{"podcast":{"title":"The Curator — Fexingo Horror","slug":"the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584","podcast_index_feed_id":7942584,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/horror/the-curator.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/horror/the-curator/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-curator/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":85,"summary":"In a forgotten wing of the Blackwood Museum, Luna wears white cotton gloves as she opens a brass display case. The object inside — a tarnished pocket-watch that doesn't tick, but hums — is the first of many. Each episode of 'The Curator' follows Luna as she examines a new acquisition for the museum's 'Anomalous Artifacts' collection: a mirror that reflects a room you're not standing in, a music box that plays a song from the year you died, a child's doll that ages one year every night. But the pocket-watch is the key. As Luna catalogs each object, she begins to notice connections — symbols carved into the back of the watch match engravings on a Victorian locket, which match a pattern in the dust on a 17th-century ritual mask. The museum itself seems to shift its corridors at night, and the temperature in the archive drops exactly three degrees every time she touches a new piece. Luna is not just cataloging these objects; she is tracing the path of a curse that has followed the museum's directors for generations. Each episode advances the slow-burn mystery while delivering a self-contained horror in the object's story. You start with the pocket-watch. You listen in order. By the ti…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T08:21:40.635029+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584"},"episode":{"title":"The Locket That Held Our Mother's Silence","slug":"the-locket-that-held-our-mother-s-silence","published_at":"2026-07-21T17:25:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584/the-locket-that-held-our-mother-s-silence","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-curator/episode-0078.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-curator/episode-0078.mp3","summary":"Luna stands in the dissolving kitchen as her mother's lullaby fades, the memory crumbling around her. She follows a thread of ash through the floorboards and finds a room where her grandmother sits, stitching a wedding dress with a needle that pricks blood from memory. In a closet, she discovers a box of locket pictures—each showing a version of Asha erased, including one where Luna's hand is cut out. The dress unravels, revealing a secret pocket containing a photograph of Luna and Asha together, but Luna's face is missing. As her grandmother speaks in her mother's voice, Luna must decide whether to take the photograph and risk being rewritten or leave it to burn as the floor caves into the cellar. The episode ends with Luna stepping into the gaping floor, falling toward the sound of a child humming. For listeners who have followed Luna through the well, the mirrors, and the fire: this is the room where silence was stitched into the family. #TheCurator #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Locket #GrandmothersKitchen #MotherLullaby #DissolvingMemory #Asha #SewingMachine #WeddingDress #Photograph #MissingFace #Cellar #ThreadOfAsh #SistersErased #Choice #MemoryHorror #SurrealHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Luna stands in the dissolving kitchen as her mother's lullaby fades, the memory crumbling around her. She follows a thread of ash through the floorboards…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":727,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584/episodes/the-locket-that-held-our-mother-s-silence/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584/the-locket-that-held-our-mother-s-silence.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}