# The Night the Waitress Found the Wrong Name on the Reservation Book at the Rusty Spoon Diner

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Podcast: [The Lantern Anthology — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468)
Published: 2026-07-07T16:39:45+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0064.mp3
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Duration seconds: 476

## Resource

It's autumn of 2008 in the small town of Iron Gap, Pennsylvania. You're working the late shift at the Rusty Spoon Diner when a man in a tan coat walks in, sits in booth seven, and orders black coffee and apple pie. But the reservation book — the one nobody ever uses — has his name written in it, from three nights ago. And then again from six months ago. And then from a Tuesday in 1974. The handwriting is yours, but you've never seen this man before in your life. He doesn't eat the pie. He doesn't leave a tip. He just sits there until the diner closes, and then he walks out into the fog. And when you look down at the book, his name is already there again — for tomorrow night. A slow-burn atmospheric episode about routine, memory, and the places that remember things we've forgotten. #TheRustySpoonDiner #IronGapPennsylvania #ReservationBook #ManInTheTanCoat #BoothSeven #BlackCoffeeApplePie #Autumn2008 #LateShift #Waitress #RecurringCustomer #WrongName #Fog #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #RoutineHorror #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheLanternAnthology Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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