Unusual Apocalypse

Day 23. Raj signs on, counts thirty survivors, and profiles the one monster staying politely inside its container. Then 92.3 breaks in — with coordinates. The City Answers Back is the episode where Mumbai itself starts talking: Aya plots the numbers to the north end of Pawai Lake, a tip warns nobody to board anything, and 97.5 flickers at the edge of the dial. Inside: the Last Local profile, the c...

RJ Raj follows a mysterious voice on frequency 92.3 into the monster-filled streets of Mumbai. The voice knows his words, his pauses, his habits. It leads him to the Mahim flyover where something ancient speaks. Chapter 22 of the Unusual Apocalypse finds our radio host chasing a signal that should not exist. What he discovers beneath the flyover changes everything he believes about the city, the m...

RJ Raj picks up a mysterious repeating radio signal on a dead frequency at 4 AM. The voice sounds like his own, broadcasting from a location called Haji Ali, urging survivors to come. But something is wrong with the message -- it never responds, it loops endlessly, and it seems to adapt its words based on who it is trying to lure. Is this a new kind of monster, or something worse? CHAPTERS: 0:00 -...

RJ Raj discovers someone is paddling toward the island in the dead of night -- through Drownies, past Watchers, across black water. A new survivor arrives, drawn by the radio broadcasts. But Raj's attempt at a heroic greeting ends with a twisted ankle and a bruised ego. The Drifters emerge as a new threat -- Piles that have matured into slow, patient fog-monsters that follow your breath. And a wom...

Raj discovers a hidden garden on the eastern shore of the island -- tomatoes, chillies, and a mango tree that refuses to stop growing. But reaching it means crossing Drownie-infested waters with Salim the fisherman and Raghunath the postman. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Introduction / Cold Open 0:54 - Raj Ka Survival Tip: Foraging 2:58 - Monster Profile: The Drownies 4:35 - The Expedition: Crossing to the Gar...

Day Eighteen. RJ Raj gets assigned the night watch on Geeta madam's terrifying timetable. Armed with German binoculars and Shakuntala Devi's chai, he observes six Watchers from the rooftop and discovers something terrifying: they don't just hear sounds -- they predict them. Plus a Monster Profile on the Watchers, a Survival Tip on night vision, and the terrifying consequences of falling asleep on...

Day Seventeen of the Mumbai street food apocalypse. RJ Raj wakes up to the smell of fish curry as Shakuntala Devi takes over the dargah kitchen. Three new survivors arrive by boat — a school teacher searching for her students, a retired postman, and two children. The growing community of twenty-nine holds its first council meeting, and a Class Four teacher named Geeta brings something more terrify...

Day Sixteen. RJ Raj returns to the mysterious bunker door on Malabar Hill — and this time, the code works. What he finds inside changes everything. A survival tip about bags and Dettol, a terrifying encounter with weaponized Fly Swarms, and a decision that could save or doom every survivor in Mumbai. CHAPTERS: 0:00 — Cold Open 0:37 — Day Sixteen: The Bunker Plan 2:12 — Raj Ka Survival Tip #7: Brin...

RJ Raj and the crew bring Shakuntala Devi across the bay to reunite with her daughter Priya at the Haji Ali dargah. A journey through jellyfish, dawn Watchers, and raw emotion as a mother walks back to her child. The apocalypse cannot stop love. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro / Cold Open 0:38 - The Departure 2:26 - Monster Profile: The Watchers at Dawn 4:55 - Expedition Log: The Return Crossing 6:45 - Raj...

Day Fourteen. RJ Raj and the crew reach Worli Koliwada and knock on Shakuntala Devi's door. The mother is found. Chai is poured. Fish is served. The Watchers watch from the rooftops. The tulsi grows in the courtyard. The trail ends and begins again. Chapters: 0:00 The Knock 2:15 Shakuntala Devi 5:30 Raj Ka Survival Tip: Doors 7:00 Monster Profile: The Watchers of Worli 9:45 How I Almost Died: The...

Day Thirteen of the Unusual Apocalypse. RJ Raj and the crew embark on a dangerous boat crossing from Haji Ali to Worli Koliwada, navigating through glowing jellyfish-infested waters to find Shakuntala Devi — Priya's mother. A tense journey across the bay with the fate of the mission hanging in the balance. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Cold Open — The boat awaits 2:15 The Vote — Route A, B, or C? 4:30 Monster Pr...

Day 12 of the Unusual Apocalypse. RJ Raj and the Haji Ali crew plan their next expedition — to find Priya's mother, Shakuntala Devi of Worli Koliwada. Salim's box of old community notices reveals a name and an address. The trail leads from Marine Drive to a six-hundred-year-old fishing village at the heart of Mumbai. But a new monster has arrived: the Moths, drawn to radio signals. Broadcasting no...

Day Eleven. RJ Raj finally walks. Out of Haji Ali dargah at dawn. Across the causeway at low tide. Into the monster-filled mainland. With Farhan and Meera, the plan is to reach the Worli pharmacy where Priya vanished. But the new Drownies block the lane. The Beacon window closes. And they find something no one expected: a handwritten note in blue ink. GONE TO MAA. WILL RETURN. IF NOT, FREQUENCY IS...

Day Ten at Haji Ali dargah. RJ Raj finally asks about Priya — the woman whose voice led him here. Farhan reveals she was at the shrine, survived three days, then vanished on a supply run. But her radio came back on three nights ago. She is alive. Somewhere in the monster-filled mainland. Plus: the Watchers appear on rooftops, Raj nearly dies in the dargah library, and a plan forms to find Priya at...

Day Nine at Haji Ali. RJ Raj witnesses the Beacon change at dawn — a beam of impossible colour shooting into the sky. He meets the survivor community: Farhan the perimeter leader, Salim the scout, Zara the historian, Dr. Iyer the physicist studying the Beacon. The Beacon is not a monster — it's a transmitter, broadcasting to something far away. But the tide things circle the island, tightening the...

Day Eight. Raj and Meera leave the building and walk four kilometres through dead Mumbai to reach Haji Ali. Through Piles, Swarm, and a Walking Pile. They arrive at the causeway just as the tide comes in. Twenty-three survivors. A new home. The Beacon watches. Chapters: 00:00 The Departure 02:30 The Ground Floor 05:00 The Street 07:30 Monster Profile: The Walking Pile 09:00 Raj Ka Survival Tip 10:...

Day Seven of the Mumbai street food apocalypse. RJ Raj discovers he's not alone — Meera, an accountant, has been surviving on the fourth floor. They plan a dangerous night walk to Haji Ali, following a mysterious AM radio signal that promises safety. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Opening: Status Report 02:15 — Expedition Log: The Fourth Floor 05:30 — Meera: The Accountant Survivor 08:00 — Monster Profile: The...

Day Six of the Unusual Apocalypse. RJ Raj returns to the roof for a second broadcast and the green glow in Mumbai harbour responds with a coded signal. Binary numbers lead to an AM radio frequency. The frequency plays an emergency message. Haji Ali dargah. Safety. But someone else is in the building. Someone drinking black coffee. The comedy apocalypse continues. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Opening 1:51 - Th...

Day Five. RJ Raj discovers the station manual hidden behind a false panel in the supply closet. Chapter 14 reveals the transmitter can be manually modulated to 1200 Hz a frequency that cuts through the static. At 3 AM he climbs to the roof activates the transmitter and broadcasts into the void. Something responds. The comedy apocalypse continues with Raj survival tips monster profiles and the ques...

Day Four of the Mumbai street food apocalypse. RJ Raj discovers that 1200 Hz disrupts the Rat King's hive mind — but the same frequency enrages the Piles outside his door. Meanwhile, a breakthrough: Priya from Bandra is heading to the station. A comedy fiction podcast about hygiene, survival, and late-night radio. Chapters: 00:00 Opening — Day Four update 02:15 Monster Weakness: The Frequency Expe...

Day Three of the Mumbai street food apocalypse. RJ Raj discovers the Rat King — a hive-mind colony of rats communicating through the walls. His contact with Priya in Bandra goes dark. A desperate bathroom expedition yields terror and rodent teeth. Plus survival tips on water rationing and Mumbai's broken plumbing. Chapters: 00:00 Opening — Day Three begins 02:15 Monster Profile: The Rat King 05:30...

Day Two of the Unusual Apocalypse. RJ Raj makes first contact with another survivor — Priya from Bandra and her cat Mr. Whiskers. She reveals a terrifying new monster: the Swarm, giant fist-sized carnivorous flies that strip prey to the bone. Raj ventures out on a break room supply run, narrowly escaping a Swarm scout party, and discovers the Piles have infiltrated the building through the sewers....

RJ Raj is doing his boring 2 AM radio show when strange calls start coming in. Something is moving in the streets of Mumbai. Something that smells like the end of the world. As he looks out his studio window, he realizes the apocalypse has begun — and it started with a pani puri stall. A dark comedy about hygiene, street food, and the end of civilization. Told through the last radio broadcast in M...