The Night the Backup Drive Showed Me the Train on Lumberton Trestle

Luna finds a single folder on her backup drive labeled 'Lumberton Trestle – October 16'. She doesn't recognize the name. Inside are 23 photographs, each timestamped 3:47 AM. The first few show an abandoned railroad bridge over the Lumber River — rusted tracks, missing ties, kudzu vines. But as she scrolls, the train appears. It's not in the first photo. It's in the second, just a smudge at the curve. By the fifth photo, the locomotive is fully visible, headlamp dark. In the tenth, it's closer. By the fifteenth, the engineer is leaning out the window, and Luna realizes his face is exactly the face of a boy she sat next to in third grade, a boy who drowned in the Lumber River when they were twelve. The final three photos are taken from inside the train. The last one shows her reflection in the window, sitting in a passenger car, her own face pale and hollow-eyed. She doesn't remember taking any of these. She doesn't remember October 16 at all. #TheBackupDrive #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LumbertonTrestle #LumberRiver #October16 #3_47AM #Photographs #GhostTrain #DrownedBoy #ThirdGrade #MemoryLoss #Rust #Kudzu #Reflection #Unremembered #PenderCounty #SoloNarrated Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo