I Work Night Watch on a Remote BC Fish Farm. The Fish Won't Go Near It.

The Small Hours: Horror Stories · Oct 21, 2026 · 12m

A fish farm horror story from the BC Coast. Fifty thousand salmon in pen six won't go near one spot, and no camera shows why. A night tender alone on a feed barge in Tilley Sound, a roadless fjord, keeps the log: twelve net pens on camera, load cells on the moorings, a hydrophone in the water, a generator to swap at three. On the fourth night, pen six reads heavy with nothing in it. When he shuts a generator down at three, the hydrophone still hears its hum, coming from inside the pen. Then he switches on the one light the old card by the door says to leave off after dark. An original horror…