Nearly Departed
Katy Wiggins
A ghost story anthology sewn together with a very cozy thread. Every episode contains a ghost story from someone in a different time and place. A dorm in 2014, a French chateau in 1916, a video store in 1998. Each story is a totally different vibe, but they're all united by paranormal occurrences.
Katy hopes to create a space where the veil is thin all year round, here to revisit whenever you're in need of a safe harbor to contemplate the living and the dead and the terrors in-between. While it may look cute and whimsical, these stories may be very scary and/or disturbing and are not intended for kids. For fans of history, melancholy, pumpkin pie, dusty mansions, flirting with terror, atmosphere, coziness, plastic skeletons, and real ones too.
Katy is a writer and improviser in Austin, TX and co host of popular podcast Scary Stories from Camp Roanoke, which has over 40,000 listeners. Katy adores history, and ghost stories are one of the ways the past echoes into the future in its own active voice. It's a way that the people of bygone eras literally come alive, and that possibility has never gotten old to her. Katy is also fascinated by the unprovable nature of ghosts--how one person can have years of their life tormented by a spiritual force and another person thinks it's all a bunch of hocus pocus. Paranormal or not, it's a fascinating reflection of the invisible struggles we each move through the world with.
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6. The Santa Fe Tape
Nearly Departed
10/14/23 • 23 min
Ms. Kandinsky finally speaks--and takes us to the lonely home of an old Western star...
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5. The Brownstone
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09/29/23 • 31 min
1982, New York City's Upper East Side. A young woman moves into her friend's cavernous family home and she can't believe her luck. But a third roommate she didn't bargain for can't believe her luck either.
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4. The Haunted Video Store
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09/22/23 • 26 min
Gwen reads a letter from the late 90s from a Massachusetts woman working at a video store with bigger things to deal with than collecting overdue Titanic tapes.
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3. The Soldier and the Haunted Chateau
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09/15/23 • 23 min
Gwen finds her oldest ghost story yet, in a letter recounting time spent recovering from the trenches of WW1 in a haunted French castle. But that's only part of the story...
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2. The Green Glove Cabaret
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09/08/23 • 23 min
Sometimes buildings have a personality all their own, and just like people they're not always nice. And just like people, sometimes they get hungry.
Join Gwen as she reads the letter addressed to her about a woman and a spooky little forgotten theater in Houston, Texas.
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1. The Letters
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09/01/23 • 26 min
In which we meet the holders of Miss Kandinsky's legacy, and a troubled soul named Cody writes a letter from his dorm.
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Trailer: Nearly Departed
Nearly Departed
08/15/23 • 1 min
It's that time again! I've been cooking up something special for months and I'm thrilled to be able to finally share it with you. Hopefully my new podcast of paranormal stories will satisfy at least some of your ravenous appetite for cozy and terrifying spookiness. See you on September 1st!
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8. Gwen's Ouija Board
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10/18/24 • 25 min
Season Two!!! Hi it's me Katy Wiggins back with season two of my wonderful project Nearly Departed. I hope you enjoy the return to my little world.
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9. Locked in a Louisiana Mansion
Nearly Departed
10/28/24 • 20 min
Note: this episode contains mention of pregnancy loss.
In this letter, a young boy and his little sister in the 1940s south are left to fend for themselves one summer, when the decrepit mansion their family moves to has a horrible secret.
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10. The Snowbird
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10/31/24 • 24 min
snow·bird
/ˈsnōˌbərd/
a northerner who moves to a warmer southern state in the winter.
"at the peak of the tourist season the hotel hosted an additional three hundred snowbirds and backpackers"
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FAQ
How many episodes does Nearly Departed have?
Nearly Departed currently has 11 episodes available.
What topics does Nearly Departed cover?
The podcast is about Haunted House, Supernatural, Fiction, Drama, Ghost Story, Paranormal, Podcasts, Halloween, Scary Story, Campfire, Spooky, Haunted and Horror.
What is the most popular episode on Nearly Departed?
The episode title '7. The House in the Cul-de-Sac' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Nearly Departed?
The average episode length on Nearly Departed is 23 minutes.
How often are episodes of Nearly Departed released?
Episodes of Nearly Departed are typically released every 10 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of Nearly Departed?
The first episode of Nearly Departed was released on Aug 15, 2023.
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