# The Night the Clerk Found the Second Register at the Tumbleweed Inn

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Podcast: [The Lantern Anthology — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468)
Published: 2026-07-11T16:18:10+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0068.mp3
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When Luna stopped at the Tumbleweed Inn outside Calhoun, Arkansas — a crumbling motel off a two-lane highway, neon sign buzzing half-dead — she expected a night of thin walls and cold coffee. But the night clerk, a hollow-eyed man named Eldon, had something else waiting. A second registration book, leather-bound and older than the building itself, hidden beneath the counter. Names inside from the 1940s, all still checked in. Room numbers that didn't exist. And a rule he couldn't explain: never put anyone in Room 14. Luna listened from the lobby sofa as the phone rang at 2:14 AM, every night, for rooms that were never rented. She watched Eldon’s hands shake when he glanced at the locked door behind the office. In the morning, she drove past the end of the property and saw a light in a window where no building stood. A quiet, atmospheric episode about motels, memory, and the guests who never leave. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Luna #TheLanternAnthology #TumbleweedInn #CalhounArkansas #RoadsideHorror #Motel #NightClerk #RegistrationBook #Room14 #1940s #PhantomGuests #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #SoloNarrative #LateNight #Unsettling Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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