The Night the Warden's Shanty Stayed Warm

It was the last week of October, 1987, and I had driven up to the Kettle Moraine State Forest to clear my head. I found a fire in a shanty that should have been empty for forty years. The man who sat there knew my father's middle name, and the seven logs in the stove never burned down. When I asked how long he had been the warden, he showed me a badge stamped 1902 and said the forest had no intention of letting him retire. I left at sunrise, but I could still feel the heat on my face. This is a story about a fire that does not need fuel, a job that does not end, and a man who has been pouring coal into the same stove since before the road was paved. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LighthouseLogs #KettleMoraine #ForestWarden #EternalFire #Wisconsin #1987 #Autumn #Shanty #Stove #FireThatDoesntDie #UnfinishedJob #Luna #SoloNarration #AtmosphericHorror #QuietHorror #SlowBurn Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo