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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 exploration of the nature of truth, conspiracy, and information. Tanis is what happens when the lines of science and fiction start to blur... S
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
TANIS builds supernatural suspense through patient reporting, uncertain testimony and clues that grow stranger each time Nick Silver tries to verify them.
TANIS turns investigation into a serial ritual: Nick Silver follows old books, marked trees, strange maps and testimony toward a mystery that keeps slipping beyond ordinary explanation.
An atlas symbol appears on a cave wall; you are already following Nick and MK deeper in.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A tense return to myth-heavy storytelling, with the Elevator Game carrying the unease.
Rabbits Season Two Episode One brings the series back with a dense stretch of setup and a long, uneasy pass through the Elevator Game, travelers, and the idea that one wrong move can make people vanish.
A tense cave sequence built from symbols, doubt, and a slow push forward.
Tanis keeps the focus tight here: caves, symbols, and a passage that seems to narrow with every step. The Malasetic Atlas markings appear in the cave, along with the old flower symbol, and the scene keeps circling back to the same uneasy question about the fire, the chanting…
A tense mystery that moves from eerie atmosphere to raw, personal fallout.
Tannis starts in familiar mystery territory, but it does not stay there for long. Folklore, geography, and old secrets all seem to tug toward the same answer, while the pills, the control-group reveal, and the red, shaken paranoia give the episode its sharpest edge.
A cold, atmosphere-first chapter that keeps the clues moving.
Winter roads to Lhasa, a pilgrim in rags with an old leather bag, and a cabin outside Millsmouth where sleep gives way to nightmares set TANIS up as a story ruled by unease before it turns toward clues.
Reincarnation lore and field reporting meet in a slow-burn woods mystery.
TANIS starts with Joan Grant and the idea that Winged Pharaoh reached back through far memory, then lets that claim bleed into a woods-level hunt for masked figures, symbols, and menace. The episode is strongest when it keeps both lines active at once.
A braid of myth, bodily panic, and intimate unease.
Tannis Season 5 leans into myth, pressure, and private unease. One thread follows a seeker through nightmare logic, half-decoded belief, and pre-digital lore; another keeps close to home, where work stress, relationship tenderness, and a sudden body glitch make the ordinary feel…
A missing grey shard and a new brain-scan discovery sharpen Tannis's unease.
Tannis makes the cave escape feel less like a clean getaway than a scramble through memory, evidence, and one object that will not stay pinned down.
A historical mystery sharpens as a secretive study pushes the narrator deeper into the woods.
The episode draws its tension from a clean but uneasy contrast: Catherine Mansfield's 1923 death at the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, and a present-day study wrapped in money, corporate entities, government involvement, and secrecy.
Riley Bennett introduces Season 2 of Rabbits, recounting personal experiences with reality shifts and the mysterious game.
Veronica Dale investigates a secretive group she believes is connected to her ex-boyfriend Noah's mysterious memory loss and death, following cryptic instructions and rituals that lead her through a series of eerie coincidences and supernatural hints in Seattle.
Tannis's The Fifth Gate opens with Mr.
TANIS 'The Long Stone' ties the Dogon people of Mali, the Pacifica study, and the gates of Karsus into one episode.
The episode opens with Alexandra David Neal in 1923 Tibet and uses tummo, tulpas, and Dion Fortune's wolf story to frame its occult logic.
Nick receives disturbing medical news about changes to his brain structure while investigating murders in Northern British Columbia.
TANIS Season 5 opens with moon worship, the number 13, and James Vo's Arachne theory before tying that lore to a Jewish Gnostic mosaic and the word "Tannis." Nick Silver and MK then trace a photograph of Professor Carnahan, Nathaniel Carter, John Corriman Jr., and an unnamed woman to Saint-Dizier, France, where Corriman says the three men were there "looking for something." Dr.
Bond and Barrett asked the spirits, "Can you tell us anything about Glastonbury?"
Nick Silver and MK travel from Seattle into Terrace, British Columbia, while tracking Rose Hempel, Kurt Moreno, and the logging-camp murders near the Garrison anomaly.
John Corriman Jr. says Rose Hempel was looking into "those deaths at the Upper Camp" and mentions "dangerous things, magical things."
Nick Silver opens with Bohemian Grove, the "Cremation of Care," and the 1976 story that points to John Corriman in a secret ceremony deep in the woods.
Nick Silver reviews the previous season's sensory-deprivation experiments, missing records, Russia episode, and possible doubles before trying to end his involvement with TANIS.