This was one of my first ideas about Night Vale. I thought is was a strange post apocalyptic town. I’m not sure how well this theory is going to go for me after the last episode, but still a possibility.

I’m down with the Nuc theory. In my head this is something like The Hills Have Eyes. The government choose this town to test on in the 80s around the same time their sister city was nuked. They’ve all lost a good portion of their memories as an after affect of the experiment. Maybe the government has tried to convince the town that the hills/mountains are real so the citizens won’t leave the valley they’re located in. Maybe the “Dog Park” is a way out into more desert and in an effort to keep people in, they have labeled it as “Off limits”. Maybe their rival city Desert Bluff is undergoing some other type of controlled experiment that would explain how they act. Maybe the street cleaners are government workers in radiation protection outfits. Maybe Carlos is actually a scientist involved in the initial experiments but when he gets to town to do his job, he becomes affected by the radiation/chemical/whatever.

Any thought?