Chapter 1: What exciting events are happening for Night Vale in Europe?
Hey Night Vale, it is Jeffrey Cranor speaking to you from April of 2026 with a couple of cool things coming up. First off, we're going to be in Europe touring our newest Night Vale live show, Murder Night in Blood Forest. We're going to be in Edinburgh, UK on May 27th. We'll be in Manchester on the 28th. We will be in London on May 29th and we will be in Amsterdam on May the 30th.
You can get tickets for these shows at welcometonightville.com slash live, and hopefully we'll have more shows coming up later this year. Who knows? Just get on our newsletter. Go to welcometonightville.com, sign up for our newsletter. We will send you emails twice a month to let you know all of the news that you need to know about Welcome to Nightville.
One of the big news things to tell you right now is that our other hit podcast, Alice Isn't Dead is coming back on April the 13th, written by Joseph Fink, produced by Disparition, and starring Jessica Nicole. More episodes of Alice Isn't Dead return on April the 13th, so make sure you are still subscribed to that podcast. Finally, do you want some cool Night Vale merch?
Go to welcometonightvale.com, click on store, And we have all kinds of cool t-shirts, things for the summer, tank tops, beach towels. And if you like coffee mugs, if you want calendars, if you want backpacks, all kinds of cool stuff there. So check out welcometonightville.com and click on store, click on live. If you want to see our live shows, we will see you in Europe. And hey, thanks.
Blink and you'll miss it. Oh, that's not advice. That's just the next two things you're going to do. Welcome to Night Vale. Hey, does anyone hear that sound behind the sky? It's like a hundred matches being struck at once. Or it's like the bones in your pinky finger snapping. Or it's like teeth being run through an industrial grinder. I would say in the sky, but that's not right.
In the sky, there are clouds and black helicopters and unidentified aircraft. Normal stuff like that. But this sound is coming from behind the sky. Does anyone hear it? It sounds like a heart breaking. Or it sounds like an important letter being torn up. Or it sounds like the way that losing at chess feels. It's the darndest thing. Haven't heard anything like it.
And I also didn't know sounds came from behind the sky, so I'm learning a lot right now. If anyone else is hearing that, please call in. You'll know the sound if you hear it. It sounds like a Toyota truck being slowly covered by thousands of tons of sand. More on that, if anything more happens, but first...
Dana's investigation of the murders of Marcus Vanston and intern Jalyn Rutherford continues. She has called and left me a voicemail. Let's give it a listen together.
Hi, Cecil. I keep coming back to certain strange financial transactions that Marcus Vanston made in the days before his death. As the saying goes, if you want to get to the truth, give chase to the cash. Marcus was making regular donations to his local church, Our Lady of Temporary Salvation.
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Chapter 2: What mysterious sound is being heard behind the sky?
Yeah, I guess, I said. I mean, sort of. Do you think it sounds like anything else? I said. Nah, said Big Rico. It's exactly the sound of crunching into the best pepperoni pizza of your life. I'd know it anywhere. Maybe someone is eating a big pepperoni pizza behind the sky, he suggested. Well, it's the first explanation we've been offered, so that's something.
I wish I knew for sure what that sound behind the sky was, though. Now, everyone's favorite part of the night, your latest Antler Cove recap. I'm realizing now that the only way I can get anyone to listen to my show is if I give you a quick recap of what's happening on the hit TV series Antler Cove that airs exactly during my broadcast time slot.
These have been prepared for me by a trusted source. Thanks, Michelle. So do not worry. These are all completely accurate. Okay. It seems that Troy and Bronson were in cahoots the whole time and were working to trick Ebony out of her rightful share of the sulfur fortune. I know. But then it turns out
Bronson wasn't even Bronson, but was instead Magnus, the illegitimate son of the powerful Randall family. Magnus had returned to Antler Cove in disguise in order to get his revenge. His revenge plan had been complicated, however, when he fell in love with Troi, and now Troi thinks that he's Bronson and Magnus doesn't know how to tell Troi who he really is without ruining everything.
Meanwhile, Poppy, the owner of the town bait shop, which also serves as a secret front for the illegal and violent marble racing scene, she has spotted strange lights on Dead Man's Rock.
far out in the turbulent waters of antler cove and she is convinced that those lights are wait for it you're not gonna believe this david who has been missing since season two i know none of the other characters believe her so poppy is getting ready to row herself out to the rock even though no one has ever made it across antler cove without being crushed by the waves
And Lionel, who knows that David actually moved to New York City for a work thing, has been trying to convince her not to, but Poppy won't listen, and now the entire future of the marble racing business is in doubt. Whew, I'll be honest, that sounds pretty good. And Michelle said she even had to leave out a few things for time.
Like a fun little subplot about a new cook at the diner who keeps getting everyone's order wrong. And the whole thing about how the aliens have given everyone three days to meet their demands or they destroy the entire world. So, that's what you missed on Antler Cove. Thanks for spending time with me instead. And now, Traffic. Out by the bus station, a woman sits on a bench.
She fiddles with a ring on her finger. Next to her is a cardboard box. It contains some but not all of the items in her life she considers indispensable. She wishes it contained all of those items, but she had packed it in a hurry. Hadn't known she was leaving until a few minutes before she did.
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Chapter 3: What details are emerging from Dana's investigation into the murders?
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Hey, does anyone not hear that sound behind the sky anymore? I thought it was bad when it was happening because it sounded like someone was tapping on the inside of my skull. Or like the cracking of a building right before it falls down around you. Like that. But somehow, It's worse now that the sound is gone.
The silence is like after the spin and crack of a car crash, when the people in the car try to tell if they are still altogether there. It's the pause when something is said that cannot be taken back, and everyone is still sitting with the poison of the words. Like that. Oh, I'm getting a call. It's from Stacey Jennings, the park ranger out in the scrublands.
There is no official state or national park out there, but as long as I can remember, Stacy has been out there in her park ranger uniform, shambling about, whispering nature facts to kids, and subsisting on insects dug from the ground with her long, blunt claws. Stacy says there's some kind of to-do out in the scrublands, and she's never seen the like. She says a hole has appeared in the sky.
Not like a black hole or anything cosmic, more like a hole kicked through drywall. Now, she says, and she's screaming a little bit, try to keep a hold of yourself, Stacey. She says a figure is crawling out from the hole.
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Chapter 4: How does the sound relate to the community's current events?
To do that, we're watching the IMDb viewer-rated best and worst episodes of classic TV shows.
The episode of Star Trek, where Beverly Crusher has sex with a ghost. The episode of The X-Files, where Scully gets attacked by a vicious house cat.
And also the really good episodes, too.
What can we learn from the best and worst of great television? Like, for example, is it really a bad episode or do people just hate women?
The Best Worst, available wherever you get your podcasts.
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