The text is a narration of two unrelated stories.
The first story is about Henry McCabe, a Liberian immigrant living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He went out to a nightclub with two friends on September 6, 2015, and was dropped off at a gas station on his way home. His friends did not see him again. On November 2, 2015, his body was found in a lake near the area where his phone had last pinged. The cause of death was ruled as an accidental drowning, but the strange sounds heard on his voicemail, where he sounded distressed and in pain, remain unexplained.
The second story is about a series of mysterious phone calls to 9-1-1 in Reno, Nevada. A woman who had recently lost her husband began making these calls, initially asking for simple tasks like boiling water or changing the thermostat. Over time, her calls became more urgent, and she would plead for her deceased husband's help. Despite the dispatchers' attempts to explain that 9-1-1 is for emergencies only, she continued to call, leading to multiple visits by first responders. The woman was eventually found dead in her house, and the calls stopped. The police were unable to determine the identity of the caller, leading to a series of unexplained 9-1-1 calls from the woman's house for a year.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
- A man named Henry McCabe went missing after a night out with his friends in 2015 and was later found dead in a lake with no injuries.
- The police received a voicemail from Henry's phone where he sounded distressed and claimed he was shot, and there was a strange growling sound in the background.
- The voicemail was never fully released and the case remains a mystery.
- An elderly woman in Reno, Nevada kept calling 9-1-1 for non-emergency reasons after her husband died, and later believed she was talking to him on the phone.
- The woman was found dead in her bed, but the calls continued even after her house burned down and her phone line was disconnected.
- The police never found an explanation for the ghost calls and they stopped after a year.
- A serial killer in Minnesota called 9-1-1 to confess his crimes and express remorse after attacking women with an ice pick or a tire iron.
- The killer was nicknamed the Weepy Voice Killer because of his distinctive voice and emotional tone.
- The killer was identified as Paul Stefani, who was arrested after he called 9-1-1 for himself when he was injured by one of his victims.
- Stefani confessed to four murders and one attempted murder before he died of cancer in prison.