EPISODE · May 11, 2026 · 8 MIN
The Photograph at Dusty Fork
from Holler Tales — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
In the autumn of 1998, I spent a week cataloging the estate of a reclusive photographer named Elara Vance in the hollows of Dusty Fork, West Virginia. Her house was a museum of frozen moments—hundreds of portraits of people I didn't recognize, all with the same hollow expression. The last roll of film I found in her darkroom held twenty-three exposures of the same empty rocking chair. On the twenty-fourth frame, the chair was not empty. That photograph now sits in a drawer in my cabin, and I have not looked at it in three years. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #HollerTales #Appalachia #PhotographyHorror #DustyFork #EstateSale #VintageCamera #StolenMoments #EmptyChair #Darkroom #1998 #AutumnHorror #HauntedPhotograph #ElaraVance #MothAndFlame #SmallTownSecrets #LunaReads #AppalachianHorror #FolkHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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In the autumn of 1998, I spent a week cataloging the estate of a reclusive photographer named Elara Vance in the hollows of Dusty Fork, West Virginia. Her house was a museum of frozen moments—hundreds of portraits of people I didn't recognize, all with the same hollow expression. The last roll of film I found in her darkroom held twenty-three exposures of the same empty rocking chair. On the twenty-fourth frame, the chair was not empty. That photograph now sits in a drawer in my cabin, and I have not looked at it in three years. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #HollerTales #Appalachia #PhotographyHorror #DustyFork #EstateSale #VintageCamera #StolenMoments #EmptyChair #Darkroom #1998 #AutumnHorror #HauntedPhotograph #ElaraVance #MothAndFlame #SmallTownSecrets #LunaReads #AppalachianHorror #FolkHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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