Interactive podcast mystery
Season one: signal at low tide
Read host dispatches, listen to witness tapes, and inspect each scene for evidence. Every clue points toward who cut the beacon before the ferry vanished.
Brief
At 11:42 p.m., Harborwell Lighthouse stopped sweeping the channel. Four minutes later, Ferry 6 vanished from radar. The host's field notes suggest the blackout was staged from inside the station, but the maintenance log was rewritten before dawn.
Host blog
Nora said she reached the pier after midnight, but the mud on her boots came from a low-tide shelf exposed only between 10:50 and 11:20.
The lighthouse battery was replaced two weeks early. The receipt lists a harbor lockbox number used by only three station volunteers.
The final radio burst is not distress code. It matches the rhythm of the foghorn test Malik ran during his old training shift.
Witness audio
Transcript clue: she hears gulls during her call, yet gulls leave Harborwell docks before nightfall when foghorn tests run.
Transcript clue: he names the old service stair before anyone tells him the main stair was blocked.
Transcript clue: the background bell rings twice, placing the call near the chapel, not the marina office.
Investigation scenes
Notebook