Apache Tracker

"Can you believe this guy said he used "Indian magics?" What an asshole."

The Apache Tracker was a white man (apparently Slavic in origin) who wore a huge and cartoonishly inaccurate, horribly offensive Native American headdress. He is introduced in the Pilot (referred to as "The Indian Tracker"), in which he swears to investigate the "great howling" heard from the Night Vale Post Office. The results of his investigation are mentioned in more detail in Glow Cloud. The Tracker (now referred to as "The Apache Tracker") claims to have used "ancient indian magics" in order to slip through the City Council's security into the Post Office, reporting that all the letters and packages had been thrown about as in a whirlwind, the heavy stench of scorched flesh, and that the words "More to come" and "Soon" had been written on the walls in blood.

The Tracker then disappears for several months. His house also vanishes, replaced by a bucolic meadow that even children avoid. Regarding the Tracker's disappearance, Cecil, speaking on behalf of the community, says "Good riddance to that local embarassment. He made the whole town look ignorant and racist."

Several months later the Apache Tracker reappears, except that he has been tranformed into an actual Native American who can only speak Russian. He is later seen talking to Mayor Pamela Winchell on the day of her disappearance, possibly in the company of the Man in the Tan Jacket. He still considered an asshole.

The Apache Tracker also features in A Story About You.

The Apache Tracker dies in One Year Later while saving Carlos from the Underground City's Attack.