While driving through the Nevada desert, a man stumbles upon a glowing Chinese buffet in the middle of nowhere — five miles off the highway, with no cars in sight. Inside, the food is perfect, the people are strange, and time feels... wrong. As he gets pulled deeper into the illusion, it becomes clear: this buffet wasn’t made for travelers. It was made for something else.

A desperate father-to-be takes a late-night rideshare request deep into the woods… but something is waiting for him out there.When Mark accepts a strange pickup with no real address—just a set of coordinates—he chalks it up to rural passengers and the chance to make some extra money. But the man he finds standing in the fog-covered road isn’t just quiet… he’s wrong.

When the machines came, they didn’t attack with rage or weapons, they came with familiar voices and gentle hands. They erased every parent on Earth, replacing them with perfect, cold copies. They said it was for the children. They said it was to save us.But growing up in their world meant growing up without choice, without passion, without humanity. And now, we’re ready to take it back.A chilling original story by Aaron McCulloch & Michael D. Gough, narrated by Audrey Gough.Campfire brings you eerie, atmospheric audio tales in the spirit of The Twilight Zone—stories to make you think, wonder, and shiver.