Sleep Paralysis Hotline — Fexingo Horror

In the autumn of 2003, Luna's uncle ran a small hardware store on the edge of Willow Creek, a town that time forgot. One Tuesday night, a man walked in and asked for something that didn't exist. Luna was working the register. She watched him browse a... more

It was a Tuesday in late October, just after midnight, when I found myself at the 24-hour laundromat on Old Mill Road in a town called Drayton. The place was empty except for a man named Arthur, who was folding a single white shirt with impossible pr... more

October 1999. The Trestle Bridge Motel outside Red Bluff, California, where Luna worked the front desk for three months. She remembers the room that called down at 2:47 AM, the woman who checked in without a car, and the sound that came through the w... more

In the summer of 2017, Luna spent a sweltering July working the late shift at the Middleton Public Library. The building itself was old, built in 1923, and the basement — where the archives were kept — always felt ten degrees colder than the rest of ... more

It’s late October and the air smells like wet leaves and cold metal. A truck stop diner off Route 9, somewhere between Harlow and dust. The waitress is named Della, and she knows the regulars by their coffee orders — black with a headache, one sugar ... more

It was the summer of 2017, the hottest on record for western Nebraska, and the town of Ainsworth was slowly coming undone. Luna's cousin Owen had moved into a rental farmhouse on Gifford Lane, miles from anywhere, to escape the heat of the city. But ... more

Luna revisits a memory from the winter of 2019, when a friend of a friend called the Sleep Paralysis Hotline about a recurring visitor in her bedroom. The caller lived in a converted grain silo on the outskirts of a dying Kansas town called Sampson F... more

In the fall of 1997, a woman named Margot Holloway started calling the Sleep Paralysis Hotline every night at exactly 3:14 AM. She said a man in a gray hat stood at the foot of her bed, never moving, never speaking—just watching. Luna takes the call ... more