EPISODE · May 28, 2026 · 8 MIN
The Watchtower at the Edge of Babylon Valley
from The Lonely Chapter — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
In the summer of 1997, a wildfire lookout named Caleb Taggart spent seventy-two days alone in a steel tower on a ridgeline above Babylon Valley, California. He was there to watch for smoke, but what he began to see at night — lights moving through the dry brush in patterns that weren't animal, weren't human — changed his understanding of what he was watching for. And on the night the fire finally came, he realized the signal fire he lit was not his own. This is the story he told me one afternoon at a diner in Porterville, six years after he came down from the mountain. He still smelled like smoke. #BabylonValley #CalebTaggart #Watchtower #WildfireLookout #SequoiaNationalForest #Porterville #SignalFires #DryLightning #HorseshoeBend #Summer1997 #WhatWalksInAsh #LightsInTheBrush #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LunaReads #TheLonelyChapter #AnthologyHorror #SlowBurnHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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In the summer of 1997, a wildfire lookout named Caleb Taggart spent seventy-two days alone in a steel tower on a ridgeline above Babylon Valley, California. He was there to watch for smoke, but what he began to see at night — lights moving through the dry brush in patterns that weren't animal, weren't human — changed his understanding of what he was watching for. And on the night the fire finally came, he realized the signal fire he lit was not his own. This is the story he told me one afternoon at a diner in Porterville, six years after he came down from the mountain. He still smelled like smoke. #BabylonValley #CalebTaggart #Watchtower #WildfireLookout #SequoiaNationalForest #Porterville #SignalFires #DryLightning #HorseshoeBend #Summer1997 #WhatWalksInAsh #LightsInTheBrush #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LunaReads #TheLonelyChapter #AnthologyHorror #SlowBurnHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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