Outer Banks Drowned — Fexingo Horror

The Woman Who Buried the Ship at Buxton Beach

7 min · 5. juni 2026
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June 2022, Buxton Beach, North Carolina. Luna visits her aunt Elara during an unseasonably hot June. Elara is a retired marine archaeologist living alone in a house that smells like salt and buried metal. She has spent forty years studying shipwrecks, but this summer she stops going to the beach. Instead, she digs in her backyard at low tide. What she finds is not a shipwreck. It is not wood. It is not anything she can name. Luna stays for three weeks and watches her aunt become someone else. The question is not what Elara buried — it is why the sand keeps pushing it back up. This is a story about the things we try to inter and the coast that refuses to let them stay. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #OuterBanksDrowned #BuxtonBeach #Shipwreck #MarineArchaeology #Elara #BackyardDig #June2022 #CoastalHorror #UnnaturalFind #SomethingBeneath #LowTide #SandThatBreathes #SouthernGothic #SlowBurn #AtmosphericHorror #NoCleanExit Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo [https://buymeacoffee.com/fexingo]

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