This is The 1982 Barghest Incident on Thule Island, South Sandwich Islands by Sascha Schmidt, a mythical creature horror story built from recovered reports and a classified confession that should not exist. In April 1982, while the Falklands War consumed British military attention, a black-market contractor named Eduardo Varga controlled a remote radar installation on Thule Island—a volcanic rock in the South Sandwich chain where Norwegian whalers once recorded that no one walks alone after dark. When personnel begin reporting a large black dog in the accommodation corridor, the official response is transfer denial and isolation. But the reports do not stop. They spread. Dr. Helena Voss, the installation's medical officer, discovers a pattern that predates the station itself: every death preceded by a corridor sighting, every sighting propagating through shared perception and speech. The phenomenon is not a creature. It is a cognitive template that intensifies under electromagnetic disturbance, sleep deprivation, and institutional architecture built over disturbed ground. Varga contacts a shadow organization that gives the condition a classification and a single operational directive: eliminate the conditions, or sacrifice the perceivers. The installation floods with perpetual artificial light. Personnel are denied sleep. The quarantine tightens. And the phenomenon does not weaken—it spreads into the operations center, into the generator compound, into the minds of men who can no longer distinguish the hum of machinery from footsteps behind them. Varga faces a six-hour storm window and a choice that will require him to weaponize medical authority, strand his own crew in contaminated fog, and direct twelve men into a corridor he has already wired with demolition charges.

Written by Sascha Schmidt, based on the lore of Beasts of the Ancient World, and narrated by the synthetic voice of Henry Atkinson.

This is The Black Death Incident of Kutná Hora, Bohemia in 1351 by Sascha Schmidt, a mythical creature horror story for sleep. Here, the Black Death is not medieval superstition, but a heat-producing colony organism that cultivates plague bacteria inside a sealed silver-mine drift.

Recovered testimony follows Doktor Oswald of Eger, whose safety certificate returns miners to the warm earth below. When black fibers spread from the dead into timber, straw, and grain, his improvised sulfur-and-lime quarantine fails—and a smaller colony appears inside a surface supply cart. With Kutná Hora only two kilometers away and the camp already contaminated, Oswald realizes that no one can simply be allowed to leave.

Written by Sascha Schmidt, based on the lore of Beasts of the Ancient World, and narrated by the synthetic voice of Henry Atkinson.

This is “The 1917 Night-Elf Containment Operation in Mukachevo, Western Ukraine” by Sascha Schmidt, a mythical creature horror story for sleep set beneath an Austro-Hungarian POW railway tunnel in the Carpathians in February 1917. Here, the Nachtalben—remembered as the night woman or Alp—are not folklore, but electromagnetic predators that induce waking paralysis, feed on fear chemistry, and reproduce through their victims.

A sealed confession from the hidden archive follows railway doctor Stefan Brenner as he maps fluorescent feeding residue, tests iron countermeasures, and quarantines exposed prisoners. For three days, the deaths stop. Then the Nachtalben adapt, and a surviving 19-year-old prisoner begins transmitting a biological signal that draws more of them toward the tunnel—forcing Brenner toward a containment decision no medical oath can survive.

Written by Sascha Schmidt, based on the lore of Beasts of the Ancient World, and narrated by the synthetic voice of Henry Atkinson.