Episode
The Night the Man at the 24-Hour Laundromat Refused to Leave
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Summary
It was a Tuesday in late October, just past midnight, at the Spin Cycle Laundromat on Birch Street in Mapleton, New Hampshire. The air smelled of bleach and wet wool. A man in a brown coat sat on the cracked vinyl bench by the dryers, staring at a machine that hadn't moved in hours. He didn't have any laundry. When I asked if he needed help, he said, 'I'm waiting for my clothes to finish drying.' But the dryer he was watching was empty. Every time I glanced over, the man was still there, motionless, his hands folded in his lap like he was posing for a photograph. The attendant, a woman named Diane, told me he'd been coming every night for two weeks. 'He sits there until sunrise,' she whispered. 'And he always says the same thing.' There is a place where people go when they cannot let go—not of the past, but of a single moment that refuses to end. This is a story about a man caught in a loop of his own making, and the night I almost got stuck with him. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #LaundromatHorror #MapletonNewHampshire #SpinCycleLaundromat #BirchStreet #LateOctober #TheManInTheBrownCoat #Waiting #TimeLoop #Grief #Trauma #DianeTheAttendant #EmptyDryer #Sunrise #LettingGo #LunaNarrates #TheLanternAnthology Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo