# The Night She Watched the Payphone at Benton's Grocery

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Podcast: [Tales from the Cold Room — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-cold-room-fexingo-horror-7913012)
Published: 2026-06-27T16:16:04+00:00
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## Resource

June 1987, just past midnight, in the parking lot of Benton's Grocery outside Hargrove, Illinois. Luna's car won't start, and the only working payphone for miles sits under a buzzing fluorescent light. She calls for a tow, but the phone rings back — and the voice on the other end knows things it shouldn't. A story about the last payphone in a dying town, the crackling line that connects the living to the dead, and what happens when you answer a call that was never meant for you. #Payphone #BentonsGrocery #HargroveIllinois #June1987 #Midnight #TowTruck #FluorescentLight #CracklingLine #WrongNumber #DeadVoices #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TalesFromTheColdRoom #LunaNarrates #SmallTown #Unresolved #AtmosphericHorror #SoloNarration Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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