Nightwaves (2003)

Plotzle Expert · E112 · June 21, 2026 · Mystery / Thriller

Six plot descriptions for Nightwaves (2003). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A sound engineer editing footage from a documentary about shipwrecks hears voices in the underwater recordings that match descriptions of the missing crew members.
2. A woman traumatized by an accident listens to a police scanner at home until she overhears what she believes is a murder, putting herself in danger from the killer.
3. An insomniac detective replays old interrogation tapes of her deceased partner and notices inconsistencies that suggest he may have framed innocent suspects during his career.
4. A graveyard shift radio host in Portland receives cryptic calls from a listener describing unsolved drownings, leading him to investigate a pattern along the waterfront.
5. A lighthouse keeper on the Maine coast discovers coded messages in the logbooks of previous keepers and realizes each one disappeared under mysterious circumstances within months.
6. An estranged daughter returns to her childhood beach house after her father's suicide and finds his research connecting lunar cycles to local disappearances spanning decades.