Murder Mystery

April 17, 2025

By Grace Steinmetz

📻 Unofficial Frequency Log

Listener: Nelson McTavish

Start Date: Night after Red McCrae’s Death

Notes recorded from personal receiver rig – Shaft 13C perimeter zone


📅 Entry 1 – 2025-04-13

Frequency: 6.31 MHz
Signal: Faint static with rhythmic pulses – almost like footsteps.
Notes: 17 seconds apart. Echo bounced. Thought it was my own breathing. Wasn’t.


📅 Entry 2 – 2025-04-14

Frequency: 9.20 MHz
Signal: Repeating tone, like sonar.
Notes: Duration: 42 seconds. Ended with click-pop.
Scrambled harmonics when I whispered near the receiver.


📅 Entry 3 – 2025-04-15

Frequency: 7.77 MHz
Signal: Three sharp taps.
Notes: Regular intervals – 3 knocks, pause, repeat. Tunnel mic confirmed zero seismic movement. No one assigned to tunnel at time of recording.


📅 Entry 4 – 2025-04-16

Frequency: 5.89 MHz
Signal: Morse fragment – but off-pattern.
Notes: Not SOS. Decoded to:

“VAULT…VAULT…WHO?”
Only played once. Never repeated.


📅 Entry 5 – 2025-04-17

Frequency: 4.38 MHz
Signal:

“3 knocks.
1 cry.
Static shaped like breathing.”
Notes: I didn’t record this one.
I just sat there, listening.
Didn’t realize I was holding my breath until it stopped.