EPISODE · May 23, 2026 · 10 MIN
The Woman Who Listened to the Static on WQRT
from The Deep Quiet — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
In the winter of 1989, the town of Larkspur, Missouri lost its only AM radio station to a snowstorm that knocked the tower offline. But the signal never died. For two weeks, between the hours of 2:17 and 3:44 AM, WQRT broadcast something else. Not music, not a voice — just a low, rhythmic static that sounded like breathing. A woman named Eleanor Voss, who lived alone in a farmhouse on the edge of town, began recording it on cassette. She said it was trying to tell her something. When the phone company checked her line, they found it had been disconnected for six months. Eleanor kept listening. She filled ninety-seven tapes. The last one ends in the middle of a word she was saying to someone who was not there. #WQRT #LarkspurMissouri #EleanorVoss #AMStatic #FarmhouseHorror #CassetteTapes #DisconnectedPhone #SnowStorm #TheDeepQuiet #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SoloNarration #AtmosphericHorror #SmallTownHorror #Winter1989 #RadioStatic #BreathingStatic #AnalogHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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In the winter of 1989, the town of Larkspur, Missouri lost its only AM radio station to a snowstorm that knocked the tower offline. But the signal never died. For two weeks, between the hours of 2:17 and 3:44 AM, WQRT broadcast something else. Not music, not a voice — just a low, rhythmic static that sounded like breathing. A woman named Eleanor Voss, who lived alone in a farmhouse on the edge of town, began recording it on cassette. She said it was trying to tell her something. When the phone company checked her line, they found it had been disconnected for six months. Eleanor kept listening. She filled ninety-seven tapes. The last one ends in the middle of a word she was saying to someone who was not there. #WQRT #LarkspurMissouri #EleanorVoss #AMStatic #FarmhouseHorror #CassetteTapes #DisconnectedPhone #SnowStorm #TheDeepQuiet #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SoloNarration #AtmosphericHorror #SmallTownHorror #Winter1989 #RadioStatic #BreathingStatic #AnalogHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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