SEASON 1: EPISODE 6
Investigator's log, December 23rd, 2025. Case File #0006.
A DROWNING SONG NO CREW CAN RESIST.
There are some recordings in this archive that resist being approached directly. It is not simply a matter of content, but of behaviour; they seem to shift when listened to repeatedly, possessing a density that defies standard audio restoration.
The archive item is the Voyage Data Recorder from the Spirit of Tavenend, recovered adrift after the 2019 equinox storm. The official RNLI report declared the audio unrecoverable due to salt water ingress—a convenient explanation for data that refuses to conform to technical baselines. My analysis suggests the corruption was not environmental, but external. It is a layered, structural interference that mimics the cadence of the human voice.
If you view the waveform on a spectrograph, the interference does not look like noise. It looks like breath. And as the lifeboat approaches the Doom Bar, that breath is getting louder.
End of entry.
The Investigator