Out of Place

Midnight Disease Productions LLC

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Anomalies filed at the edge of apocalypse.

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Out of Place follows Andrew through a widening archive of evidence from impossible worlds. Military reports, strange objects, ruined cities, and alternate-history disasters turn its mystery into something procedural, intimate, and bleak.

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About Out of Place

Out of Place is a mystery audio drama with the posture of an investigation and the temperature of a bad omen. It follows Andrew as records and artifacts lead him toward alternate timelines, broken histories, and worlds where human systems have failed in especially revealing ways. The episodes often begin with a practical frame. A recovered object needs examining. A team has a mission window. A city has a landing site, a route, a hazard, and a reason to be mapped. Then the details start to argue with normal reality. A rare wartime record becomes a clue to a different chain of history. A devastated Virginia landscape suggests a nuclear exchange that does not fit the familiar dates. Dar es Salaam appears as a half-demolished monument field, with drone surveillance finding ranks of unresponsive people and surgical scars. Atlanta offers burned authority buildings, animal-skull figures, and a grimly intact campus surrounded by signs of organized terror. The show is not loud about these discoveries. It is methodical. That restraint is the point. By keeping the narration focused on evidence, personnel, terrain, timing, and procedure, Out of Place makes the impossible feel documented rather than invented. Andrew’s perspective gives the story a weary human center, especially when he considers how much the mind refuses to fully comprehend. Around him, military voices, project briefings, and recovered media widen the scale without losing the file-room intimacy. The result is horror with paperwork, alternate history with a pulse, and audio drama that trusts slow accumulation more than shock. Its best moments come when mundane logistics sit beside apocalypse: bicycles through blast zones, crates marked with biohazard symbols, body bags in a ruined street, a recruitment slogan still hanging after the world has moved on. Out of Place suits listeners who like their fiction ominous, structured, and unnervingly concrete. It rewards attention to small inconsistencies. It also keeps suggesting that the real terror is not one ruined world, but the number of ways a world can be ruined.

Made for: For listeners who like mystery audio drama, alternate histories, horror, and evidence-driven storytelling. It especially fits those who prefer slow dread, procedural detail, and bleak speculation over fast shocks.

What sets it apart: Out of Place grounds impossible timelines in the language of reports, artifacts, military movement, and physical evidence. Its horror feels cataloged first and understood later, which gives the series a colder and more durable unease than more theatrical genre fiction.

In their own words

Andrew Moss loved his anthropology job, until mysterious artifacts from a Mr. Havisham started arriving in brown paper bags. The artifacts are... Wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As heard by us

Based on 4 episodes we listened to · July 2026

Out of Place turns dimensional travel into grim field evidence, giving science fiction listeners a case-file path through broken alternate worlds.

Out of Place is a serialized science fiction audio drama about Andrew's work with dimensions and timelines that keep turning theoretical problems into physical danger.

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You want your apocalypse with field reports, wrong timelines, and zero hand-holding.

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  • a serialized mystery that treats alternate dimensions like evidence bags
  • audio drama dread built from mission reports, burned cities, and military searches
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Best episodes of Out of Place

Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.

Presenting: VigilDec 23, 2022

A superhero scandal told with newsroom discipline, polished enough to make the conspiracy feel real.

It opens with a superhero death and quickly widens into a future where corporate superhero power has spilled into public health and safety. Maria Kennedy gives the setup a steady center as an investigative journalist, and the episode works best when it leans into that newsroom…

Entry #212: “Dream”Sep 14, 2021

A bomb site, a biohazard load, and the sense that the change came very soon after the blast.

Entry #212, "Dream," puts Brand, Poulter, and Sandich in the aftermath of a truck bomb, where a delivery vehicle, biohazard-marked cargo, and a street of ruined storefronts make clear the damage is not ordinary. The reporting stays tight.

Entry #211: “Grandeur”Sep 7, 2021

A ruined city, silent labor, and a threat that grows through careful observation.

Entry #211 treats Dar es Salaam like a ruin laid out for inspection: demolished streets, statues still going up, crowds that barely move, and port machinery turned toward building monumental figures.

Entry #203: "Divine"Jul 13, 2021

A mission report that turns civic ruin into ritual horror.

Out of Place treats Atlanta less like a backdrop than a crime scene with a memory. A team moves through burned government buildings, a gutted downtown, and a fortified Spellman College campus, while the repeated animal-skull figures make the city feel staged rather than simply…

Entry #200: "Betrayal"Jun 22, 2021

A cold mission log where dimensional dread and nuclear ruin tighten around each other.

This episode treats apocalypse as a bureaucratic burden, and that choice lands. It starts in abstraction, with dimensional travel reduced to something the mind has to flatten just to keep going, then drops into a ruined American landscape where recruitment slogans, abandoned…

Entry #010: "Victory"Dec 24, 2020

A rare record becomes a careful mystery about preservation and inference.

Entry #010, "Victory," makes a rare record feel less like a novelty than a problem to solve. It stays with the practical work of getting it played, the caution around letting Mike in too far, and the sense that every object in the project carries some baggage.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Presenting: Vigil

    This episode is the first installment of Vigil, a superhero thriller audio drama presented as a crossover episode from Out of Place.

    Dec 23, 2022·22m·2 clips
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    Entry #212: “Dream”

    Hidden gem

    A truck lies on its side.

    Sep 14, 2021·30m·2 clips
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    Entry #211: “Grandeur”

    Hidden gem

    A team moves through the ruined center and port of Dar es Salaam, where the city has been partly or completely demolished around completed statues, statues still under construction, and piles of building materials.

    Sep 7, 2021·24m·1 clip
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    Entry #210: “Peace”

    Hidden gem

    Out of Place's “Peace” follows a field team investigating an abandoned Earth where a satellite broadcasts, “This is planet Earth.

    Sep 1, 2021·27m·2 clips
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    Entry #209: “Wish”

    Aug 24, 2021·26m
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    Entry #208: "Mirror"

    Aug 17, 2021·23m
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    Entry #207: “Life”

    Aug 10, 2021·27m
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    Entry #206: “Progress”

    Aug 3, 2021·26m
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    Entry #205: “Up”

    Jul 27, 2021·25m
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    Entry #204: “Shine”

    Jul 20, 2021·21m
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    Entry #203: "Divine"

    Hidden gem

    Atlanta offers no clean route.

    Jul 13, 2021·23m·2 clips
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    Entry #202: "Bliss"

    Jul 6, 2021·24m
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    Entry #201: "Beautiful"

    Jun 29, 2021·28m
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    Entry #200: "Betrayal"

    Hidden gem

    Out of Place Season 2 opens with Andrew Moss, data archivist for the Extant team, narrating the first mission report of the season.

    Jun 22, 2021·23m·2 clips
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    Entry #012: "Safe"

    Jan 7, 2021·17m
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    Entry #011: "Glory":

    Dec 31, 2020·17m
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    Entry #010: "Victory"

    Hidden gem

    In this Season 1 episode of Out of Place, the narrator receives a mysterious WWI-era vinyl record purchased at auction for three thousand pounds by his contact Mr.

    Dec 24, 2020·21m·1 clip
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    Entry #009: "Humanity"

    Dec 16, 2020·17m
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    Entry #008: "Freedom"

    Dec 9, 2020·17m
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    Entry #007: "High"

    Dec 2, 2020·17m
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    Entry #006: "Love"

    Nov 19, 2020·16m
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    Entry #005: "Hope"

    Nov 11, 2020·15m
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    Entry #004: "Comfort"

    Nov 4, 2020·17m
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    Entry #003: "Revolution"

    Oct 28, 2020·17m
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    Entry #002: "Surprise"

    Oct 21, 2020·17m
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    Entry #001: "Power"

    Oct 14, 2020·12m
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    Entry #000: "Ritual"

    Oct 7, 2020·11m