# The Man Who Measured the Wake at Halfmile Shoal

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Podcast: [Cold Wake — Fexingo Horror](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-wake-fexingo-horror-7892472)
Published: 2026-06-17T18:45:15+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/horror/cold-wake/episode-0044.mp3
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## Resource

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 brings a laser rangefinder, a notebook, and a thermos of cold coffee. What he finds is not a sandbar. The water doesn't move the way it should. The wake from his own boat curls back at him from three directions at once. Luna tells the story of Arthur Pense, who spent his whole life measuring things that were supposed to stay still — and what happened when he found something that measured him back. Set on the outer edge of Casco Bay, Maine, in the hour before moonrise. A quiet, patient story about being seen by the sea. #CascoBay #HalfmileShoal #ArthurPense #RetiredSurveyor #SeptemberNight #TheWake #OldManAndTheSea #LaserRangefinder #RakerPine #ColdCoffee #NoMoon #TideRip #SomethingInTheWater #BeingMeasured #MaineCoast #SoloNarration #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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