{"podcast":{"title":"Sycamore Ridge — Fexingo Horror","slug":"sycamore-ridge-fexingo-horror-7894906","podcast_index_feed_id":7894906,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/horror/sycamore-ridge.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/horror/sycamore-ridge/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/sycamore-ridge/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":79,"summary":"Sycamore Ridge is a serialized horror podcast about the town that vanished from every map—and the cassette tapes Luna found in a thrift store that refuse to stay quiet. Each episode pulls a thread from the same unraveling mystery: a quiet commuter town erased from county records, a choir of missing children who sang on a single broadcast, and a rusted water tower that hums at a frequency no one can name. Luna reads from the recovered journals of Amelia Croft, a former resident who documented the town's slow corruption by something beneath the sycamore grove. This is not a collection of safe ghost stories. This is a descent. You don't listen to Sycamore Ridge to be entertained. You listen because the tapes have already started playing in your head. And they don't stop until you hear the last one. #SycamoreRidge #SerializedHorror #MissingTown #CassetteTapes #FolkHorror #SmallTownHorror #AmericanGothic #PodcastMystery #LostMedia #AnalogHorror #SlowBurnHorror #NoSleep #HorrorStorytelling #LunaHorror #FexingoHorror #Horror #HorrorPodcast #StorytellingHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T08:17:59.672638+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sycamore-ridge-fexingo-horror-7894906"},"episode":{"title":"The Field Where the Shadow Child Waited","slug":"the-field-where-the-shadow-child-waited","published_at":"2026-07-13T17:58:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sycamore-ridge-fexingo-horror-7894906/the-field-where-the-shadow-child-waited","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sycamore-ridge-fexingo-horror-7894906","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/sycamore-ridge/episode-0070.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/sycamore-ridge/episode-0070.mp3","summary":"Luna stands in a field of tall grass, holding Esther's photograph, with the shadow child at the edge. She follows the child into a sun-bleached version of Sycamore Ridge where the church has no steeple and the third lamp is a rusted iron pole. A woman who calls herself the keeper of the name offers Luna a choice: walk into the field and forget, or enter the church and remember everything, including the name she was born with. Luna learns that Esther is not the one who borrowed her name—it was borrowed by her grandmother to save Luna from the cycle. But that means Luna is the one who must give it back. The episode ends with Luna standing at the church door, her hand on the handle, as the shadow child whispers her true name for the first time. #SycamoreRidge #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Episode70 #ShadowChild #Esther #FieldOfTallGrass #ChurchWithoutSteeple #BorrowedName #KeeperOfTheName #TrueName #Forgetting #Remembering #Cycle #Photograph #Luna #Grandmother #BeechStreet Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Luna stands in a field of tall grass, holding Esther's photograph, with the shadow child at the edge. She follows the child into a sun-bleached version of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":578,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sycamore-ridge-fexingo-horror-7894906/episodes/the-field-where-the-shadow-child-waited/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sycamore-ridge-fexingo-horror-7894906/the-field-where-the-shadow-child-waited.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}