The White Vault is a found footagehorror fiction podcast created by K.A. Statz. It features an international cast and crew, with notable members including David Ault and Peter Lewis of The NoSleep Podcast, as well as Lani Minella.
Plot
Seasons 1 & 2
A repair team is sent to discover the source behind a mysterious signal coming from a remote Arctic research station in Svalbard, Norway. When the team is trapped by a blizzard, they begin to realize they are not alone. Things between the team members unravel as they're subjected to mysterious horrors and forced to come up with a plan for survival and escape.
Season 3
An archaeological team is assembled to examine a new site recently discovered in the PatagonianAndes.
Additional works
Spin-offs
The White Vault: Artifact - Marion Sutton, doctoral student at the University of Oxford, is assigned to begin research on a mysterious artifact gifted to the university by an anonymous donor.
The White Vault: Imperial - In the early 1700s, a Jesuitcartographic team reaches the lands of China and sets about plans to complete a map of the Qing Dynasty.
The White Vault: Iluka - An oceanography research vessel working to collect Antarctic deep-sea sediment cores pulls up something unexpected from the depths of the Southern Ocean.
Bonus episodes
The White Vault: Summit - A young couple living in Rio de Janeiro gets a call from work; they've won an all-expense-paid trip to hike Patagonia. But they don't know what awaits them in those lofty heights.
Critical Reception
The show has been praised for its diverse cast, immersive soundscape, and use of different languages. It has been featured on the front pages of iTunes, Pandora Radio, Spotify, and Himalaya, on the top 10 charts for The Arts and Performing Arts on iTunes, on the top 50 chart for ‘All of iTunes’ in the US, and on numerous blogs for ‘Best Podcasts/Audio Dramas of 2017’.
Awards and honors
Production
The budget for the show comes entirely from its fans via crowdfunding through Patreon, and its creators regularly host educational panels across the US on creating radio drama podcasts, including: MAGFest 2020, NY Comciccon 2019, The Austin Film Festival 2019, PodX 2019, Podcon 2019, Podfest 2018-2020, Emerald City Comic ConTampa BayComic Con, Rose City Comic Con, WW: Philadelphia, and WW: St Louis. They also release exclusive content and episodes through their Patreon such as the spinoff stories Artifact, Imperial, Iluka, and The White Vault: A Musical.
Live performances
On December 2017, The White Vault announced that they would perform a live version of their show in New York City as a part of The NoSleep Podcast's 2018 Sleepless Tour. They performed a prequel episode, 'Ashore', at the Highline Ballroom, flying cast members in from Iceland, Germany, and the UK for the event, which was sold out a month before the event. A second live show also took place on October 19th in Cambridge, MA, which also sold out.
