“Louis, Louis, Louis” by Dark Weirdness is inspired by the true story of the 1873 Smuttynose Island murders, when a desperate drifter named Louis Wagner rowed ten miles through the night to a lonely island off the New Hampshire coast where three Norwegian women were living alone. By morning two were dead, one had escaped by clinging to the rocks in the freezing darkness, and the only words she could speak to rescuers were the name of her attacker — “Louis… Louis… Louis.” The song retells this chilling piece of New England history as a haunting dark tune about isolation, desperation, and a crime that still echoes in the fog around Smuttynose Island.
