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The Man Who Tracked the Ripple at Dead Man's Slough
Season 2 Episode 58
A retired hydrographer named Harlan Pierce spent forty years mapping underwater sound for the Coast Survey. When he moved to a quiet fishing village …
1 week, 3 days ago
The Woman Who Took the Night Watch at Fathom Sound
Season 2 Episode 57
Luna recalls meeting a woman named Ada who served as the lone night watch at Fathom Sound, a defunct Coast Guard station on the Maine coast. Every ni…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Man Who Counted the Ropes at Spindle Cove
Season 2 Episode 56
On a night so still the stars seemed painted, an old fisherman on the Maine coast teaches Luna a quiet, terrible lesson about the ropes that tether a…
1 week, 5 days ago
The Man Who Saw the Light at Loftus Narrows
Season 2 Episode 55
November 2023, a dead-calm night on the Maine coast. An old fisherman named Ezra tells Luna about a light he saw twice in Loftus Narrows—once as a bo…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Man Who Saw the Trawl at Loftus Narrows
Season 2 Episode 54
January 1997, a deckhand named Ezra on a single-lane bridge over Loftus Narrows, Maine. He sees a trawler he knows is wrecked pass beneath him — nets…
2 weeks ago
The Man Who Measured the Sound at Thistle Cove
Season 2 Episode 53
May 2022, a Wednesday night just past eleven. Luna's skiff drifts into Thistle Cove under a half-moon, following a story she'd heard from an old deck…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The Man Who Saw the Light at Ragged Point
Season 2 Episode 52
On a fog-thick September night in 1987, Luna's uncle Elias saw a light where no light should be—out past Ragged Point, where the channel narrows and …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Man Who Saw the Light at Ragged Point
Season 2 Episode 51
Luna recounts a winter night three years ago, when she met a man on the pier at Ragged Point, Maine—a small fishing town that clings to the coast lik…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Woman Who Kept the Light at Moth Bridge
Season 1 Episode 50
On a January night in 2018, Luna helped an old woman on the coast of Maine who was trying to reach a bridge that no longer exists. The woman wore a d…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Woman Who Watched the Sounder at Gannet Rock
Season 1 Episode 49
November 2023. A crack in a salt-crusted window on Gannet Rock, a half-mile off the coast of Witherby, Maine. A retired harbor master’s widow, Elara …
2 weeks, 5 days ago