I first wrote about the case of Henry McCabe when I was writing my book Dead in the Water.

It's a very strange case. It's one that revolves around sound. When Henry McCabe disappeared, he left what can only be described as the most chilling, most harrowling voicemail. He is screaming, pleading and growling in raw, animalistic agony.

Strangely, in the background is something that sounds indefinably mechanical.

We do not know what is happening. Horrifyingly, a voice then interrupts Henry's guttural

screams and calmly tells him in a cold, emotionless, detached voice. Stop it. Fifty-five days later, Henry's body is found in a

creep. His body has no wounds, no trauma, no injuries. What happened to Henry McCabe? On the night he left,

that howling, harrowing boy smell.

Something was so terribly wrong that night,

but what was it that took Henry into the gaping,

echoing abyss of unyielding terror?

And who, or what, took him on that fateful one-way journey?

This is what they did to my son. Henry paid for you to learn the lesson, said his mother. But what does she mean? Is there any connection to another mother who

says of her son? He was taken to the river and killed. Then his body was positioned and taken to a

different part of the water. The evil is rampant and deep and killed. Then his body was positioned and taken to a different part of the water. The evil is

rampant and deep and widespread. Why is she saying this? Another young man was found dead in a river

of Owlshead. The parents of a different young man was also found dead in the river.

They were sent a severed owl's head.

It was left on their doorstep.

Owls, the messengers of secrets.

Owls have always been associated with mystery, mysticism, and a connection to the underworld and secrets.

Owls are known as the messenger of secrets,

the nocturnal birds of prey who have an ability to see in the dark.

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