No Evidence by Victoria Lincoln Episode #438

Victoria Lincoln | October 8, 2025

No Evidence by Victoria Lincoln Episode #438
Victoria Lincoln

NO EVIDENCE

Episode #438 · Written by Victoria Lincoln · Narrated by Scott Miller

A man watches himself walk away into the night… and spends the next twenty years receiving letters from the version of himself that left. When the dreams begin, he discovers there are some things you can destroy in the world—and some things you can only bury inside yourself.

What would you do if you watched yourself stand up, walk away, and start a completely different life—while you stayed behind? That’s the chilling premise of No Evidence, where Charley Johnson is forced to live with the impossible truth of a split existence… one version of himself climbing the social ladder in America, the other struggling in poverty and illness in Ireland. For two decades, he accepts the unexplainable—until the letters stop, the nightmares start, and the past he thought he escaped begins clawing its way back into his mind.

No Evidence is a psychological time-fracture story that reads less like sci-fi and more like a quiet, tightening noose of dread. There are no aliens, no ray guns, no futuristic cities—just one man, two lives, and the terrifying realization that the self you cast off may not be finished with you yet. Victoria Lincoln masterfully shifts the horror from the supernatural to the internal, proving that the greatest threat is not another world—but the version of you that could have lived in it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Author Victoria Lincoln (1904–1981) was a novelist, journalist, and short story writer whose work often blended literary realism with uncanny, Twilight Zone-style distortions of identity. Though better known for her novels and true-crime writing later in life, her science-fiction and fantasy shorts—from magazines like Fantasy & Science Fiction—show a sharp fascination with fractured psychology and moral ambiguity. She was a writer far ahead of her time, quietly weaving themes of duality, guilt, and fate into stories that feel modern even now.

If you enjoy unsettling, thought-provoking vintage sci-fi that lingers in the mind long after the final line, this forgotten classic is one you shouldn’t miss.

LISTEN TO THE STORY

Listen to No Evidence by Victoria Lincoln — a chilling tale of identity, fate, and double lives in vintage science fiction. Classic sci-fi suspense at its best.