EPISODE · May 17, 2026 · 6 MIN
The Night Shift at the Ponderosa Diner
from The Backup Drive — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
It's October 2009, just past midnight, and Luna is working the overnight shift alone at the Ponderosa Diner on Route 11 in Pine Falls, Vermont. A trucker leaves behind a leather-bound journal at the counter. She starts reading and cannot stop. The entries begin as a routine log of long-haul routes and weather conditions, but quickly turn obsessive — the writer, a man named Ezra, insists he is being followed by something that shares the road with him. Not a car. Not a person. Something that waits in the dark between mile markers, that flickers at the edge of his headlights, that leaves no tracks in the snow. The last entry is dated three weeks ago. Luna finds herself looking out the diner window at the empty highway, wondering if she is now being watched, too. A quiet, lingering story about loneliness, the open road, and the things that follow you home. #PonderosaDiner #Route11 #PineFallsVermont #EzrasJournal #TruckerHorror #NightShift #HighwayStalker #October2009 #RoadLog #OpenRoad #Loneliness #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #FoundJournal #VermontHorror #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LunaReads Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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It's October 2009, just past midnight, and Luna is working the overnight shift alone at the Ponderosa Diner on Route 11 in Pine Falls, Vermont. A trucker leaves behind a leather-bound journal at the counter. She starts reading and cannot stop. The entries begin as a routine log of long-haul routes and weather conditions, but quickly turn obsessive — the writer, a man named Ezra, insists he is being followed by something that shares the road with him. Not a car. Not a person. Something that waits in the dark between mile markers, that flickers at the edge of his headlights, that leaves no tracks in the snow. The last entry is dated three weeks ago. Luna finds herself looking out the diner window at the empty highway, wondering if she is now being watched, too. A quiet, lingering story about loneliness, the open road, and the things that follow you home. #PonderosaDiner #Route11 #PineFallsVermont #EzrasJournal #TruckerHorror #NightShift #HighwayStalker #October2009 #RoadLog #OpenRoad #Loneliness #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #FoundJournal #VermontHorror #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LunaReads Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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