Episodes

  • The Offering Plate at Salem Primitive Baptist Church

    The Offering Plate at Salem Primitive Baptist Church
    Jun 29 2026
    In the autumn of 1995, outside the dying town of Chance, Kentucky, Salem Primitive Baptist Church held its last service before the building was sold to a developer. Luna's great-aunt had been the caretaker for forty years, and she asked Luna to help clear out the pews before the bulldozers came. The church was already hollowed out — hymnals boxed, the cross removed, even the pump organ carted away. But one thing remained, tucked behind the pulpit: a brass offering plate tarnished nearly black. Luna's aunt told her it hadn't been used since the early 1950s, when a traveling preacher had come through and something had gone wrong during the offering. No one talked about it, but everyone remembered the sound the plate made when the coins fell. Luna walked through the empty building, the plate in her hands, and tried to imagine what could make a whole congregation stop coming to church. This episode is about what happens when a place holds onto something you can't see, and what it feels like to be the one who finally carries it out into the light. #HymnsFromTheCompound #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SalemPrimitiveBaptist #ChanceKentucky #OfferingPlate #Brass #1995 #Autumn #EmptyChurch #LastService #Memory #Silence #Dread #Unknown #SmallTownHorror #Atmospheric #SoloNarrated Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 mins
  • The Bible at Gravel Switch

    The Bible at Gravel Switch
    Jun 28 2026
    In the late autumn of 1997, Luna's mother took her to the rickety white-clapboard church on the outskirts of Gravel Switch, Kentucky, where a revival had been running for three weeks straight. The preacher was a man no one had seen before, and the congregation was made up of faces that seemed to know things they shouldn't. Luna sat in the third pew, sweating through her dress, while the preacher read from a Bible that was not the same book it had been when the service began. By the time the offering plate came around, the words on the page had rearranged themselves into something that was not scripture. This is the story of what she saw in the yellow light of those bare bulbs, and what she found in the back of the hymnal when she finally got home. #GravelSwitchKY #courthouse #preacher #Bible #hymnal #offeringplate #rearrangedwords #revival #1997 #autumn #Lunasmother #pew #stain #hunger #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #HymnsFromTheCompound #AnthologyHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 mins
  • The Vestry at Bethel Grove Church

    The Vestry at Bethel Grove Church
    Jun 27 2026
    In the winter of 1998, Luna's cousin Judith took a secretarial job at Bethel Grove Church in Pikeville, Kentucky. The pay was good, the work was simple—filing hymns from the 1940s, typing up bulletins. But there was a room off the vestry that no one talked about. A door with a lock that clicked from the other side. A faint humming that started at 3:17 every afternoon. Judith started leaving early. Then she stopped leaving at all. This is what Luna found when she went looking for her. #HymnsFromTheCompound #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BethelGroveChurch #PikevilleKentucky #Vestry #CousinJudith #Humming #LockedRoom #1998 #Winter #RuralHorror #SlowBurn #Atmospheric #SoloNarration #Luna #ChurchHorror #AppalachianGothic Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 mins
  • The Burying Ground at Zion Hill Church

    The Burying Ground at Zion Hill Church
    Jun 26 2026
    Luna remembers a night in October 2022 near Wolf Creek, Kentucky, when she helped a stranger bury something that should have stayed in the ground. The woman called herself Sister Ruth, and she spoke about the hymns as if they were alive. By morning, Luna understood that some songs are not meant to be sung. A quiet, grief-soaked episode about the weight of words left unsaid. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #HymnsFromTheCompound #SisterRuth #WolfCreek #ZionHillChurch #BuryingGround #Kentucky #October #Midnight #Hymnal #Graveside #Echo #Dust #Luna #Standalone #Atmospheric #QuietDread Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    6 mins
  • The Hinges at Deep River Community Church

    The Hinges at Deep River Community Church
    Jun 25 2026
    In the summer of 2019, Luna visited Deep River, Tennessee — a town of three hundred people, one gas station, and a church that had been boarded up since 1982. The hinges on the main doors still turned, though. An old man named Everett told her the story of the last Sunday service, when the doors wouldn't open from the outside, and the hinges began to scream. What crawled out through the walls afterward was never found. Luna tells you what she saw in the basement, in the light of a dying flashlight, with the smell of something damp and old rising through the floorboards. A story about what a town locks away, and what eventually learns to unlock itself from the other side. #DeepRiverCommunityChurch #DeepRiverTennessee #EverettPritchard #BrotherCalebWells #TheHinges #TheSundayThatNeverEnded #TheBasementWell #Summer2019 #RuralHorror #ChurchHorror #SlowBurn #AtmosphericHorror #SoloNarrated #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #AppalachianHorror #SmallTownSecrets #LockedRoomStory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 mins
  • The Baptism at Little Sandy Creek

    The Baptism at Little Sandy Creek
    Jun 24 2026
    It was June of 2022, just outside a town called Ruth, Mississippi—if you could call it a town. I drove past a crossroads church that wasn't on any map, red dirt road leading to a creek I'd never heard of. The pastor's wife invited me to a baptism service that evening. I sat on the bank and watched them go under one by one, and the water was so clear you could see the moss on the stones. But when the last one came up, she was crying—not from joy. She said something under her breath, and the pastor's face went white. I stayed after. I shouldn't have. This is about what she said, and what I saw in the water when everyone else had left. #LittleSandyCreek #RuthMississippi #CrossroadsChurch #Baptism #RedDirtRoad #June2022 #PastorsWife #Creek #Moss #Underwater #Whisper #Unsettling #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #HymnsFromTheCompound #Anthology #SouthernGothic #QuietDread Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 mins
  • The Gospel at Holly Springs Church of God

    The Gospel at Holly Springs Church of God
    Jun 23 2026
    October 1987. Luna pulls over at a white clapboard church outside Holly Springs, Mississippi, drawn by the sound of a single voice singing an old hymn she hasn't heard in years. Inside, she finds a woman named Ruth Ann sewing a quilt at the altar. The hymn never finishes. The quilt tells a story Ruth Ann has been waiting sixty years to tell—about a revival that brought something back with the faithful. About a child who was born again and never came back. The air in that church still holds the shape of what happened. Luna doesn't sleep for three days after. #HymnsFromTheCompound #HollySpringsMississippi #RuthAnn #TheQuilt #WhiteClapboardChurch #UnfinishedHymn #October1987 #Revival #BornAgain #SomethingCameBack #SmallTownHorror #AtmosphericHorror #LunaNarrates #SoloNarrated #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SouthernGothic #SlowBurn Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 mins
  • The Stained Glass at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church

    The Stained Glass at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
    Jun 22 2026
    In the summer of 2004, Luna's grandmother took her to a small Lutheran church outside of Grundy, Virginia, where the afternoon light through the stained glass windows did something strange to the faces of the congregation. The windows showed scenes from the life of Christ, but there was one window in the back, near the choir loft, that showed something else—a woman with her mouth open, and her hands pressed flat against the glass from the inside. No one in the church ever talked about it. Luna's grandmother told her not to look at it. But the light shifted, and the woman's hands moved. This is a story about what Luna saw that afternoon, and what she found when she went back twenty years later to the church's basement. #StainedGlass #MountOlivetLutheranChurch #GrundyVirginia #Summer2004 #Grandmother #HandprintsOnGlass #LutheranHorror #ChurchBasement #BurnedHymnal #ForgottenWindows #SomethingInsideTheGlass #SmallTownSecrets #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SoloNarration #AppalachianHorror #ReligiousHorror #SlowBurnHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    7 mins