The Hollow at Shut-In Creek

The Wind at Blackberry Creek Schoolhouse

In the summer of 1997, a teacher named Annie Cole took a job at the one-room Blackberry Creek Schoolhouse in Breathitt County, Kentucky. She thought she was escaping the heat of Lexington. She thought she was helping children who had no one else. But the school had been closed for twelve years, and the children who came to her lessons were not the ones on the faded class photo. Each morning, they sat in the same three desks, faces pale as milk, and asked her to read from a book that wasn't in the building. Annie learned what the wind carries through the hollows—and what it leaves behind. This episode is about the weight of a promise you don't remember making, and the sound of a song that isn't meant for living ears. Luna tells Annie's story from the porch of the schoolhouse, where the wind still howls through the floorboards. #BlackberryCreekSchoolhouse #BreathittCounty #KentuckyHorror #AppalachianFolklore #OneRoomSchool #GhostChildren #FadedPhotograph #TheCoventrySong #Summer1997 #TeacherHaunting #WindInTheHollow #MissedBus #CoalCountry #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SoloNarrated #HollowCountry #LunaReads Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]

The Well at Pigeon Creek Missionary Baptist

Luna recalls a hot August night in 1997 when a woman named Cora Mae Tolliver called the Hollow Country hotline. She lived alone on Pigeon Creek Road, in a house her grandfather built, and she had a well in the backyard that her father sealed in 1963. She said something had been scratching at the concrete cap for three nights — thin, deliberate scratches, like fingernails on slate. Luna drove out before dawn, expecting a raccoon or a loose board. What she found was a well that had no bottom, a cap that felt warm to the touch, and a voice from below that knew Cora Mae's name. This is not a story about what was buried. It is a story about what waited. #HollowCountry #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #PigeonCreek #Well #CoraMaeTolliver #MissionaryBaptist #AugustNight #1997 #Scratches #ConcreteCap #WellWater #Appalachia #RuralHorror #SoloNarration #Luna #IntimateHorror #SlowBurn Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]

The Graveyard at Paint Creek Missionary Baptist

On a damp October night in 1997, Luna drove a borrowed pickup down an unmarked gravel road in Leslie County, Kentucky, to help an old man bury his wife in the family cemetery up on Paint Creek. But the grave was already full. What she found there — the wet clay, the empty coffin, the footprints leading away from the hole — has stayed with her longer than any other night in the hollows. A quiet, unsettled story about love, devotion, and the things we pretend not to see when we are standing in the dark beside a fresh grave. #PaintCreek #LeslieCounty #Kentucky #MissionaryBaptist #Graveyard #October1997 #EmptyCoffin #Footprints #Lantern #Pickup #Burial #OldMan #Wife #Hollow #Fog #Rhododendron #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]

The Dust at White Oak Creek Church

In the summer of 1998, a man named Harlan Pugh rebuilt a collapsed church deep in White Oak Creek Holler. He worked alone, by kerosene lamp, and he did not use the blueprints the county had on file. Luna's uncle knew Harlan. He visited once, at dusk. The church went up in three months. The day it was finished, Harlan went inside and did not come out. When they found him, his body was dry as paper, and the dust on his clothes was not dust from the lumber. The church stood empty for two years before the county tore it down. But the foundation is still there. And if you walk up the hollow on a dry July evening, you can still see the shape of a man on the floorboards that were never removed. Luna tells the story of what her uncle told her, and what she found when she went to see for herself. #WhiteOakCreek #HarlanPugh #HollowCountry #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Appalachia #ChurchHorror #Dust #Kerosene #1998 #LostStories #UncleBenny #DryBones #Foundation #WhatRemains #JulyHeat #SoloNarration #Atmospheric Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]

The Rope at Bucklick Creek Bridge

September 1987. Luna is twenty-two, driving home through the Cumberland Gap after her grandmother's funeral. She takes a wrong turn onto Bucklick Creek Road, a gravel track that dead-ends at a one-lane bridge over a creek that barely runs. But the bridge isn't empty. A man in a grey wool coat is standing at the railing, coiling a length of hemp rope, calm as if he's been waiting. He doesn't look at her when he speaks. He tells her about the bridge's history—how every thirty years, someone comes here to finish what they started. And then he tells her that her grandmother was the one who stopped it last time. The rope is damp. He asks if she's ready to take her turn. #BucklickCreekBridge #CumberlandGap #Tennessee #September1987 #hemprope #funeral #grandmother #wrongturn #bridge #generations #ritual #thebridgekeeper #Luna #HollowCountry #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SlowBurnHorror #AppalachianGothic Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]