# The Night the Archivist Found the Tape Still Running at the Cold Spring Historical Society

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Podcast: [The Lantern Anthology — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468)
Published: 2026-07-29T18:15:08+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0085.mp3
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Duration seconds: 512

## Resource

Emily, an archivist at the Cold Spring Historical Society, is digitizing old oral histories when she finds a reel-to-reel tape labeled 1973—a year the society has no recordings from. When she plays it, a woman's voice describes the very room Emily is sitting in, down to the crack in the window and the stain on the carpet. But the voice speaks of a fire that never happened. Or did it? As the tape continues, the woman's words become more urgent, more personal, until Emily realizes the voice is speaking to her, from a time that shouldn't exist. By morning, the tape is gone, and Emily is left with a single chilling question: was the woman warning her about something that already happened, or something that's about to? A haunting story about the echoes we leave behind, and the things that listen. #ColdSpringHistoricalSociety #Archivist #ReelToReel #OralHistory #VoiceFromThePast #1973 #FireWarning #MissingPerson #NightShift #SmallTownHorror #CreepyTape #Paranormal #HauntedArchive #RealisticHorror #Atmospheric #LunaReads #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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