# The Birth of the Third Heartbeat

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Podcast: [The Brookhaven Tapes — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brookhaven-tapes-fexingo-horror-7952354)
Published: 2026-07-23T18:03:49+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-brookhaven-tapes/episode-0080.mp3
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Duration seconds: 382

## Resource

In the nursery on Hawthorne Street, Luna feels a cold hand pressing from inside her chest as the child speaks through her own throat. Disoriented and struggling to breathe, she finds a cassette labeled 'The Birth of the Third Heartbeat' and plays a recording of her mother's voice describing a ritual performed in the Hollow. The heartbeat splits into two—one in her chest, one outside—and Luna follows the sound to a mirror that shows her pregnant with herself. As she touches the glass, a door opens into a room where a woman is giving birth, and Luna realizes she must choose: let the child be born from her or enter the memory and become her own mother. The episode ends with Luna stepping toward the woman, the lullaby humming from both their throats. #TheBrookhavenTapes #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #serializedhorror #Luna #thirdheartbeat #HawthorneStreet #nursery #mirror #cassette #mother #birth #theHollow #lullaby #coldhands #episode80 #slowburnhorror #atmospherichorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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