S4.E6: Axe Murders At Shallow Bay
Season 4, Episode 6
Title:Axe Murders at Shallow Bay
Time: 17 minutes
Locations: Rocky Harbour, Shallow Bay, Cow Head
Story: The Shallow Bay Axe Murder
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About The Episode:
A man leaves for his trapline and doesn’t come back.
At first, it’s nothing. A delay. Bad going. Weather turning the trails to slush. In a place like Bonne Bay, that’s part of life.
But Sarah Singleton knows her brother, and as the days stretch on, the waiting starts to feel wrong. So she does what has to be done—she goes looking for him.
What follows is a journey up the coast toward Shallow Bay, through melting snow and growing unease, where every mile seems to pull her further from the ordinary and closer to something sinister.
When she finally reaches a lonely cabin on the shore, she finds a man waiting there—John Pelley. A trapper with a reputation and a temper.
He says he hasn’t seen her brother.
But something doesn’t sit right.
Not the way he answers,
not the way he watches them,
and not the way he keeps that gun close at hand through the night.
By morning, Sarah will find something in the snow that changes everything.
And once she does — there’s no turning back.
Link
Learn more about Pelley’s Axe, at the Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum
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Sound Credits
Fire Crackle and Flames 001, The Woodland Nomad, Freesounds.org, CC0
Crows Closeup and Far Away, Benjifiguried, Freesounds.org, CC0
Stereo SnowWalker, JCS224, Freesounds.org, CC0
Sources & Further Reading
The Shallow Bay Axe Murderer, Product of Newfoundland
Cow Head — Taking Pride in Our Past!, Community Stories.
The Voice of Don, The Western Star, Dec 9, 1963
The Voice of Don, The Western Star, May 19, 1964
Early settlers on the southwestern shore of Newfoundland's northern peninsula, Jane Hutchings, 1984
Axe, Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum
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