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In a building that should only have eleven floors, there is a button for twelve. Empty Floor Twelve is an anthology horror podcast where each episode is a self-contained story set in the same decaying Art Deco elevator — a machine that sometimes opens onto places that don't exist. Luna narrates tales of passengers who pressed the wrong button and found themselves in a floor of endless corridors, a floor where the walls breathe, or a floor that remembers every person who ever rode the elevator. The stories are slow and atmospheric, like the hum of old cables and the smell of brass polish. Sometimes the doors open on a quiet suburb where everyone's face is the same; sometimes they open on a room that contains only a telephone that rings with your own voice. What unifies these stories is the elevator itself — a liminal space that doesn't just move between floors, but between realities. Luna's voice is the only constant as passengers step out and never return. Each episode is a complete descent into the unknown. The button for twelve is always lit. #EmptyFloorTwelve #ElevatorHorror #LiminalSpace #ArtDecoHorror #AnthologyPodcast #SlowBurnHorror #AtmosphericHorror #Supernatural #CreepyElevator #NonExistentFloor #LunaNarrates #Horror #HorrorPodcast #FexingoHorror #StorytellingHorror #PodcastHorror #FictionHorror #DarkFiction Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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  • S2 · E84
    July 30 · 5 min

    The Laundromat in Bouse

    It was the hottest night of the year in Bouse, Arizona, and I pressed the button for floor twelve because that button shouldn't exist. The elevator rose, and the doors opened onto a laundromat so clean it felt like a morgue. A woman in a pale dress was...

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  • S2 · E83
    July 28 · 4 min

    The Chapel in Truth or Consequences

    The elevator opened to a small adobe chapel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Inside, a woman in a yellowed wedding dress sat in the front pew, holding wilted roses. She had been waiting since 1952 for a groom who never arrived. The candles didn't...

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  • S2 · E82
    July 26 · 7 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Diner in Silver City

    One night, I pressed the glowing 12 and stepped out into a diner in Silver City, New Mexico. It was three in the morning, the neon sign buzzed, and the waitress poured coffee that tasted like memory. The clock didn't move, the jukebox played a song I...

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  • S2 · E81
    July 25 · 6 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Taxidermist in Nara Visa

    In a forgotten corner of the New Mexico desert, Luna steps out of the elevator into a taxidermy shop that smells like dust and formaldehyde. The old proprietor speaks in riddles about the last of their kind. A deer's glass eyes seem to follow her. She...

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  • S2 · E80
    July 23 · 9 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Kitchen in Winslow

    On a rainy November night in Winslow, Arizona, Luna rides the old elevator to a floor that shouldn't exist. The doors open onto a warm, yellow-lit kitchen where an old woman named June is baking apple pie. June doesn't seem surprised by the visitor, and...

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  • S2 · E79
    July 22 · 6 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Basement in Wamego

    In Wamego, Kansas, the elevator doors of a building that shouldn't have a twelfth floor opened onto a dusty basement filled with shelves of old film canisters. Luna found a note taped to a projector: 'For when you need to remember something you never...

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  • S2 · E78
    July 21 · 6 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Drive-In in Deming

    When the elevator doors slide open on a moonlit drive-in movie theater in Deming, New Mexico, in the summer of 1987, Luna steps out onto a gravel lot scattered with old cars. The film playing is familiar but wrong, and the audience seems frozen, watching...

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  • S2 · E77
    July 20 · 6 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Library in Lordsburg

    It was the middle of July, the kind of heat that makes the asphalt ripple and the air hum with cicadas. I was in Lordsburg, New Mexico, a town that seems to be mostly gas stations and dust. I found a library, the old Carnegie building on Main Street, a...

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  • S2 · E76
    July 19 · 6 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Train in Wagon Mound

    It was November, just after midnight, when the elevator doors slid open onto the platform of an old Santa Fe Railway station in Wagon Mound, New Mexico. The train was waiting—steam hissing from the engine, windows lit amber, a single passenger standing...

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  • S2 · E75
    July 18 · 7 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Bar in Terlingua

    It's a Thursday night in late October. I step out of the elevator into a place called the Starlight — a low-slung adobe bar on the edge of Terlingua, Texas, with a tin roof and a jukebox playing Hank Williams. The floor is swept dirt. The bartender is a...

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  • S2 · E74
    July 17 · 4 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Motel in Globe

    Luna presses the glowing button for floor twelve and steps out into the parking lot of a motel in Globe, Arizona, under a bruised October sky. The motel's neon sign buzzes 'Vacancy' in flickering pink, but every room is dark. A woman in a yellow dress...

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  • S2 · E73
    July 16 · 5 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Dry Lake in May

    Luna steps off on floor twelve and finds herself on a dry lake bed outside a town called Goodwater, Nevada, population seventy-two. The motel sign reads 'Lakeside' but the lake has been gone for fifty years. She meets an old man named Dale who tells her...

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  • S2 · E72
    July 15 · 5 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Motel in Terlingua

    The elevator doors opened onto a motel parking lot in Terlingua, Texas, under a sky so star-bright it looked fake. It was August, maybe 2019, and the air smelled like creosote and dust. A man stood by a pickup, drinking beer from a can. He waved me over...

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  • S2 · E71
    July 14 · 5 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Bedroom in Picher

    Luna recalls a night in late summer 2024 when the elevator doors slid open onto a bedroom in Picher, Oklahoma — a town that was erased from the map decades ago. A man sits on the edge of a narrow bed, his hands folded in his lap, and he tells her he's...

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  • S2 · E70
    July 13 · 6 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Motel in Needles

    It's August in Needles, California, and the heat doesn't break at midnight. The elevator doors open onto a motel courtyard where the pool is black and still, and the ice machine hums like a dying insect. Luna meets a woman named Margot who's been sitting...

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  • S2 · E69
    July 12 · 4 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Hospital Ward in Deming

    It's the coldest night of the year in Deming, New Mexico, and the elevator on floor twelve opens onto a dim hospital ward that shouldn't exist. Luna meets a woman in a lavender cardigan who has been waiting for her husband for forty-seven years. The...

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  • S2 · E68
    July 11 · 7 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Motel in Tucumcari

    Episode 68 of Empty Floor Twelve. Luna recounts a night in 1986 when the elevator doors parted onto a motel room in Tucumcari, New Mexico — a room that still held an unresolved conversation from 1952. A man in a brown suit sat on the edge of the bed...

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  • S2 · E67
    July 10 · 6 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Motel in Holbrook

    Luna rides the old elevator in the Art Deco building, pressing the glowing button for floor twelve — a floor that doesn't exist. The doors open onto a motel parking lot in Holbrook, Arizona, under a bruised desert sky. A man named Earl sits on a cracked...

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  • S2 · E66
    July 9 · 8 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Funeral Home in Gila Bend

    It's August in Gila Bend, Arizona, 117 degrees at midnight. The elevator doors open onto the dim, floral-scented parlor of the Desert Rest Funeral Home. A woman in a black dress sits alone in the front row, facing an empty casket. She doesn't look up...

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  • S2 · E65
    July 8 · 6 min

    The Night the Elevator Opened to a Drowning in August

    The elevator doors open onto a concrete pool deck in the dead of summer. The air is thick with chlorine and heat. A boy floats face-down in the deep end, perfectly still. Luna is pulled into a memory she doesn't own — of a swim team, a missing girl, and...

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