EPISODE · Jun 2, 2026 · 7 MIN
The Cottonmouth of Bayou Rouge
from Bayou After Dark — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
In the autumn of 2019, Luna poled her pirogue into a stagnant arm of Bayou Rouge where the water ran the color of weak tea and the cypress knees stood like gravestones. There she met an old man named Augustin LeBlanc, who lived alone in a houseboat and kept a single cottonmouth in a glass jar on his table — not as a pet, but as a witness. Augustin claimed the snake had been in his family for three generations, and that it remembered things. What it remembered was the night the LeBlancs dragged something up from the bottom of the bayou, something that should have stayed down. Luna stayed until the lantern burned low, listening to a story that the snake seemed to hear too, its tongue flickering against the glass. When she left, Augustin was still talking — not to her, but to the jar. And the jar was glowing from inside. #BayouAfterDark #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BayouRouge #Cottonmouth #AugustinLeBlanc #Houseboat #HeirloomSnake #FamilySecret #WhatWashedUp #Louisiana #SwampStory #LanternLight #Autumn #AncestralDebt #TheJar #EyesInTheDark #MouthOfTheBayou Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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In the autumn of 2019, Luna poled her pirogue into a stagnant arm of Bayou Rouge where the water ran the color of weak tea and the cypress knees stood like gravestones. There she met an old man named Augustin LeBlanc, who lived alone in a houseboat and kept a single cottonmouth in a glass jar on his table — not as a pet, but as a witness. Augustin claimed the snake had been in his family for three generations, and that it remembered things. What it remembered was the night the LeBlancs dragged something up from the bottom of the bayou, something that should have stayed down. Luna stayed until the lantern burned low, listening to a story that the snake seemed to hear too, its tongue flickering against the glass. When she left, Augustin was still talking — not to her, but to the jar. And the jar was glowing from inside. #BayouAfterDark #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BayouRouge #Cottonmouth #AugustinLeBlanc #Houseboat #HeirloomSnake #FamilySecret #WhatWashedUp #Louisiana #SwampStory #LanternLight #Autumn #AncestralDebt #TheJar #EyesInTheDark #MouthOfTheBayou Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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