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EPISODE · Jun 3, 2026 · 9 MIN

The Photograph in the Attic of the Whittaker House

from Letters to the Night Desk — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo

It was the summer of '97, just before the town of Ashburn, Missouri voted to demolish the old Whittaker place. I went inside one last time with a reporter from the county paper, a woman named Deb who was writing a piece on the houses that had shaped the town. Up in the attic, tucked behind a loose board, we found a cardboard box. Inside: a stack of photographs, all of the same woman, each one dated on the back in pencil. The dates spanned eighty years. The woman never aged. The last photograph was taken three days before we found it. This episode is about what we saw in those photographs, and what I saw in Deb's eyes when she looked at the last one. A quiet, slow-burn ghost story about a face that stays the same while everything else crumbles away. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #WhittakerHouse #AshburnMissouri #AtticPhotographs #AgingWoman #DecayingHouse #SmallTownHorror #Summer1997 #PhotographicEvidence #GhostStory #SouthernGothic #Unsettling #SlowBurn #IntimateHorror #LunaReads #LettersToTheNightDesk #TheFaceThatStayed Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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