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The Night the Payphone Rang at the Lost Creek Gas Station
Season 2 Episode 63
October 1998. A broken-down payphone at an abandoned gas station outside Lost Creek, Nevada. Luna's car died on the shoulder of a two-lane blacktop, …
1 week, 3 days ago
The Night the Man at the 24-Hour Laundromat Refused to Leave
Season 2 Episode 62
It was a Tuesday in late October, just past midnight, at the Spin Cycle Laundromat on Birch Street in Mapleton, New Hampshire. The air smelled of ble…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Night the Antique Mirror Showed a Stranger in the Window of Morningside
Season 2 Episode 61
Luna recounts a November night she spent at a century-old boarding house in the small town of Morningside, Oregon. The owner, an elderly woman named …
1 week, 5 days ago
The Night the Abandoned Church Bells Rang at Midnight in Mercy Falls
Season 2 Episode 60
Mercy Falls, Ohio. A town so quiet the only sound after dark is the creek. I spent a summer there cataloging old records for the historical society, …
1 week, 6 days ago
The Night the Surveyor Found the Old Road Near Pembroke
Season 2 Episode 59
In the autumn of 2007, a county surveyor named Arthur Crandall was mapping an undeveloped tract of woods outside Pembroke, Kentucky, when his GPS led…
2 weeks ago
The Night the Mortician Found the Third Coffin at the Stonewall Funeral Home
Season 2 Episode 58
When Luna stops for gas outside Stonewall, Mississippi, the station attendant warns her not to visit the old funeral home on Miller's Lane — a place …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The Night the Paving Crew Found the Black Stone Under Old Mill Road
Season 2 Episode 57
October of '94, a county paving crew outside Marlin, Kansas hit something granite-hard under ten inches of asphalt. What they uncovered wasn't rock —…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Night the Phone Booth Glowed at the Washateria on Van Buren
Season 2 Episode 56
In the fall of 2019, a woman named Cora moved into a second-floor apartment above a closed-down washateria in a town called Mercer. The phone booth o…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Night the Librarian Found a Man in the Reference Section at Three AM
Season 2 Episode 55
This week, Luna returns to the dim, dusty attic and the amber glow of the hurricane lantern to tell a story about a quiet Tuesday in late October, at…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Night the Ferryman Charged a Silver Dollar at Stillwater Landing
Season 2 Episode 54
Luna recounts the story of a late-night ferry crossing on the Missouri River, just north of a town called Stillwater that doesn't appear on any map. …
2 weeks, 5 days ago