# The Man Who Drank from the Eel River

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Podcast: [Cold Wake — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-wake-fexingo-horror-7892472)
Published: 2026-06-09T20:09:13+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/cold-wake/episode-0036.mp3
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Duration seconds: 350

## Resource

Luna sits on the wet deck of a trawler in the black North Atlantic, smoking a cigarette she doesn't want, and tells the story of the summer she spent at her uncle's cabin on the Eel River in northern Maine. That was the summer of the drought, when the river shrank to a trickle and the fish died in the shallows. That was the summer the old man came down to the river every night with a mason jar, knelt in the mud, and drank from a pool that shouldn't have been there. Luna watched him from the porch. She never spoke to him. She never saw his face. But she heard him whisper something into that water every night, and when the rains finally came, the river rose, and the pool was gone, and so was he. A quiet, waterlogged memory that settles into bone like cold. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #ColdWake #EelRiver #Maine #Drought #RiverHorror #Puddle #MasonJar #OldMan #Whispering #WaterMemory #Night #Summer #UncleCabin #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #QuietDread Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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