The Witness Hour — Fexingo Horror

The Night the Line Went Dead at the Weyburn Switchyard

8 min · 2. juli 2026
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October 1999. A dispatcher named Margie at the Weyburn Switchyard—a rail junction outside a nothing town in eastern Montana—takes a final shift before retirement. The board lights up with a train she didn't schedule. No transponder. No crew manifest. Just a single blinking dot moving down a spur that was decommissioned in 1972. She calls the tower. No answer. She calls the yardmaster at home. He hasn't worked there in six years. The dot keeps moving. At 3:17 AM, the line goes dead. This is the story of what she heard through the static before the lights cut out—and what she saw when she walked to the window. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheWitnessHour #TrainHorror #Dispatcher #Switchyard #Montana #1999 #NightShift #Railroad #Margie #Weyburn #GhostTrain #Static #EmptyTracks #Retirement #FinalShift #Uncanny Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]

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