The Silent Signal

The deep-space research vessel Artemis drifted silently on the edge of the Andromeda sector, its crew engrossed in studying strange cosmic phenomena. Captain Malik stared at the console, puzzled by a faint signal that had appeared on their long-range scanners.

The transmission was unlike anything they had seen—no recognizable pattern, no language, only a low-frequency pulse repeating endlessly.

Despite warnings from the AI system, the crew decided to respond.

The moment the reply was sent, everything changed.

The ship’s lights flickered, systems glitched, and an unnatural cold seeped through the corridors.

Crew members began experiencing vivid hallucinations — memories twisted, loved ones transformed into grotesque figures begging for release.

One by one, they heard whispers behind the walls, voices speaking in a language older than humanity itself.

Dr. Lila Voss, the ship’s psychologist, tried to keep the crew calm but found herself plagued by dreams of void and shadow.

Then the disappearances started.

Crew members vanished without trace, leaving only distorted echoes of their screams recorded by the ship’s sensors.

Desperation grew as Captain Malik traced the origin of the signal — a long-dead civilization whose consciousness had become a parasitic entity drifting through space.

It fed on fear, consuming minds and bending reality to its will.

Trapped in the void, with the entity inside their ship, the crew fought to maintain their sanity and survival.

Lila realized the only way to escape was to sever all communications and plunge the Artemis into complete silence — but silence itself was the entity’s playground.

As the last light dimmed, the crew braced for the unknown, hoping the darkness would save them from the whispering madness.

horror, sci-fi, psychological thriller, cosmic horror, space