EPISODE · May 27, 2026 · 8 MIN
The Missing Label on the Library of Congress Tape
from Side B — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
In the fall of 1998, a volunteer archivist at the Blue Ridge Public Library in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, discovered a reel-to-reel tape in a donation box from the estate of a woman named Eleanor Parnell. The tape was unlabeled. When she played it, she heard a man's voice—calm, precise—describing what he called 'the procedure' for a process that sounded like surgery but wasn't. The recording cut off before he finished. She spent three nights trying to track down Eleanor Parnell's family. The last person she found was a granddaughter, who said, 'Grandma never talked about any tape. She talked about the man who whispered through the wall.' The archivist never published her finding. She only told me, because I asked about the library's closed-stack collection. I wish I hadn't asked. #SideB #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BlueRidgeLibrary #Wilkesboro #ReelToReel #UnlabeledTape #MissingLabel #Archivist #EleanorParnell #TheProcedure #WhisperedThroughTheWall #ClosedStacks #1998 #VolunteerWork #SmallTownArchive #LunaNarrates #SoloHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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In the fall of 1998, a volunteer archivist at the Blue Ridge Public Library in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, discovered a reel-to-reel tape in a donation box from the estate of a woman named Eleanor Parnell. The tape was unlabeled. When she played it, she heard a man's voice—calm, precise—describing what he called 'the procedure' for a process that sounded like surgery but wasn't. The recording cut off before he finished. She spent three nights trying to track down Eleanor Parnell's family. The last person she found was a granddaughter, who said, 'Grandma never talked about any tape. She talked about the man who whispered through the wall.' The archivist never published her finding. She only told me, because I asked about the library's closed-stack collection. I wish I hadn't asked. #SideB #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BlueRidgeLibrary #Wilkesboro #ReelToReel #UnlabeledTape #MissingLabel #Archivist #EleanorParnell #TheProcedure #WhisperedThroughTheWall #ClosedStacks #1998 #VolunteerWork #SmallTownArchive #LunaNarrates #SoloHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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The Missing Label on the Library of Congress Tape
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