Episodes

  • The Dirt Road to Bethel Assembly

    The Dirt Road to Bethel Assembly
    May 17 2026
    Luna drives a winding dirt road through the Ozarks in late October, tracing a faint memory of a church called Bethel Assembly — a place her grandmother once mentioned in passing, a place that apparently doesn't exist on any map. She finds a clearing, a foundation, a single wooden cross still standing. And something else. A man in a dark coat standing at the edge of the trees, who tells her a story about the congregation that vanished one night in 1977, leaving behind only a single cassette tape in the pulpit. Luna listens as he plays it for her — a recording of the last hymn sung before the lights went out. But the recording doesn't end the way hymns do. And the man's face, when she finally sees it clearly, hasn't aged a day since the tape was made. #BethelAssembly #Ozarks #VanishedCongregations #CassetteTape #LastHymn #DirtRoad #October #1977 #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Luna #SoloNarration #AtmosphericHorror #FolkHorror #RuralHorror #FoundFootageAudio #SpectralWitness #TheDirtRoadToBethelAssembly Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 mins
  • The Vestry of a Thousand Songs

    The Vestry of a Thousand Songs
    May 16 2026
    In the late autumn of 2002, a music archivist named Sarah drove an hour outside of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to catalog the dying hymn collection of the Mount Moriah Primitive Baptist Church. The congregation had dissolved years ago, but the building still stood at the end of a gravel road, its roof sagging under years of neglect. Sarah expected dust and mouse droppings. She found a working organ, a locked vestry, and a guest book with entries dated as recently as that morning. The names in the book belonged to people who had been dead for decades. The songs they requested were ones Sarah had never heard—and never found in any hymnal. But when she opened the organ and played the first chords of the final hymn, something answered her from the dark of the vestry. The encounter left her with a song she still hums in her sleep, and a certainty that some congregations never truly disband. #MountMoriahChurch #PineBluffArkansas #TheVestry #GuestBook #DeadCongregation #UnwrittenHymns #SarahTheArchivist #Autumn2002 #GhostlySinging #HymnsFromTheCompound #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LunaReads #AnthologyHorror #SouthernGothic #MusicHorror #PrimitiveBaptist #TheLastHymn Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    9 mins
  • The Directory at Little Zion Church

    The Directory at Little Zion Church
    May 15 2026
    In the summer of 2019, I spent a week in Tangent, Oregon, cataloging the records of Little Zion Church — a white clapboard building with a bell tower that hadn't rung in forty years. The pews held hymnals open to the same page. The offering plates were stacked behind the pulpit. But in the basement, I found a membership directory from 1978, bound in red vinyl, with every name crossed out in black ink except one — a woman named Esther Mayfield. The phone number listed for her rang. Someone answered. And what they told me over the course of that week changed how I hear silence in a sanctuary. This is not a ghost story. It's a story about what stays when everyone else has already left — and what answers when you call. #HymnsFromTheCompound #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LittleZionChurch #TangentOregon #EstherMayfield #MembershipDirectory #CrossedOutNames #EmptySanctuary #BasementRecords #PhoneThatRings #Summer2019 #SlowBurnHorror #AtmosphericHorror #SmallTownSecrets #RuralOregon #LunaNarrates #WhatStaysBehind Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 mins
  • The Prayer Board at Holy Zion Creek — Fexingo Horror

    The Prayer Board at Holy Zion Creek — Fexingo Horror
    May 12 2026
    Outside the crossroads town of Flynn's Ford, on a November night in 2019, I found a church with a red front door and a prayer board covered in overlapping scraps of paper — requests written in ink, pencil, and what looked like dried blood. The pastor was a woman named Miriam who wore a wedding ring on her thumb and spoke to the building as if it were listening. She told me about the man who came every Monday at midnight to write a single name on a yellow sticky note, always the same name, always in the same spot on the board. She told me about the sound that came from the basement after he left — like something being dragged across packed earth. I didn't believe her until I stayed late one Monday. Until I saw the man. Until I saw what happened when I made the mistake of reading the name aloud. This is the story of what I found in the silence between the hymns at Holy Zion Creek — and what followed me home in the dark.

    #HolyZionCreek #FlynnSFord #PrayerBoard #Miriam #MondayNight #YellowStickyNote #RedFrontDoor #BasementSound #Dragging #Candles #November #Midnight #ReadingAloud #Name #OldChurch #RuralHorror #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #OzarkHorror #FolkHorror

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    9 mins
  • The Deacon's Pew at Abingdon Creek — Fexingo Horror

    The Deacon's Pew at Abingdon Creek — Fexingo Horror
    May 11 2026
    In the autumn of 2007, Luna visits a tiny congregation outside Abingdon, Virginia, where a deacon named Harlan Oakes has been sitting in the same pew every Sunday for forty-seven years. But this year, he hasn't missed a single service—even though he died in June. The new pastor, a young man named Caleb, asks Luna to sit beside Harlan during the Wednesday night prayer meeting. What she learns about the deacon's silence, the hymnal open to page 89, and the thing that waits in the back row, is not something you'd find in any church record. This story is about memory, absence, and the hymns we keep singing long after we're gone.

    #AbingdonVirginia #HarlanOakes #DeaconsPew #HymnsFromTheCompound #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #AutumnHorror #SmallTownHorror #ChurchHorror #TheHymnbook #Page89 #WednesdayPrayer #LunaNarrates #GhostStory #RuralHorror #SouthernGothic #SlowBurnHorror #AtmosphericHorror #OzarkHorror #FolkHorror

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    8 mins
  • The Communion at Dustfall Hollow — Fexingo Horror

    The Communion at Dustfall Hollow — Fexingo Horror
    May 10 2026
    October of 2019, outside the town of Jasper, Kentucky. Luna hears about a small church called Dustfall Hollow that meets in a converted barn at the end of a gravel road. The congregation is small, maybe twenty people, led by a woman named Ruth. They don't have a pastor. They pass around a notebook instead. Ruth says everyone writes down what they want God to hear, and then they read them aloud. Luna goes one Sunday night out of curiosity. The service is quiet, almost peaceful. But the last entry in the notebook is not from anyone in the room. It is addressed to someone by name, and it describes something only Luna has ever seen—something she has never told another person. She does not read it aloud. She closes the notebook and hands it to the next person. The hymn that follows is not in the hymnal. No one seems to notice. Luna does not sleep that night. She does not go back. But she still hears that melody sometimes, especially in October, especially near dusk.

    #DustfallHollow #JasperKentucky #Ruth #TheNotebook #October #GravelRoad #ConvertedBarn #HymnsFromTheCompound #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SmallTownHorror #RuralGothic #UnansweredPrayer #TheMelody #Luna #Communion #Anthology #Episode9 #OzarkHorror #FolkHorror

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    7 mins
  • The Congregation of Ash and Bone

    The Congregation of Ash and Bone
    May 9 2026
    In the autumn of 1997, a traveling hymnist named Iris Mayhew arrives in the dying town of Blackwood Bend, West Virginia, to lead a week-long revival at the White Oak Meeting House. The congregation is small and silent—old men in pressed shirts, women with kerchiefs, children who do not speak. On the third night, Iris notices that the hymnbook on the lectern is not the one she brought. It is leather-bound, unlabeled, and its pages list songs she has never seen: 'The Winding Stair,' 'The Offering of Silence,' 'Hymn for the Unremembered.' She sings one. The congregation does not join her. They listen with their eyes closed, and when she finishes, a woman in the front row whispers, 'She heard it.' From that night forward, Iris cannot stop humming a melody she did not write—a tune that pulls her toward the locked basement door beneath the pulpit. This is what she told me before she left town. Before she stopped speaking altogether. #HymnsFromTheCompound #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #AnthologyHorror #AppalachianHorror #RevivalGoneWrong #WhiteOakMeetingHouse #BlackwoodBend #IrisMayhew #HymnForTheUnremembered #TheCongregationOfAshAndBone #CultHorror #RuralHorror #MusicHorror #MelodyHorror #LockedBasement #AutumnHorror #1997 #OzarkHorror #FolkHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    6 mins
  • The Vigil at Mercy Road Church — Fexingo Horror

    The Vigil at Mercy Road Church — Fexingo Horror
    May 8 2026
    October 1987, just outside the town of Harland, Missouri. Luna finds herself at Mercy Road Church, a white clapboard building with a bell tower that hasn't rung in twenty years. She's there for the annual vigil—a tradition where the congregation gathers on the first Sunday of October to pray for the souls of the lost, to remember those who went into the woods and never came back. But this year, the old caretaker, Mr. Harlan, shares a story he's never told before. About a night in 1967 when he was the one who kept watch, and the prayer he heard answered from the empty pulpit. Luna listens, and the vigil begins.

    #MercyRoadChurch #HarlandMissouri #Vigil #MrHarlan #1967 #October #EmptyPulpit #Woods #Disappearances #Candlelight #Hymnal #LunaNarrates #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SmallTownHorror #Atmospheric #SoloNarration #HauntedChurch #OzarkHorror #FolkHorror

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    6 mins