The Fog Horn | Sea Monster Story | Podcast

The Fog Horn is a 1951 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, the first in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. The narrative follows Johnny, the protagonist and narrator, who works at a foghorn station on a remote island. The foghorn’s distinctive sound attracts the attention of a prehistoric creature, a “Rhedosaurus,” which is awakened from its ancient slumber.

​The Fog Horn has been adapted into various forms of media, including a 1953 action horror film, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, and a 1993 comic book series. The story has also inspired a 2007 fan-film and a 2020 Japanese short film, Howl from Beyond the Fog.

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The Season of the Sea Serpent | M.P. Pellicer

In 1939, reports came in that a sea serpent had washed up on Point Grey Beach in Vancouver. However sightings of these creatures off the North Atlantic coast go back more a hundred years.

On January 14, 1939, Johnnie Davies was fishing on Williams Lake, British Columbia when he hooked something that not only pulled ferociously, but which he could see was a huge, dark shape beneath the ice. He tried to hold on but ended up letting go. According to him he thought it was the famed Ogopogo usually seen at Okanagan Lake. Fishermen in the area said he had probably hooked a land-locked sturgeon.

It seems that January was a busy month for unusual finds. In the cornfields of C.B. Campbell, who lived near Lynch, Nebraska a dust storm exposed the fossil of a monster that later was dubbed a "sea serpent".

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