Supernatural fiction from the wrong side of escape.
The V22 Podcast is a fiction series built around supernatural incidents told at close range. Its stories favor dread, confinement, bad choices, and ordinary settings that turn hostile before anyone fully understands why.
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The V22 Podcast presents supernatural thriller fiction as urgent testimony. The stories rarely begin in fantasy territory. They start with someone meeting a source, friends driving toward an abandoned town, a nervous passenger taking a flight, relatives returning to a house, or a worker trying to finish a night shift. That ordinary entry point is part of the effect. The danger arrives through details the characters almost have permission to dismiss. A sound moves through a town. A cabin full of passengers becomes unstable. A cold aisle feels colder than it should. A room carries memory like a stain. A facility still has power when it should not. The show keeps returning to places people should have left alone: caves, old buildings, ghost towns, sealed rooms, industrial spaces, and houses with histories no one can comfortably name. Its supernatural elements are not decorative. They push people into fear, shame, secrecy, panic, and impossible decisions. Recent stories include I Was Assigned to Cover A Cave Accident. I Didn’t Publish What I Found., My Friend Wanted Proof the Ghost Town Was Haunted. We Found Something Worse., We Aren’t Alone In The Skies, The Drain, It Was In The Cold With Us, A Thing Of Flesh & Copper, The Interview, and There's Something Wrong With The Wickenshire House. Across that run, the show favors enclosed spaces and compromised witnesses. The narrators notice too much, doubt themselves too long, and often understand the danger only after escape is no longer simple. The prose is direct but sensory, with fear built from air, sound, temperature, screens, blood, dust, and silence. It can be bleak. It can also be grippingly procedural, especially when an investigation, call, or workplace task becomes the path into something inhuman. The V22 Podcast is not a cozy campfire anthology. It is a catalog of bad thresholds crossed too late.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants narrated horror fiction with slow pressure, enclosed settings, and a strong sense of place. Best for someone drawn to supernatural dread, urban exploration, haunted spaces, and stories told like warnings after the fact.
What sets it apart: The show sets itself apart by grounding uncanny events in concrete physical settings before turning them hostile. Its fear often comes from procedure breaking down: reporting, travel, caretaking, work, exploration, and rescue all become unreliable.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The V22 Podcast makes supernatural horror persuasive by trapping first-person witnesses inside places whose ordinary details gradually turn against them.
The V22 Podcast turns familiar places into pressure chambers, using first-person narrated fiction to let unease accumulate before the threat takes shape.
A warehouse freezer gets colder in the wrong direction, and suddenly your thermostat feels suspicious.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A mountain detour turns into a warning about how fast curiosity becomes too late.
The episode finds its tension in how ordinary the bad idea feels: a friend pulls the host toward an abandoned mining town in the mountains, and what starts as a skeptical drive slowly tightens.
A nervous flight turns into a claustrophobic panic spiral above the clouds.
This episode turns a routine flight into a claustrophobic panic chamber, with a nervous passenger, a talkative seatmate, and a cabin that never quite settles as the plane rattles and flickers.
A family return turns a quiet house into a precise record of absence.
"The Drain" returns a family to the house after Mother Maria has already passed away, and the place feels heavy before anyone even settles in.
A freezing shift becomes a slow-burn horror piece with a hard final image.
The episode turns routine warehouse work into a slow, pressing kind of dread. Breath hangs in the industrial light, the steel scaffolding looms overhead, and the cooling unit keeps humming like it has no intention of stopping.
Victorian dread, read with grave restraint.
A journalist recounts interviewing a cave expert about a submerged cave system in West Texas, hinting at undisclosed findings from a cave accident.
A man reluctantly joins his friend on a trip to an abandoned, supposedly haunted mining town in the mountains, seeking a break from modern life.
A London flight becomes increasingly violent as the narrator watches a massive black shape move below the clouds, followed by a green flash in the cabin.
The V22 Podcast episode “The Drain” follows a family returning to grandmother Maria’s house and finding that the bedroom, the wall corner, and even the floorboards seem to hold something hidden.
A night shift worker reflects on the cold, lonely atmosphere of a frozen warehouse while dealing with a co-worker's mishap.
A couple's shared passion for urban exploration leads to a catastrophic mistake when they activate an unknown power source.
A man wakes up in a strange, sterile room wearing a gray uniform and tries to piece together how he got there.
A private investigator is awakened by a panicked call from a girl named Cindy, who whispers about something wrong at the Wickenshire House.
A naturalist arrives in a remote coastal village and encounters a mysterious dead sheep, hinting at a local legend.
The speaker shares a personal story about overcoming vivid, recurring dreams that felt like a time limit on life, offering hope to others in similar situations.