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The Woman Who Heard the Bell in the Ice at Stony Cove
Season 1 Episode 48
Winter, 1983. A woman alone on a frozen lake in northern Minnesota, ice-fishing through a hole in the dark. The auger jams at four feet. Something ta…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Woman Who Bought the House on Salt Wash Lane
Season 1 Episode 47
February 2020, a few miles inland from the coast, on a road that doesn't appear on any county map. Luna tells the story of Margaret Hoyle, who inheri…
3 weeks ago
The Man Who Heard the Trawl at Number Nine
Season 1 Episode 46
A story about a man named Harlan Bouchard who fished the Grand Banks for thirty years without incident until the night of November 12, 1998, when his…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Man Who Listened to the Spar Buoy at Loon Channel
Season 1 Episode 45
On a mid-October evening in 2017, I met a man named Caleb Washburn on the deck of a rented skiff, half a mile off Ragged Island. He was fifty-seven, …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The Man Who Measured the Wake at Halfmile Shoal
Season 1 Episode 44
A retired marine surveyor takes a small motorboat out past Halfmile Shoal on a September night in 2019 to prove a fifty-year-old chart wrong. He brin…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Man Who Watched the Sounder at Grey Gull Inn
Season 1 Episode 43
Late October, two years ago, Luna took a room at the Grey Gull Inn on the coast of Maine—a narrow Victorian boarding house built on a shelf of rock a…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The Woman Who Fed the Light at Peeper's Cove
Season 1 Episode 42
August 1997. A woman named Elara rents a cottage on the Maine coast, two miles from the nearest town. Every night she walks to the cove with a lanter…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Woman Who Haunted the Buoy at Ragged Point
Season 1 Episode 41
February 2023, at the far end of Ragged Point jetty where the Coast Guard buoy keeper works alone. Luna met a woman who came every night to sit by th…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
The Woman Who Found the Record in the Attic
Season 1 Episode 40
Hutto, Texas. 1979. A woman named Vera inherits her uncle's farmhouse and finds a sealed box in the attic containing a single reel-to-reel tape label…
4 weeks ago
The Woman Who Walked the Bluff at Three Fathom Bend
Season 1 Episode 39
October 1992. A bend in the Tennessee River so sharp the channel markers don't align, and a night so still the fog hung in the branches like wet line…
4 weeks, 1 day ago