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 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 occurnences in Night Vale.

Appearances

Simone is first mentioned in The Candidate during Cecil's report on the particularly noisy sunsets experienced by residents of Old Town Night Vale. Said sunsets were only heard in Old Town Night Vale, where they were believed to have caused two heart attacks, twelve cases of significant muscular atrophy, and at least two dozen claims of folks growing third eyes. When asked about this scientifically fascinating story, Simone called it "a simple case of celestial just desserts."

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 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 were 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 closed, 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.