyrinth under Denver Airport and must escape by sending voice messages to a stranger.
The host revisits an episode from the fictional podcast 'Escaping Denver', recapping the story of Noah and Sarah trapped in a labyrinth under DIA, fighting a shadowy government and monsters.