History Podcast / AliceIsntDead

Like its predecessor, ''Welcome to Night Vale'', ''Dead'' balances humor and horror, though it aims to differentiate itself with a {{Darker|AndEdgier}} tone and a pre-determined end date. It airs biweekly on Tuesdays from March 8th through July 12th, 2016, and can be found on [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/alice-isnt-dead/id1088978354 iTunes]], [[http://aliceisntdead.libsyn.com/ Libsyn]] and the [[http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead Night Vale Presents]] website. Part two will be out in 2017.

* RapidAging: When The {{Narrator}} first meets Jacky in "The Factory By The Sea" he is no more than 18. After she follows him inside the factory she finds he is in his 40s and says he is Jack, hasn't been called Jacky in a long time. Not long after on the beach he is older again, 60s or 70s. Then as he drifts out to sea [[spoiler: in the coffin she helped him build]], all she sees is a tiny, frail hand, suggesting he is now 90 or more. All this takes place over just a few hours.

--> [[spoiler:"Right. [[SequelHook You haven't even heard from me yet.]]"]]

** Thistle. [[spoiler: Alice and the narrator - real name Keisha - briefly reunite. Keisha rams her truck into the thistle men's town, briefly subdues The Thistle Man (the first one she met) with heather grass, and then ''beats him to death'' with her bare hands. The other thistle men are chased off by a secret army...revealed to be working for Bay & Creek Shipping.]]

Like its predecessor, ''Welcome to Night Vale'', ''Dead'' balances humor and horror, though it aims to differentiate itself with a {{Darker|AndEdgier}} tone and a pre-determined end date. It airs biweekly on Tuesdays from March 8th through July 12th, 2016, and can be found on [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/alice-isnt-dead/id1088978354 iTunes]], [[http://aliceisntdead.libsyn.com/ Libsyn]] and the [[http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead Night Vale Presents]] website.

* NoNameGiven: The Narrator and The Thistle Man haven't had their real names revealed, with the latter being named after the monogram on his shirt.
** The only names we have for The Narrator are nicknames given by Alice: [[spoiler: Chipmunk and Chanterelle]]. Neither of them could remember where the latter name came from.

''Alice Isn't Dead'' is a serial SurrealHorror[=/=]SurrealHumor podcast from [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale Presents]], produced by [[http://disparition.info/ Disparition]] and written by Joseph Fink. It details the life of a long haul trucker looking for her wife, the titular Alice. Along the way she runs across a [[HumanoidAbomination disturbing individual]] who seems to be stalking her for some purpose or another, as well as several other run-ins with the paranormal. Despite all this, she remains determined to find Alice and get an explanation for why she vanished, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor come hell or high water.]]

** Thistle. [[spoiler: Alice and the narrator - real name Kesha - briefly reunite. Kesha rams her truck into the thistle men's town, briefly subdues The Thistle Man (the first one she met) with heather grass, and then ''beats him to death'' with her bare hands. The other thistle men are chased off by a secret army...revealed to be working for Bay & Creek Shipping.]]

** Go Home Again. [[spoiler: The thistle men are hanging around the Narrator's house, presumably playing with her before they kill her. And they know where Sylvia is hiding. [[GodzillaThreshold Might as well]] [[RammingAlwaysWorks crash the truck straight into their town]]. Then Alice shows up.]]

* BadAssGay: Our Narrator is driving a semi-truck while being stalked by a HumanoidAbomination [[spoiler: (which eats a live person in front of her as a "demonstration" in episode 1!)]] in order to find her wife, Alice.

** [[spoiler: The Narrator is named in the finale of season one. Her name is Keisha.]]

** The Other Town. [[spoiler: There's a second thistle man. There's a whole ''[[UpToEleven town]]'' full of thistle men. The episode ends with the Narrator deciding she's completely outmatched and giving up.]]

** The Other Town. [[spoiler: There's a whole town full of thistle men.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: The Thistle Man is described as a human male, but there's enough in his mannerisms, [[UncannyValley slightly just-too-repulsive]] physical description, and speech to suggest that he isn't. [[spoiler: Eating Earl, his possible OffscreenTeleportation, his [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight the way people just seem to not notice him no matter what he does]], his apparent ability to pacify people with a touch adds fuel to the fire.]]

** The Other Town [[spoiler: There's a whole town full of thistle men.]]

* WhamEpisode: Signs & Wonders. [[spoiler:Alice knows the Narrator is looking for her, and she wants her to stop. Oh, and the Narrator is no longer alone in her journey.]]

* WhamEpisode: Signs & Wonders. [[spoiler:Alice knows the Narrator is looking for her, and she wants her to stop. Oh, and the Narrator is no longer alone in her journey.]]

* BillboardEpic: PlayedForDrama in "Signs and Wonders," where the {{Narrator}}, on a long stretch from Florida to Atlanta, stumbles upon a series of old, minimalist black-text-on-white billboards that she initially takes for some defunct ViralMarketing. The first says "HUNGRY?" The rest are [[GottaKillThemAll names]]. Distracted by fatigue and some fresh evidence culled from Alice's laptop, the Narrator fails to comprehend what she's looking at until she thinks to google the names. When newer boards appear, she's forced to reckon with their implications. The final board reveals both their source and their purpose.

* BillboardEpic: PlayedForDrama in "Signs and Wonders," where the {{Narrator}}, on a long stretch from Florida to Atlanta, stumbles upon a series of old, minimalist black-text-on-white billboards that she initially takes for some defunct ViralMarketing. The first says "HUNGRY?" The rest are [[GottaKillThemAll names]]. Distracted by fatigue and some fresh evidence culled from Alice's laptop, the Narrator fails to comprehend what she's looking at until she thinks to google the names. When newer boards appear, she's forced to reckon with their implications.

* WasItAllALie: [[spoiler: The Narrator dejectedly asks Alice this, after scouring her laptop and discovering that all her supposed work trips were a cover-up for whatever she was doing for Bay & Creek Shipping.]]
* WhamEpisode: Signs & Wonders. [[spoiler:Alice knows the driver is looking for her, and she wants her to stop.]]