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I Work Alone at a Northern BC Weather Station. Something Is Standing Under the Mast.

A weather station horror story from northern BC. At 3 a.m. the snow sensor says something two metres tall stands under the mast. She was the only person on Halvard Ridge, a remote weather station in the far north of British Columbia, keeping the hourly observations through the long winter dark. The ultrasonic snow-depth sensor only measures distance, and at three in the morning the distance to the snow shrinks by two metres in one second. There are no tracks. The software asks one question about the reading. The archive shows it happened once before, the night the last observer flew out…

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