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* SmallTownBoredom: Lily saw Mount Absalom as too small and boring as a teenager, and has similar feelings when returning as an adult.
* TheStinger: After the credits of most episodes is either a fact about the town or Fenwood, or a post-credit scene.



* TheStinger: After the credits of each episode is either a fact about the town or Fenwood, or a post-credit scene.

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* AncientOrderOfProtectors: The Delphic Order seems itself as this.



* CallBack: In season three's 'The Sound of Her Voice', Lily uses the same calm method of dealing with a kitchen fire that Wes uses in season one's 'The Diner'.



* TheOrder: The Delphic Order, a secret society dedicated to [[spoiler: keep Silas Lodge out of the town.]]



** Norah, [[spoiler: who can't leave the observatory where she died, has limited corporeality, and can recreate every sound made in the observatory since three days after her death.]]

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** Norah, [[spoiler: who can't leave the observatory where she died, has limited corporeality, and can recreate every sound made in the observatory since three days after her death.]]
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* ChristmasEpisode: 'Hark' is something of a TwistedChristmas episode, with Dot sundowning as Abbie, the only tenant in Fenwood during Christmas, doing their best to manage.

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* ChristmasEpisode: 'Hark' is something of a TwistedChristmas episode, with Dot sundowning as Abbie, the only tenant in Fenwood during Christmas, doing does their best to manage.
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* ChristmasEpisode: 'Hark' is something of a TwistedChristmas episode, with Dot sundowning as Abbie, the only tenant in Fenwood during Christmas, doing their best to manage.


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* EnsembleCast: While season one focuses mainly on Lily, season two onwards starts giving equal focus on Abbie and Rudy.
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** Rudy has several - 'Another Form of Algebra', 'Collaboration', 'The Lens', and 'Crop Shy'.

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** Rudy has several - 'Another Form of Algebra', 'Collaboration', and 'The Lens', and 'Crop Shy'.Lens'.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode 'Theodore' is this for Wes.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode ADayInTheLimelight:
** Rudy has several - 'Another Form of Algebra', 'Collaboration', 'The Lens', and 'Crop Shy'.
** Abbie is the main focus in 'The Night Shift'.
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Silas]] has several polite interactions with Lily, and offers her both advice and brandy at different points, despite being someone Lily's family has been trying to keep at bay for generations.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode 'Theodore' is this for Wes.



* HalloweenEpisode: ''The Graveyard Shuffle'' from season two, which even has three HalloweenSongs created by the writers: "Do the Trick Or Treat", "My Boyfriend is a Jack O’Lantern", and "The Graveyard Shuffle".

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* HalloweenEpisode: ''The 'The Graveyard Shuffle'' Shuffle' from season two, which even has three HalloweenSongs created by the writers: "Do the Trick Or Treat", "My Boyfriend is a Jack O’Lantern", and "The Graveyard Shuffle".

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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: There seems to be at least two kinds of ghost in Mount Absalom:
** There's Norah, [[spoiler: who can't leave the observatory where she died, has limited corporeality, and can recreate every sound made in the observatory since three days after her death.]]
** Then there's [[spoiler: Wes]] and great-uncle Tim, who can eat and move about normally despite being dead.

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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: There seems to be at least two kinds of ghost are several ghosts living in Mount Absalom:
Absalom, including:
** There's Norah, [[spoiler: who can't leave the observatory where she died, has limited corporeality, and can recreate every sound made in the observatory since three days after her death.]]
** Then there's [[spoiler: Wes]] and great-uncle Tim, Theodore Wesley]], who can eat and move about normally despite being dead.freely within Mount Absalom, but who wasn't aware he was dead.
** Then there's Great Uncle Tim, whose ghost initially disappeared after his partner Grant died, but who was occasionally seen at Hunter's while Abbie was working there.
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* ThanksgivingEpisode: The episode 'The Broken Moat' takes place at Thanksgiving, complete with a big turkey dinner, feelings of togetherness, and stressful family relationships.

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* NoNameGiven: Mark Soloff's character, the Old Man with the monster-dogs, is left unnamed until the season 2 finale, often credited simply with garbled radio noises. The same is true of the proprietor and the waitress from the diner.

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Mark Soloff's character, the Old Man with the monster-dogs, is left unnamed until the season 2 finale, often credited simply with garbled radio noises. noises.
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The same is true of the proprietor and the waitress from Hunter's Diner also have their names in the diner.credits covered by static.



* TheStinger: Almost every episode has a fact about either the town or Fenwood House after the credits. The three that don't - Family Tree, The Graveyard Shuffle, and The Night Shift - have a post-credits scene instead.

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* TheStinger: Almost every After the credits of each episode has is either a fact about either the town or Fenwood House after the credits. The three that don't - Family Tree, The Graveyard Shuffle, and The Night Shift - have Fenwood, or a post-credits scene instead.post-credit scene.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Dot. She clearly loves Lily, but the two have a strained relationship.
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* GoodParents: Dale and [[GoodStepmother Cynthia]] for Lily. Dot tried to be, but didn't quite succeed.

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* NoNameGiven: Mark Soloff's character, the Old Man with the monster-dogs, is never named, often credited simply with garbled radio noises. The same is true of the proprietor and the waitress from the diner.

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* NoNameGiven: Mark Soloff's character, the Old Man with the monster-dogs, is never named, left unnamed until the season 2 finale, often credited simply with garbled radio noises. The same is true of the proprietor and the waitress from the diner.


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* UnreliableExpositor: Dot, while a lifelong resident of Mount Absolom, can't tell the main cast everything due to [[spoiler: her alzheimers disease, which has gotten them into trouble a few times.]]
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* NoNameGiven: Mark Soloff's character, the Old Man with the monster-dogs is never named, often credited simply with garbled radio noises.

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* NoNameGiven: Mark Soloff's character, the Old Man with the monster-dogs monster-dogs, is never named, often credited simply with garbled radio noises.noises. The same is true of the proprietor and the waitress from the diner.



* TheStinger: Almost every episode has a fact about either the town or Fenwood House after the credits. The three that don't - 'Family Tree', 'The Graveyard Shuffle', and 'The Night Shift' - have a post-credits scene instead.

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* TheStinger: Almost every episode has a fact about either the town or Fenwood House after the credits. The three that don't - 'Family Tree', 'The Family Tree, The Graveyard Shuffle', Shuffle, and 'The The Night Shift' Shift - have a post-credits scene instead.
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* TheStinger: Almost every episode has a fact about either the town or Fenwood House after the credits. The three that don't - 'Family Tree', 'The Graveyard Shuffle', and 'The Night Shift' - have a post-credits scene instead.
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* HalloweenEpisode: ''The Graveyard Shuffle'' from season two, which even has three HalloweenSongs created by the writers: ''Do the Trick Or Treat'', ''My Boyfriend is a Jack O’Lantern'', and ''The Graveyard Shuffle''.

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* HalloweenEpisode: ''The Graveyard Shuffle'' from season two, which even has three HalloweenSongs created by the writers: ''Do "Do the Trick Or Treat'', ''My Treat", "My Boyfriend is a Jack O’Lantern'', O’Lantern", and ''The "The Graveyard Shuffle''.Shuffle".
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* HalloweenEpisode: ''The Graveyard Shuffle'' from season two.

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* HalloweenEpisode: ''The Graveyard Shuffle'' from season two.two, which even has three HalloweenSongs created by the writers: ''Do the Trick Or Treat'', ''My Boyfriend is a Jack O’Lantern'', and ''The Graveyard Shuffle''.

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* AgentScully: Abbie typically takes a more skeptical approach to any possible supernatural occurrences.

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* AgentScully: Abbie typically takes a more skeptical approach to any possible supernatural occurrences.occurrences, though they gradually warm to the idea of the supernatural existing in Mount Absolom.


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* CorruptHick: Chester Warren, a small-town bureaucrat who serves as the nominal leader of the Delphic Order, and [[TripleShifter possesses an absurd amount of jobs]] which he uses to control the town in subtle ways, such as [[spoiler: extorting the Fenwood House through an archaic law classifying it as a brothel]].


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* NoNameGiven: Mark Soloff's character, the Old Man with the monster-dogs is never named, often credited simply with garbled radio noises.


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* SeenItAll: Nothing fazes Dot about the weirdness of Mount Absolom.
* SleazyPolitician:
** Chester, who - for unknown reasons - is hellbent on taking the Fenwood House from Dot.
** Mayor Edgar Lopez, a much more realistic and toned-down version, who is extremely venal, overly concerned with his image, and seems to be just using his office as a stepping stone for the U.S Senate.


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* UnfazedEveryman: Of all the three characters of the show that move to Mount Absolom, (Abbie, Lily, and Rudy) Rudy adapts to the supernatural perhaps the best - he willingly accepts the existence of ghosts and even befriends Norah easily, and frequently points out to Abby that there's no logical explanation for some of the things they've seen, like TheLonelyDoor that appears in the Fenwood House.
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''Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery'' is a podcast created by Hartlife NFP.

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''Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery'' is a podcast created by Hartlife NFP.
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* AgentScully: Abbie typically takes a more sceptical approach to any possible supernatural occurrences.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Rudy. Talks to an imaginary class to work through his ideas, but is a very good astronomic.

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* AgentScully: Abbie typically takes a more sceptical skeptical approach to any possible supernatural occurrences.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Rudy. Talks to an imaginary class to work through his ideas, but is a very good astronomic.astronomer.
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* HalloweenEpisode: The episode ''The Graveyard Shuffle''.

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* HalloweenEpisode: The episode ''The Graveyard Shuffle''.Shuffle'' from season two.

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* TownWithADarkSecret: Besides the whole atmosphere of the place, there's an old man living in the woods with his [[{{Hellhound}} two monster-dogs]], an abandoned observatory built on top of another buried building, a few deceased citizens who have [[RevenantZombie come back healthy]], a 24-hour diner that appears out of nowhere with no health code compliance to speak of, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a horribly skewed local history pageant]].

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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: There seems to be at least two kinds of ghost in Mount Absalom:
** There's Norah, [[spoiler: who can't leave the observatory where she died, has limited corporeality, and can recreate every sound made in the observatory since three days after her death.]]
** Then there's [[spoiler: Wes]] and great-uncle Tim, who can eat and move about normally despite being dead.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Besides the whole atmosphere of the place, there's an old man living in the woods with his [[{{Hellhound}} two monster-dogs]], an abandoned observatory built on top of another buried building, a few deceased citizens who have [[RevenantZombie come back healthy]], a 24-hour diner that appears out of nowhere with no health code compliance to speak of, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a horribly skewed local history pageant]].pageant]].
* WhamEpisode: Episode eleven of the second season. [[spoiler: Rudy digs through the observatory floor to the structure below it. Lily is lowered down through the hole, which is around fifty feet deep, and hears ghostly voices. Wes panics after being told he is dead, and disappears.]]
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* HalloweenEpisode: The episode ''The Graveyard Shuffle''.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Rudy. Talks to an imaginary class to work through his ideas, but is a very good astronomic.


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* CoolOldLady: Dot Harper.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Dot and Wes.

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Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a podcast created by Hart Life NFP.

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Unwell: ''Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery Mystery'' is a podcast created by Hart Life Hartlife NFP.


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* AgentScully: Abbie typically takes a more sceptical approach to any possible supernatural occurrences.

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* TheLonelyDoor: The door that sometimes appears in the basement of Fenwood House.
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* TheConspiracy: The Delphic Order.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Besides the whole atmosphere of the place, there's an old man living in the woods with his two monster-dogs, an abandoned observatory built on top of another buried building, a few deceased citizens who have come back healthy, a 24-hour diner that appears out of nowhere with no health code compliance to speak of, and a horribly skewed local history pageant.

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* TownWithADarkSecret: Besides the whole atmosphere of the place, there's an old man living in the woods with his [[{{Hellhound}} two monster-dogs, monster-dogs]], an abandoned observatory built on top of another buried building, a few deceased citizens who have [[RevenantZombie come back healthy, healthy]], a 24-hour diner that appears out of nowhere with no health code compliance to speak of, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a horribly skewed local history pageant.pageant]].
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!! [UnwellPodcast] contains examples of:

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!! [UnwellPodcast] This show contains examples of:



* TheLittleShopThatWasn'tThereYesterday: Or diner, in this case.

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* TheLittleShopThatWasn'tThereYesterday: TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Or diner, in this case.
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Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a podcast created by HartLife NFP.

Lily Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to help look after her estranged mother, Dot. Staying at Fenwood House, the boarding house owned by her family for generations, Lily discovers ghosts, conspiracies, and the strange secrets of the town.

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!! [UnwellPodcast] contains examples of:

* CloseKnitCommunity: Everyone in town knows and seems genuinely fond of one another, for the most part.
* TheLittleShopThatWasn'tThereYesterday: Or diner, in this case.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Besides the whole atmosphere of the place, there's an old man living in the woods with his two monster-dogs, an abandoned observatory built on top of another buried building, a few deceased citizens who have come back healthy, a 24-hour diner that appears out of nowhere with no health code compliance to speak of, and a horribly skewed local history pageant.

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