# The Woman Who Found the Record in the Attic

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Podcast: [Cold Wake — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-wake-fexingo-horror-7892472)
Published: 2026-06-13T19:20:50+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/cold-wake/episode-0040.mp3
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Duration seconds: 678

## Resource

Hutto, Texas. 1979. A woman named Vera inherits her uncle's farmhouse and finds a sealed box in the attic containing a single reel-to-reel tape labeled 'DEER CREEK SETTLEMENT 1888.' She borrows a player from the local library — a man named Tinsley who warns her not to listen alone. She does. The recording begins with a fiddle and a woman singing. Then the music stops. What follows is a slow, unbroken account of a town that built itself around a promise made to something that came up from the creek. Vera plays it three times. By the third night, she starts hearing the creek from her own yard — though the nearest water is two miles away. Luna tells the story of a woman who found a voice that had been waiting seventy years for someone to let it out again. Not a ghost story. A record. A truth. And a question Vera asked herself just before she stopped answering the phone: What if the singing was never meant to be heard by human ears? #ColdWake #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheWomanWhoFoundTheRecordInTheAttic #VeraCobb #HuttoTexas #DeerCreekSettlement #ReelToReel #TapeRecording #1888 #FolkSong #SomethingFromTheCreek #PromiseKept #Tinsley #AtticBox #1979 #SleepDelayed #LunaNarrates Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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