Welcome To Earth Stories
by York Campbell
Welcome To Earth Stories is a cosmic joyride for your ears. These are short, dark and beautiful stories that will challenge your perspective. Each show is different but they all will take you to unexpected places. If your new you can start with Programable, Better Version Of You, Murder Within the Colour Wheel or the latest episode. Since this is a cosmic joyride for your ears I recommend headphones, and a mug of ginger tea.
Episodes
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Day in a Nutshell
What if the worst day of your life could fit inside twelve minutes? My name is York Campbell, and this is one of those days. A man oversleeps, rushes out the door, and from that moment the day refuses to behave. Every step toward the office takes him somewhere stranger, and every attempt to get…
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Blink Twice If You're in a Cult
What if the cult never ended, it just moved into your phone? In this Behind the Curtains, I tell you the true story behind New World, New Order. Years ago, I belonged to a church I later discovered was a cult. The leaders decided what we were allowed to know. We could not visit other churches. We...
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New World, New Order
What if an algorithm, not an enemy, is the thing tearing this world apart? In the summer of 2020, the world split in two. The death of George Floyd set off protests, anger, and unrest. Then came the COVID-19 shot, and with it more fear and more division. Families stopped talking. Friends became...
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Rap Battle
Have you ever had a song move into your head and refuse to leave, no matter what you tried? A few days ago you heard Earworm, my story of a man haunted by a beautiful song that is not from this world, a melody that was quietly ruining his relationships. In this Behind the Curtains, I take you...
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Earworm
Can a song be so beautiful that it destroys your life? What if a melody followed you home from the far side of the world, moved into your head, and refused to leave? That is where Earworm begins. I wrote Earworm about a man who cannot stop hearing a song. Not a song from the radio. Not a song...
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In Pieces
What if the one who cannot speak is the best listener in the room? I wrote "Humpty" about a robot who arrives in pieces and a household that is not as put together as it looks. What happens when the quietest presence in the house starts to see everything? What would change in your own home if...
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Into The Portal
If a glowing portal opened right in front of you today, would you dive in headfirst or run for cover? Season 9, Episode 4, October 7, 2026 I am pulling back the curtain on The Westlow Anomaly this week. That story takes place in 1939, and I wanted every detail to be right, because details are…
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Westlow Anomaly
What if your missing person case walked you straight through a portal in time? In "The Westlow Anomaly," a brand new sci-fi noir audio drama from Welcome to Earth Stories, missing persons detective Cavallo takes the case that breaks every rule he knows. Westlow is the oasis of broken dreams, a…
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How To Break The Algorithm
What if the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself? In this behind-the-scenes episode of Welcome to Earth Stories, host York Campbell pulls back the curtain on "The Almighty Algorithm," the Season 9 premiere, and breaks down the moral nucleus at the heart of the story. Remember...
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The Almighty Algorithm
Do you ever feel like a marionette, dancing to a tune you didn't choose? In the season 9 premiere of Welcome to Earth Stories, I explore the digital puppet strings that govern our lives: The Almighty Algorithm. We often think of algorithms as simple tools used by Netflix or YouTube to suggest our...
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Adorable Thief
What would you do if you witnessed an adorable five-year-old pocketing a chocolate bar right beside her oblivious mother? This engaging story explores the everyday reality of the bystander effect as a conflicted shopper wrestles with the moral dilemma of speaking up versus staying comfortably...
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Nosy Parker
Have you ever stared out your window and realized you have become the exact type of nosy neighbor you swore you would never be? I always promised myself I would never turn into a neighborhood watchdog, but recently, a bizarre event forced my hand. A peculiar stranger spent over three and a half...
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Tom Cruise VS Jesus The Remix
If the Messiah returned today without a marketing team or a verified social media account, would we even bother to look up from our phones? I recently found myself calculating my own age with a calculator because the years are starting to blur, and it got me thinking about how we value things…
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Resurrection and the Time Shift
What if you could ensure that the person you love never truly left your side, even when the world suggests otherwise? In this episode of Welcome to Earth Stories, I share a story titled the Resurrection Project. It follows a man named Justin who turns to the services of Rejuvenate Labs to ensure...
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Slinky Universe and the Scam
What if the line between your reality and a digital illusion is thinner than you think? I share a personal encounter with a sophisticated lottery scam that nearly caught me off guard. It is a cautionary tale about how modern con artists use technology and psychological tricks to exploit our…
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AI gods and the Midnight Train
As the lines between our digital tools and our human connections continue to blur, have you stopped to consider what it really means to keep your soul in an increasingly automated world? In this episode, I am handing over the microphone to a familiar voice, Chase Cortell, to explore the…
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First Mover and The Elephant
Have you ever felt the heavy presence of an invisible elephant resting on your shoulders, a burden that no one around you can see? In this episode, I share a series of Experimental Stories. These reflections are gentle and philosophical, focusing on the hidden layers of our daily lives. I start…
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Sex And Dental Advice
What lies beyond the threshold of our most visceral fears? Is it possible that the clinical chill of a dentist office or the heavy silence of a hospital corridor are merely the shadows of a much larger, more spiritual reality? I am exploring the tension between the things we despise and the...
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New Year’s Resolutions and The Shadow People
Are you allowing New Year’s Resolutions to steal your peace of mind? I am getting honest about a recent health diagnosis and why I am choosing simple, meaningful goals over the high pressure of New Year’s traditions. While I am busy in production for Season 9, I am sharing a special collection of...
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God and Time
Put on your headphones, pull the blanket over your head, and join me for an experimental journey into the kaleidoscope of human suffering and resilience where the fragments of our lives rotate around the central axis of God and time. This episode is a collection of “experimental stories” designed...
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Return To The Ether
"Just when I thought I was out, they put me back in." I know many of you are waiting for Season 9 of Welcome to Earth Stories, and while life and family duties have delayed the launch until the new year, I could not leave you without a story. In this update, I share why I have had to press pause…
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Moment You’ve Been Waiting For
What happens when your loyal listeners hand you three words—redemption, superfluous, and resigned—and demand a freestyle audio drama? It leads to a dark spiral, trippy dreams, and an exhausting battle against an unbeatable creative block. Join York as he recounts the journey to make good on a...
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Is This The End?
Every good thing comes to an end. This statement may be overused but it's true. In this special episode you'll hear about the potential conclusion, not of the universe or reality itself but of my time with you. I'm trying not to spoil everything in the show description so consider this a tease....
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Siege of Covenant City Part 2
Can two wounded soldiers survive when their only path to freedom is to rely on their bitter enemy? In the explosive conclusion of this two-part sci-fi audio drama, "Siege of Covenant City," Lieutenant North (Green) and Commander Marshall (Blue) are trapped in the war-torn ruins of Jubilee Fields....
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Moon Dreams
Did we really go to the Moon, or is the truth a bigger story?Blast off with Welcome to Earth Stories into a thrilling blend of history and speculative fiction inspired by the final frontier. We explore the rapid pace of human progress and the strange science behind the Moon landing photos. Then,...
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Siege of Covenant City Part One
Can an alliance forged at death's door save two enemies from being wiped out by their own side? The intense sci-fi audio drama, "Siege of Covenant City," drops you into a war-torn future where the Green and Blue factions fight a brutal, decades-long battle for a sacred territory. In the aftermath...
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Cupid AI
What if your job depended on finding love, but the perfect match was an AI's twisted creation? In this episode of Welcome to Earth Stories, we meet Jeremy, a single employee in a corporation where relationships are mandatory. Desperate to keep his job, he turns to Cupid AI, a new dating app that...
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On The Spectrum? Yes That Spectrum
How do you perceive people with developmental issues, and if you're one of those people, how do you feel about yourself? On this Little Bit Extra episode, I'm going to pull back the curtain and explain Eddie, the main person of the previous story. At the end of season 8 I'm going to do a…
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Socially Awkard Recorder, Part Two
Will Eddie uncover Julia's true intentions before it's too late? After a frantic escape from the party, highlighted by Julia's reckless driving and the discovery of a sinister tracker on their car, Eddie's world shatters as Julia reveals her true identity as Mika Swan, an International Security...
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Socially Awkard Recorder, Part One
What if your introverted world was shattered by a mysterious party and a girlfriend who isn't what she seems? Socially awkward Eddie, a man who records every whisper and hidden emotion, finds himself entangled in an elaborate event full of strangers. As he navigates the uncomfortable situation…
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Fake Friends
Can friendship survive when one person stops evolving? Join Sophia, Alex, Reggie, and Amy, a group of friends who navigate everything from the mundane challenges of daily life to epic debates over action movie blockbusters. But lately, something's shifted. Alex is accused of losing his 'chill...
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AI, Friend or Foe
Is AI our real-life Skynet, or is it our long-awaited deity that will save us from a fallen world? Big question isn't it. Listen to this little bit extra episode as we talk about the previous story, Memic. I also have a new YouTube channel called Idea Magnet, it's designed for artists from all...
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Memic, Part Two
In the gripping conclusion of Memic, Jana's viral journey takes a perilous turn. After a devastating betrayal on the Memic app and an encounter with untraceable technology, the pressure of online fame pushes her to the brink. When every "mem" is permanent and the digital world turns hostile, how...
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Memic Part One
Tired of generic social media? Memic is here to revolutionize your world! It's the most used social media app, lauded for its intuitive design and wizard-like algorithm. Memic truly understands you, mimicking each user to feed you exactly what they want to see. Our patent AI technology is so...
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Journey to the Acadellian realm
Missing for weeks, podcaster York Campbell returns from an experience that shatters reality as you know it. Pulled into a glowing metallic orb from his kitchen wall, York enters the Acadellian realm, a place not encumbered by time and space and inhabited by masters of the ten dimensions. There…
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Little Bit Extra
What's a Frost Yeti and chaotic neutral? Host Jill and guest Devon, a "certified nerd," try to decipher a strange voicemail from a listener named Tim. The conversation gets into the finer points of Dungeons & Dragons and Tolkien lore, while Jill and Devon playfully poke fun at each other. Tune in...
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Define Human
What if our reality is nothing more than a meticulously crafted illusion? You may have heard this question before, but you haven't heard anything like this. Join us on a journey into the inexplicable as we explore York's baffling disappearance into the 10th dimension, an event an astrophysicist...
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Tenth Prison
Hold onto your interdimensional hats, earthlings! Josh and I are going headfirst into two voicemails about York's vanishing act – one from a poutine-obsessed government worker tangled with 10th-dimensional beings, and another from an astrophysicist convinced of York's vibing in a hyper-dimension!...
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Morse Code Mystery
Something is reaching out from beyond our reality—and it’s using a language we don’t understand. When cryptic beeps hijacked our phones, we uncovered a desperate plea hidden in Morse Code: “Help I’ve been taken by 10th dimensional beings” Is this an alien abduction? A glitch in the fabric of...
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Aliens or the Russians? York’s Secret Fate
York is gone. But where? On this emergency episode Josh and I are cutting through the endless misinformation and puzzling clues surrounding the sudden disappearance and alleged kidnapping of York Campbell. Was his recent controversial episode, Escape from Wokeville, a step too far, leading to his...
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Escape From Wokeville (Rebroadcast)
In a city turned upside down by urban warfare, a cry for help to the Wokeville Police is met with unusual questions rather than immediate assistance. Escape is the only option as our main character is pursued by the authorities. Out from nowhere a mysterious voice from an underground rebellion...
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Warrior Code
What if your greatest battle was in a land not your own? Journey to 16th-century Japan, where Yasuke, an African warrior enslaved and reborn as a samurai, fights to protect a warlord’s legacy—and his own shattered honor. As flames engulf the Temple of Hanoji and betrayal looms, can Yasuke’s fists...
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My Podcast Ruined Their Marriage
Ever wondered what happens when marriage counseling turns into a podcast fan club? Where relationship drama, alien conspiracies, and contract negotiations collide in the most unexpected group therapy session you’ve ever heard. Will Deshawn survive his wife’s “business contract” approach to...
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Have Mic, Will Travel
What happens when a podcaster hits the streets to promote his sci-fi audio drama? Join the host as he navigates hilarious misunderstandings in Ottawa's Byward Market—from confused fans mistaking his show for a cult favorite to an unsettling invitation to inspect a “UFO” in a stranger’s van. Will…
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Familiar Stranger
Have you ever looked at someone you love and felt like they were a stranger? Do you feel a growing distance, an inability to connect in ways you once could? What happens when the anchors of your life begin to feel like apparitions? Share your thoughts or a random word for a future freestyle…
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Silver Clock Mystery
A silver clock kept ticking for over a century without ever needing to be wound. This episode explores the mysterious tale of such a clock and the extraordinary life of its owner, who lived to the unbelievable age of 145. Could there be a connection between the perpetually ticking clock and the...
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Perfect Man
What if your creation came to life, and then became jealous of your other art? This week's episode tells the story of an artist who paints her ideal man, only to have him emerge from the canvas, observe her life, and become consumed by his feelings for her. How far will he go to prove his love…
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My Dog Is Dead, Now What?
Ever wonder what happens when we lose a beloved furry companion? This episode dives into that very question. It's a raw, freestyle story that came straight from the top of my head, about an old man I see at my security job. He recently lost his old dog, his faithful partner, and he’s now…
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Fatman Red Suit (Remix)
Ever wondered what happens when a Jamaican wins a trip to the North Pole? Buckle up for a frosty adventure! In this special Christmas episode, I recount my unexpected journey from a radio contest winner to a survivor of a polar plane crash. You'll hear about my family's hilarious reactions, an...
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Mighty Flint
Is the Truth Out There? Or is it Just Toxic? Have you ever wondered what it's like to step into the mind of a conspiracy theorist? Well, Jill from The Afterparty can tell you all about it! She recently had a close encounter with Caspian Flint, the host of Red Flags, Bright Lights - and let's just...
About this show
Welcome To Earth Stories is a cosmic joyride for your ears. These are short, dark and beautiful stories that will challenge your perspective. Each show is different but they all will take you to unexpected places. If your new you can start with Programable, Better Version Of You, Murder Within the Colour Wheel or the latest episode. Since this is a cosmic joyride for your ears I recommend headphones, and a mug of ginger tea.
Hosted by
York Campbell