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EPISODE · May 3, 2026 · 9 MIN

The Hairbrush of Cold Spring Hollow

from Heirloom — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo

In the winter of 1998, Luna’s cousin Vera moved into an inherited farmhouse outside Cold Spring Hollow, New York—a town of three hundred people and a single blinking traffic light. The house came with a locked cedar chest in the attic, and inside it, a hairbrush that still smelled of lilac and sweat. Vera said the brush belonged to a woman named Elara, who had vanished from the same house in 1921. At first, it was just a curiosity—until Vera started finding long, dark hairs on her pillow each morning, even though she had cut her own hair short. This is the story of what Luna found when she drove up to help, the photographs that made no sense, and the night they both learned that some objects remember the hands that held them. It is a story about inheritance, about the things we choose to keep, and about the price of forgetting. Not every heirloom is a keepsake. #Heirloom #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #ColdSpringHollow #VeraCarter #ElaraWainwright #CedarChest #Hairbrush #Winter1998 #Attic #Farmhouse #Disappearance #Photographs #Inheritance #GhostStory #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #SmallTownHorror #HeirloomHorror #FamilySecrets Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

In the winter of 1998, Luna’s cousin Vera moved into an inherited farmhouse outside Cold Spring Hollow, New York—a town of three hundred people and a single blinking traffic light. The house came with a locked cedar chest in the attic, and inside it, a hairbrush that still smelled of lilac and sweat. Vera said the brush belonged to a woman named Elara, who had vanished from the same house in 1921. At first, it was just a curiosity—until Vera started finding long, dark hairs on her pillow each morning, even though she had cut her own hair short. This is the story of what Luna found when she drove up to help, the photographs that made no sense, and the night they both learned that some objects remember the hands that held them. It is a story about inheritance, about the things we choose to keep, and about the price of forgetting. Not every heirloom is a keepsake. #Heirloom #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #ColdSpringHollow #VeraCarter #ElaraWainwright #CedarChest #Hairbrush #Winter1998 #Attic #Farmhouse #Disappearance #Photographs #Inheritance #GhostStory #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #SmallTownHorror #HeirloomHorror #FamilySecrets Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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In the winter of 1998, Luna’s cousin Vera moved into an inherited farmhouse outside Cold Spring Hollow, New York—a town of three hundred people and a single blinking traffic light. The house came with a locked cedar chest in the attic, and inside...

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