EPISODE · May 31, 2026 · 9 MIN
The Levee at Dry Creek, September 1985
from Bound in Black — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
September 1985. A thirty-year-old levee on Dry Creek, three miles outside of Mercer, Ohio. No one had seen water in that creekbed since 1972. But in the ninth month of that year, people started hearing something at night—a low, rhythmic thumping, like a pulse, coming from inside the earth. Luna talks to a retired county surveyor named Harlan Pierce, who was the first to notice the water mark on the levee. Not a water mark from rain. A water mark from below, climbing the concrete in steady, measured bands. He measured it every night for two weeks. The water rose an inch each night, exactly at midnight. Then stopped. Then the thumping started. This is a story about what you find when you dig, what you hear when you press your ear to the ground, and why some things are better left unmeasured. It is also a story about Harlan Pierce, who has not slept in his own bed since that September, and who now spends his nights in a lawn chair on the levee, with a flashlight and a tape measure, waiting for the next inch. #DryCreek #MercerOhio #TheLevee #HarlanPierce #1985 #September #WaterRising #Thumping #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BoundInBlack #LunaReads #SmallTownHorror #InfrastructureHorror #SurveyorTape #MidnightRise #CountyRoadHorror #ListenToTheGround Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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September 1985. A thirty-year-old levee on Dry Creek, three miles outside of Mercer, Ohio. No one had seen water in that creekbed since 1972. But in the ninth month of that year, people started hearing something at night—a low, rhythmic thumping, like a pulse, coming from inside the earth. Luna talks to a retired county surveyor named Harlan Pierce, who was the first to notice the water mark on the levee. Not a water mark from rain. A water mark from below, climbing the concrete in steady, measured bands. He measured it every night for two weeks. The water rose an inch each night, exactly at midnight. Then stopped. Then the thumping started. This is a story about what you find when you dig, what you hear when you press your ear to the ground, and why some things are better left unmeasured. It is also a story about Harlan Pierce, who has not slept in his own bed since that September, and who now spends his nights in a lawn chair on the levee, with a flashlight and a tape measure, waiting for the next inch. #DryCreek #MercerOhio #TheLevee #HarlanPierce #1985 #September #WaterRising #Thumping #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BoundInBlack #LunaReads #SmallTownHorror #InfrastructureHorror #SurveyorTape #MidnightRise #CountyRoadHorror #ListenToTheGround Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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The Levee at Dry Creek, September 1985
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