Chicago’s Water Warning Came Six Hours Too Late

The tap water tastes sweet. The callers can’t stop feeling thirsty. At 5:14 a.m., Chicago finally receives a warning: do not drink the water.

Overnight radio host Daniel Reyes has been taking calls from across the city. Something is wrong—but the official advisory raises more questions than it answers. Water samples were flagged before midnight. Why did the warning take hours to arrive?

As Daniel keeps broadcasting, a disturbing pattern connects the phone calls, Lake Michigan, and his station’s signal. Then he remembers the two cups of coffee he drank during his shift.

Both were made with tap water.

Step inside a fictional Chicago water crisis in this atmospheric horror audio story, where a late-night emergency broadcast becomes a slow descent into cosmic horror.

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This story is fiction. It is not a real emergency broadcast, water advisory, or news report.