Welcome to this episode of our horror fiction podcast, The Strange Thing About

Working late is usually just a nuisance, but tonight, it’s a fight for survival.

Katina Stamatakis is just trying to clock out and escape another soul-crushing day at the Hitchcock Leary Insurance Agency in Poughkeepsie. Instead, her boss saddles her with a last-minute assignment: track down the ancient, missing Van Cleek files before Monday morning.

Banished to the building’s freezing, foul-smelling basement file room, Katina is left entirely alone as her coworkers head out for weekend drinks. But as the office empties out and the hours inexplicably begin to slip away, Katina starts to experience bizarre and horrifying events. Ringing phones with no one on the other line, mysteriously locked doors, and a sinister discovery in her own purse turn a routine night of overtime into a desperate fight for her sanity.

Release date: March 13, 2026

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