{"podcast":{"title":"Tales from the Cold Room — Fexingo Horror","slug":"tales-from-the-cold-room-fexingo-horror-7913012","podcast_index_feed_id":7913012,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/horror/tales-from-the-cold-room.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/horror/tales-from-the-cold-room/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/tales-from-the-cold-room/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":85,"summary":"In the cold room, the dead are never truly gone. Luna stands in a stone cellar beneath an old house, where a brass candleholder casts shadows on walls that breathe with damp and memory. Each episode of Tales from the Cold Room is a standalone story whispered from that liminal space — not ghost stories in the traditional sense, but accounts of what lingers when the body fails and the soul refuses to leave. Here, a mortician finds a corpse whose eyes follow him. A child's voice echoes from a sealed well. A woman receives letters from her own gravestone. These are quiet horrors, intimate and slow, rooted in the ache of loss and the weight of unfinished business. Luna's voice is the only constant, a guide through doorways that should stay shut. The cold room is not a place of rest; it is a waiting room for tales that demand to be told. Each story stands alone, but together they form a mosaic of grief, memory, and the thin places where the veil frays. Enter if you dare — but know that the cold will follow you home. #ColdRoomHorror #CellarStories #LunaNarrates #GhostTales #Mortality #GriefHorror #LiminalSpace #SlowBurn #AtmosphericHorror #StandaloneHorror #Anthology #NarratedHorror #Hor…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T08:18:44.043043+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-cold-room-fexingo-horror-7913012"},"episode":{"title":"The Night She Watched the Stairs at the Mercer Hotel","slug":"the-night-she-watched-the-stairs-at-the-mercer-hotel","published_at":"2026-07-12T16:49:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-cold-room-fexingo-horror-7913012/the-night-she-watched-the-stairs-at-the-mercer-hotel","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-cold-room-fexingo-horror-7913012","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/tales-from-the-cold-room/episode-0069.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/tales-from-the-cold-room/episode-0069.mp3","summary":"Luna recounts a night in January 1998 when she stayed at the Mercer Hotel in Carthage, Iowa—a faded brick building with a single working floor and a staircase that seemed to keep count. Between 2:14 and 3:47 AM, the stairs produced footsteps that never arrived. A woman in a beige coat appeared on the landing, asked her name, and then matched it to a list written in ink that smelled of burnt honey. The night clerk had no record of any guest above the second floor. Luna tells this story quietly, from the cold stone room, with the candle flame bending toward the door. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TalesFromTheColdRoom #MercerHotel #CarthageIowa #StaircaseHorror #NightShift #January1998 #BurntHoney #InkAndBone #LonelyCorridors #TheList #UnsentLetters #DoorAjar #Candlelight #SoloNarrated #IntimateHorror #Atmospheric Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Luna recounts a night in January 1998 when she stayed at the Mercer Hotel in Carthage, Iowa—a faded brick building with a single working floor and a stair…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":438,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tales-from-the-cold-room-fexingo-horror-7913012/episodes/the-night-she-watched-the-stairs-at-the-mercer-hotel/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-cold-room-fexingo-horror-7913012/the-night-she-watched-the-stairs-at-the-mercer-hotel.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}