The Witness Hour — Fexingo Horror

The Night the Starlings Fell at the Morrow County Fairgrounds

8 min · 10. juli 2026
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September 1987. The Morrow County Fair had just ended, and the midway lights were still burning when the starlings began to fall. Not flying into things, not fleeing—just dropping straight down, hundreds of them, silent, dead before they hit the sawdust. Luna was there, working the ring-toss booth for her uncle. She saw the man in the beige sport coat walk the length of the livestock pavilion and stop at the empty rabbit hutch. She saw what he carried in a glass jar. By the time the county coroner arrived, the birds had been swept into garbage bags and the man was gone. This is what she heard on the police scanner afterward, and what she found under the grandstand three weeks later. The soil there is still dark. #TheWitnessHour #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Starlings #MorrowCounty #Fairgrounds #RabbitHutch #GlassJar #RingToss #Sawdust #Sept1987 #LivestockPavilion #Grandstand #PoliceScanner #Coroner #Midway #Birds #UncleEd Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]

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