The Bell at Merton Schoolhouse

January 1897. Luna recalls a winter night when a former schoolteacher named Elsbeth Crain arrived at the soddy with a brass bell under her shawl. She had been summoned by a sound from the abandoned schoolhouse at Merton Crossing—a bell ringing at two in the morning, in a building that had been locked for six years. What she found inside was not a child, not a ghost, but something that had learned to copy the shape of a teacher. Luna tells the story from the details Elsbeth wrote in a letter that was never mailed, found later in a coat pocket. A story about hunger, loneliness, and the way empty places remember what they once held. #TheLonelyPlains #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SoloNarration #PlainsHorror #MertonSchoolhouse #ElsbethCrain #Bell #Winter1897 #Kansas #AbandonedSchool #GrainBins #Frost #DryCreekRoad #Teacher #Summoning #Loneliness #EmptyPlaces Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo