# The Night the Paving Crew Found the Black Stone Under Old Mill Road

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Podcast: [The Lantern Anthology — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468)
Published: 2026-06-30T16:25:54+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0057.mp3
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Duration seconds: 424

## Resource

October of '94, a county paving crew outside Marlin, Kansas hit something granite-hard under ten inches of asphalt. What they uncovered wasn't rock — it was a slab of black stone, perfectly smooth, warm to the touch, engraved with letters no one could read. The foreman, a man named Hoyt, made them keep working. But by midnight the stone had grown warmer, and the letters had changed. Luna tells the story of that night — of how the crew finished the road, how the seal held, and how every year since, the cracks return in the same shape. An episode about roads, and what they're built over, and the slow patience of things that lie beneath. #BlackStone #OldMillRoad #MarlinKansas #CountyPavingCrew #HoytForeman #LettersNoOneCouldRead #WarmStone #WhatLiesBeneath #RoadClosed #October1994 #CracksInTheAsphalt #SlowPatience #HorrorStory #HorrorPodcast #FexingoHorror #TheLanternAnthology #LunaNarrates #AnthologyHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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