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Meter Reader Opens a Storage Unit and Finds a Dead Man's Beacon: The Thirty-Seventh Day

Meter Reader Opens a Storage Unit and Finds a Dead Man's Beacon: The Thirty-Seventh Day

A corroded orange emergency beacon, its activation lever bent and lashed with blue paracord, sat against the back wall of storage unit 44-tagged "RAFT THREE / CALLAHAN / DAY THIRTY-SEVEN" with coordinates and an eighteen-month-old date. The men on that unit's registration had been declared dead after a ship sank sixty-eight nautical miles offshore; how did this beacon end up in Texas, and what does it reveal about the raft that survived beyond the search zone?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from…

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