The Cradle at Midnight

Luna stands alone in the hidden nursery beneath the convent, facing a rocking cradle that refuses to stop. Inside she finds a doll bearing her own face and a note in her mother's handwriting: 'Forgive me.' As she reads, a door opens behind her and Sister Margaret steps through—not the woman from moments ago, but a version of her from twenty years past, wearing the same dress she wore when Luna was a child. Sister Margaret leads Luna through the convent's back corridors to a locked room that holds a second baptismal record, this one naming Luna's father. The record is dated before her birth, and the space for the mother's name is blank. Luna begins to suspect that her mother was not complicit but coerced, and that the man in the photograph—the one she called Father—is not her father at all. The episode ends with Luna holding the record as the candle flame flickers and Sister Margaret whispers that the truth is worse than she imagined. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #StCassians #Nursery #Cradle #Doll #SisterMargaret #BaptismalRecord #Mother #Father #Truth #Memory #Abuse #Coercion #HiddenRoom #Convent #Luna #SerializedHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo