{"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 Stove That Held My Mother's Flame","slug":"the-stove-that-held-my-mother-s-flame","published_at":"2026-07-09T17:07:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584/the-stove-that-held-my-mother-s-flame","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-curator/episode-0066.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/the-curator/episode-0066.mp3","summary":"In the kitchen where her mother stirs a pot on the stove, Luna—blind and voiceless after trading her senses to the well—faces the spinning wheel woman waiting inside the flame. She reaches into the steam and tastes the moment before she was born. The stove door opens, revealing a child's hand reaching out from the fire. Luna must decide whether to take it and undo the curse or let it burn. This episode follows Luna as she reaches into the fire, grasping the child's hand, and finds herself pulled into the hearth itself—a narrow, dark space filled with ash and the scent of her mother's cooking. Here, she discovers a series of brass locket doors, each holding a memory of her mother's childhood. Luna must find the door that leads to her sister Asha before the fire consumes her, but each locket shows a different version of the past—one where Asha never existed, one where Luna never existed, and one where they were never sisters at all. The episode ends as Luna's hand touches the third locket, and the fire begins to sing. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheCurator #Luna #Asha #SpinningWheelWoman #TheStoveDoor #TheFire #TheHearth #LocketDoors #MothersChildhood #ParallelFutures #CursedPromise #Sisterhood #MemoryTrade #SensoryLoss #DrownedGallery #FieldOfMusicBoxes Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In the kitchen where her mother stirs a pot on the stove, Luna—blind and voiceless after trading her senses to the well—faces the spinning wheel woman wai…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":814,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-curator-fexingo-horror-7942584/episodes/the-stove-that-held-my-mother-s-flame/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-stove-that-held-my-mother-s-flame.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}