EPISODE · May 20, 2026 · 6 MIN
The Mermaid of Bayou Corne
from Bayou After Dark — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
In the summer of 1998, a drought pulled the water low in Bayou Corne, exposing things that had been hidden for decades. Luna's uncle Claude, a trapper who knew every inch of those swamps, found something tangled in his trotline one July morning — a creature with scales that caught the light like oil on water, and eyes that did not blink. He brought her home in a washtub. She lived in his shed, and Luna, twelve years old that summer, was the one who fed her raw fish and watched the way she stared at the moon. This is a story about what happens when you try to keep a thing that belongs to the water. It is not a fairy tale. There is no happy ending. There is only the memory of a voice that called out from the shed at night, and the silence that followed. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BayouAfterDark #BayouCorne #LouisianaSwamp #Mermaid #Folklore #Drought #Summer1998 #UncleClaude #Trotline #Shed #Moonlight #WaterCreature #Grief #Transformation #Loss #Luna Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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In the summer of 1998, a drought pulled the water low in Bayou Corne, exposing things that had been hidden for decades. Luna's uncle Claude, a trapper who knew every inch of those swamps, found something tangled in his trotline one July morning — a creature with scales that caught the light like oil on water, and eyes that did not blink. He brought her home in a washtub. She lived in his shed, and Luna, twelve years old that summer, was the one who fed her raw fish and watched the way she stared at the moon. This is a story about what happens when you try to keep a thing that belongs to the water. It is not a fairy tale. There is no happy ending. There is only the memory of a voice that called out from the shed at night, and the silence that followed. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #BayouAfterDark #BayouCorne #LouisianaSwamp #Mermaid #Folklore #Drought #Summer1998 #UncleClaude #Trotline #Shed #Moonlight #WaterCreature #Grief #Transformation #Loss #Luna Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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