The Mistpouffers: The Phantom Cannon Fire That Haunted the North Sea Coast
About 7 min readAlong the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands, people once heard cannon fire rolling in from a sea where no ships were firing — booms that seemed to blow the fog itself apart. The Dutch called them mistpouffers, ‘fog dissipators’. Their cousins, the Barisal guns of Bengal, were heard in threes for a century. No one has heard either since about 1950.