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“with abandoned, Blake Pfeil is pushing at the boundaries of form,

​combining documentary and audio theater in a voice distinctly his own.


These are the rare kinds of stories that leave you wondering.
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- David Krasnow, Executive Producer, The New Yorker Radio Hour
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​​"abandoned is lovely. Beautiful writing, beautiful sound design, beautiful storytelling. Beautiful."
- Dylan Thuras, Co-Founder, Atlas Obscura
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ABOUT

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abandoned:
The All-American Ruins Podcast 

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guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake Pfeil’s experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and around the world. Along the way, abandoned asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing.
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"abandoned is ambitious, poignant, provocative, grounded, real-life storytelling: cinematic, spacious, beautiful sound design; cool, inventive, and a masterful, evocative blend of the real and the imagined."
- On Air Fest, Official Selects Committee (2023)

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(We gently recommend that you start at the very beginning: season 1, episode 1: "Prologue | Anemoia".)

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“abandoned features haunting, exploratory tours of places people left behind."
- Apple Podcasts Editorial Team

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“abandoned is a unique and immersive journey through America’s forgotten places... a mix of personal narrative, soundscapes, and history... Each episode feels like stepping into a time capsule, where past stories are brought to life in hauntingly beautiful ways."
- Disctopia

YOUR GUIDE

​Blake Pfeil is an Ambie Award-winning multidisciplinary artist.

His latest body of work, All-American Ruins, has been the recipient of numerous awards for its genre-bending, multimodal storytelling, including recent UK Press Gazette Future of Media Awards nominations for Podcast of the Year (Regional) two years in a row. The project has seen an array of installations worldwide, most notably at SONOHR Radio and Podcast Festival, On Air Fest Annex LA, Berliner Hörspielfestival, Capital City Film Festival, ArchFilmLund, among many others. In 2025, the podcast arm of the project abandoned hit no. 1 on Apple Podcasts’ Places & Travel charts.

Outside All-American Ruins, Blake most recently served as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways while also working his "day job" as the Operations & Digital Programs Manager at TMI Project and "night job" as co-host of Cinema Kingston! on Radio Kingston / WKNY.  Blake is an alumni of SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship, a Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist, and a 2025 Green Box Resident Artist.
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​"abandoned is so wonderful.
A refreshing alternative to most everything else entering my ears these days."
- Julie Shapiro, Co-Founder, Audio Flux

TRANSCRIPTS

Season 3
Season 2
Ep. 1 - Isabel & the Allentown Mafia (Lehigh Valley Dairy - Allentown, PA)
Ep. 2 - Eric: Curious By Default (Great Barrington Fairgrounds - MA)
Ep. 3 - Shannon and the Crisis of Confidence (Unknown Gas Station - Cactus City, CA)
Ep. 4 - Julie is a Homo[wack] (Homowack Lodge - Spring Glen, NY)
Ep. 5 - Daniel: The Sunflower of Ukraine (Miradouro Panorâmico de Monsanto - Lisbon, Portugal)
Ep. 6 - Bake with Jake (Hough Bakery - Cleveland, OH)
Ep. 7 - Gerry: Requiem for a One-Night Stand (Waterfall Park - Rodanthe, NC)
Ep. 8 - Mrs. Dalby & the Gravekeeper of Hatteras Island (Unknown Shanty - Hatteras, NC)
Ep. 9 - Sex, Drugs, Depression (Central High School - Painter, VA)
Ep. 10 - A Chance Encounter (Pass Creek Market - Curtin, OR)
Ep. 11 - Zombies (AFI Packaging Plant - Port Jervis, NY)
Ep. 12 - Sober (Neuweiler Brewery - Allentown, PA)
S02 Bonus: The Last Rites of Last Chance, CO
S02 Bonus: In Which I Let You Go (Universal Atlas Cement - Greenport, NY)
S02 Bonus - Gratitude Transmissions from the Book of Exeter
S02 Bonus - A 10,000 Year-Old Story
S02 Bonus - Loving with Abandon in America's Ruins: Louis and Fletcher
S02 Bonus - Sunset Town
S02 Bonus - Goodbye, I'm Shelley Duvall
Season 02 - Trailer
Season 1
Ep. 1 - Prologue | Anemoia (MWA Tuberculosis Sanatorium Dairy Farm - Colorado Springs, CO)
Ep. 2 - Duck and Cover (Saratoga Springs Air Force Base - Stillwater, NY)
Ep. 3 - Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall (Nevele Grand Hotel & Resort - Ellenville, NY)
Ep. 4 - Dodgin' Covid-19 Like the Cops (Penn Hills Resort - Analomink, PA)
Ep. 5 - Coyote (Marin Headlands - Sausalito, CA)
Ep. 6 - Sometimes I Pretend I'm Erin Brockovich, Pt. I (Al Tech Specialty Steel Co. - Colonie, NY)
Ep. 7 - Sometimes I Pretend I'm Erin Brockovich, Pt. II (C&D Battery Technologies - Huguenot, NY)
Ep. 8 - Norman Bates & Gerald Foos & Me (Sawyerkill Motel - Saugerties, NY)
Ep. 9 - The King of Letchworth Village (Letchworth Psychiatric Village - Thiells, NY)
Ep. 10 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kings Park Psychiatric Center - Long Island, NY)
Ep. 11 - Panic Like the House is on Fire (Greta Thunberg House - Kingston, NY)
Ep. 12 - The People Who Used to Live Here (Unknown Mansion - Hurley, NY)
S01 Bonus - The Dairy Farm, Revisited: A Special Collaboration with History Colorado
S01 Bonus: Marisa Scheinfeld
S01 Bonus: Unexpected Eulogy for the Pines Hotel
S01 Bonus: Dylan Thuras & Atlas Obscura
S01 Bonus: What I'd Leave Behind
S01 Bonus: North Carolina Museum of History
S01 Bonus: Charles Ferri & Hudson House Distillery
S01 - Trailer

“abandoned is rich, immersive, reflective sonic poetry
that will ​leave you wanting to hear more and 
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to explore the places Blake explores for yourself.”

​- Wade Roush, co-founder, Hub & Spoke Audio Collective

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abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is produced through the Community Podcast Program at Radio Kingston/WKNY.
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"I was so glad to learn of the 
ghosty & addictive 

abandoned.
 I love the concept, execution, and generosity of spirit.
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A great mix of
past, present, & future.
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- Sherill Tippins, Author, ​
Inside the Dream Palace: 
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The Life and Times of New York's Chelsea Hotel
“abandoned is exquisite. Truly. 
The sound design alone is worth the listen. Enter the audio realm of Blake’s travels (and imagination) as he visits the abandoned heart of America.

A genuinely strange
and magical trip.”

- Nina Lawrence, Producer
​Pushkin Industries

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