Imploding Fictions
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Fake deaths, real feelings, excellent cocoa.
The Amelia Project turns death-faking into a baroque workplace comedy, with interview-room banter giving way to myth, history, and regret. It suits listeners who like audio fiction that can joke about Stonehenge logistics, then quietly land on grief.
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The Amelia Project is scripted audio fiction about people who need an exit dramatic enough to count as a death. The show’s machinery is an interview room, but the interviews rarely stay tidy. A client, colleague, or impossible survivor arrives with a story, and the room immediately starts poking holes in it. That is where the comedy lives. A sacred druidic past becomes an argument about Stonehenge alignment. A phoenix keeper’s burden turns into questions about obsession, inheritance, and suspicious tea. Death itself becomes a scheduling problem, complete with debates over CPR, souls, punctual collectors, and whether anyone can truly time the final moment. The series moves fast, but it is not thin. Beneath the jokes about aliases, fake identities, plague years, fire, paperwork, and cocoa sits a durable interest in why people vanish. Some want reinvention. Some are running from grief. Some carry centuries of guilt, loyalty, or unfinished family history. Alvina’s scenes bring exasperated intelligence and practical pressure to the chaos, while figures such as Lorraine, Kozlowski, Larry, Professor Pyroman, and Panacea pull the story into older wounds and stranger cosmologies. The humor is dark without becoming empty. It favors absurd undercutting, ornate historical detours, and the spectacle of people discussing mythic danger as though it were an office task. The show also understands repetition as pleasure: names, deaths, patron dedications, cocoa, secret procedures, and impossible resurrections all become part of its ritual. Recent episodes lean into origin-story territory, ancient-world storytelling, and the emotional cost of living too long with too many exits. It can be bawdy, grotesque, and chaotic, but it is also unexpectedly warm. Listeners who enjoy fiction podcasts with ensemble timing, unreliable memory, and a taste for theatrical darkness will find plenty to chew on. The Amelia Project is less a neat mystery than a confession engine. People arrive with impossible lives. The room interrogates them. The story swerves. Then, between the joke and the next terrible plan, something real slips through.
Made for: For listeners who like scripted audio fiction with dark comedy, theatrical banter, absurdity, and emotional stakes hiding inside the joke. It especially suits fans of ensemble mysteries that prefer crooked charm to grim seriousness.
What sets it apart: Its fake-death premise is not just a hook; it is a repeatable story engine for interviews, origin myths, afterlife arguments, and reinvention. Few fiction shows make bureaucracy, grief, mythology, and practical disappearance feel this closely entangled.
The Amelia Project is a secret agency that fakes its clients' deaths, then lets them reappear with a brand new identity! A black comedy full of secrets, twists... and cocoa. The series starts as a succession of interviews with clients who want to fake their deaths, then slowly a larger narrative begins to emerge... Each episode tells its own story, but we recommend starting with Season 1.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Historical crises, speculative machinery, and dry interrogation turn each impossible escape plan into a revealing piece of comic audio fiction.
The Amelia Project turns impossible predicaments into comic interrogations, pairing macabre wit with speculative ideas and historical settings.
A Roman emperor wants kitchen renovations; you get history with a trapdoor under reality.
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A fake-death ticket plan and a pie emergency turn this Amelia Project outing into a cheerfully sideways sampler.
A fake-death announcement opens into a pleasingly odd mix of theatre promotion and covert farce. A London show about the Amelia Project sparks plans to buy tickets before the action swerves toward Dave's Bakery, where a frantic mission becomes a muddled search for a supposed…
An effective underwater sci-fi opener where an ancient door turns corporate logic into mortal danger.
The Amelia Project positions Derelict as a pick for listeners drawn to stories about things that were better left undisturbed. Fathom opens on a vast ancient door at the bottom of the ocean, where a powerful corporation has built a research base with the aim of getting it open.
A fan-led Amelia companion where email addresses, computer lessons, and one suspicious champagne bottle become comic evidence.
One More Coco turns Amelia Project lore into something like a small administrative emergency, with Mati Patsival steering a fan-led companion chat that treats old incidents, email addresses, computer lessons, and Alvina's patience as comic business.
A soul collector turns death into a deadline, with bleakly funny practical consequences.
The Amelia Project treats the afterlife like a disastrously overbooked appointment system. At the purple door with painted stars on Rue Meuvier, a memory opens into questions about Larry, the soul collector, and whether he appears at the instant of death or only when revival is…
A druid's plague history turns tender, then more painful, when Lorraine still does not call back.
At sunrise atop Stonehenge, Alvina turns the druid's story of toppling the monument three thousand years ago into a joke about the length of his beard. That teasing rhythm is the episode's main pleasure: its silliness keeps finding a route into feeling.
A phoenix story about inheritance, obsession, and the cost of getting too close.
The episode treats a phoenix story as ordinary labor: a dyer's son, a keeper's heir, and the daily business of feeding Panacea without getting scorched.
A ruler, a Senate knife plot, and a bottle said to contain life drive the chaos.
The episode turns a state conspiracy into a panicked con, with a ruler trying to survive a Senate knife job by pinning hopes on a sorcerer and a bottle said to contain life.
A goatish debate about tragedy lands as silly, sharp, and just serious enough to stick.
Aeschylus turns a quarrel over a play into something brisk and faintly absurd: a debate about what tragedy can actually do. At the center is The Goats, a ridiculous-sounding piece in which liars sprout horns and bleat, and the only real question is whether that lands as satire,…
Victorian dread, read with grave restraint.
This episode promotes a multi-camera film of a live performance of The Amelia Project aboard the historic ship Isla Bennett, available on Patreon.
This bonus minisode features Kozlowski's journal entry about an Archimedean moment of inspiration for inventions, part of the Itthobaal's Inventions series.
A narrator reflects on storytelling, endings, and beginnings while slipping into different voices and accents during a prologue episode.
Fake death turns into an afternoon problem.
This episode introduces the sci-fi thriller audio drama 'Derelict' via The Amelia Project, presenting the first episode of its prequel series 'Fathom,' set at an underwater research base 19,000 feet below the ocean surface.
One More Cocoa is a companion discussion podcast for The Amelia Project, hosted by Mati Parzival with guest Pigeon, re-listening to The Amelia Project Episode 1 'Zale Indigo Ravenheart.' The episode features playback of key scenes from the original — including the cannon physics calculation — interspersed with Mati and Pigeon's commentary on lore details, including the discovery that the interviewer says 'surgeons' in the plural and that Zale immediately started a second cult in Macedonia.
Death has scheduling problems.
In a Paris cemetery at dawn, an immortal interviewer reflects on his many deaths throughout history while revealing secrets to Alvina, including a druidic past, plague infections, and unresolved tensions with loved ones.
Fire answers before anyone is ready.
Chicken day gets interrupted.
This episode features two horror stories: one about a man grieving his aunt's death who hears her ghost playing piano, and another about a comic book artist who witnesses the Gumdrop Killer, a monster that sucks out victims' eyes.
Romulus is itchy, thirsty, and stuck.
Deathfaking looks like a rotten line of work already.
The tea is nearly gone.
Laughter keeps betraying Aeschylus.
A phoenix points the hungry travelers backward.
An accountant finds numbers that refuse to sit still.
Didius Julianus became emperor.
Arthur is broke.
Graves make people weirdly honest.
Alvina does not want half an hour.
Snorri still tastes ash.
Tomoe Gozen wakes in a cell, woozy and moss-fogged.
Dudo is 11.
"The water is boiling." A kitchen job turns dangerous when Mia grates her fingers into the root bowl and ruins whatever was meant to happen next.
Hameln's children are not all right.
Joan wants the room to remember this.
A time traveler named Legacy Vaughn from 2020 gets stuck in 1468 Florence and seeks help from a death faker, only to discover he is actually Leonardo da Vinci.
Rocco, the model for Michelangelo's David statue, seeks help from the Amelia Project to escape the fanatical crowds in Florence who worship him as a biblical king.
In this episode, publishers Philip and Antony hire The Amelia Project to fake Copernicus's death after his perfectionism over a heliocentric book ruins their business, leading to a comedic plot involving fake plague symptoms and ethical debates, with a surreal epilogue hinting at time distortion.
Queen Elizabeth I visits the Amelia Project to complain about the botched fake execution of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, which she secretly arranged to save Mary's life.
Arthur and Kid travel to Murano, where glassblower Adriano Vianello reveals his family's secret: they use ashes from plague-ridden Poveglia to make glass, which has become haunted and deadly.
In 1596-1600, The Amelia Project helps three ghostwriters—Adam Bakewell, Master Miller, and Ned Fitton—fake their deaths to escape the pressure of writing plays for William Shakespeare, who suffers a creative block.
The Amelia Project and Midnight Burger crossover episode 'Somnium' brings a dimension-traveling diner into Piccadilly Circus, where Kozlowski and his colleagues happen to be nearby and investigate.
The Amelia Project takes on a challenging case to fake 12 deaths in 12 days for a Hollingworth girl during Christmas, while mysterious gifts arrive daily.
In a live crossover with Greater Boston, reporter Chuck Octagon and actor Mark Wahlberg seek the Amelia Project's services, leading to absurd requests and a sinister offer from a narrator proposing surveillance and mind control.
In this Halloween special, the Amelia Project team receives Victor Hugo's haunted table, which they use for a prank involving ghost communication, but it leads to real supernatural scares and a twist about a vengeful spirit.
Episode 72 of The Amelia Project, 'The Man With Many Tattoos (Present),' follows CIA agents Jackie Williams and Mia Fox driving through a Scottish forest at night with their captive Kozlowski, deciphering the stories behind his tattoos while he reveals that his centuries of body regeneration have erased all previous inkings except a phoenix on his forehead.
In 1631, royal printer Robert Barker seeks the Amelia Project's help after a sabotaged Bible print run omits 'not' from the Seventh Commandment, threatening his life.
In 1673 Brussels, barber surgeon Argon (Kozlovsky) meets actor Poquelin (Molière), who suffers from hypochondria.
In this episode of The Amelia Project, interviewers Alvina and Kozlowski meet Jack Boyd, a ship's cook impersonating the notorious pirate Henry Avery.
Marie Antoinette hires the Amelia Project, a secret agency, to fake her death and accelerate the French Revolution by making herself a hated figure.
In 1829 Naples, Arturo and Giuseppe commission a fire-breathing serpent prop to fake King Francis's death, but the plan falls through.
Billy Grit, a notorious outlaw on the run, meets Lord Daryl Arthur Dupper from The Amelia Project, who offers to fake his death.
A London cabbie named Karl Granton seeks the Amelia Project's help, revealing he's been sleepwalking and committing the Jack the Ripper murders.
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Sir Hubert Arthur Hathaway III writes a letter from Phoenix Island, a remote shore where he and Kozlovsky are hiding after escaping Nazi Germany.
This episode follows characters strolling through a cemetery, discussing stories of the deceased like a cancan dancer and an artist, while hinting at a larger narrative about disappearance and reinvention.
A conversation between two characters delves into mysterious past events involving Kozlovsky/Itobal, healing tears, Emilia Earhart, and the Brotherhood of the Phoenix, while hinting at archival gaps and an urgent phone call.
This Easter special bonus episode of The Amelia Project features a mysterious phone call from a character named H seeking support from the fictional agency that helps people disappear and start new lives.
This episode promotes the Amelia Project's Audio Advent Calendar, offering daily content from December 1st to 25th that provides insights into the agency's darkly humorous world of death-faking.
A secret agency interviews clients who want to fake their deaths, with a black comedic tone and emerging larger narrative.
A secret agency fakes clients' deaths to give them new identities, blending black comedy with a growing overarching narrative.
A secret agency interviews a client about faking his death, with a twist involving a trip to Scotland and a mysterious journey.
The Amelia Project fakes clients' deaths for a fresh start; this episode features a client who grew up on a remote island and loved punk music.
The Amelia Project is a black comedy audio drama about a secret agency that fakes clients' deaths, with this episode featuring a campfire conversation about the organization's origins.
This episode continues the story of CIA agents Mia Fox and Jackie Williams as they interrogate someone claiming to have knowledge about the Amelia Project and the location of a missing team, involving an autopsy report and references to Tintin comics.
This episode follows MI5 and CIA agents dealing with a dead body in a holding cell while discussing a listener's request to fake their death in a vampire-themed scenario.
Amelia and Alvina arrive in Monterosa to install Perez as leader, encountering an orange-themed revolutionary welcome.
The episode opens with a patron dedication and then follows the interviewer at Golovkin Prison, where he learns about the diverse inmates and plots an escape with a guard who has keys to every door.
The episode begins with a host introduction and a Patreon shoutout before transitioning into a scene where a client arrives for a death-faking consultation.
A client wakes up disoriented in a capsule, beginning an interview with the Amelia Project agency that fakes deaths.
The episode opens with a patron dedication and cocoa talk, then continues a narrative in a prison cell where a character named Ant is briefed on a mission to aid a revolution in Panaragua.
In this episode, characters Emilia and Alvina encounter a mysterious figure named Pablo Pérez García, leader of the Paraguayan Vitals, who demands their help.
The Amelia Project is a black comedy audio drama about a secret agency that fakes clients' deaths, with this episode featuring a meta update and the start of a new story arc.
The Amelia Project continues its serialized story as the interviewer plans a fake assassination while Amelia and Alvina meet the resistance leader.
The episode is a season finale where the interviewer is in prison, with a mix of English, German, and Russian dialogue.
The host celebrates an award and thanks listeners before introducing a new episode where characters land in a jungle near a mansion.
The Amelia Project agents travel to Russia while dealing with turbulence and a missing team member.
The Amelia Project continues with an interview of a new client seeking to disappear, while MI5 agents close in on the office.
The interviewer is kidnapped and taken to a Russian prison, where he is interrogated by a mysterious figure.
The Amelia Project faces a crisis as team members go missing and offices are raided, suggesting multiple agencies are onto them.
In the Season 3 premiere of The Amelia Project, the team debates whether MI5 agents are bluffing or a real threat, decides their course of action via a dice roll, and prepares for a new client named Tatiana Gercola.
The Amelia Project performs a live episode at a podcast convention, engaging the audience with a countdown to shout 'cocoa'.
This is a recording of a live crossover show between the Amelia podcast and We Fix Space Junk, performed in London in 2019.