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The Night the Last Payphone Rang at the Truck Stop Outside Prairie Junction
Season 1 Episode 43
It was mid-September, just past midnight, when I stopped for gas at the old Shell station off Route 7 outside Prairie Junction. The place had been dy…
1 month ago
The Night the Supermarket Shelves Shifted in Crescent City
Season 1 Episode 42
In the winter of 2017, the 24-hour grocery in Crescent City, Oregon, became a place where nothing stayed where you left it. I worked the overnight sh…
1 month ago
The Night the Crows Watched from the Power Lines on Old Jericho Road
Season 1 Episode 41
In the autumn of 2007, on a stretch of Old Jericho Road just outside of Tularosa, New Mexico, Luna stopped at a roadside fruit stand that wasn't on a…
1 month ago
The Night the Dry Cleaner Found a Coat That Fit No One
Season 1 Episode 40
In October of 2019, a dry cleaner in the small town of Prosper, Nebraska, received an unusual delivery: a woman's coat, left in the after-hours drop …
1 month ago
The Night the Manicurist Saw Her Reflection Smile
Season 1 Episode 39
In the winter of 2019, a young manicurist at the Happy Nails salon in Laramie, Wyoming, began to notice something wrong with her reflection in the sa…
1 month ago
The Night the Librarian Read the Final Shelf
Season 1 Episode 38
In the small town of Mapleton, Ohio, Luna visits the McCoy Memorial Library — a building so quiet she can hear her own heartbeat. The head librarian,…
1 month ago
The Night the Keeper Showed the Basement at the Two Rivers Museum
Season 1 Episode 37
Luna recounts a story from a sleepless summer in the small town of Two Rivers, Kansas, where she spent a week cataloging artifacts at the local histo…
1 month ago
The Night the Photographer Kept the Last Frame at Hollis Point
Season 1 Episode 36
In the cold autumn of 1997, a freelance photographer named June drove out to the abandoned lighthouse at Hollis Point, a place where the tide comes i…
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The Night the Bell Tolled at Midnight in Dry River
Season 1 Episode 35
A quiet evening in the town of Dry River, Nevada, where Luna stops at a gas station and meets an old man who tells her about the bell that rings at m…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Night the Jackalope Spoke at the Dusty Roads Diner
Season 1 Episode 34
Outside of Holbrook, Arizona, on a stretch of Route 66 that hasn't seen a new coat of paint since the sixties, a tired traveler pulls into the Dusty …
1 month, 1 week ago