The Birch at 33 Oakwood Lane

Luna returns to a dead-end street she once knew as a child — Oakwood Lane, in the town of Millbrook, New York. It's late autumn 2023, a Tuesday night just past midnight. She's standing in the middle of the road, facing number 33: a house she and her friends dared each other to approach every Halloween. The birch tree in the front yard is still there, its bark peeling like old parchment. But the house isn't the same. New owners moved in years ago. The family who lived there — the Palmers — they left suddenly one winter, and no one would say why. Luna remembers the youngest Palmer boy, Jacob, who used to sit under that birch tree drawing pictures of the same woman over and over. Tonight she finds one of his drawings, still tucked into a split in the bark, and the face in the charcoal is not a woman. It's a door. A door that, she realises, she has seen before — in her own dreams. #MillbrookNewYork #OakwoodLane #33OakwoodLane #TheBirchTree #JacobPalmer #CharcoalDrawing #TheDoor #HomeBefore #Dare #HalloweenMemory #ChildhoodHorror #DreamDoor #AutumnNight #SuburbanMystery #UnfinishedStory #QuietHorror #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo