Episode 101:
Nic Silver: Host of Tanis, producer at Pacific Northwest Stories.
AKA: Nicodemus, The Witness
Jack Parsons: Mid 20th century rocket scientist and occultist. Published a short story called “Where is Tanis?”
L. Ron Hubbard: Founder of Scientology, friend of Jack Parsons and Sara Northrup.
Professor Carl Adams: Historian and religious studies professor at Oxford University. An expert on the myth of Tanis, wrote most known articles on the subject. Deceased.
Alex Reagan: Friend and producing partner to Nic. Pacific Northwest Stories host, co-producer, and contributor.
The Haida: Ancient civilization who worshipped Tanis.
Xanu: The Haida word for Tanis.
Meerkatnip: “Information Specialist” who helps Nic by digging up information on the web others can’t access.
AKA: MK
Fort Nisqually Fur Trapper: Brutally massacred nine of his friends and colleagues in 1834. Wrote a journal entry the day before the massacre about being led into the woods by a demonic entity and being mutilated.
Episode 102:
Geoff van Sant: Brother of and landlord to Carl van Sant. Beer enthusiast. Sold Carl’s cassette tapes to mysterious company (later revealed to be Cameron Ellis) after Carl’s death.
Carl van Sant: Recluse and former naval communications officer who spent time in Russia. Obsessed with the myth of Tanis. Hoarded information about Tanis, notably 90,000 cassette tapes. Posted on the Fish and Tackle bulletin board. Posted “Seeking Tanis. Runner available” to Craigslist before his recent death. Presumed to have found a way to find Tanis. Apparently committed suicide by hanging himself with his belt.
Edgar Hayes: Wrote a letter to Charles Fort about the Super-Sargasso Sea that Carl van Sant had framed in his room.
Charles Fort: Well known American researcher. The term Fortean is often used to accompany the search for anomalous phenomena. Proposed the theory of the Super-Sargasso Sea.
Morris Stevenson: Consulting expert in all things Fortean, verified the letter Carl van Sant had that Edgar Hayes wrote to Charles Fort.
TeslaNova Corporation: Mysterious corporation with ties to the myth of Tanis that conducts research. Cameron Ellis is a powerful executive there. Tara Reynolds, MK's Friend, Veronika Pillman, and Dr. Jonathan Carnahan have all worked for/with TeslaNova in some capacity.
Sam Reynolds: Canadian man whose sister, Tara Reynolds, went missing while working on a top secret project for the TeslaNova Corporation. Tracked down Morgan Miller and convinced her to help him find Tara. Kidnapped by a sect of the Cult of Tanis under the influence of drugs and hypnosis.
AKA: The Zealot
Tara Reynolds: Went missing while working for the TeslaNova Corporation on a top secret project near Seattle. Found alive but bloodied in a cabin in the woods, under very strange circumstance, by Nic, Veronika, Morgan, and Sam.
Steph: A friend of Tara and Sam Reynolds who bought a sailboat, mentioned in an email from Tara to Sam.
Pacifica: Novel written by Morgan Miller for a creative writing class taught by Julie Green. In its original state, it was a dream diary of Miller’s written in a fugue state about Tanis. Miller then turned it into Firefly fanfiction. Avery Ellis stole it from her father Cameron Ellis’s computer and tried to get it published, but he paid off the would-be publisher to cease publication and erase all evidence of it. He tried to make it look like Avery had gotten it from a Firefly fanfiction forum.
Avery Ellis: Daughter of Cameron Ellis. Sought to publish the novel Pacifica in 2003, which she stole from on her father’s computer as a form of rebellion.
Cameron Ellis: Powerful executive at TeslaNova Corporation. Sought to destroy all evidence of Pacifica’s publication. Purchased Carl van Sant’s tapes and audio equipment. Seems to be spearheading TeslaNova's research project in the Seattle woods.
Paul Bae: Executive producer for Tanis and sometimes reader.
Episode 103:
Elisa Lam: Found dead in 2013 in the Cecil Hotel’s water tower. There was video recording of her erratic behavior in the hotel’s elevator the night before her death. Elisa Lam's name was later redacted from the episode.
Fish and Tackle: Deep web forum about Tanis. Known posters: Carl van Sant, Jeffrey Anderson, Kevin Murray, Miranda Hayes (AKA The Rat), Susan Lindauer, Parzavala Communications.
Rory Anderson: Friend of Elisa Lam’s. They’d both stayed at a cabin Rory inherited from his uncle shortly before both of their deaths. Committed suicide by jumping off of a bridge in Vancouver the same night as Elisa’s death.
Jeffrey Anderson: Rory Anderson’s uncle, owner of the cabin Rory and Elisa stayed in, “hardcore Xanu dude.” Posted on the deep web bulletin board Fish and Tackle. Deceased.
Bethany Collins: Young graduate student who wrote a series of articles on the Puget Sound War that included information on the Haida and Xanu.
Daniel Gallagher: English author of Killing in the Rain, a book about serial killers in the Pacific Northwest. Claimed the region is magnetic.
Kevin Murray: Poster on the Fish and Tackle bulletin board. Went crazy and shot three people and then committed suicide in a DuPont, Washington restaurant, the same spot of the Fort Nisqually Fur Trapper’s massacre.
Miranda Hayes: Poster on the Fish and Tackle bulletin board. Emailed Nic to meet about Tanis, told him about her conspiracy theory involving Tanis and the suicides of various prominent PNW musicians.
AKA: The Rat
Episode 104:
Julie Green: Freelance editor of Pacifica, Morgan Miller’s creative writing teacher. Deceased. Cameron Ellis had someone pose as her to speak with Nic.
AKA: Julie Sanders (maiden name)
Matthew Hollingsworth: Wrote a never-published book on Scientology that mentioned Tanis and Sara Northrup.
Sara Northrup: Roommate of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, romantically involved with both. Had visions leading to the publication of “Where is Tanis?”
Susan Lindauer 1: Former journalist and 9/11 conspiracy promoter, allegedly posted on UseNet about Markovian Parallax Denigrate, which Carl van Sant was interested in. Belonged to a newsgroup board which eventually became Fish and Tackle.
Susan Lindauer 2: A second Susan Lindauer connected with the UseNet board by email address. Packers fan.
MK’s Friend: Unnamed person who worked for TeslaNova Corporation. MK "had a thing" with them.
Parzavala Communications: Shady organization with a lot of money. Nominally a defunct internet service provider. Posted job listings on the Fish and Tackle bulletin board. Apparently has a very expensive way for people to find Tanis. Possibly responsible for the death of Carl van Sant and the hit and run killing of Vincent Pardo.
Episode 105:
Morgan Miller: The real author of Pacifica. Says the idea for Pacifica came from her dream journal, but she changed the plot and made it into Firefly fanfiction. Was offered three million dollars to buy it, she declined and then disappeared after being relentlessly followed. Reappeared by hijacking Nic’s computer to warn against investigating Tanis. Investigating Tara Reynolds’ whereabouts with Sam Reynolds. Posted “Elisa Lam was here, Xanu. January 20th, 2013.” to Elisa Lam’s Tumblr before her death with the username Tigernuts.
AKA: Mysterious Skype woman, Tigernuts, The Novelist
Vincent Pardo: Died two months before Nic found his obituary, in a hit and run accident. He was seeking unorthodox treatments for his cancer, which was in remission by the time he was killed. Geoff van Sant found letters from Pardo in his brother Carl’s belongings. He was arranging an appointment/treatment/camping trip with Carl. Parzavala is thought to be the real cause of his death.
Carmen Pardo: Vincent Pardo’s sister. Revealed Vincent was seeking unorthodox medical treatments, which is how he met Carl. Also revealed Vincent didn’t die of cancer, but in a hit and run car accident. Strongly suspects Carl Van Sant was involved.
Episode 106:
Cult of Tanis: Hippy-ish secret society obsessed with Tanis. Claim to be ancient but probably began in the 1940s or 50s. Following Nic. Left the classified ads mentioned in first episodes so they could meet up and discuss Tanis. May or may not have kidnapped, drugged, and hypnotized Sam Reynolds. Seem to get in trouble with the law a lot.
Episode 107:
HaidaGurl: Posting on bulletin boards about Xanu. Canadian but hired by the British government for a research project in 2009. Vanished after top secret environmental operation went horribly wrong. MK found out she worked in a bookstore in Portland called the Lamp Post and Colonel by hacking Hanslope Park.
AKA: Veronika Pillman
Peter Chenoweth: Helped create Dungeons and Dragons, suggested adding Baba Yaga’s hut to the game: bigger on the inside than the outside. Disappeared into the woods for three months, but believed less than an hour had passed. Hung himself a week after coming back.
Toni: Bookseller at the Lamp Post and Colonel in Portland. Helped Nic track down a former employee named Veronika Pillman who’d purchased books related to Tanis, in hopes of finding HaidaGurl.
Veronika Pillman: Worked at the Lamp Post and Colonel Bookstore and purchased books related to Tanis. Involved in the 2009 TeslaNova research study involving Jonathan Carnahan. Took Nic to see the Grackles posing as Melanie Nedved. Led Nic, Morgan, and Sam into the woods to the cabin/cave.
AKA: Melanie Nedved, Sarah Grinko, HaidaGurl, The Runner
Episode 108:
Jonas Raywood: Founder of the abandoned, mysterious town of Raywood, Washington. Passed away in 1985.
Marcus Dempsey: Purchased the town of Raywood and built a fence around it that keeps it in pristine condition. Very protective of the town but doesn’t live there.
James: Paid cash to rent a property for a faction of the Cult of Tanis, the people chanting “There are wondrous things, there are magical things, there are dangerous things, we get what we deserve.”
Marian Roberts: Marcus Dempsey’s ex wife, moved to Hawaii with her new husband, Jake.
AKA: Marian Dempsey
Episode 109:
Marnie Corrigan: Mother of two of the Raywood children who had gone missing, Samantha and Jason.
Gwendolyn: Part of a sect of the Cult of Tanis. Hypnotized/drugged Sam Reynolds into staying with them.
Arcadia: Sam’s girlfriend, close friends with Gwendolyn. Part of a sect of the Cult of Tanis. Drugged Nic.
The Grackles: A group of fringe scientists researching an area of the Pacific Northwest that may or may not be connected to Tanis, close to where TeslaNova was doing research when Tara Reynolds disappeared. One Grackle, Jonathan Carnahan, worked for TeslaNova for a period of time. As did Veronika Pillman, who seems to be close with The Grackles.
Episode 110:
Dr. Jonathan Carnahan: Older Caucasian Grackle with a ponytail. A biophysicist who worked for TeslaNova.
AKA: Carn
Arl: Tall Native American Grackle who walks with a cane and wears a bird-like mask.
Nathaniel Carter: Leader of a Cult of Tanis self-help commune. Ran a subsidiary of Parzavala Communications that did research on gastropods. Collector of ancient cult mythology, particularly Eld Fen.
Episode 111:
Eld Fen: Ancient legend akin to Beowulf that Nathaniel Carter is obsessed with. Cult of Tanis told Sam Reynolds "The Navigator knows the way to Eld Fen."
Episode 112:
Dr. Monique Burnnett: A psychiatrist who's trying to help Nic recall what happened in the strange cabin through hypnosis. She also appears in The Black Tapes Podcast as Alex's psychiatrist who's helping her with her insomnia.
Episode 201:
Section: Mysterious organization that shut down Pacifica Station in 1985.
John Correman: Writer/Collector/Conservator of PDF document labelled Eld Fen that was emailed as an attachment to Nic. Was killed in a hit and run accident.
Unnamed Narrator: Man who wrote the manuscript document titled Eld Fen that MK sent to Nic. The manuscript tells the story of the unnamed narrator's friendship with John Correman and what he finds in Correman's estate.
August Wick: Lovecraft/Derleth-esque writer. Wrote an epigraph that appears at the beginning of the Eld Fen manuscript.
Alan Malden: Man who was the only DNA match in the case where human feet were washing up on shore in Washington and British Columbia.
Episode 202:
Marcus: Man kept under observation in Cameron Ellis's underground research lab at TeslaNova.
Lyle Stevik: Man who committed suicide at the Lake Quinault Inn under mysterious circumstances in 2001, a few days after 9/11.
Barbara "Aunt Barb": Owner of the Lake Quinault Inn where Lyle Stevik was found dead.
Maricela: Housekeeper at the Lake Quinault Inn who found Lyle Stevik's body.
Episode 203:
Young Blogger from Spokane: No name given. Woman who provided Nic with the key she found in the Lake Quinault Inn floating in the water tank of the toilet in Room 5.
Madison: Member of the Cult of Tanis. Heard on an audio recording that MK found labelled "Subject M" where she is being apprehended by friends and family trying to take her away from the cult.
Madison's Mom: No name given. Heard on the recording MK found of Madison being apprehended.
David: Man heard on the recording MK found of Madison being apprehended.
Scout: Madison's sister, heard on the recording MK found of Madison being apprehended.
Episode 204:
Polly: Manson girl-esque Cult of Tanis member who lured Nic away from his home while it was being broken into.
Two Large Young Men: Security for the Cult of Tanis. Were at the bar while Polly and Arcadia were there with Nic. They later followed Nic to the Holly Hotel in Olympia, Washington.
Other Two Young Men: Broke into Nic's apartment while Polly & Aracadia kept him at the bar. Spotted by Nic's neighbor. Dark hair, wool hats, late 20s, bearded, wearing black. Planted a an iPhone in Nic's car.
Mike Gershon: Geologist who examined the rock and floating keychain found at the Lake Quinault Inn.
Sheila Martin: Dental hygeniest friend of Geoff van Sant who x-rayed the keychain found at the Lake Quinault Inn.
Marjorie Jensen: Unnamed Narrator's research assistant.
Episode 205:
Paul: Man who left Nic a voicemail about the Cult of Tanis, offering their sincere apologies.
Nic Silver: Host of Tanis, producer at Pacific Northwest Stories.
AKA: Nicodemus, The Witness
Jack Parsons: Mid 20th century rocket scientist and occultist. Published a short story called “Where is Tanis?”
L. Ron Hubbard: Founder of Scientology, friend of Jack Parsons and Sara Northrup.
Professor Carl Adams: Historian and religious studies professor at Oxford University. An expert on the myth of Tanis, wrote most known articles on the subject. Deceased.
Alex Reagan: Friend and producing partner to Nic. Pacific Northwest Stories host, co-producer, and contributor.
The Haida: Ancient civilization who worshipped Tanis.
Xanu: The Haida word for Tanis.
Meerkatnip: “Information Specialist” who helps Nic by digging up information on the web others can’t access.
AKA: MK
Fort Nisqually Fur Trapper: Brutally massacred nine of his friends and colleagues in 1834. Wrote a journal entry the day before the massacre about being led into the woods by a demonic entity and being mutilated.
Episode 102:
Geoff van Sant: Brother of and landlord to Carl van Sant. Beer enthusiast. Sold Carl’s cassette tapes to mysterious company (later revealed to be Cameron Ellis) after Carl’s death.
Carl van Sant: Recluse and former naval communications officer who spent time in Russia. Obsessed with the myth of Tanis. Hoarded information about Tanis, notably 90,000 cassette tapes. Posted on the Fish and Tackle bulletin board. Posted “Seeking Tanis. Runner available” to Craigslist before his recent death. Presumed to have found a way to find Tanis. Apparently committed suicide by hanging himself with his belt.
Edgar Hayes: Wrote a letter to Charles Fort about the Super-Sargasso Sea that Carl van Sant had framed in his room.
Charles Fort: Well known American researcher. The term Fortean is often used to accompany the search for anomalous phenomena. Proposed the theory of the Super-Sargasso Sea.
Morris Stevenson: Consulting expert in all things Fortean, verified the letter Carl van Sant had that Edgar Hayes wrote to Charles Fort.
TeslaNova Corporation: Mysterious corporation with ties to the myth of Tanis that conducts research. Cameron Ellis is a powerful executive there. Tara Reynolds, MK's Friend, Veronika Pillman, and Dr. Jonathan Carnahan have all worked for/with TeslaNova in some capacity.
Sam Reynolds: Canadian man whose sister, Tara Reynolds, went missing while working on a top secret project for the TeslaNova Corporation. Tracked down Morgan Miller and convinced her to help him find Tara. Kidnapped by a sect of the Cult of Tanis under the influence of drugs and hypnosis.
AKA: The Zealot
Tara Reynolds: Went missing while working for the TeslaNova Corporation on a top secret project near Seattle. Found alive but bloodied in a cabin in the woods, under very strange circumstance, by Nic, Veronika, Morgan, and Sam.
Steph: A friend of Tara and Sam Reynolds who bought a sailboat, mentioned in an email from Tara to Sam.
Pacifica: Novel written by Morgan Miller for a creative writing class taught by Julie Green. In its original state, it was a dream diary of Miller’s written in a fugue state about Tanis. Miller then turned it into Firefly fanfiction. Avery Ellis stole it from her father Cameron Ellis’s computer and tried to get it published, but he paid off the would-be publisher to cease publication and erase all evidence of it. He tried to make it look like Avery had gotten it from a Firefly fanfiction forum.
Avery Ellis: Daughter of Cameron Ellis. Sought to publish the novel Pacifica in 2003, which she stole from on her father’s computer as a form of rebellion.
Cameron Ellis: Powerful executive at TeslaNova Corporation. Sought to destroy all evidence of Pacifica’s publication. Purchased Carl van Sant’s tapes and audio equipment. Seems to be spearheading TeslaNova's research project in the Seattle woods.
Paul Bae: Executive producer for Tanis and sometimes reader.
Episode 103:
Elisa Lam: Found dead in 2013 in the Cecil Hotel’s water tower. There was video recording of her erratic behavior in the hotel’s elevator the night before her death. Elisa Lam's name was later redacted from the episode.
Fish and Tackle: Deep web forum about Tanis. Known posters: Carl van Sant, Jeffrey Anderson, Kevin Murray, Miranda Hayes (AKA The Rat), Susan Lindauer, Parzavala Communications.
Rory Anderson: Friend of Elisa Lam’s. They’d both stayed at a cabin Rory inherited from his uncle shortly before both of their deaths. Committed suicide by jumping off of a bridge in Vancouver the same night as Elisa’s death.
Jeffrey Anderson: Rory Anderson’s uncle, owner of the cabin Rory and Elisa stayed in, “hardcore Xanu dude.” Posted on the deep web bulletin board Fish and Tackle. Deceased.
Bethany Collins: Young graduate student who wrote a series of articles on the Puget Sound War that included information on the Haida and Xanu.
Daniel Gallagher: English author of Killing in the Rain, a book about serial killers in the Pacific Northwest. Claimed the region is magnetic.
Kevin Murray: Poster on the Fish and Tackle bulletin board. Went crazy and shot three people and then committed suicide in a DuPont, Washington restaurant, the same spot of the Fort Nisqually Fur Trapper’s massacre.
Miranda Hayes: Poster on the Fish and Tackle bulletin board. Emailed Nic to meet about Tanis, told him about her conspiracy theory involving Tanis and the suicides of various prominent PNW musicians.
AKA: The Rat
Episode 104:
Julie Green: Freelance editor of Pacifica, Morgan Miller’s creative writing teacher. Deceased. Cameron Ellis had someone pose as her to speak with Nic.
AKA: Julie Sanders (maiden name)
Matthew Hollingsworth: Wrote a never-published book on Scientology that mentioned Tanis and Sara Northrup.
Sara Northrup: Roommate of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, romantically involved with both. Had visions leading to the publication of “Where is Tanis?”
Susan Lindauer 1: Former journalist and 9/11 conspiracy promoter, allegedly posted on UseNet about Markovian Parallax Denigrate, which Carl van Sant was interested in. Belonged to a newsgroup board which eventually became Fish and Tackle.
Susan Lindauer 2: A second Susan Lindauer connected with the UseNet board by email address. Packers fan.
MK’s Friend: Unnamed person who worked for TeslaNova Corporation. MK "had a thing" with them.
Parzavala Communications: Shady organization with a lot of money. Nominally a defunct internet service provider. Posted job listings on the Fish and Tackle bulletin board. Apparently has a very expensive way for people to find Tanis. Possibly responsible for the death of Carl van Sant and the hit and run killing of Vincent Pardo.
Episode 105:
Morgan Miller: The real author of Pacifica. Says the idea for Pacifica came from her dream journal, but she changed the plot and made it into Firefly fanfiction. Was offered three million dollars to buy it, she declined and then disappeared after being relentlessly followed. Reappeared by hijacking Nic’s computer to warn against investigating Tanis. Investigating Tara Reynolds’ whereabouts with Sam Reynolds. Posted “Elisa Lam was here, Xanu. January 20th, 2013.” to Elisa Lam’s Tumblr before her death with the username Tigernuts.
AKA: Mysterious Skype woman, Tigernuts, The Novelist
Vincent Pardo: Died two months before Nic found his obituary, in a hit and run accident. He was seeking unorthodox treatments for his cancer, which was in remission by the time he was killed. Geoff van Sant found letters from Pardo in his brother Carl’s belongings. He was arranging an appointment/treatment/camping trip with Carl. Parzavala is thought to be the real cause of his death.
Carmen Pardo: Vincent Pardo’s sister. Revealed Vincent was seeking unorthodox medical treatments, which is how he met Carl. Also revealed Vincent didn’t die of cancer, but in a hit and run car accident. Strongly suspects Carl Van Sant was involved.
Episode 106:
Cult of Tanis: Hippy-ish secret society obsessed with Tanis. Claim to be ancient but probably began in the 1940s or 50s. Following Nic. Left the classified ads mentioned in first episodes so they could meet up and discuss Tanis. May or may not have kidnapped, drugged, and hypnotized Sam Reynolds. Seem to get in trouble with the law a lot.
Episode 107:
HaidaGurl: Posting on bulletin boards about Xanu. Canadian but hired by the British government for a research project in 2009. Vanished after top secret environmental operation went horribly wrong. MK found out she worked in a bookstore in Portland called the Lamp Post and Colonel by hacking Hanslope Park.
AKA: Veronika Pillman
Peter Chenoweth: Helped create Dungeons and Dragons, suggested adding Baba Yaga’s hut to the game: bigger on the inside than the outside. Disappeared into the woods for three months, but believed less than an hour had passed. Hung himself a week after coming back.
Toni: Bookseller at the Lamp Post and Colonel in Portland. Helped Nic track down a former employee named Veronika Pillman who’d purchased books related to Tanis, in hopes of finding HaidaGurl.
Veronika Pillman: Worked at the Lamp Post and Colonel Bookstore and purchased books related to Tanis. Involved in the 2009 TeslaNova research study involving Jonathan Carnahan. Took Nic to see the Grackles posing as Melanie Nedved. Led Nic, Morgan, and Sam into the woods to the cabin/cave.
AKA: Melanie Nedved, Sarah Grinko, HaidaGurl, The Runner
Episode 108:
Jonas Raywood: Founder of the abandoned, mysterious town of Raywood, Washington. Passed away in 1985.
Marcus Dempsey: Purchased the town of Raywood and built a fence around it that keeps it in pristine condition. Very protective of the town but doesn’t live there.
James: Paid cash to rent a property for a faction of the Cult of Tanis, the people chanting “There are wondrous things, there are magical things, there are dangerous things, we get what we deserve.”
Marian Roberts: Marcus Dempsey’s ex wife, moved to Hawaii with her new husband, Jake.
AKA: Marian Dempsey
Episode 109:
Marnie Corrigan: Mother of two of the Raywood children who had gone missing, Samantha and Jason.
Gwendolyn: Part of a sect of the Cult of Tanis. Hypnotized/drugged Sam Reynolds into staying with them.
Arcadia: Sam’s girlfriend, close friends with Gwendolyn. Part of a sect of the Cult of Tanis. Drugged Nic.
The Grackles: A group of fringe scientists researching an area of the Pacific Northwest that may or may not be connected to Tanis, close to where TeslaNova was doing research when Tara Reynolds disappeared. One Grackle, Jonathan Carnahan, worked for TeslaNova for a period of time. As did Veronika Pillman, who seems to be close with The Grackles.
Episode 110:
Dr. Jonathan Carnahan: Older Caucasian Grackle with a ponytail. A biophysicist who worked for TeslaNova.
AKA: Carn
Arl: Tall Native American Grackle who walks with a cane and wears a bird-like mask.
Nathaniel Carter: Leader of a Cult of Tanis self-help commune. Ran a subsidiary of Parzavala Communications that did research on gastropods. Collector of ancient cult mythology, particularly Eld Fen.
Episode 111:
Eld Fen: Ancient legend akin to Beowulf that Nathaniel Carter is obsessed with. Cult of Tanis told Sam Reynolds "The Navigator knows the way to Eld Fen."
Episode 112:
Dr. Monique Burnnett: A psychiatrist who's trying to help Nic recall what happened in the strange cabin through hypnosis. She also appears in The Black Tapes Podcast as Alex's psychiatrist who's helping her with her insomnia.
Episode 201:
Section: Mysterious organization that shut down Pacifica Station in 1985.
John Correman: Writer/Collector/Conservator of PDF document labelled Eld Fen that was emailed as an attachment to Nic. Was killed in a hit and run accident.
Unnamed Narrator: Man who wrote the manuscript document titled Eld Fen that MK sent to Nic. The manuscript tells the story of the unnamed narrator's friendship with John Correman and what he finds in Correman's estate.
August Wick: Lovecraft/Derleth-esque writer. Wrote an epigraph that appears at the beginning of the Eld Fen manuscript.
Alan Malden: Man who was the only DNA match in the case where human feet were washing up on shore in Washington and British Columbia.
Episode 202:
Marcus: Man kept under observation in Cameron Ellis's underground research lab at TeslaNova.
Lyle Stevik: Man who committed suicide at the Lake Quinault Inn under mysterious circumstances in 2001, a few days after 9/11.
Barbara "Aunt Barb": Owner of the Lake Quinault Inn where Lyle Stevik was found dead.
Maricela: Housekeeper at the Lake Quinault Inn who found Lyle Stevik's body.
Episode 203:
Young Blogger from Spokane: No name given. Woman who provided Nic with the key she found in the Lake Quinault Inn floating in the water tank of the toilet in Room 5.
Madison: Member of the Cult of Tanis. Heard on an audio recording that MK found labelled "Subject M" where she is being apprehended by friends and family trying to take her away from the cult.
Madison's Mom: No name given. Heard on the recording MK found of Madison being apprehended.
David: Man heard on the recording MK found of Madison being apprehended.
Scout: Madison's sister, heard on the recording MK found of Madison being apprehended.
Episode 204:
Polly: Manson girl-esque Cult of Tanis member who lured Nic away from his home while it was being broken into.
Two Large Young Men: Security for the Cult of Tanis. Were at the bar while Polly and Arcadia were there with Nic. They later followed Nic to the Holly Hotel in Olympia, Washington.
Other Two Young Men: Broke into Nic's apartment while Polly & Aracadia kept him at the bar. Spotted by Nic's neighbor. Dark hair, wool hats, late 20s, bearded, wearing black. Planted a an iPhone in Nic's car.
Mike Gershon: Geologist who examined the rock and floating keychain found at the Lake Quinault Inn.
Sheila Martin: Dental hygeniest friend of Geoff van Sant who x-rayed the keychain found at the Lake Quinault Inn.
Marjorie Jensen: Unnamed Narrator's research assistant.
Episode 205:
Paul: Man who left Nic a voicemail about the Cult of Tanis, offering their sincere apologies.
