EPISODE · May 16, 2026 · 6 MIN
The Waitress Who Never Left Route 18
from Dead Zone Radio — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
It's 2:37 AM in late October, 2019, and Luna is parked at an all-night diner off Route 18 in eastern Ohio—the kind of place that shouldn't exist anymore. Inside, a single waitress named Carol works the graveyard shift, moving between empty booths with a coffee pot that never runs dry. She's been there forty-seven years, she says. She says a lot of things that don't add up. The jukebox plays songs from 1973 on a loop. The pie case holds slices that look exactly the same as they did when Luna's father stopped here in the eighties. And Carol keeps glancing at the back door, where a man in a dark coat stands motionless in the parking lot, waiting. Luna learns what happens to people who stay too long at the crossroads of hunger and habit. She also learns when to leave. #DeadZoneRadio #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LunaReads #AnthologyHorror #Route18Diner #OhioHorror #CarolTheWaitress #GraveyardShift #TheManInTheDarkCoat #1973Jukebox #PieCase #StayTooLong #Crossroads #RuralHorror #LateOctober #2AM #HorrorStorytelling Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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It's 2:37 AM in late October, 2019, and Luna is parked at an all-night diner off Route 18 in eastern Ohio—the kind of place that shouldn't exist anymore. Inside, a single waitress named Carol works the graveyard shift, moving between empty booths with a coffee pot that never runs dry. She's been there forty-seven years, she says. She says a lot of things that don't add up. The jukebox plays songs from 1973 on a loop. The pie case holds slices that look exactly the same as they did when Luna's father stopped here in the eighties. And Carol keeps glancing at the back door, where a man in a dark coat stands motionless in the parking lot, waiting. Luna learns what happens to people who stay too long at the crossroads of hunger and habit. She also learns when to leave. #DeadZoneRadio #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LunaReads #AnthologyHorror #Route18Diner #OhioHorror #CarolTheWaitress #GraveyardShift #TheManInTheDarkCoat #1973Jukebox #PieCase #StayTooLong #Crossroads #RuralHorror #LateOctober #2AM #HorrorStorytelling Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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The Waitress Who Never Left Route 18
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