S2E80 - The Woman Who Saw the Rope at Grayhook Bank

Luna recalls a night in late October, 2019, on the deck of the Cynthia Marie, thirty miles off Grayhook Bank. The trawler's net snagged something heavy — not a rock, not a wreck, not a whale. The captain, a woman named Ellen Orris, insisted on hauling it up instead of cutting it free. What came over the gunwale was not catch. It was a length of wet rope, tied in a loop, and tied again, and again, in knots that seemed to have no ends. Luna watched Ellen's hands as she tried to untie them. She watched her face as the ro...