# The Man Who Listened to the Spar Buoy at Loon Channel

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Podcast: [Cold Wake — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-wake-fexingo-horror-7892472)
Published: 2026-06-18T18:35:31+00:00
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## Resource

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, a retired hydrologist from Bangor who had been coming to the same patch of water every Tuesday for three years, listening. He said the buoy at Loon Channel — a steel spar, painted red, number 17 — had started to hum on a frequency that didn't match the tide or the wind. He recorded it. He showed me the spectrograms on his phone. The pattern was not random. It spelled out words in a language he couldn't translate but could feel — a cold pressure behind his teeth, a pull toward the water he had to fight three times a week. When I asked why he kept coming back, he said the buoy was waiting for someone who could answer. He didn't know who. He was just the listener. This episode is about the sound you cannot un-hear, and the thing that learns your name before you say it. #ColdWake #LoonChannel #RaggedIsland #SparBuoy #CalebWashburn #Hydrologist #MaineCoast #OctoberFog #Spectrogram #UnderwaterSound #TheListener #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SoloNarrated #AtmosphericHorror #MaritimeHorror #SlowBurnHorror #SoundHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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