Simone Rigadeau

"Full disclosure, listeners: Rigadeau does not work in Earth Sciences. She is a transient living in the recycling closet of the Earth Sciences Building, and she collects cans as pets."

Simone Rigadeau
Details
First Mentioned	"The Candidate"
Status	Alive
Occupation	Transient
Affiliations	Night Vale Community College (former employee)
Known Physical Features	None Known

Simone Rigadeau is a resident of Night Vale who frequently contributes her scientific understanding to the news reports of Night Vale Community Radio. Though she is not in fact a scientist and is in fact a transient living in the abandoned Earth Sciences Building of Night Vale Community College, Cecil often interviews Simone to hear her take on the more unusual occurrences in Night Vale.

Simone seems to be the only person in Night Vale who understands the true nature of The Whispering Forest. According to Rigadeau, the Whispering Forest is a place where all people can "become one" with everything. As such, none of the Night Vale residents lost to the forest are technically 'dead; they have merely become a part of the Whispering Forest itself. Cecil commented that even though Simone is only a transient living in an unused storage closet, her explanation was a beautiful story that gave meaning to the otherwise meaningless life of Intern Richard, who had disappeared while investigating the forest earlier in the broadcast.

Mentions

• Simone is first mentioned in The Candidate during Cecil's report on the particularly noisy sunsets experienced by residents of Old Town Night Vale.
• During A Memory of Europe, Simone releases a statement on the back of a Subway Sandwich wrapper concerning the end of the world. Her statement read as follows:

The world ended three or four decades ago. I don't know what this thing is that we're living in, but it's not the world. Scientists won't investigate it because they're not real. Turkey with extra Swiss. [Full disclosure: that last bit may have been previously written on the Subway wrapper]

• Simone gave Cecil an explanation for the Whispering Forest, as mentioned above.
• In Capital Campaign, Simone comments on the rabbit takeover at Night Vale Community College. She notes that their behavior (which includes making personal phone calls and tilting vending machines unsafely) is perfectly normal and that she is not surprised by it. Simone reiterates her claim that the world ended at least 30 years ago, and then disappears.
• In Best Of?, Simone is said to be a Professor of Earth Sciences at Night Vale Community College. She stated that her reality had split into two separate time lines. One historical line depicts a world that has ended, while the other depicts one that is still thriving. She shut down the Earth Sciences Department to examine her shattered mind and the two alternate realities she experiences.