Introducing: The Passage

This road is not on any map. 

In the shadows of the afterlife, where time stands still, the Ferryman of souls guides America's most influential spirits to their eternal rest. Here, the price of passage isn't coin or gold, but something far more precious—their stories. These are tales of triumph and tragedy, moments that shook the foundations of the nation and the ripples they left behind. 

Join us on a journey through the veils of history and the corridors of the afterlife, where the souls of America's past reveal their deepest secrets and their most profound legacies. Each episode, a new spirit, a new story, a new revelation about the threads that weave the tapestry of American culture. These are the tales that shaped the nation.  

Welcome to The Passage.

Created by Dan Bush (Tomorrow’s Monsters, The Mantawauk Caves) and writer, Nicholas Tecosky, and a co-production of iHeartPodcasts, and Psychopia Pictures, The Passage is a riveting, immersive anthology. Starring Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, The Walking Dead) as the Ferryman, and featuring performances by Wes Studi (The Last of the Mohicans / Geronimo: An American Legend), Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks / Silicon Valey), Tristan Mack Wilds (The Wire / Red Tails), and Scott Haze (Child of God / Jurassic World Dominion). 

Headphones are recommended.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am the faery man. I am here in the
in between.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
In the shadows of the afterlife, where time stands still.
The ferryman of souls guides America's most influential spirits to
their eternal rest. You've been looking for me? Yeah, where
are you taking me?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Are you death? This road is not on any maps.
So bizarre the.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
World holds more than mere imagination can contain.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It stretches beyond identity.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Do you even know who I am?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And my reflections?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Only a shadow and out law shore?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I am there.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I was an emperor of the dark.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I was a real actress. That's all I ever wanted
to be.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I saw my reflection in the waters, and I saw
a different face staring back at me.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
On a course designed by its travelers, it spans the
thresholds between their most forbidden desires.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
We all know sorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
We deserve to take what's our stand their greatest fears.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
One year, one century, or the next.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
This will be our ruin.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
How much for a ticket? All I ask for in
payment is a tale and accounting of their lives and
the great temporary that is the land of the living.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Tales of triumph and tragedy.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
You want a blood story.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Moments that shook the foundation of a nation, and the
ripples they left behind.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I am here to collect their spirits and carry them
to what comes next. Be it a.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Comfortable place of eternal light, a haunted purgatory of regret,
or I should be made to suffer one of the
nine rings of hell.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Join us on a journey through the veils of history
and the corridors of the afterlife. Is that and the
fog up there?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
This ms par flesh, part shadow.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Where the souls of America's past revealed their deepest secrets.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
The monsters are real.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
In the most profound legacies. Fifty years of new stories.
Using my face, let me play you the songs that
the devil told me.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
These are their stories.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Each episode a new spirit, a new story, a new
revelation about the threads that weave the tapestry of American culture.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
They were running from the truth, and it was too
late for them, for all of us.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
These are the tales that shaped the nation. Babies were
born and died, aunties and grandfathers and left by the
side on the trail.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
The devastation those first bombs cost.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Then I told them they were drinking sya Ide.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
The Passage, a podcast where history meets the afterlife, featuring
the voices of West Study. At least four thousand people
died on the trail Martin Starr.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
President Nixon called me the most dangerous man in America.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Scott Hayes. Next thing I know, I'm standing over the
bodies of Baker Morton, my pistol smoking in my hand,
and Tristan Macwilde's.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I've never been to Hell, but I know intimately The
Hymns of.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
The Damned, starring Dan Fogler as the Ferryman.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
This Is The Passage.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Debuts February seventh. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to podcasts.