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Palimpsest

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Palimpsest is a (mostly) single-voiced audio drama about memory, identity, and the things that haunt us. Each ten-episode season is a unique and self-contained story, exploring the spaces between horror, fantasy, and psychological realism. #embracewhathauntsyou

Newest episodes

Highgate Wood Sneak Peek

11 min

Here's a sneak peek at our brand new show, the rock and roll ghost story Highgate Wood. Go subscribe today--search for "Highgate Wood" on your podcatcher of choice. highgatewoodband.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highgate Wood Trailer # 2

3 min

Highgate Wood, coming May 18th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highgate Wood Trailer

1 min

The new show from Palimpsest Productions--come and see the devil on the stage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Highgate Wood Sneak Peek

11 min

Here's a sneak peek at our brand new show, the rock and roll ghost story Highgate Wood. Go subscribe today--search for "Highgate Wood" on your podcatcher of choice. highgatewoodband.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highgate Wood Trailer # 2

3 min

Highgate Wood, coming May 18th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highgate Wood Trailer

1 min

The new show from Palimpsest Productions--come and see the devil on the stage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RATCATCHER

16 min

Scream if you want. Hide if you can. No one escapes the Ratcatcher man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ratcatcher Trailer

1 min

Coming Halloween 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Respite

44 min

You need someone to take care of you. We're here for you. This episode contains images of blood, car accidents, and the inescapable consequences of your transgressions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 510: Loup-Garou

21 min

Radcliffe's final full moon, and what happened after. This episode contains depictions of graphic violence, including violence against animals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 509: Scarlet

21 min

Lenore makes a deal. Moonrise.   CW: This episode of Palimpsest contains depcitions of domestic abuse, including physical violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 508: Party

26 min

What was in the room. This is loss. A garden party. The party music is "Skeleton Jangle" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 507: Openings

23 min

Home from Paris. Mrs. Perrault talks of marriage. Bella and Lenore get closer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 506: Paris

22 min

Lenore asks questions. News from Gévaudan. The City of Lights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 505: Into the Woods

23 min

Romantic view. Something in the woods. The loup garou will come for you. Alone in the dark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 504: Visitors

21 min

Keys. The Reverend comes for tea. Bella comes for a picnic. Strangeness on the lawn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 503: Bella

24 min

A locked door. Radcliffe goes away, and Lenore makes a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 502: Unkindness

23 min

Daily routine. Ravens. Stories. Wolves. Lenore is awakened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 501: Lenore

22 min

Lenore tells of her whirlwind romance, and how she became mistress of Maison d'Aubépine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season Five Trailer #2

1 min

October 31st! Let us tell you a story... #embracewhathauntsyou Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season Five Trailer

1 min

Meet Lenore. The luckiest girl in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Binder Interview with Jamie and Hayley

25 min

Ray MacManus from the Binder podcast talks with Jamie and Hayley from Palimpsest about horror, gothic storytelling, and growing up haunted. Binder uses art as a catalyst to talk about big ideas, bringing people together through complex conversations and personal stories to create the connections that lift our entire community. Hosted by CMA writer-in-residence Ray McManus and produced by the Columbia Museum of Art, Binder brings you audio storytelling with writers, artists, scholars, curators, and more. Binder is engineered and edited by Drew Baron. Find out more here: https://www.columbiamuseum.org/binder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visitations: A Hawthorne House Holiday

16 min

'Tis the night before Solstice 1895, and there's a party at the Hawthorne House. Join us for our final Visitation: a Hawthorne House Holiday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visitations: Junior Satan Club

34 min

Dylan brings a date to meet his friends. Halloween party at Hawthorne House!  This episode contains depictions of graphic violence, drug and alcohol use, heavy metal lyrics, and discussions of cannibalism, satanic sacrifice, and feeding children to dogs. It's awesome. Guest voices: Lauren Otis as Kat, Katie Jones as Sandy, Alex Villarreal as Adam, and Brooks Wallace as Dylan. Additional music in this episode by post-punk superstars Secret Shame. Check out their new album, Autonomy, at secretshame.bandcamp.com.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visitations: Hide and Keep

22 min

We visit an old friend. Mirrors and denizens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visitations: Cooking with Cora

25 min

It's 1956, and Cora is making a stew! This episode contains graphic depictions of violence and gore.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visitations: Dancing Queen

37 min

Cyndi and Marie get lost looking for a party.  The first of five stand-alone Visitations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 410: Strange but Not a Stranger

16 min

The end of Ash's story. Guest voice: Matilyn Hull This episode contains graphic depictions of violence, gore, and suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 409: Daybreak

18 min

Things become much clearer. And much bloodier.  This episode contains graphic depictions of violence and gore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 408: Snowblind (ii)

22 min

Fire and ice. Grandfathers. Clocks. A talk on the stairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 407: Outside

26 min

Ash spends time in the back yard. Things are shown. There is blood.   CW: This episode contains graphic depictions of violence and gore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 406: Snowblind (i)

21 min

Trapped, but not alone.   This episode contains graphic depictions of violence and gore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 405: Ginny

22 min

The storm continues. New friends? Something in the chimney, something under the stairs.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 403: Day Four

20 min

Nightmares and hard talks. The attic opens.      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 402: Day Three

19 min

Doughnuts and discoveries. Things don't add up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 401: Day One

20 min

Welcome to Hawthorne House. Meet Ash. Transcripts at www.thepalimpsestpodcast.com Our theme song is performed by Ian Ridenhour (www.ianridenhour.com) and Dov Bek-Levine (https://www.dovbecklevine.com)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mobley Building and Renovation

1 min

Need help with your house? Mobley Building and Renovation knows exactly what your house needs. Season Four begins April 13th. #embracewhathauntsyou   excerpts from "Ash" by Tracy K. Smith used by permission of Graywolf Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season Four Trailer

1 min

House that eats and pleads and kills. Season Four begins April 13th.   The poem in this trailer is "Ash" by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, from her collection Wade in the Water (2018). We are grateful to Ms. Smith and Graywolf Press for granting us permission to use it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Home Again, Home Again

23 min

It's Halloween. You've been gone so long. We missed you so much. Welcome home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 310: Cult Following

21 min

Poppy O'Brien investigates a series of letters from the 1940s.  Featuring guest performers Beth Eyre, Jen Sugden, and James Oliva. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 309: Ritual

25 min

Walking with ghosts. Josie has a choice to make. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 308: Broken

25 min

Josie breaks the code. Tragedy strikes.    This episode contains images of graphic violence, including gun violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 307: Visitation

23 min

Voices in the night. Josie has a visitor. Today's episode contains images of war, violence, and discussions of suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 306: Book

20 min

Josie examines the book. Poetry and parentage. CW: Poetry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 305: Deep

22 min

Broken codes. Josie underground. Contains graphic depictions of violence and war.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 304: Tower

21 min

Tarot and Towers. Josie is a spy. Something's in the alley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 303: Enigma

21 min

Ring around the rosie. Josie meets someone who knows things. A dead woman in the garden.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 302: Slaughter

21 min

Layers. Rivers. Theories.   This episode of Palimpsest features depictions of war, violence, and attempted suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 301: Josie

19 min

We meet Josie, who encounters a series of strangers in war-torn London. This episode of Palimpsest contains images of violence and war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season Three Trailer

1 min

Season Three begins January 21st Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season Two Bloopers and Updates

8 min

It's Hayley"s birthday! To celebrate, here's the Season Two Blooper Reel... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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