We asked, you answered. We have sifted through a number of uncanny accounts of strange creatures and eerie beings unclassified by science, with the three stories herein the judges’ favorites. Join Kaela, Eli, Kylie and sorta-there David as the winners of our Cryptid Writing Challenge are revealed.
3rd place - “The Detroit Harvester” by Dylan Walters
2nd place - “Frosty” by Troy Wullbrandt
1st place - “Thyliidae Africanus” by Schultz
Themed drinks and sleep deprivation arrive for this second installment, where the Creative Horror gang have to contend with geology, snakes and a sudden, cringe-inducing reminder that racist caricatures existed in novels like this.
Read along with us here!
A new spooky saga begins! Kaela has enlisted the Creative Horror crew to read an infamously maligned horror novel by none other than the writer of Dracula, just to prove that even the most well-known authors can produce duds. The gang is about to find out why, and start plotting how they might drink their way through it in a creative way.
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Since the Creative Horror Crew were on vacation recently, they’ve arranged a platter of bite-sized items from the menu of Choice Dregs, lost chunks of UCA recordings usually given only to Patreon supporters. However, something totally new and unexpected awaits at the end…
If you want to hear all episodes of Choice Dregs, plus a good amount of other extra content related to Midnight Marinara and UCA, please consider becoming a Patron at any level.
Eli shares a existential story of bitter nostalgia. confusion and regret, but Kaela, Allen and Benjamin are monsters drunk enough to commit to the bit.
Story submitted by Eli Edgerton-Jones.
We’re not strangers to fan fiction on this show, and luckily four of the five hosts - Kaela, Allen, Seid and Raevell - have some decent context to work with, while David is very much in the dark. Will this horror take on Madoka Magica leave the desired impression regardless of knowledge of the source material? And will Allen get the $5000 necessary to reveal his own Bionicle fiction at last?
Story submitted by neosaiyanangel.
Slight disclaimer. There’s some potentially tricky stuff in this one that’s definitely NSFW. Notes at the beginning. Just be forewarned. Anyway, David and Allen are a couple of dingbats.
Story submitted by William Dalphin. Read along here.
The noble tradition of getting Random Encounters to read stories with us continues! Having just wrapped shooting of Your Happy Ending the night before, we awake at the crack of 2pm to read a collection of five very short stories with varying themes of quirky horror and a bit of NoSleep energy.
Stories submitted by shortstory1 Read along below:
1. “Hello I would like to order a pizza”
2. “I regret turning an Instagram tiktok influencer into a vampire”
3. “I am going to allow my son to be weird for 12 hours instead of just 1 hour”
4. “Donate to my charity guys”
5. “My mother is still scared of the dark”
Originally a Patreon exclusive, this special episode contains the prototype that eventually led to Undercooked Analysis. Recorded way back in March of 2014, this impromptu session has David and friends Ben Spiegel, Sean Holt, Ty Lucas and Kyle Duncan reading through "Jeff the Killer," and stumbling over what UCA originally tried to do: understand what it is that made this story and its namesake character so popular in the wider Creepypasta mythos.
If you’re interested in what other weird gems we have hidden in the vault these past 7 years, consider joining our Patreon.
Allen and David think something fishy is going on here…
Story submitted by Daniel Scamell.
There’s still time to join in for our Cryptid Creature Writing Challenge!
Opening with some theocratic discussion (sacrilege may vary), David, Kaela, Seid and Papreeka find their cold open was more on theme then they anticipated, as they read a story about an old tree and a struggle with identity.
Story submitted by Oxygen-Thief.
Check out our Cryptid Creature Writing Challenge with Animal Fact Files!
It's the 100th episode since UCA moved to Creative Horror, and the gang's all here to take another look at everyone's favorite ominous unknown killer - this time with the story run through Google Translate a few times. Will it be a marked improvement?
Originally recorded with VISUALS! If you want see what happened during this episode, check it out on YouTube.
Kaela, Ben, Kylie and Eli connect link cables and discuss a submitted work of good old-fashioned PokePasta, this being a tragic tale of eggs gone awry.
Story submitted anonymously.
A New Year’s Day story in April? Sure, why not? It’s UCA and anything goes when David, Kaela, Allen and Seid get together. In addition to this story of self-reflection, Allen presents a new recurring challenge to the other hosts…
Story submitted by TheRe_Writes. Read along here.
It’s time for David to get some of what he dishes out. Kaela, Seid and Papreeka take a story written for a writing challenge and put it to their own form of scrutiny, while also providing some helpful PSAs along the way.
Story submitted by David King.
Allen has something important to share with our listeners about a change in the show’s format.
An unsettling anecdote about a pirated broadcast, interspersed with Pokemon questions from David, Kaela and Abysmii? Yep, it’s another episode of Undercooked Analysis.
Story submitted by Secoura.
David, Kaela, Allen, Abysmii and special guest Naruli are about to spend another hour in the ball pit as they talk about Nicolas Cage fighting animatronics and cinematic attempts to ape the FNaF formula.
This could easily be a very dark story based on the subject matter, and yet David, Kaela, Allen and Papreeka seem to be rolling in a fair bit of levity to keep them going. Will they be able to push through, or will they keep making reference to next week’s Choice Dregs (available only on Patreon!)?
Content Warning: story depicts violence against an infant,
Story submitted by Cainmak.
