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EPISODE · May 16, 2026 · 5 MIN

The Front Desk at the Pinewood Lodge

from The Recommended Tab — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo

It's late October, 2019, and the Pinewood Lodge outside Elko, Nevada, is the kind of motel you pick because the website photos are too dark to see the stains. Luna takes the graveyard shift for a friend and learns that some guests check in but never check out. The night manager gives her a key to Room 14 with a warning: don't open the door after midnight, no matter what comes under it. She watches the security feed as a woman in a pink bathrobe emerges from that room at 2:17 AM, walking down the hall without shoes, leaving wet footprints that don't dry. What Luna finds in the morning—an empty room, a locked door from the inside, and a receipt signed by someone who died in 1987—stays with her. This is a story about the thin line between the living and the dead, about a front desk log that lists the same name every October 28th, and about what happens when you answer a knock from a room that should be empty. #PinewoodLodge #ElkoNevada #Room14 #GraveyardShift #October28th #PinkBathrobe #WetFootprints #FrontDesk #NightManager #MotelHorror #GhostStory #CheckInCheckOut #RecurringGuest #1987 #SurveillanceFootage #LockedRoom #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

It's late October, 2019, and the Pinewood Lodge outside Elko, Nevada, is the kind of motel you pick because the website photos are too dark to see the stains. Luna takes the graveyard shift for a friend and learns that some guests check in but never check out. The night manager gives her a key to Room 14 with a warning: don't open the door after midnight, no matter what comes under it. She watches the security feed as a woman in a pink bathrobe emerges from that room at 2:17 AM, walking down the hall without shoes, leaving wet footprints that don't dry. What Luna finds in the morning—an empty room, a locked door from the inside, and a receipt signed by someone who died in 1987—stays with her. This is a story about the thin line between the living and the dead, about a front desk log that lists the same name every October 28th, and about what happens when you answer a knock from a room that should be empty. #PinewoodLodge #ElkoNevada #Room14 #GraveyardShift #October28th #PinkBathrobe #WetFootprints #FrontDesk #NightManager #MotelHorror #GhostStory #CheckInCheckOut #RecurringGuest #1987 #SurveillanceFootage #LockedRoom #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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