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The Jar in the Grate: Tides, a Missing Body, and a Whisper

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The Jar in the Grate: Tides, a Missing Body, and a Whisper

A mail carrier found a sealed glass jar wedged in an iron grate at 2:17 a.m. on October 3, 2009, containing tide notations that matched harbormaster internal charts that were never copied; why did a modern paper with secret harbor data appear inside a 1930s-style jar at the edge of a sealed tidal chamber? What connects the jar, the repeating low-tide sounds, and a worker who vanished in 1938?

In this episode, we follow the discovery and the sequence of strange events recorded by the Portsmith Harbor Community Center coordinator, from the jar in the grate to the recurring nighttime sounds tied to low tides, and consider the historical record that shows a missing cannery worker linked to the same chamber - could these details be pieces of the same unresolved case?

Person: Ronald Perry
Date: October 3, 2009
Location: Portsmith Harbor cannery grate
Person: Duane McCarthy
Event: 1938 tidal exchange accident

- Ronald Perry photographed a glass jar at 2:17 a.m. on October 3, 2009, wedged in an iron drainage grate and found a folded slip of paper inside.
- The paper contained tide notations matching harbormaster internal charts that, according to records, had never been photographed or left the harbormaster's office.
- A document conservator later dated the paper's fiber to between 1985 and 2005 while the jar's lid and seal matched 1930s production hardware.
- Duane McCarthy, building coordinator for 14 months, recorded at least four nocturnal sound events in October 2009 that occurred within 8-12 minutes of mean low water.
- Records show that on October 1938 two men fell through a failed tidal exchange hatch; one, F. Reyes, was never recovered and the chamber was sealed with concrete in November 1938.

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