Ralph Hoadley was a fisherman in Dunwich, England. Alistair hired Hoadley to take him out over Dunwich's drowned churches in the North Sea, churches that had largely been swept into the sea in the fourteenth century. ("Hoadley" was a name Alistair had found in Massachusetts.) During the trip, Alistair inquired about the rumors that it wasn't just storms that swept Dunwich into the sea, but Hoadley seemed reserved. When Alistair asked whether the name Great Cthulhu was known in Dunwich, Hoadley allowed that it was known, but seldom spoken. Hoadley also shared the story about the divers who explored the churches a few years prior. They'd laughed at the name Cthulhu. One of them, a woman, was killed when a large octopus pulled her face plate off. (Alistair knew of the ill-fated dive, but had