“The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52” is not your average nature documentary. In the hands of Joshua Zeman, who has tackled urban legends and serial killers in his work (“Cropsey,” “The Killing Season”), this film is a nature mystery, an unanswered question that needs to be solved. Zeman sets out to answer this question despite unbelievable odds, and like most incredible explorations into the deep, the journey is surprising, though not without reward.
As with many mysteries, this one starts with a news item that caught Zeman’s eye. In 1989, an underwater sonar system developed and used by the Navy captured the biological sonic signature of a whale registering at 52 hertz of frequency, which is unlike any other whale song. In 2004, after the death of Bill Watkins, one of the lead scientists working on tracking this whale, a paper was published that brought this curious creature to the attention of the public. Knowing only that its calls didn’t register with ot
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In the eighth or seventh century B.C., Homer composed the epic poem “The Odyssey,” and in 2015, a woman named A’Ziah “Zola” King took to Twitter to share her own incredible saga. In a 148-tweet thread, a tale of strip clubs and sex work arguably more harrowing than the journey of Odysseus, she described a trip to Florida that she took with a new friend.
“The Story,” as it came to be known, instantly went viral. A feature in Rolling Stone by David Kushner followed and soon Hollywood types were haggling over the rights to capture this lightning-in-a-bottle moment.