# The Bell at the Oakwood Church, December 1997

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Podcast: [Bound in Black — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bound-in-black-fexingo-horror-7876228)
Published: 2026-07-18T16:14:13+00:00
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## Resource

Luna recalls a December night in the small town of Oakwood, where she stopped at the old white church on a frozen road. The bell in the tower rang at an hour it shouldn't have — three slow, deliberate chimes at 2:47 AM. She found a woman in a blue coat sitting in the front pew, who spoke of a promise made and a bell that never lies. But the story the woman told was not her own — it was her mother's, and her grandmother's, and every woman in her family who had stood at that altar before. By dawn, the church was empty, the bell silent, and Luna left with a name written on a scrap of paper that still sits inside her notebook, unsolved. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BoundInBlack #OakwoodChurch #TheBell #December1997 #Luna #SmallTownHorror #FrozenRoad #BlueCoat #Promise #GhostStory #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #Unresolved #ChurchBell #WinterNight #RealStory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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