Twelve Ways to Die in October — Fexingo Horror

The Tire Swing at the Dead End of Ponderosa Lane

7 min · 7. juni 2026
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October 2017. A dead-end road in Elkhart, Indiana. A tire swing hanging from a sycamore that shouldn't have held anything at all. I was driving back from a shift at the all-night diner when my headlights caught a girl on the swing — barefoot, in a thin white dress, her hair lifting even though there was no wind. I slowed down because it was two in the morning and the road ended in a cul-de-sac and there were no houses for a quarter mile. The swing creaked. She didn't look at me. I rolled down the window and asked if she needed a ride. She said, 'I'm waiting for my turn.' That should have been the end of it. But I went back the next night. And the night after. And each time the swing was still moving when I arrived, and each time she was a little closer to the road. This is a story about hunger — the kind that doesn't belong to the living. It's about a black rope fraying in the dark, and about the things we convince ourselves we're not seeing. And it's about what happens when a dead-end road finally ends. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TwelveWaysToDieInOctober #PonderosaLane #ElkhartIndiana #tireswing #OctoberHorror #ghoststory #AppalachianHorror #folklore #waitingfortheturn #deadendroad #sycamoretree #midwesternGothic #childghost #noescape #creepypasta #listenersupported Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]

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