The Deep Freeze

05/03/18 • 22 min

We’ve now uncovered a number of these audio recordings from the mysterious radio show called “The Morning Maelstrom”, and I’ve been poring over each episode trying to piece together a coherent timeline.

This particular file came to me after I enlisted the help of my fellow CyberSeekers to follow up on a clue I came across in another episode. The audio was extracted from a thumb drive shaped like an ice cream cone that was found in a box of random computer parts picked up at a garage sale in the rural town of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

Based on what I’ve heard in some of the other episodes, it sounds like this one aired prior to what I’ve begun to refer to as “The Calamity.” If only the people of the Deep Reach knew what was about to happen...

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Welcome to the Deep Reach

I’ve extracted a strange audio file I found hidden in an image posted on a dark web conspiracy forum. It sounds like somebody holding a microphone to a cassette tape player and recording clips from some radio show called the “Morning Maelstrom.” I can’t find any information about the radio show anywhere, but considering the bizarre content, I can’t imagine it was meant to be heard by the general public. Who uploaded it, and why?

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Chicken or Stakeout?

It’s no surprise that CyberSeekers and urban explorers tend to run in the same circles. One explores the darkest corners of the virtual realm while the other explores decaying structures left abandoned in the physical world.

That’s how we came across this latest recording.

A group of urban explorers reached out to us after they discovered an arcade system board with the word “Polybius” etched into it during an 2009 exploration of the TSS Duke of Lancaster, a transport vessel which had previously been converted into a tourist attraction called “The Fun Ship” before being completely abandoned in 1983.

The legend of the Polybius arcade cabinet is well-known in the gaming world, so we jumped at the chance to see what secrets lay hidden in those circuits. We got much more than we bargained for.