# The Night the Waitress Heard the Jukebox Play at the Truck Stop on Route 22

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Podcast: [The Lantern Anthology — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lantern-anthology-fexingo-horror-7868468)
Published: 2026-07-13T17:06:26+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-lantern-anthology/episode-0070.mp3
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Duration seconds: 474

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Route 22 cuts through the heart of the Missouri Ozarks, a two-lane blacktop that snakes past abandoned farmhouses and hollows where the radio dies. At the junction with County Road J stands the Twilight Truck Stop, a relic from the seventies with a cracked neon sign and a jukebox that hasn't worked in years. One October night in 2023, a waitress named Della worked the graveyard shift alone. She had come to this place to be invisible, to serve coffee and eggs and never be remembered. But the jukebox had other plans. When it began playing 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' at 2:47 AM, the song that had been stuck on the same record since the night her predecessor vanished, Della understood that some places remember what you try to forget. This episode is about the sounds that follow us, the gaps in a story that no one will fill, and the truth Della found in a dusty corner behind the condiment rack. A slow-burn ghost story set in a roadside diner where the coffee is always hot and the past never leaves. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TwilightTruckStop #Route22 #MissouriOzarks #Della #JukeboxGhost #HeStoppedLovingHerToday #GraveyardShift #SmallTownHorror #RoadsideDiner #October2023 #Unresolved #AtmosphericHorror #SoloNarration #Luna #TheLanternAnthology #Episode70 Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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