Episode
The Night the Hardware Store Clock Chimed at Three AM
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- Jun 24, 2026
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Summary
It was October, just after midnight, on a rain-slicked stretch of Main Street in a town called Needle Creek. The kind of town where the hardware store still has a hand-painted sign and a grandfather clock that no one winds. But that night, it chimed. I met a man named Elias who had been a custodian there for thirty years, and he told me about the after-hours customer who always asked for keys. The keys to what, he never said. But I saw the ledger. I saw the dates. And I understood why Elias always left a light on in the basement window. This is a story about doors that shouldn't open. And the things that knock. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheLanternAnthology #NeedleCreek #HardwareStore #GrandfatherClock #EliasTheCustodian #AfterHours #Keys #Door #OctoberNight #Rain #Ledger #BasementLight #Creaking #LunaReads #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo