The Night the Bell Kept Ringing at the Gideon County Exchange
from Plague Doctor's Round — Fexingo Horror Hosted by Fexingo
October 1987, a Tuesday night just after midnight. The telephone exchange in Gideon County was a squat brick building on Sycamore Street, two blocks from the abandoned First Methodist Church. Marian Frye had been the night operator for eleven years, and she knew every ring pattern on the switchboard. But when the trunk line lit up at 12:17 AM, the pattern wasn't one she recognized. The caller ID showed a number that shouldn't exist — the old three-digit exchange that had been decommissioned in 1953. And when she plugged in, the voice on the other end was a child's, reciting the same five words over and over. Marian tried to trace the call, but the tracing equipment showed the signal was originating from inside the building. From the basement stairwell that had been bricked up thirty-four years ago. This is the story of the night a switchboard operator learned that some calls don't come from anywhere on the network — they come from the space between the wires. #GideonCounty #TelephoneExchange #SwitchboardOperator #MarianFrye #DeadExchange #TheGideonLine #TrunkLine #MidnightCall #ChildsVoice #BrickedStairwell #Decommissioned #1953 #SmallTownHorror #PhantomCaller #PhoneHorror #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #PlagueDoctorsRound Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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