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The Night the Crossing Gate Came Down on Old Mill Road
Season 1 Episode 33
In the late autumn of 1987, on a gravel road just outside Mineral Wells, Texas, a railroad crossing gate began lowering itself at odd hours — long af…
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The Night the Carousel Animals Spoke at the Grayson County Fairgrounds
Season 1 Episode 32
In the autumn of 2018, the Grayson County Fairgrounds had been abandoned for thirty years. The carousel, a relic of the 1920s, still stood under a co…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Woman Who Sold Birds on the Gravel Road Near Tangent
Season 1 Episode 31
Luna recalls a night in late October 2007 when her car broke down on a gravel road outside Tangent, Oregon. A woman named Miriam appeared from a hous…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Bellringer of Oak Hill Cemetery at Dusk
Season 1 Episode 30
Luna recalls the summer of 2009, when she worked as a groundskeeper at Oak Hill Cemetery in the sleepy town of Pemberton, Ohio. Every evening at dusk…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Night the Sawmill Sang at Three Forks Creek
Season 1 Episode 29
On a cold December night in 1997, my uncle Caleb drove me out to the abandoned sawmill at Three Forks Creek, West Virginia. He said there was somethi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Night the Photographs Moved at the Longview Motor Lodge
Season 1 Episode 28
On a humid August night in 1998, I pulled off Route 17 outside Longview, Virginia, into the cracked parking lot of the Longview Motor Lodge. The neon…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Night the Plates Spoke at the Copper Kettle Diner
Season 1 Episode 27
Somewhere outside Tucumcari, New Mexico, on a February night so cold the highway diesel froze solid in the tanks, the Copper Kettle Diner stayed open…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Nightmare in the Stained-Glass Window at Saint Dymphna's
Season 1 Episode 26
In the winter of 1997, Luna's great-aunt Therese called her to the small town of Bridgewater, Illinois, to clean out a condemned church before demoli…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Man Who Painted the Same Street Every Night on Mulberry Avenue
Season 1 Episode 25
In the autumn of 1999, on a quiet street in Granite Falls, North Carolina, an artist set up his easel at the same corner every night. He painted the …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Custodian at the Silver Creek County Museum After Dark
Season 1 Episode 24
December on the high plains of eastern Colorado. Silver Creek County, population nine hundred and dropping. The county museum sits at the dead end of…
1 month, 2 weeks ago